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Upcoming Events

IQPC’s inaugural Process Excellence Meeting for North America
September 13 - 16, 2010, Chicago, IL. Join The Quality Group at IQPC’s most focused Process Excellence meeting designed exclusively for program and business leaders in Lean, Six Sigma & Business Process Excellence in North America. - Click here for details...
2010 NCATC Fall Conference
October 6-8 Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Join The Quality Group at the National Coalition of Advanced Technology Centers fall conference. The conference will cover Innovative and Exceptional Practices, Emerging and Transfer Technologies, Grants, Funding Models and Partnerships, and P-16 Continuum, Workforce Career Pathways. - Click here for details...
NCCET Annaul Conference
October 10-12, 2010 Intercontinental Hotel Miami-Bayside, Florida. Join The Quality Group at the National Council for Continuing Education and Training. Consider participating in a regional blog, access monthly webinars, connect with professional peers, and share ideas. - Click here for details...
12th Annual IQPC Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement Summit 2011!
The Quality Group 12th Annual IQPC Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement Summit in Lake Buena Vista, FL - http://www.leansixsigmasummit.com

Reports

As Economy Slows, Lean Six Sigma Grows
published by The Quality Group.

This White Paper is based upon a survey of deployment leaders about Lean Six Sigma Green Belt learning modalities and training trends for 2009. Two primary findings: (i) there is continual emphasis upon Green Belt training even in the midst of tough budgeting; (ii) Blended Learning was rated the best overall training solution.

Click here to download the White Paper.

Seagate Case Study: Blended Delivery for Complex Certification Programs

Seagate Redesigns Six Sigma/Lean Training Programs for Increased Flexibility and Efficiency.

Click here to download the Seagate Case Study.

Discussions

How does OpusWorks fit with your Enterprise LMS strategy?

Rob Stewart, TQG’s CEO writes:

For years, we at TQG have wrestled with how to best position our OpusWorks Online Suite with the Enterprise LMS. Recent thinking from leading industry analysts Josh Bersin and Elliot Masie may be helping us to sharpen our focus.

TQG often describes OpusWorks as a “strategic deployment online learning system”. Our view is that we serve three main constituencies: (i) the executives who drive a deployment (Business Excellence (i.e. Lean Six Sigma), Sales, Compliance, Safety, etc); (ii) the learners who are trained to implement a deployment; (iii) the administrators who, via the Enterprise LMS, enable a deployment.

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Press Releases

May 13, 2010
Health Care Process Improvement (Lean Six Sigma) Blended e-Learning Series
New online modules for health care industry with both certification and deployment tracks.
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November 21, 2009
VIRTUAL BLENDED LEARNING, A FIRST FOR Lean Six Sigma Training
Time is a most precious commodity. With e-Learning, the goal is to save time, and reduce costs and improve outcomes. With our e-Learning, blended and virtual blended solutions, learning is more than 50% faster, retention is greater, and results come sooner than with traditional approaches. Read more...      Watch Demo...
October 26, 2009
Press Release - The Global Supply Chain Logistics e-Learning Series has been produced by the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC) with assistance from The Quality Group (TQG)   Click here for details.
October 14, 2009
Press Release - October 14, 2009, Orlando, FL. The Quality Group was delighted to sponsor the “Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Transactional Services” Award at The WCBF Global Six Sigma & Business Improvement Awards. TQG’s CEO Rob Stewart was delighted to present the award to the overall winner, Brad Zylstra of Volt Workforce Solutions. Runners-up presentations were made to Chandeep Singh, FirstSource Solutions; Pamela Newton, Scottish Power; and Brett Duarte, IBM.   Click here to see photos.
September 28, 2009
Press Release - The Quality Group (TQG) is proud to announce the release of ISO 9001:2008 Internal Auditor Training online course material. Developed jointly with Alamo Learning Systems, and with input from BSI Systems and Seagate, ISO 9001:2008 Internal Auditor Training is comprehensive, cost-effective, and standard-compliant. The offering is a complete roadmap for developing a quality system and preparing an organization for ISO registration. This program is designed to be flexible and is applicable to all standards, including ISO 9001, ISO 14000, ISO/TS 16949, TL-9001 and AS9100, and SA 8000. This training program teaches the skills required to implement an effective quality auditing process, including planning, execution, and reporting.   Click here for details...
September 23, 2008
The Quality Group wins Spirit of Endeavor Award from the American Electronics Association (AeA) for its Leadership in Technology Education.
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Webinars

July 8, July 15, and July 22, 2010
Webinar: Promising Practices: Innovative Youth Career-Readiness Programs. Learn how three high schools embraced online instruction to reach and motivate their students with WinAt-Work Online. - Click here for details...
April 15, 2010
COMPLIMENTARY WEBINAR: Using Blended Learning to Drive Contract Training – Fast Start for New Programs! Thursday, April 15 at 2:00 PM Eastern. The Quality Group is presenting this webinar on how to acquire innovative ideas to start and deliver fast track training programs using e-Learning. - Click here for details...
April 8, 2010
WEBINAR: Success with Online Employability Skills in Summer Youth Employment Programs. April 8 at 2:00 PM Eastern. Learn how three youth programs used the new WinAt-Work online training to deliver breakthrough results from their Summer Youth Employment Programs. WinAt-Work is an online employability skills program that uniquely connects with and motivates at-risk youth and adults. - Click here for details...
October 28, 2009
WEBINAR: ISSSP Webinar Invitation to "Blended e-Learning for LSS/CPI: The Before & After Series" - Webinar 3 of 3
October 28, 2009, Increasingly, organizations are discovering that blended learning – if the e-Learning is good – is better learning for Lean Six Sigma/Continuous Process Improvement than 100% ILT or Standalone e-Learning.  Watch Video...      Read more...
September 18, 2009
WEBINAR: Cloning; a New World for e-Learning Development
Thursday, September 24th at 11:30 AM Eastern - At last, a breakthrough in the re-use, modification and adaptation of e-Learning content. We have all seen and lived through the problems of copying and trying to reuse Reusable Learning Objects (RLO’s) Featuring OpusWorks®, this webinar will show a major advancement in not copying RLO’s, and not just simply “reusing” RLO’s, but Cloning Objects. This methodology can be applied to modules, pages, objects etc. It can be applied from the entire module all the way down to a single graphic. Then after cloning, the new cloned version can be quickly and easily modified to be whatever you need it to be. The results are new e-Learning development done in minutes not hours or days!   Click here for details...
August 21, 2009
WEBINAR: Collaboration during e-Learning Development Made Easy
Thursday, August 20th at 11:30 AM Eastern - Finally, a proven method to actively involve all of your e-Learning developers, Subject Matter Experts (SME’s), stake holders, and even external people in the e-Learning development process. This webinar will show how with OpusWorks®, you can bring all of these people together “virtually” to develop, review, comment, and modify your e-Learning content. This is done at their convenience, from their workstation, and yet with all the power as if everyone was pulled together into the same room. You will never be satisfied with traditional e-Learning development again, after seeing the future.     Read More
June 25, 2009
WEBINAR: How to Quickly and Easily Build a Pipeline of e-Learning. Thursday, June 25th at 11:30 AM Eastern - This webinar introduces a brand new concept in e-Learning creation and deployment, for both novice and expert developers. Learn about OpusWorks®, an innovative, rapid, intuitive way to take existing content, in a wide variety of existing forms, even Instructor Led Training material, and make it available as e-Learning. The end result is e-Learning that can be used internally, or externally, or perhaps even sold as a source of new revenue. Your content can even be combined with e-Learning modules that others have created so you truly have the power of the Internet available at your finger tips.     Watch Video...      Read more...
May 20, 2009
WEBINAR: ISSSP Webinar Invitation to "Blended e-Learning for LSS/CPI: The Before & After Series" - Webinar 2 of 3
Featuring John Murphy of CSX and Anthony Vignola of PricewaterhouseCoopers
May 20, 2009, Increasingly, organizations are discovering that blended learning – if the e-Learning is good – is better learning for Lean Six Sigma/Continuous Process Improvement than 100% ILT or Standalone e-Learning. Watch Video...      Read more...
May 6, 2009
WEBINAR: ISSSP Webinar Invitation to "Lessons Learned about Blended e-Learning: The Before & After Series" - Webinar 1 of 3
Featuring Joanne Faulker of Black & Decker and Mark Malone of Blood Systems
May 6, 2009, Increasingly, organizations are discovering that blended learning – if the e-Learning is good – is better learning than 100% ILT or Standalone e-Learning. Watch Video...      Read more...
December 4, 2008
WEBINAR: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training "best practices" -- a preliminary report based upon survey data being gathered from hundreds of deployments
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October 29, 2008
WEBINAR: Collaborative Development with AT&T: How SMEs Use Virtual Collaboration to Create Great e-Learning
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Highlights

January 14, 2010
‘LIVE’ Blended Learning Case Study. By invitation only, 5-10 organizations will benchmark blended learning for Lean Six Sigma by participating in a special session, via webex, with Greg Balfany, MBB and Process Improvement Manager at Cabela’s. The one-hour session will be held on Thursday, January 14th at 2 PM Eastern Time. For details, please contact Rob Stewart, rstewart@thequalitygroup.net or Tricia Berrett, tberrett@thequalitygroup.net.
September 18, 2009
Dan Rice and David Hood are recognized as 2009 Spirit of Endeavor Award finalists in the Technology Innovation Award category.
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September 2, 2009
TQG announces that Dan Rice, VP of Development and Dave Hood, VP of Innovation have been nominated along with 14 other candidates to receive the 2009 TechAmerica Spirit of Endeavor “Technology Innovation” Award for their creation of the OpusWorks® Online Learning Suite.     Read More
July 22, 2009
All of TQG’s 50+ Six Sigma, Lean, and Statistics modules are now upgraded with an exciting, new “look and feel” and an engaging, visually appealing template design with intuitive and easy to use navigation.. With OpusWorks, we and our customers have the capability to quickly, and efficiently keep our e-Learning content up-to-date, relevant, and optimally impactful. Click here to check out screen shots and e-Learning instructional design from representative modules …
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June 19, 2009
Read our case study on how Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) has trained and certified over 1500 Green and Black Belt candidates!   Read More...
June 9, 2009
The Quality Group is a proud member of RACETM
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May 28, 2009
Community Colleges Mark Milestone with 100 Black Belts Certified
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April 1, 2009
Virtual Work e-Learning Series Now Available on OpusWorks®.
The Quality Group and e-Work.com today announced that e-Work’s Virtual Workplace e-Learning Series has been fully converted to run on The Quality Group’s OpusWorks® e-Platform.

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March 19, 2009
White Paper entitled ‘As Economy Slows, Lean Six Sigma Grows’ published by The Quality Group.
March 19, 2009, The White Paper is based upon a survey of deployment leaders about Lean Six Sigma Green Belt learning modalities and training trends for 2009. Two primary findings: (i) there is continual emphasis upon Green Belt training even in the midst of tough budgeting; (ii) Blended Learning was rated the best overall training solution. Click here to download the White Paper.

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March 7-10, 2009
Partners at Work - Coming Together & Creating Solutions for Success in a Global Economy - Coming Together & Creating Solutions for Success in a Global Economy, Renaissance Washington DC Hotel.
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January 14, 2009
MSSC partners with The Quality Group for their new certification system.
January 14, 2009, ProMat International Logistics Show Click Here. MSSC's announcement will detail their new, industry-led credentialing system for front-line workers in Supply Chain Logistics which includes e-Learning materials developed by longstanding NCATC Strategic Alliance Partner, The Quality Group.
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January 9, 2009
Coming Soon: ISO 9000 Auditor Training (with the new 2009 standard)
Developed jointly with Alamo Learning Systems - ISO 9000 Online is Auditor Training that is comprehensive, cost-effective and standard-compliant. A complete roadmap for developing a quality system and preparing an organization for registration. This program is designed to be flexible and is applicable to all standards, including ISO 9000, ISO 14000, QS-9000, ISO/TS 16949, TL-9000 and AS9100. This training program teaches the skills required to implement an effective quality auditing process, including planning execution, and reporting.
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January 9, 2009
New Course Offering: Effective Problem Solving - based on Delphi's world-class process.
This Effective Problem Solving course covers the process of solving problems and how to better integrate this process into an organization. Students will learn the key elements and what actions should be taken in each step. As they practice these skills they will become more effective at the steps of Select, Contain, Correct, and Prevent. This course runs approximately 3 hours online.
November 12, 2008
The Quality Group submits 2009 ad to iSixSigma Magazine that will appear in each issue on the inside back cover.
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July 1, 2008
Updated Lean Series, consisting of 14 discrete courses with examples for office, manufacturing and transactions, are released by The Quality Group.
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July 1, 2008
WinAt-Work® Series, consisting of 4 online courses teaching basic employability soft-skills via non-stop interaction with approximately 35 actors in dozens of video scenarios is now available from The Quality Group.
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June 24, 2008
New Web Site Showcases the OpusWorks® Online Suite
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March 25, 2008
THE QUALITY GROUP and KEPNERandFOURIE ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS ONLINE
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March 9, 2007
The Quality Group Announces QualityToolsOnline™
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November 13, 2006
CSX Transportation Selects The Quality Group for Blended e-Learning
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August 1, 2006
The Quality Group Forms Distribution Partnership with Element K
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Conferences

ISSSP 10th Annual Leadership Conference
June 28 - July 1, 2010, Scottsdale, Arizona. The Quality Group is delighted to sponsor the ISSSP Six Sigma Leadership Conference. Designed and presented by some of the most highly experienced Lean, Six Sigma, and BPM leaders across all industries, this unrivaled program delivers the knowledge you need to build upon successes, create opportunities and establish priorities. - Click here for details...
2010 12th Annual International Fatherhood Conference
June 15-18, 2010. Parents and Communities Working Together to Ensure the Academic Success of Children. Sheraton Metairie - New Orleans Hotel! - Click here for details...
Success with Online Employability Skills in Summer Youth Employment Programs
June 24 at 2:00 PM Eastern. Learn how three youth programs used the new WinAt-Work online training to deliver breakthrough results from their Summer Youth Employment Programs. WinAt-Work is an online employability skills program that uniquely connects with and motivates at-risk youth and adults. - Click here for details...
ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement
May 24 - 26, 2010, St. Louis, MO. The Quality Group attended the conference as an exhibitor with its partner GOAL/QPC at the America’s Center in St. Louis. - Click here for details...
WCBF Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement in Healthcare Summit
May 11 - 14, 2010. The WCBF's Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement conference will focus on Six Sigma in Healthcare implementation. - Click here for details...
NAWDP 2010 Annual Conference
May 2-5, 2010 NAWDP. Soaring to new heights with workforce development. Albuquerque, New Mexico, Booth #7. - Click here for details...
National Association of Workforce Boards Forum 2010!
March 6 - 9, 2010. Preparing a Competitive U.S. Workforce - Reflection, Reinvestment, Recovery will be held March 6 - 9, 2010 at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel in our nation's capital.

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February 1-4, 2010
iSixSigma Live! Summit & Awards 2010 in South Beach, Florida. The iSixSigma Live! Summit & Awards is the premier event for Lean Six Sigma Practitioners around the world. The theme of iSixSigma's Summit & Awards, Miami 2010 is "Practices That Make Profits." In today's challenging business climate, it is imperative to make sure process excellence is paying off. Experience a top-notch program, featuring today's leading minds in Lean Six Sigma and process improvement. Read More.
January 18-21, 2010
The Quality Group 11th Annual IQPC Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement Summit in Lake Buena Vista, FL - http://www.leansixsigmasummit.com
October 18-20, 2009
NCCET 2009 Conference, Austin, Texas   For more information please contact vlewis@thequalitygroup.net
October 14-16, 2009
2009 Department of Defense Breakthrough Convention, Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement across the U.S. Department of Defense, Lansdowne, Virginia. At the second annual DoD Breakthrough Convention, more than 500 Lean Six Sigma and process improvement leaders from across the U.S. Department of Defense will gather at the National Conference Center in Lansdowne, Virginia. RACE is a platinum sponsor and RACE member Derek Daly and former Indy Car driver is the keynote speaker.   For more information please contact JNycz@thequalitygroup.net    www.collaborace.org
October 13-16, 2009
4th Annual Global Lean, Six Sigma and Business Improvement Summit & Industry Awards. The Quality Group is an Executive Sponsor of the WCBF Conference to be held at the Swan and Dolphin Resort, Walt Disney World, Orlando, FL from October 13-16, 2009. At 2:15pm on October 13th (Workshop D), TQG CEO Rob Stewart, will facilitate the “LSS/CPI Blended Learning Benchmarking Workshop” featuring case studies from AT&T, Black and Decker, Blood Systems, CSX Transportation, PwC and Raytheon. For discounts on conference registration fees, please call Rachel Stewart at 800.772.3071.   Click here for details...
September 30 - October 2, 2009
2009 NCATC Fall Conference, Advanced Technology Centers: Answering The Challenge! Hosted by College of DuPage, Chicago, IL.   For more information please contact vlewis@thequalitygroup.net
June 2, 2009
WinAt-Work - Come visit and see Why WinAt-Work is a SMART use of Stimulus Funds.
May 31-June 2, 2009, NAWDP 20th Annual Conference, Hilton Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN.
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February 23 - 25, 2009
CWLA National Conference: Children Today...America's Future! Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC.
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January 25-27, 2009
WinAt-Work - Come visit and see WinAt-Work live.
January 25-27, 2009, SC Workforce Development Conference, Embassy Suites, North Charleston, SC, J. Michael Robb, The Workforce Development Company, will be representing and demonstrating The Quality Group’s WinAt-Work employability (soft) skills program. Learn how to enhance your workforce readiness programs utilizing advanced technology to increase your bottom-line while providing consistent training.
January 19-22, 2009
The Quality Group 10th Annual IQPC Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement Summit.
January 19-22, 2009, Disney's Buena Vista Palace Hotel & Spa, Orlando, FL, http://www.leansixsigmasummit.com TQG's President Rob Stewart conducting Workshop entitled Embracing A New Era In E-Learning For Lean Six Sigma.
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January 19-21, 2009
The Quality Group's partner Thinking Dimensions to speak at IQPC's Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement Summit.
January 19-21, 2009. TQG Content Partner Thinking Dimensions has been selected by IQPC to speak about the KEPNERandFOURIE™ Root Cause Analysis methodology at IQPC's Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement Summit. The e-Learning course can be accessed at http://kf.qualitycampus.com; to learn more about the workshop at the Summit,
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January 13-16, 2009
The Quality Group is a Gold Sponsor of iSixSigma Live! Summit & Awards.
January 13-16, 2009, Trump International Beach Resort, Miami, FL, http://live.isixsigma.com TQG's President Rob Stewart conducting Master Class Workshop entitled Lean Six Sigma Training Innovation – Benchmark Others, Optimize Your Model and Maximize Your Training ROI.
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November 17-20, 2008
Conference: Empowering Youth Achievement in a New Economy - 2008 Youth Development Symposium.
November 17-20, 2008. Sheraton Hotel and Towers – Chicago. Visit the TQG exhibit to learn about WinAt-Work® our e-Learning “soft skills” training program that helps youth get, keep, and advance in jobs. Take advantage of this opportunity to learn first-hand, how WinAt-Work can help build capacity, transform service delivery, and increase overall program results. http://nawdp.org
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