Galvin Electricity Initiative Sponsors Quality Leadership Training
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
September 27, 2006
Contact:
Crystal Borde
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Galvin Electricity Initiative Sponsors Quality Leadership Training
The Galvin Electricity Initiative is teaming up with the nation’s foremost experts on quality management to train a generation of leaders who will help create the Perfect Power system – one that cannot fail the consumer.
The course is taught over two 3.5 day sessions and is designed for those in any sector of the electric power industry “who want to be the steamroller, not the road, in the creation of the future,” said James Buckman, co-director of the Joseph M. Juran Center for Leadership in Quality at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.
The Galvin Electricity Initiative, launched by former Motorola chief and Six Sigma quality control founder Robert W. Galvin, is creating the business and technological blueprints to transform the nation’s outdated electric power system. The need for transformation is urgent. Blackouts cost the American economy at least $150 billion a year. Every day, 500,000 Americans are without power for at least two hours. While other groups and government agencies are researching the necessary changes, the Galvin Initiative is proactively evaluating sites to build commercial prototypes of a re-imagined system that will jumpstart the process of national electric power transformation.
Building leadership is a crucial part of the transformation process, Buckman explained. Toward that end, attendees will learn the basics of Six Sigma and Lean, a quality management system focused on organizational waste. But the bulk of the time will be spent learning leadership skills that will allow participants to design their own quality deployment plans to meet the needs of an entirely new enterprise.
Galvin will be one of the speakers at the course, which will be held in two sessions on Oct. 24-27 at the Motorola Customer Briefing Center and Nov. 28-Dec. 1 at the University of Minnesota. Other speakers include Wayne Fortun, CEO, Hutchinson Technology, Inc. and A. Blanton Godfrey, Dean, College of Textiles, North Carolina State University.
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