Events

All COE events are located at Fisher College of Business unless otherwise noted.

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Professional Development Meeting - May 18

Join us for our regular quarterly seminar, featuring presentations from:

Norbert Majerus – Sr. Master Black Belt, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

Goodyear is one of the nation’s iconic manufacturers, but lean isn’t just being applied on the shop floor. Those value-maximizing, waste-killing principles are being applied in product development at the Akron company in an effort to meet the challenges of speed, variability and uncertainty. Majerus (right) will give a behind-the-scenes look at how lean is used to leverage revenue-generating areas to allow R&D and engineering to be viewed not as costs but as return-generating investments.

Jay Farner – President, Chief Marketing Officer, Quicken Loans

Detroit-based Quicken Loans is a key player in what makes the housing market tick these days, ranking at the top of the list of the nation’s online mortgage lenders and perched high among all home lenders in the U.S. The backbone of the company is a corporate culture Quicken Loans proudly describes as “anti-corporate.” This includes a long list of “ISMs” that range from “Simplicity is genius” to “We’ll figure it out.” Join Farner (left) as he outlines this culture and details how the company sustains it amid remarkable growth.

Details on the event:

• Goodyear session: 10:30 a.m. to noon
• Lunch: Noon to 1 p.m.
• Quicken Loans session: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
• Site: Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center, 2201 Fred Taylor Drive, Columbus, OH
• Click here to register

'Business in Brazil: An Insider's View' - June 1

COE is excited to host an upcoming half-day seminar that was created in the wake of member demand. Join us June 1 for “Business in Brazil: An Insider’s View.” Whether your company has operations in the emerging market, is considering expanding – or you just have an interest in international business, this program will provide valuable insights from a trio of experts.

Details on the event:

• Friday, June 1
• Blackwell Hotel, Ballroom A, Fisher College of Business
• 8 a.m. – Registration
• 8:30 a.m. – Import/Export Challenges: Sean Corson, international sales and marketing manager, Cast Nylons Ltd.
• 9:45 a.m. – Legal Considerations: David Wilson, of counsel, Kegler Brown Hill & Ritter
• 11 a.m. – Cultural Hurdles: Átila Noronha, QSC VP, McDonald’s Corp. Ohio region
• Noon - Lunch, featuring MBA student presentations on a recent Brazil trip
• Register now

ITLN Forum - June 8, 2012

Registration is now open for the next ITLN forum, to be hosted Friday, June 8 on the campus of the Fisher College of Business. Featured presentations:

Lean management in Hewlett-Packard’s delivery system
Srini Koushik, chief development officer of HP’s Enterprise Services
9:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Developing and supporting IT solutions today requires a shift from standardization and factory based development to mass customization. Yesterday’s command-and-control management style has given way to a model built on lean management and software development. Koushik gives an inside look at HP’s industrialized delivery model, an innovative structure that delivers better results by combining unique management and operational models with a focus on the people that drive it. (Click here for a white paper on Koushik’s topic)

Is lean management timeless? Observations from the agile field
Sanjiv Augustine, president, LitheSpeed
1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Agile development methods are helping cut development lead times, improve product quality and trim engineering costs, leading to increased customer and associate satisfaction and less waste. In reality, these methods are timeless lean principles that focus on customer value, respect for people and continuous improvement. Augustine, president of Alexandria, Va.-based training and consulting firm LitheSpeed, will share how agile teams are implementing lean management at the project, program and enterprise levels to deliver outstanding customer value.

Click here to register for the forum. More details on the event:

Site:

• Mason Hall, Fisher College of Business, 2^nd floor rotunda
• 250 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210

Agenda:

• 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. – Registration / networking
• 9:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. – HP presentation
• 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Lunch / networking
• 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. – LitheSpeed presentation

Mark your calendar...

The following COE events are officially scheduled with more details to come. Check back on our events page or look for an e-mail invite closer to the event.

• Sept. 14 - Professional Development Meeting
• Sept. 21 - IT Leadership Network forum
• Nov. 16 - IT Leadership Network forum
• Dec. 7 - Professional Development Meeting