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Escape the Improvement Trap:
Five Ingredients Missing in Most Improvement Recipes
Chicagoland Lean Enterprise Consortium (CLEC)
Cumberland provides administration and facilitation services for the CLEC member companies. They have joined forces as a consortium of like-minded companies intending to improve their business performance faster than their competitors. CLEC enables them to: share their experiences and knowledge about quality, productivity, and continuous improvement; challenge each other for breakout improvements; and leverage each others' resources for mutual improvement efforts. 
SPEECHES, WORKSHOPS & OTHER EVENTS
Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) public events:
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Regional training, education, and plant tours:
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Annual international conferences:
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University of Chicago Consultant Roundtable, Speaker, Michael Bremer
"Beyond Six Sigma: Changing Our Conversations About Improvement"
March 22, 2012, 6 to 9 PM
The session reviews the five levers leaders can use to improve the way their organization improves. If you are interested in finding ways for your organization to improve more effectively, you should come to this session.
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Keynote speaker for Printing Industries of America
April 3, 2012
"Escaping the Improvement Trap" will be on the same podium as Mike Rother (Toyota Kata) and Bob Chapman (CEO of Barry Wehmiller). We will be discussing why organizations typically fail to improve their competitive position, even though they do get better after adopting improvement programs like TQM, Lean, Six Sigma, etc.
AME Champion's Club meeting
April 11–13, 2012
"Getting People on Board Faster" to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Our presentation "Moving Beyond the Improvement Tools – Using Stories" will focus on changing the conversations that take place regarding business performance improvement.
Keynote presentation for J. R. Simplot Company
May 2012
University of Chicago
May 17 - 18, 2012
"Better Ways to Work: Innovative Tools for Organizational Excellence"
To learn more and register, go to: grahamschool.uchicago.edu
Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) Annual Conference
October 15, 2012
Moving Beyond the Improvement Tools — Using Stories
To learn more and register, go to: ameconference.org