Josh

Eugene,
Thanks for responding to my email so quickly. I work for a health care agency on the recruiting and sales side of nursing. I wanted to see if being certified in this field for six sigma would be beneficial to myself and allow me to be more appealing to potential job opportunities.Thanks,
Josh

I would appreciate a copy as well: [email protected]

Praveen
You may want to use a different solution to track requests.  One alternative may be to use Sharepoint.  Sharepoint has the ability to track and manage request, which will transition you off from an email-bound process over to a more robust enviorment from which you can pull reporting.
Josh

QualityColorado –
Thanks so much for the great tools! Do you have any other freeware / opensource applications that you know of?
Regards,
Josh
 

There is one group six sigma advantage that has people fimiliar with software/it implementation and six sigma implementation.
Try givicontacting them

Hans,
Isn’t a conundrum a type of wine? I love people who have to use big words, the type that keep a thesaurus on their desk.  Anyway, I did get everyone involved thru a workshop on all the improvements made on their lines. Everyone had input with ideas and everyone was hands on with doing kaizens. I didn’t just come in and say your going to do…[Read more]

H.
You have some really good Ideas.  I love the idea of using methaphors. Let me know how using the simulation package goes on your team leaders. I really enjoyed reading your post. Thanks,

Hans,
The job I have at my company is to reduce cycle time, reduce scrap, present cost reductions ideas, and present kaizen ideas. For the past 3 months I have been working on reducing cycle times on our machines and improving production. I don’t think a simulation game would help.  Thanks

Howard,
Thanks for the response. You have some very good ideas on how to get people to change their ways. I will give it a try this week. They cycle time improvements and production improvements are all on my shoulders. If it all goes to hell and doesn’t work, I will be sure and hear about it. I have gotten the machines running better through…[Read more]

Peter,
try the following link:
http://europe.isixsigma.com/library/content/c010618a.asp

I agree with Sandy. Unless every company has a resident ASQ representative or who can make himself/herself available when needed to certify outgoing quality staff, it is not right on part of ASQ to impose this rule.