PlantSuccess Newsletter
Volume III, Issue 17
20 August 2003
Dear
Subscriber:
As we
complete plans for our 5th annual event in the Philadelphia area, sometimes
I reflect on the project that was the inaugural conference and the support we
received from industry leaders even before there was a PlantSuccess. The unique
focus on the owner-operator and his successful use of engineering IT began with
PlantSuccess ’99 and featured: Jim Sohaney – Air Products and Chemicals,
Dick Pettigrew – Rohm and Haas, Steve Woodruff – Chevron, Bill Daly – Unilever,
Dave Hoerster – Bayer, David Kreh – Elf Atochem, Tim Murphy – Duke Energy
and Dave Davidson – Solutia. They did a great job and set a standard
that has been challenged by 90 other speakers at PlantSuccess conferences in
Philadelphia and Houston.
This
inaugural group was led by one of our earliest supporters, keynoter Jim Porter,
DuPont’s Chief Engineer and VP of engineering and operations. Porter did a
great job “setting the conference table” and has been followed as keynote in
Philadelphia by other industry leaders: Tom Archibald – Rohm and Haas, Kirk
Wilson – Bayer and Hermann Ortega – Air Products and Chemicals. We
are very pleased to have Jim return as keynoter for the 5th
anniversary conference.
Over its
200 years of continuous, successful operation, DuPont has been credited with a
focus on numerous activities that determine the company’s ability to impact
people, strategy and execution to improve asset utilization and product
manufacturing.
Chad
Holliday, DuPont’s Chairman and CEO, enunciated a three-part strategy:
At
PlantSuccess 2000, Don
Linsenmann led an interesting and entertaining discussion on his role
as Corporate Six Sigma Champion and the commitments and progress being
made across all facets of DuPont.
As keynote
for PlantSuccess Northeast 2003, Jim Porter will deliver the address: “Six
Sigma and Best Manufacturing Practices – Delivering Powerhouse Performance.” Do
not miss this opportunity to learn how DuPont Engineering has contributed to
the billions of dollars in benefit achieved from the company’s very successful
implementation of Six Sigma methodology – join us 15 – 16 October at
the PHL Airport Marriott.
Sponsors
for PlantSuccess Northeast 2003 include The Global IT Knowledge Forum, a
joint project of the Xerox Corporation and the Institute for International
Infostructure. The Global IT Knowledge Forum features more than 4
million registered IT professionals, a comprehensive newsletter and a unique,
extensive and easy-to-use website that supports English, French, Spanish and
Portuguese fluently. This project was organized and is managed by Martha
Gorman, one of the most capable and creative IT professionals I know.
Visit www.PlantSuccess.com for more
information, to review agendas from previous conferences and to download any of
the very popular presentations.
Best
regards,
Carl. Howk,
Chairman
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Current
Links
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The Incredible
Shrinking Legacy Workforce
According
to the author of this Optimize Magazine article, “That
[title] may sound surprising in the midst of the most long-lived and difficult
technology recession since the industry's inception, but it's true.” This is an interesting thesis for those dependent
upon IT and successful application … and that’s all of us. READ MORE.
Customer
Risk Analytics: The Flip Side of CRM
From the Aberdeen Group:
“Opportunity and
risk are the yin and yang of corporate success. A corporation that pursues too
many perilous opportunities will eventually gamble its success away, whereas a
highly risk-averse firm limits its future growth potential. It is only in
carefully managing the trade-off between the two that an enterprise can find
lasting advantages.”
And, “In
this era of retrenchment and rationalization of technology investment, enterprises
can no longer treat risk technologies as the stepchildren of their IT
strategies. Only those that start looking at their customer risk strategically
and use it to inform CRM approaches by making sales, marketing, and support
risk-aware in their function will be able to weather a prolonged recession and
emerge into a world of new opportunities with a balanced worldview.” READ MORE.
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