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Skip Creveling to present at Marcus Evans’ Lean Six Sigma for Medical Devices conference in Philadelphia, PA, January 31-February 2, 2007

Skip Creveling, President of PDSS, will deliver a presentation entitled “Linking Growth Processes to Management and Functional Excellence using Lean, Six Sigma and Agile Development Methods” on Thursday, February 1, 2007.  The conference is being held at the Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue in Philadelphia, PA.

The conference is entitled “Lean Six Sigma for Medical Devices: Deploying Effective Lean and Six Sigma Programs to Improve Productivity and Reduce Overall Costs in Medical Device Manufacturing.”

Complete conference details can be viewed on Marcus Evans web site.

PDSS to Present and Exhibit at WCBF's Global Six Sigma Summit & Awards June 27-30, 2006 in Las Vegas

Skip Creveling, President of PDSS, will deliver a presentation, "Six Sigma for Marketing Processes— A New Model for Growth" on Day 2 of the Summit.

PDSS will also be exhibiting.  Stop by the PDSS booth, meet Skip and other PDSS representatives, and leave your business card for a chance to win one of several signed copies of the new book, "Six Sigma in Marketing Processes— An Overview for Executives, Leaders and Marketing Managers." Published by Prentice-Hall in February 2006, the book's authors are Skip Creveling, President of PDSS, Lynne Hambleton, Consultant, PDSS and Burke McCarthy, VP, PDSS.

Several copies of "Design for Six Sigma in Technology and Product Development," co-authored by Skip, will also be given away in the drawing.

Other Featured Presenters and Summit Highlights
Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author of "The Tipping Point" and "Blink," Subir Chowdhury, award-winning quality leader and Joseph Grenny, leading business communications expert, as well as cross-industry CEOs are all part of the line-up at WCBF's Global Six Sigma Summit & Awards at The Venetian Resort Hotel, Las Vegas from June 27-30, 2006.

The high-level speaker panel includes CEOs from Ingram Micro, CIGNA Corporation, Valeant Pharmaceuticals, the Internal Revenue Service, as well as first-class experts from Xerox, Countrywide Financial, Johnson & Johnson, Yale New Haven Health System, Dell, US Navy, DuPont and many more.

The agenda is packed with over 56 powerful case studies and topical break-out sessions in 16 dedicated tracks to focus in detail on the key challenges for senior executives across all industries.  Track topics range from DFSS, Transactional Lean and Six Sigma, Sales & Marketing to Compliance and include specific sector focus on Government & Defense, Healthcare, Software & IT.

WCBF's Global Six Sigma Summit also recognizes the CEO and VP of Six Sigma of the Year at the prestigious Global Six Sigma Awards, judged by an independent panel of esteemed experts and practitioners in Six Sigma from across the full spectrum of industry.  The winners will be presented with their awards at the Summit.

PDSS to Present and Exhibit at Marcus Evans DFSS Conference in Memphis TN January 16 - 18, 2006

Skip Creveling, President of PDSS, will deliver a presentation at Marcus Evans' DFSS Conference.  The conference will be held January 16 - 18, 2006, at the Memphis Marriott in downtown Memphis, TN.

PDSS will also be exhibiting at the conference.  Be sure to stop by the PDSS booth to meet Skip and other PDSS representatives and learn about the new book co-authored by three PDSS consultants, to be published by Prentice-Hall in February 2006 entitled, "Six Sigma in Marketing Processes— An Overview for Executives, Leaders and Marketing Managers."  The book's authors are Skip Creveling, President of PDSS, Burke McCarthy, VP, PDSS, and Lynne Hambleton, Consultant, PDSS.

PDSS to Present and Exhibit at WCBF's 2nd Annual Six Sigma in Sales & Marketing Conference, September 8-9, 2005

Burke McCarthy, Vice President of Six Sigma for Marketing & Sales at PDSS, will deliver a presentation at WCBF's 2nd Annual Six Sigma in Sales and Marketing Conference.  The conference will be held September 8-9, 2005, at the New Orleans Marriott in New Orleans, LA.  Burke's presentation is entitled, "Sales Proposal Process Excellence - Applying Process Excellence To Improve Efficiency And Effectiveness In Sales" and is scheduled on Thursday, September 8 at 2:40pm.

PDSS will also be exhibiting at the conference.  Be sure to stop by the PDSS booth to meet Burke and other PDSS representatives and learn about the new book co-authored by three PDSS consultants, to be published by Prentice-Hall in the fall of 2005 entitled, "Six Sigma in Marketing Processes-An Overview for Executives, Leaders and Marketing Managers".  The book's authors are Skip Creveling, President of PDSS, Burke McCarthy, VP, PDSS, and Lynne Hambleton, Consultant, PDSS.

Complete conference information can be found at http://www.wcbf.com/quality/5009/.

PDSS to Present and Exhibit at INCOSE International Symposium, Rochester, NY, July 11-14, 2005

Skip Creveling, President of PDSS, will be representing PDSS at the International Council on Systems Engineering's (INCOSE) International Symposium, hosted by the Finger Lakes Chapter of INCOSE.  The event is being held at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center in Rochester, NY from July 11 to July 14 2005.  Skip will be presenting a session entitled "Enhancing Commercial Systems Engineering with Design for Six Sigma" on Wednesday, July 13 at 4:00 pm.

Stop by and visit us at booth #20 while at the symposium.

Complete symposium information can be found at INCOSE International Symposium 2005

PDSS Represented at 2004 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium April 29-May 1, 2004 in Washington, DC

Skip Creveling, President of PDSS, has been invited to deliver a presentation at the 2004 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium to be held April 29-May 1, 2004 in Washington, D.C.  Mr. Creveling's presentation is entitled "The Importance of Measurement System Capability in Innovation" and is part of the Process Quality Management topic.  Other topics at the symposium include Bioengineering and the Food Industry, Internet, and Engineering and Art/New Media.

Also, Dr.  Kevin Otto, Principal Consultant for PDSS, will deliver a presentation at the same event entitled "Technology Development for Six Sigma: Data-Driven Design in the Face of Product Development Uncertainties" as part of the Process Quality Management topic.

The German-American Frontiers of Engineering (GAFOE) Symposium is sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering in partnership with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.  The purpose of the symposium is to gather a small group of engineers, generally not older than 45, from German and U.S.  industry and universities as well as U.S.  government labs, to discuss leading-edge research and technical work across a range of engineering fields.  The goal is to challenge participants to think about developments and problems at the frontiers of areas different from their own, to foster collaborative work and the transfer of new techniques and approaches across fields.

'Six Sigma for Technical Processes'
by Skip Creveling
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'Six Sigma for Marketing Processes' by Creveling, Hambleton & McCarthy
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