Join DuPont MBB, Stephan Schwarz, as he leads a Focused Session describing best practices and lessons learned from one of the most iconic and successful operational excellence deployments in the world. The presentation will draw from the unique perspective of a massive global deployment across all five of DuPont's major business platforms containing > 23,000 Black/Green Belts, > 300 MBBs & 140 Champions. Specifically, Stephan will share best practices and lessons learned in the following areas:

Executive Leadership: 5 Critical X's (Don Linsenmann)

• Leadership commitment
• Resource commitment
• Driving and sustaining employee adoption of company processes and systems
• Data and technical rigor
• Enabling with IT, but driving with people
• Tracking the results of 9,000 active projects, 17,000 closed & completed projects to the bottom line
• Financial validation rigor & reporting
• Celebrating your successes

Strategic Focus & Change Management During Transitions

• How Six Sigma becomes the way you work?
• From improvement to design for growth
• Driving Six Sigma towards the customer win-win situation
• Integrating Lean & Six Sigma
• Training
• Software evolution

Presenter: John Cocuzza, Business Excellence Leader
Company: Abbott
Join Business Excellence leader, John Cocuzza, at Abbott Nutritional, as he shares best practices and lessons learned regarding project selection and benefits reporting for Lean Six Sigma and other operational excellence processes at Abbott. Come prepared to ask your burning questions and get answers and advice in areas like:

• Selecting projects for optimal business value and impact
• Project scoring and prioritization processes
• Establishing and communicating project-level financial goals
• Required software system for successful project benefits and executive-level reporting

Join Cameron Master Black Belt, Cheryl Smith, as she leads a Focused Session describing the journey to Lean Six Sigma at Cameron. She will explore the opportunities to use Lean tools and principles and the Six Sigma methodology to get the biggest bang for your Lean Six Sigma investment dollar. Cameron is based in Houston, Texas and has long been a leader in equipment and services used worldwide in oil and gas operations along with a strong presence in global energy markets and process industries. Cameron operates in over 100 countries and employ over 12,000 employees. In this presentation you will learn best practices and lessons learned during the Cameron journey in areas like:

• Defining and developing a Lean Six Sigma Culture
• Redefining your system and processes using the Lean and Six Sigma Roadmaps
• Tracking and reporting Lean Six Sigma financial benefits
• Integrating Lean tools and principles

Join Quality and LeanSixSigma executive, Julie Brignac, as she leads a Focused Session describing best practices and lessons learned regarding project benefits’ reporting for Six Sigma, Lean and other operational excellence processes at Brambles. Brambles is based in Sydney, Australia, and is the parent company of CHEP, a global provider of pallet and container pooling services, and Recall, a global provider of document and information management services. Brambles and its affiliates operate in over 45 countries across six continents, and employ over 12,000 people. Julie will discuss the required infrastructure for successful project benefits reporting, as well as Brambles’ approach to projecting and tracking benefits and financial and reporting workflow considerations. In this presentation, you will learn best practices and lessons learned in areas, such as:

• Establishing and communicating clear financial and project benefit goals
• Aligning reporting goals to your financial reporting approach
• Mapping out a financial and reporting workflow that is consistent with your reporting goals and approach
• Defining technology requirements by stakeholder

Join Ceridian Black Belt, Nancy Anastas as she leads a Focused Session on making the transition from a largely manual in-house project tracking and management process to a centralized, enterprise-wide, web-based solution. The first part of the presentation will set the stage with a detailed Ceridian situation and gap analysis. Next, Nancy will describe Ceridian’s “Maintain vs. Buy” and vendor analysis processes. Roll-out and deployment considerations will also be addressed. In this presentation you will learn best practices and lessons learned in areas like:

• Defining system requirements
• Assessing benefits and financial impact
• Establishing vendor selection criteria
• Evaluating deployment options: on-premise vs. hosted
• Rolling out a new system and ensuring user adoption

The Six Sigma Maturity Model™ defines the commonly experienced stages of Six Sigma maturity. Roxanne O’Brasky, President and Founder of ISSSP called the new model “the first rigorous attempt to describe the Six Sigma journey from launch and early success to culture transformation.” This model has tremendous practical value for organizations that want to:

• Benchmark their progress against industry norms
• Assess implementation strengths and performance gaps
• Anticipate common adoption pitfalls
• Effectively communicate progress and garner additional support for the Six Sigma initiative across the enterprise.

Find out why all of the Six Sigma community luminaries are talking about the Six Sigma Maturity Model. This workshop will walk participants through this highly acclaimed model and explains how it can be used as a compass for companies that want to take their operational performance to the next level.

The Strategy Capability Ladder defines the key levels of strategic maturity that most organizations experience. Understand where your organization stands in terms of its relative sophistication in articulating, communicating and executing corporate strategies and priorities. This model has tremendous practical value for organizations that want to benchmark their strategic maturity against industry norms, assess requirements to improve the strategy-project linkage \using a common language and framework, and chart a strategic maturity growth path. This workshop will steps participants up through the rungs of the strategy capability ladder and explain how it can be used as a framework for companies that want to take their strategy execution and operational performance to the next level.