Theme and Focus Areas

The 2010 ASQ Lean and Six Sigma Conference Theme is Delivering Global Value and Excellence Through Lean and Six Sigma.

2010 Focus Areas

• Increased Global Value — demonstrate how lean, lean six sigma, and/or DFSS is applied and leveraged to exceed customer needs; improve customer satisfaction; maximize customer relationships; impact the global community.
• Delivering Excellence — describe how your organization narrows the gap between meeting customer satisfaction and delivering customer excellence through lean and six sigma applications and what it takes to sustain that organizational behavior.
• Technical/Statistical Tools — helping to deliver value and excellence with proven approaches and tools; from the basics to the advanced.
• Cost, Waste, Defect Reduction — lean and six sigma activities and strategies that benefit the enterprise and enable it to deliver value by reducing cost, eliminating waste and getting rid of defects.
• Responding to a Global Economy — share how robust quality management, through lean, lean six sigma, or other integrated QMS systems that use lean and/or six sigma has a significant effect on the organization’s success.
• 21st Century Issues through Social Responsibility — linking lean and six sigma to achieve socially responsible outcomes through environmental, governance, human rights, social and economic development.