Process management systems continue to grow in use in pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Every organization has some type of process management system be it formal or informal. Many companies are finding that process management is a logical next step beyond the use of improvement approaches such as Lean Six Sigma. This webinar will help you enhance process management in your organization regardless of its state of development. If your system is just beginning to take form this webinar lays out the key elements of a system and a roadmap that you can follow to initiate or continue your system’s development. If your system is more mature the webinar will provide a model you can use to benchmark your system and identify opportunities for improvement.
This Webinar provides an overview of the strategies and building blocks needed to create successful process management systems including:
- Defining process management and its critical building blocks.
- Using process data at a variety of levels in the organization to fuel process management
- Getting started on the formal development of a process management system. What are the first few things that must be done?
- Improvement project portfolio management to guide and enhance improvement
- Model to assess the maturity of a process management system
- Making process management a management system that is integral to how the business is operated
These strategies and the associated guiding principles will be discussed and illustrated with examples and case studies from the pharma and biotech industries. The discussion will focus on how to make the process management a reality for your organization.
Webinar Leader: Ron Snee, MS, PhD
Ron Snee is Founder and President of Snee Associates, a firm dedicated to the successful implementation of process and organizational improvement initiatives. He has over 30 years experience working with life sciences companies such as Novartis, Roche, DuPont, Schering-Plough and Kraft. He provides guidance to senior executives in their pursuit of improved business performance using Quality by Design (QbD), Risk Management, Lean Six Sigma and other improvement approaches that produce bottom line results. He has authored three articles on QbD, coauthored 4 books on the tools of QbD and risk management and speaks regularly at conferences and meetings on the subject.
Ron received his BA from Washington and Jefferson College and MS and PhD degrees from Rutgers University. He is an academician in the International Academy for Quality and Fellow of the American Society of Quality, American Statistical Association, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been awarded ASQ’s Shewhart and Grant Medals, and ASA’s Deming Lecture Award as well as numerous other awards and honors. He is a frequent speaker and, in addition to his books, has published more than 200 papers in the fields of performance improvement, quality, management, and statistics.
