QFD Green Belt® UPDATE Course

Many new advancements have been made in QFD over the last few years. If it has been more than a year since you attended the QFD Green Belt® Course, we strongly recommend this refresher course.

The QFD Green Belt® UPDATE Course constitutes a half-day, semi-private continuing education exclusively for those who have a Provisional QFD Green Belt® Certificate. Your registration also include the 1-day Symposium (2012 November 2) to expand your horizon through new case studies and networking.

Created in response to students' request to help keep the momentum going, this refresher course offers you an opportunity to update and enhance the QFD knowledge and skills learned in your previous course. You can bring your QFD samples for critique and coaching, or send your questions in advance.

Attendees of this Course will be eligible to attend the 2012 QFD Black Belt® Certificate Course (November 5–9, St. Augustine, Florida) on the same trip, in addition to receiving the latest release of the Green Belt® training manual and templates and a 1-year extension of the provisional Green Belt status.

This course constitutes 0.5 CEU Credit Units. Attending the Symposium adds 1.0 CEU.

Prerequisites

• Anyone who have a full status or provisional QFD Green Belt® Certificate.
• This Update Course is recommended especially for those who earned a Provisional QFD Green Belt® before November 2011 and have not completed the Full Status review yet.
• ( Attending from Overseas )

Proof of Prerequisites: Please indicate on the Registration Form, the Year and City of the public QFD Green Belt® Course that you previously completed —or— your QFD Green Belt® Certificate Number (provisional or full status) issued by the QFDI authorized instructor(s).

 

Planned for this QFD Green Belt® Update Course are the following topics:

• Improved algorithms for defining Customer Needs (Demanded Quality) for "new-to-world" products and services;
• Incorporating Blitz QFD® into Dr. Akao's Comprehensive QFD to speed up the process;
• Why and how of replacing ordinal scale calculations with ratio scale calculations of customer needs priorities, sales point, competitive benchmarking, and matrix relationship weights - to bring your QFD math to Six Sigma provisions;
• Introduction to Kansei Engineering and Lifestyle QFD.

This course will introduce you to the latest enhancements to the QFD Green Belt® courses and the most up-to-date Modern QFD tools and methods. You will also receive the latest edition of the QFD Green Belt® training manual.

• Bring up to date and enhance your QFD knowledge and skills learned in your earlier course
• Get additional coaching. You might have encountered questions since attending the previous course. This is a good opportunity to get additional direction;
• Find out the latest advancements in QFD and new-to-world concepts that the QFD Institute brings about through its on-going research;
• Your Provisional QFD Green Belt® had expired if you attended QFD Green Belt® Course before November 2011 and did not complete the Full Status review. By attending this Update Course, you will get your Provisional Status reinstated and extended until December 2013.
• Attendees of this Course are eligible for the 2012 QFD Black Belt® Certificate Course. We have scheduled this refresher course a day before the Black Belt® course, for your convenience.
  

1. Your own laptop computer with a CD drive, containing MS Excel, MS Word, and Adobe Acrobat;
2. Marketing and technical data for a small project or a part of a project that you are currently working on or plan to work on in the future; and
3. You may also suggest topics that you wish to review; please send your suggestions to the QFD Institute before the start of the course.

• The latest Modern QFD templates on CD; and
• The latest edition of QFD Green Belt® training materials.

This course will be taught by one of the following instructors:

• Richard E. Zultner
• Glenn H. Mazur (www.mazur.net)
  

Registration information coming soon...

Two registration options are offered, depending on whether you wish to also attend the once-a-year public QFD Black Belt® Course or not.

1) QFD Black Belt® Package #1

2) QFD Green Belt® Update Package

Please see the Registration Page (online) or MS Word Form (MS Word) for the fees and program details. Or you may also contact us (TEL +1 734 995 0847) if you have any questions.

This course and Symposium will be held at the following venue hotel.

Hilton St. Augustine Historic Bayfront
32 Avenida Menendez, St Augustine, FL 32084
Tel: 904-829-2277

Hotel Reservation information coming soon ...