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"Do you have a QFD Green Belt® Course outside the U.S.?"
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While QFD has been successfully applied in Japan since 1960s,
it was not until 1980 when the West discovered it and English
information became available. Modern QFD, the current best
practice QFD for DFSS, is even younger.
Presently, the U.S. and Canada lead Modern QFD learning and
application. North America has the highest concentration of
companies using Modern QFD in their New Product Development (NPD)
process, as well as QFD Green Belt® and Black Belt®
certificate holders. The most successful applications are
reported from the companies that employ custom-tailored Modern
QFD approaches and have built up enough internal QFD Black
Belts® and Green Belts® to carry out new NPD projects on an
on-going basis. A good concentration of QFD Green Belts® are
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With proliferation of Six Sigma, other countries are also
starting to upgrade their QFD practices. The QFD Institute has
been broadening its global outreach efforts every year to
respond to this need, bringing the
International QFD Green Belt® Certificate Course
to cities around the world so that people outside North
America who cannot easily travel have access to Modern QFD
training. To date, we have held this course successfully in
England, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, and Peru, attended by
people from local industries as well as those from neighboring
countries.
Giving mini workshops and speaking at various international
conferences are also part of our outreach efforts. The
2007
German QFD Symposium is one such example. Domestically,
annual guest lectures by the QFD Institute at the University
of Texas - Dallas and University of Michigan are another
example.
Listed below are upcoming global outreach that might be of
interest to our international readers as well as your
colleagues who are based in these regions. All are conducted
in English and open to public registration.
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March 18 in Turkey: A 2-hr tutorial on Modern QFD by
Glenn Mazur, executive director of QFD Institute, in
conjunction with the Turkish 2nd National Symposium on QFD
(March 19-21), hosted by Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of
Business. Visit
Details or contact
qfdturkiye@deu.edu.tr
TEL +90 232 4128286 FAX +90 232 4535062
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May 5 in Houston, Texas: QFD Workshop for Healthcare
Professionals
"Voice of Customer Analysis Using QFD: Healthcare"
(HCW4) at ASQ 2008 Quality Institute for Healthcare
Conference
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May 20-23 in U.K.: A modern Voice of the Customer
workshop at
UK
Deming Transformation Forum
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September 23-24 in China:
International
QFD Green Belt® Certificate Course in Beijing,
China, in conjunction with the ISQFD'08-Beijing and in
cooperation with Chinese Association for Quality.
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These outreach
programs are typically arranged in cooperation with local
universities, industry groups, trade associations, and
government agencies, as well as in coordination with ISQFD
(International Symposium on QFD) and ICQFD (international
alliance of QFD activities).
The
QFD Institute plans to continue expanding our global outreach
program in response to new interest from other countries,
academic and research institutions, and businesses. To have
one in your country, please contact us to find out what
steps are needed. |
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