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Thought Leader - Ralph Mullin

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's Enterprise Thinking Network welcomes Ralph Mullin to lead our eleventh Ongoing Discussion of 2007 (and our 95th since January 2000) on November 15th and 16th. 

Following last month's topic of "Motivation in the Work Place," we move this month to the subject of education, specifically business school education.  As you'll read in Ralph's Thought Pieces ("Spotting Quality" and "The Undergraduate Revolution"), both serve well to honor the theme of this month's dicsussion topic, "UNIVERSITIES: STUCK IN A STABLE STATE."   For those of you employed in Red Pen Companies, rather than in Red Pen Universities, does this sad state of existence sound vaguely familiar?  How nice to be connected to a leader, in both thought and action, who is making a difference.

Ralph's role as our Thought Leader and his connection to our thinking network efforts began with his participation in the recent W. Edwards Deming Intitutes's Conference at Purdue University, where his topic was The Undergraduate Revolution.  He joins us as a professor of management at the University of Central Missouri's Harmon College of Business Administration, where he is actively flowing his passion in2 purposeful action, to borrow from the theme of last year's In2:IN Forum. 

• How can you spot quality management in practice?
• What forces are in action to maintain stability with business school education systems?
• What is the dominant mode of thought of faculty and administrators?
• For how long has the existing course-credit-completion system been a standard in the US?

In his capacity as a professor of management, Ralph's special knowledge and experience include: Quality Management, Leadership, Transforming Higher Education Systems, Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes, and Strategic, Synthetic, and Systems Thinking. He also has taught Business Policy & Strategic Management and Research methods.

He has directed two grants from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education ($400,000) on planning and implementing a student learner-focused, outcomes-driven, performance-based, assessment and feedback-integrated education system design. He has also directed a two-phase, University-funded ($100,000) field experient on the development of management skills.

After 23 years managing organizations in the private sector, Ralph  received his Ph.D. in management from the University of Florida. His primary focus since has been on the need for fundamental transformation (re-design) of the U.S. system of higher education.

Contact Ralph Mullin by email with feedback on his Thought Pieces.

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.