Live Webinar December 5th, 2018 – 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: American Management Association (REP 1294)

Design has become the “it” word and a defining element that can differentiate your business in an increasingly competitive world.

In an economy of rapid commoditization, keeping the customer “front and center” has become the most important factor to include in the innovation equation in order to maintain brand loyalty.

Whether you’re talking about cars, toothbrushes, office space or even the creation of an organization’s culture … Design Thinking gives you the tools to innovate, faster and better, in a customer-centric approach.

In this “must attend” session, you’ll discover why Design Thinking has become the innovation method of choice across forward thinking industries and how best-in-class companies are applying it across their organizations.

You’ll also receive an overview of AMA’s Design Thinking course. including:

• Exposure to the 10-step Design Thinking process and why it’s so important in a disruptive economy
• How this rapid collaborative process can help you and your team generate more customer-focused solutions
• Steps you can take to integrate the process into your organization
• The realities of organizational culture, resistance to change and what you can do about it.

Presenter: Haywood Spangler, (LinkedIn profile) Ph.D., M.Div., Founder / Principal of Work & Think, LLC.  is a corporate consultant, a researcher, and an author. Haywood formerly interned as a biomedical ethicist at the University of Virginia Medical Center and was an instructor of business ethics at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce. His Spangler Ethical Reasoning Assessment® (SERA®) is used across industries and around the world, enabling individuals to combine critical thinking and values to make complex decisions.

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How to Use Design Thinking to Innovate
Faster, Better & More Effectively

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Live Webinar December 5th, 2018 – 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Many Agile project teams are reaching a level of maturity where they are interested in the next level.

Can we improve our process? How?

For some teams Kanban is the choice to improve their processes. Others are also looking at Kaizen.

Both Kanban and Kaizen techniques, originated in the ‘traditional” Lean Six Sigma, were used in manufacturing to increase the quality from 3 Sigma to 6 Sigma. Most of the Business Transformation projects have a software/IT component delivered by teams using the Agile/Scrum approach.

Like in any other approach, there is room for improvement for teams using Agile. Lean Six Sigma was used for decades as a tool for process improvement on the assumption that  “what you can’t measure you can’t improve”.

In principle, Lean (eliminate waste by process standardization) is fundamentally opposed to Agile (embracing change even late in the process).

Six Sigma can be the balance between Lean and Agile, measuring the impact of Lean and/or Agile initiatives.

From the Six Sigma perspective, IT projects are currently at a 3 Sigma level. In principle these projects should also aim for a 6 sigma level but achieving that will impact Agility.

Therefore, it is of the opinion that, in IT/Software projects Lean Six Sigma should be used to get the optimum point (as lean as reasonably agile) where efficiency meets agility.

As presented in a previous webinar about Lean Six Sigma implementation in a start-up, the Lean Six Sigma techniques can be used at a smaller scale, but to be successful it needs to be adapted to the specifics of IT projects.

This presentation is based on a real case study, using Lean Six Sigma to measure the impact of process improvement initiatives in a hybrid project delivery environment. It describes the objectives, the approach, the challenges and achievements of a benchmarking program spanning more than 5 years.

This presentation with  Stelian Roman (LinkedIn profile); is based on his experience as a Development Team Lead, Development Manager, Scrum Master and Project Manager working with Scrum teams.

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within 72 hours of the live session.

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Simplifying Lean Six Sigma To Work In An Agile Environment

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Live Webinar December 4th, 2018 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

Note:

SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 General recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™, and SPHRi™ recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) toward SHRM-CP℠ or SHRM-SCP℠ Certifications.

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Stop Leaving Employees Out Of Employee Engagement

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Live Webinar December 4th, 2018, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

It’s all well and good to say, “Fail fast! Fail forward! Fail often!” But you’re not a Silicon Valley start-up and you face stealthy, insidious organizational antibodies.

In most cases, there is an incompatibility between the failure required for successful innovation and the failure-phobia that inhabits corporate culture.

In this webinar Mary Mesaglio  (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) explores the difference between good and bad innovation failure, and provides a way to get around the innovation assassins that lurk in every enterprise.

Discussion Topics:

• Great innovation requires failure (I know you know this, at least intellectually)
• Most humans—especially the corporate kind—are wired to avoid failure
• Not all failure is the same—some is good and some is bad
• To get comfortable with failure, define it and seek it in small doses—and avoid the word “failure”

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To Succeed at Innovation, Define Failure Not Success

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