Please join Dave Gronewold, Global Director, Operational Excellence, and Alec Symington, Corporate Operational Excellence Manager, as they discuss Covidien’s Operational Excellence program, which has achieved great success in reducing costs and improving quality since its inception in 2000. Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products, has embraced Operational Excellence as a strategic initiative. Covidien’s integrated deployment of Six Sigma, Lean, and Design for Six Sigma has been bolstered by a strong internal training and certification program and the EnterpriseTrack Project tracking system and Training Manager module. Training Manager is an integrated training administration system.

Specifically, Dave and Alec will discuss best practices and lessons learned in the areas of:

• Establishing and communicating training and certification objectives
• Designing program structure and curriculum
• Managing and delivering training programs
• Tracking training and certification status
• Customizing the Instantis Training module to Covidien's needs
• Achieving full integration of training-related databases
• Achieving data integrity and automated upload of training records
• Reporting on training activity and business impact results