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Thought Leader - Bill Cooper

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's Enterprise Thinking Network welcomes Bill Cooper as our seventh Thought Leader for 2007 (and our 91st since 2000) on July 26th and 27th.

Attendees of any of the Forums of the In2:InThinking Network will remember Bill (show below alongside friends at the 2006 Forum) for his "Master of Ceremonies" role at our first four events, his role as In2:IN co-president from

2003 through 2005, and his contributions as the founding editor of the In2:IN's monthly newsletter.  What they may not know is that Bill has over thirty years of experience in the aircraft manufacturing and maintenance field for the U. S. Navy industrial community.  In addition, he has served as the Production Department Head, Aircraft Engineering Director, as well as the Production Planning and Inventory Control Department Head.  All of these assignments preceded his role as the Managing Director for Facilities Planning and Industrial Engineering for the Naval Aviation Depot in San Diego, California.

Along the way, Bill met Dr. W. Edwards Deming (in 1981) and became attracted to his strikingly different Theory of Management.  In time, they became friends and remained so until Dr. Deming's death in 1993. Under Deming's guidance, Bill instituted the Deming Management Method at the North Island Depot and also served as a founding member of the first Deming User Group in the United States (in San Diego). Twenty-six years later, he continues to teach seminars about Dr. Deming's Theory of Management, all the while serving as Deputy Communications Director for the presidential campaign of Congressman Duncan Hunter. 

Looking back to 1982, Bill began to arrange for a regular series of "Deming Roundtables," each associated with Dr. Deming's Four Day seminars in southern California and each an opportunity for Bill to interview Dr. Deming in a roundtable setting, often joined by fellow members of the San Diego Deming User Group (including Phil Monroe and Laurie Broedling) as well as Deming Masters such as Gipsie Ranney and Bill Scherkenbach.  Over the time frame of 1982 to 1991, Bill conducted over 30 such roundtables, convened during one of the evenings of these Four Day seminars and opened to all seminar attendees.  Bill has a collection of some 18 hours of videotapes from these sessions and has prepared a "best of" version" which runs 31 minutes in length.   The audio track of this "highlight reel" weighs in at 156 MB.  This wav file begins with Dr. Deming reciting the "story of the bear," followed by his warning to Bill that "statistical training for the critical mass serves as a false start."  You'll also get Deming's replies to questions about "slogans on the walls," "buying on price tag alone,"  and his "technical expert" role in working with companies.  As you listen, pay careful attention to the scoring system used by Bill to track his personal competition with Dr. Deming, all in great fun, with both sides winning in the end.  Diana Deming Cahill, a founding trustee and board chairman of the W. Edwards Deming Institute, has often commented that Bill was amongst the best at interviewing her father. Bill believes he has captured on these Roundtable tapes the answers to questions that Dr. Deming was rarely asked in his Four Day seminars.   Join us next week and ask Bill for these details, not to mention his earliest impressions of Dr. Deming's message.

Lastly, let me add specifics on Bill's formal education and  classroom career.  He has a Masters Degree in Business and Operations Analysis from National University.  He was an Adjunct Professor at National University where he taught Small Business Development and Management and Organization.  He is currently a professor for the National Graduate School, where he teaches Benchmarking and Malcolm Baldrige assessments.  Bill and his wife Kaye live in San Diego, California where their two sons and a daughter also reside.

Contact Bill Cooper

The following in-house "Thinking Roadmap" seminars and workshops are open to employees of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, as well as suppliers, customers, family members, and "Members of the Community."   "Members of the community" are individuals who are involved full or part time, or in a volunteer capacity, in community related work. 

This schedules below include the next available offerings for the listed seminars in Canoga Park, California.  Contact Bill Bellows to request additonal information.

Pre-requisite - there are NO pre-requisites.

Format - two 4.5-hour sessions over two days, offered as an in-person event

Presented by: Bill Bellows

Schedule for Enterprise Thinking classes in Canoga Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne

Class #CP-561
Part 1 - 23-Aug-07 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 24-Aug-07 - 7:00-11:30am

Monday pm - Enterprise Thinking - Part 1

 
Tuesday am - Enterprise Thinking - Part 2

Tuesday pm - Six Thinking Hats - Part 1
 

Wednesday am - Managing Variation as a System - Part 2

Wednesday pm - Six Thinking Hats - Part 2

 
Thursday am - Managing Variation as a System - Part 3

Thursday pm - OPEN

Friday am - Fifth Annual Lecture by Russell Ackoff