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THE CONNECTICUT QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
AWARD PARTNERSHIP, INC.

CONNECTICUT’S MALCOLM BALDRIGE NATIONAL
QUALITY AWARD FOR PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE

24TH ANNUAL

CONFERENCE ON QUALITY AND INNOVATION

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Gray Conference Center
1877 Club
University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Avenue,
West Hartford, CT 06117
(860) 768-4951

Directions: I-91 North, exit 35A – Left at end of ramp to Route 218 West for 4 miles to left on Rte 189. Campus is two miles on left. At entrance, take first left until stop sign, turn right. Follow signs to K Visitors parking area. Park car and walk towards the University Green and the three flag poles. Entrance to the Gray Conference Center is across the courtyard. Enter at the second set of double doors on your right. The CQIA banner should be nearby. Continue to 1877 Club.

Directions: I-91 South, exit 35B – Right turn at end of ramp to 218 West for 4 miles to left on Rte. 189. Campus is two miles on left. At entrance, take first left until stop sign, turn right. Follow signs to K Visitors parking area. Park car and walk towards the University Green and the three flag poles. Entrance to the Gray Conference Center is across the courtyard. Enter at the second set of double doors on your right. The CQIA banner should be nearby. Continue to 1877 Club.

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FIRST MORNING PROGRAM – Product, Service and Process Innovations

 

• 8:45 – 9:15 Registration, Continental Breakfast and Poster Set-up. All participants will receive the 17th Annual CQIA. Benchmarking book, “2011 Connecticut Best Practices” with 2011 winning CQIA Innovation Prize applications and contact information.

  (Table top posters promoting winning organization’s product, service or process innovation. Posters larger than 11”x17” will need support).

• 9:15 – 9:20 Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc.
  Welcome, Summary of the Day.
  Sheila Carmine, Founder and Executive Director.

• 9:25 – 9:55 Poster exhibit and networking. Photos will be taken.

• 9:55 – 10:00 Sepsis Alert Program at Greenwich Hospital.
  Chuck Seelig, MD
  Director of Medical Education and Residency Program Director.

• 10:05 – 10:10  Demonstration of Autotether, CQIA examiners’ highest ranked 2011 innovation.
  Anthony Viggiano, CEO and Inventor
  Autotether, Inc.
  Chester, Connecticut

• 10:05 – 10:25 Poster exhibit and networking.

 

SECOND MORNING PROGRAM – The Business of Innovation. Douglas Quine, Ph.D., president Triskelion Ltd, Bethel, Jyoti Chhabra, Ph.D., senior scientist, Hartford Hospital and Steve Glick, president, Chamber Insurance Trust designed eleven questions for the Business of Innovation speakers.

• 10:30 – 10:40 Terry Fogarty, General Manager, Unmanned K-MAX Helicopter System, Kaman Corporation, Bloomfield. How do you get internal/external management approval/support for an “out of the box” high risk innovation with a long payback cycle? How do you protect intellectual property while partnering with industry leaders?

• 10:45 – 10:55 Bob Torrani, Director, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Initiative, Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc., (CCAT), East Hartford. How do you demonstrate the savings of business practice changes requiring investment to entrenched upper management? Use examples from your experience. How is the surrounding environment conducive for creativity?

• 11:00 – 11:10 Dennis Peterlin, Program Director, New Product Development, Energizer Personal Care, Milford. How do you address concerns that new better products will cannibalize current lucrative products which are paying the bills? Do your winning groups work as teams or individually on an idea or concept?

• 11:15 – 11:25 Tony Bosco, Director Customer Finance Cartus, Danbury. If your organization ever suffered a business reversal, please explain the process that led to recovery and the lessons learned from that experience.

• 11:30 – 11:40 Boehringer Ingelheim, Ridgefield. How do you empower employees to allocate time to work on the really high potential personal projects that excite them and will benefit the company while also accomplishing their ongoing tasks?

• 11:45 – 12:00 Bring buffet lunch to adjoining 1877 Club.

• 12:00 – 1:15 Networking Lunch. No two people from the same organization may sit at the same gold CQIA Innovation Prize hosted table. (rigorously encouraged)

• 1:15 – 1:30 Individual and group pictures taken of winning organizations with their CQIA Innovation Prize plaques.

• 1:35 Farewell and Adjourn. Please be certain to complete Survey. Thank you.

• 1:40 – 1:55 Gathering of people interested in preplanning CQIA’s 25th Anniversary Event tentatively scheduled for second week in May 2012.

 

2011 CQIA Innovation Prize Recipients

Platinum

Autotether Inc. – Chester

Boehringer Ingelheim – Ridgefield

Henkel North America – Rocky Hill

Kaman Aerospace Corp. – Bloomfield

Gold

Adams & Knight – Avon

Basement Systems Inc. – Seymour

Basement Systems Inc. – Seymour

Cartus – Danbury

Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology – East Hartford

Connecticut Transit – Hartford

Energizer Personal Care – Milford

Etouches – Ridgefield

Greenwich Hospital – Greenwich

iDevices – Canton

MyTheaterApps.com – Westport

Powerphone, Inc. – Madison

Presstek, Inc. – Greenwich

The Stop & Shop Super-market Company – Torrington

Topolino Technology – Bethel

University of Hartford – West Hartford

Workplace, Inc. – Bridgeport

Yardney Lithion – Pawcatuck

SILVER

American Eagle Federal Credit Union – East Hartford

Bartron Medical Imaging – New Haven

C&M Corporation – Wauregan

Cartus – Danbury

Cartus – Danbury

Cartus – Danbury

Cartus – Danbury

Cartus – Danbury

Cartus – Danbury

Cartus – Danbury

Cartus – Danbury

Chamber Insurance Trust Orange Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology – East Hartford

Funkoos – Danbury

GoECart.com – Bridgeport

Greenwich Hospital – Greenwich

Hallmark Cards – Enfield

Owl Computing Technologies – Ridgefield

Owl Computing Technologies – Ridgefield

Owl Computing Technologies – Ridgefield

Proxtalker.com, LLC – Waterbury

Rockville Bank – Windsor

Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center – Hartford

Saint Joseph Parenting – Stamford

Scofield Magnet Middle School – Stamford

TRUMPF – Farmington

Webster, Mobile Banking – Waterbury

ZYGO Corporation – Middlefield

For further information and clarification, please contact
Sheila Carmine – Founder and Executive Director
CQIA Innovation Prize

Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc.
P.O. 1396 Stamford, CT 06904-1396

(203) 322-9534

www.ctqualityaward.org

cqia@aol.com

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