Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2014

The February 2014 IndyASQ Dinner Meeting will be held Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at the University of Indianapolis.

Program:

Business Impact of a Quality Work Force

Quality of the U.S. labor force has been in decline since the 1980’s, in comparison to many emerging countries. This places the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage. As governments, educational institutions and big business work to narrow the gap, the backbone of our labor force is overlooked.

Unskilled labor largely meets the needs of Small Business and based on the recent predictive analytics, small businesses are the growth engine of the U.S. economy. Mr. Dawson provides a thoughtful approach to improving the quality of unskilled labor by Elevating Shop Floor Leadership and Analytical Thinking. Payroll administration services for small businesses cater specifically to their resource-saving needs. All organizations need to save costs, and that’s especially true for small businesses.

Program Speaker:

Douglas Dawson

Mr. Dawson has been involved with operations and process improvement since 1991, including TPM (Total Preventive Maintenance), Quick Change (known also as Single Minute Exchange of Dies or SMED), TQM (Total Quality Management – Crosby System), Quantitative Methods, Formal RCA, Fault Tree Analysis and Six Sigma methodologies.

His core competence is in Team Management including Coaching for Results, Giving and Receiving Feedback, Situational Leadership and Development, etc.

As a production operator he worked himself through college as a non-traditional, re-entry student with a family, full time job and helping on the family farm, while pursuing his degree with a full course load. He received a BS in Production Management with an emphasis in Quantitative Methods and minors in Cost Accounting, Statistics and Food Science. In 1997, he started his career as a working professional, bringing a broad range of experience and insight from his unique background.

He is the author of a book: The Only BAD MISTAKE You Make Is The One You Never Learn From: Lessons From The Battle Front (ISBN 0-9712680-5-3). He is engaged in a current project that supports the development of critical thinking for shop floor talent; something for which he has great passion.

Register at: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/asq-feb-2014-mtg-business-impact-of-a-quality-work-force-tickets-9778418513

Location:  University of Indianapolis, 1400 Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis, IN  Schwitzer Student Center

Meeting Agenda:

5:30 PM Check In

5:45 PM Brief Workshop

6:00 PM Announcements/Dinner

7:00 PM Speaker

8:00 PM Meeting End

Fee:  $12.00 Prepaid / $15.00 at Door CASH/CHECK

Food:  Dinner is served buffet style with vegetarian and fresh fruits/salads available

Parking:  Parking restrictions in student lots are enforced from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM during academic year.  If an area is not marked as a parking stall, it is not intended for parking

Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2014

The January 2014 IndyASQ Dinner Meeting will be held Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at the University of Indianapolis.

Program:

“From the Boiler Room to the Board Room” emphasizes that the topic of Energy Management is no longer strictly an engineer’s domain.  Corporate leaders want to know how their energy use affects financial results, how it impacts strategic continuity of operations (think Smart Grid or MicroGrids), how it complies with legal mandates and how it meets social responsibilities (think Sustainability).

This presentation gives an overview of the newly created ISO 50001 Energy Management Standard.   ISO 50001 establishes international standardization and certification in the same way that ISO 9001 does for quality or ISO 140001 does for environmental impact.  ISO 50001 requires an organization to establish, implement, maintain, and improve an energy management system, enabling systematic achievement of continual improvement in energy performance (energy efficiency and energy conservation).  It is built on the Plan-Do-Check-Act model.

A few case studies will be reviewed (Schneider Electric, Indianapolis Zoo).
Location:  University of Indianapolis, 1400 Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis, IN  Schwitzer Student Center

Meeting Agenda:

5:30 PM Check In
5:45 PM Brief Workshop
6:00 PM Announcements/Dinner
7:00 PM Speaker
8:00 PM Meeting End

Fee:  $12.00 Prepaid / $15.00 at Door CASH/CHECK

Food:  Dinner is served buffet style with vegetarian and fresh fruits/salads available

Parking:  Parking restrictions in student lots are enforced from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM during academic year.  If an area is not marked as a parking stall, it is not intended for parking
Register at: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/asq-jan-2014-mtg-iso-50001taking-energy-management-from-boiler-room-to-the-boardroom-tickets-9778370369

Date: Thursday December 12, 2013
Time: 5:30pm-8:00pm
Place: Mansion at Oak Hill

The December 2013 Dinner Meeting will be held on Thursday, December 12, 2013 at the Mansion at Oak Hill in Carmel, Indiana. Inside Indiana Business Gerry Dick will be presenting a capstone of the year that was and a look ahead to the year that will be for business in Indiana.

This will be a joint meeting with IndyASQ and other chapters of the Indiana Alliance of Professional Societies (IAPS).

IAPS has undergone an expansion this year, adding new member organizations who have joined the alliance under the common goal of sharing knowledge and promoting the economic growth of our state. Join IndyASQ and our current partners PMICIC and APICS in welcoming to the Indiana Alliance of Professional Societies the local chapters of the User Experience Professionals Association, the International Facilities Management Association, the International Institute of Business Analysis, AgileIndy, the Microsoft Project Users Group and the Society for Human Resource Management. In addition, there will be a formal signing of the new IAPS charter agreement.

About Gerry Dick

Gerry Dick is president and managing editor of Grow Indiana Media Ventures, a media company created to deliver Indiana business news and information through multiple media sources. Grow Indiana Media Ventures’ properties include “Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick,” InsideIndianaBusiness.com, Inside INdiana Business Radio, The INside Edge daily e-newsletter, the downloadable Inside INdiana Business News Ticker, and “Inside Arizona Business with Dana Cooper.” Mr. Dick formed the company in 2000 with technology entrepreneur and visionary Scott Jones. Recognized across the state as an Indiana business leader, he also appears weekly on WTHR Channel 13 (NBC, Indianapolis) as an Eyewitness News business analyst. Prior to the creation of Grow Indiana Media Ventures, Mr. Dick was Senior Vice President of the Indianapolis Economic Development Corporation, where he was responsible for a broad range of managerial and operational initiatives, including marketing, communications, advertising and media relations. Mr. Dick’s broadcast news background includes 14 years as a principal reporter and field anchor at WRTV (ABC) in Indianapolis. He has also held reporter and anchor positions at television stations in Fort Wayne and Terre Haute. Mr. Dick is a native Hoosier, born and raised in the Vermillion County community of Clinton, and is a graduate of Indiana State University. He is a vice president at the Indiana Sports Corporation, a member of the board of directors at Junior Achievement of Central Indiana, the Better Business Bureau of Central Indiana, the Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association and the Dean’s Advisory Council at the Indiana University School of Informatics. He also serves as a member of the Youthlinks Indiana executive committee, and contributes his talents to the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, the NCAA Hall of Champions and the Indiana Council for Economic Education.

About IAPS

The members of the Indiana Alliance of Professional Societies (IAPS) have recognized the advantages of partnering with complimentary associations with the purpose of sharing resources and ideas in order to broaden their scopes within operations management.

IAPS chartered members agree to cooperate between their professional societies through academic and cultural exchange. IAPS members purpose is to advance their respective bodies of knowledge through understanding and developing synergies with other IAPS member organizations and educational institutions in Central Indiana.

Areas of cooperation:

• Equality and mutual respect
• Acknowledgement of the expertise of the members in their specific spheres of activity
• The constant search for opportunities to collaborate in education, training and commercial ventures for mutual benefit
• Joint development of curricula and learning materials in appropriate areas
• Seeking opportunities for staff development, staff exchanges, networking and enhancement of teaching effectiveness

In addition to our chapter, IAPS is comprised of the local chapters of APICS, ASQ, IIBA, UXPA, MPUG and AgileIndy. Information about the alliance and links to the individual member chapters can be found at http://indianaaps.com/