Previous action items, still incomplete, with comments
112.C. Morgan. Need champion for interactions with other organizations. Try Stu Hunter first., then AmStat News.
* no updated info on this.
** (6/97) (by E-mail after the call) C. has just gotten information on contacting Stu. She will try to reach him soon.
*** (8/97) Terry Ziemer (Minitab) and Stefan Steiner (U. Waterloo) have volunteered. CM will still contact Stu.
**** (10/97 CM) no response from Stu. Still working with TZ and SS.
***** (2/98 CM) Still no response from Stu. SS looking
for connection with INFORMS. However, he doesn't think he'll be attending
these meetings. T. Boardman will see Stu in March and discuss with Stu.
In the meantime, C. Morgan will prepare an article on this for AmStat News.
129. R. Hoerl. Include in Chair's responsibility to send out list of Q&P meetings and events at JSM
*(10/97 RH). OK. He will do.
** (2/98 RH). Still pending.
New action items
(These also include action items from above when the responsibility
has shifted to another person.)
133.E. Walker. Take up publishing Snee's article (replaces
item #63). Possibilities include a shortened article in newsletter or a
detailed abstract there, with pointer to the Web. May be easiest for E.
W. to edit, then send to Snee for approval.
134.J. Voelkel. send Ralph St John's e-mail address to
E. Walker, so he can try to get Snee's article in electronic form.
135.J. Voelkel. Contact Roger to ensure that OM updating
policy is in OM.
136.T. Boardman. Talk to Stu Hunter re item #112. ("Need
champion for interactions with other organizations.")
137.T. Boardman. Handle room arrangements for 5/19 meeting.
138.V. Czitrom. Create meeting agenda, with T. Boardman,
L. Hare, for 5/19 meeting. Include review of Vision, Mission, and rethinking
of current tactical plans. Also consider two other initiatives. Six-sigma
(R. León's point) and service-focused work (S. Devlin's point).
139.All. Let E. Lagergren know if you are interested in
chairing a contributed paper session.
140.J. Voelkel. Request pictures of new officers.
141.R. Fricker. Decide on brochure update(s).
| Item | Description | Responsibility |
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Update on Action Items of October 31, 1997 Conf. Call |
All |
Only completed action items are listed here. On-going and
new items are listed above. 63. J. Voelkel (and T. Boardman). Talk with SD to see if we can publish some of their articles in Q&P newsletter. * Janice Shade, SD Newsletter editor, has just been called. ** (J. Shade phone call after the conference call) -- Newsletter copyrighted, but usually not the article. J. Voelkel will work with her on this -- she will contact author for permission, and if OK send me the article in MS Word.0 format. *** Joe V. and Tom B. will work together on this. (12/96) **** LH. Last issue - nice article by Snee. Would like to publish this. Tom will ask for permission from editor of SPES/Q&P, Janet Buckingham 210-522-2407, then NYNEX from Ron Snee 212-395-3956. ***** (LH 4/97). In progress. Tom has worked with Janet B., who has Snee article. May appear in two newsletters. ****** (TB 6/97). Whether article will appear in one or two newsletters still not known. ******* (TB 8/97) still waiting, due to length. TB will try to shorten, for print, full version in Web page. Section still needs to find mini-paper editor, starting next year, as part of publications committee. ******** (TB 2/98) Hard to divide up. E. Walker will take
up the fight. JV - show detailed abstract in newsletter, with pointer to
the Web. See new action item for E.W. 92. R. Hoerl. Will see how to make our role more proactive in 1998 MSMESB, such as choosing a speaker. And see item #73. (Item 73, from 2/97 conf. Call: 73. V. Czitrom had conference call with D. Lin and R. Hoerl to discuss requests from MSMESB: fund a lunch, fund a speaker, organize a session-- done (12/96). D. Lin has formally asked Q&P to participate, by setting aside one session as ASA Q&P session, the one featuring Gerry Hahn. We will contribute $500 for this year.) * Roger. We would like to have more influence, rather than just a name and a contribution. He will contact D. Lin about this, and then decide who will take that responsibility. * Roger (4/97). Will be a meeting June 26-28 (MSMESB at Penn S. U.) to discuss our increased role. Hopes a Q&P'r can attend. ** (6/97) Lynne will contact Roger to see what can be done. Dennis Lin or Rosenberger at PSU may be of help. *** (8/97 RH) Meeting at Conference this year, but RH not there. RH did tell D. Lin that we want to make our role more proactive (this year was basically reactive). RH will continue follow-up **** (10/97 RH) Roger contacted D. Lin after the MSMESB Chicago meeting. Last year, Q&P gave funding for an industrial speaker (G. Hahn). But Q&P felt we should be more proactive in the future, so Roger sent a proposal to D. Lin that Q&P "own" a talk at the conference. We would select a speaker, sponsor the talk, and supply partial funding. Roger hopes to get an answer back from D. Lin and his committee about this by next week. ***** (2/98 S. Devlin). He followed up with MSMES board.
They invited him to be the official speaker for this year. Done. 98. E. Boardman and G. Vining Bring up at Council of Sections who will take responsibility for ASA-wide advertising of discussion This is in regard to CoS promoting the various discussion groups that are currently under way. Eileen will send this off as a discussion topic to Piegorsch suggesting that ASA homepage is good place to do this. * hold on, thru JSM ** (6/97) still no word on Council of Sections. Waiting for agenda. *** (8/97 GV) Still nothing, from yesterday's CoS meeting. They appear to be working on issues of electronic communication. T. Boardman emphasized that the idea is to try discussion groups at CoS (a higher level than the Section level). E. Boardman will send request to Bruce Trumbo and Mike Myer (webeditors@amstat.org). I. Sande pointed out that is it hard for us to get a listserve up-this is a role for ASA. **** (10/97 GV) So far, no response. Greg will give it one more shot, at the February CoS meeting. ***** (2/98 GV). CoS is of no help here. They really haven't
given it enough thought. Done/dead. 102.L. Hare Call T. Boardman to establish a committee to review minipaper submission. * in progress. ** (6/97 L. Hare). Have Eric and publication officer elect (M. Leitnaker). How about Tom, Pat DeFeo, Susannah, Mary. They will try to meet at JSM - can schedule after JSM. New mini-paper editor needed for next year (for V. Czitrom to fill) *** (8/97) V. Czitrom will find a new mini-paper editor. M. Leitnaker will lead role here, and will meet with T. Boardman. **** (10/97 VC) Esteban Walker at Univ. of Tennessee will do this. VC will have him get in touch with TB. ***** (2/98 VC) OK. E. Walker can do this as needed. Looking
forward to ideas… 107.R. Hoerl, J. Voelkel, R. León Decide on frequency and time of OM updates. * Roger. Propose to maintain officers' #'s and addresses on Web continuously. Update OM once/year at end of year (December). Still need to assign accountability. ** (6/97) JOV to call Roger *** (8/97) Will meet after this meeting. **** (10/97) RH. We came up with schedule, as follows. At JSM, ask officers for updates, corrections, for job descriptions and for anything else in manual. To be sent by October 1 to the Past Chair. To be sent by November 1 to webmaster, who will put finished version on the web page by December. This year we are behind. ***** (2/98). OK. Done. 118. G. Vining. Organize a meeting of Q&P people at the FTC in October to flush out Q&P's meaning, Vision, Mission. * (10/97 GV) Met, but only with 4 people. V. Czitrom and T. Boardman should really be present. So VC, with GV and TB, will work on organizing a meeting, in Orlando in February. ** (2/98 VC). Talked with L. Hare and T. Boardman. Orlando
idea did not fly. Now have decided to do it at the Q&P Research Conference
(Santa Rosa, CA, May, 1998). See "Other items" below. This work
is now an action item for V. Czitrom 120. R. León. Write up Communications Tactical Plan with other TP members, in view of yesterday's tactical planning session. * (10/97) no information received yet. ** (2/98) no real work yet. But it is our main product. Feels that it should be headed by Chair. This lead to a discussion of using May meeting to rethink
these plans. See "Other items" in minutes. Will pass this on to
the May meeting. 121. J. Voelkel. Write up Adding Value Tactical Plan with other TP members, in view of yesterday's tactical planning session. * (10/97 JV) first draft written. V. Czitrom has given feedback. Will continue to work on this. ** (2/98 JV). No real work here. Will pass this on to the
May meeting. 122. R. León. Investigate use of PH server, so if we move to new address, we can use ASA as a standard address. * (10/97) no information received yet. ** (2/98) Still no reply. RL: done/dead. 125. J. Voelkel. Send summaries on JSM sessions this year to Eric. * (10/97) put off until TP done ** (2/98) not done. Dead. 127. All. Send W. Letsinger ideas for Continuing Education sessions for 1998 JSM. * (10/97) no information received yet. ** (2/98) done. 128. S. Devlin. Send E-mail to remind newsletter people to send in budget * (10/97) no information received yet. ** (2/98) SD got info from SPES treasurer. Prepared joint
budget. done 130. All. Update job descriptions by Nov 7. * (2/98). done 131. J. Voelkel. Send e-mail on 130 out ASAP * (2/98). done 132. L. Hare. Call Joe Skwish about Marquardt memorial effort. * (2/98). Resolved. done. | ||
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Welcome new officers |
V. Czitrom |
New Officers are Lisa Moore, Senior Newsletter Editor, Los Alamos National Lab Esteban Walker, Associate Editor, Univ. of Tennessee at Knoxville Ron Fricker, Membership Chair, RAND, Santa Monica, CA | ||
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Updates on Tactical Plans |
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Statistical Thinking. L. Hare.A group in the Statistics Division is working on a book on Process Improvement Through Statistical Thinking. It is being reviewed now, and they hope to have it published by Quality Press. Lynne would still like to put on a train-the-trainer workshop for ASA. He has a list of people interested in this, and is targeting for the workshop for the summer. This seems to be mostly a Statistics Division activity. But Lynne pointed out that the ASA audience is different, a much tougher sell. Communications. R León.
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Updates, Committee Chairs |
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Treasury. S. DevlinFor first time, has financial Records she has faith in. September 1997 is latest record available. It lists a $1700 surplus, but will probably be around $0 by end of year. However, there are two good sets of news. First, Q&P made $1000 from the Q&P workshop conference in Orlando, from a DOE workshop given by J. Filliben. Second, based on a revenue-sharing plan with ASA CE, Q&P made $7800 from the August JSM courses. So Q&P now has an additional $8800 in revenue. (On an aside, the JSM workshops make money for ASA, but not for the sections. ASA is in process of reconsidering the distinction between workshops and courses.) There have been three requests for money. 1. $200 for ASA UG contest. (See last minutes) 2. $1250 GRC request. (See last minutes). 3. $1000 for MSMESB to help fund a speaker. In light of the $8800 surplus, we agreed at the conference call to fund all of these at the full amounts. Finally, there seems to be no reason to raise dues, which someone had suggested by e-mail. Operating Manual. R. HoerlBy e-mail, Roger reported that he is a bit behind on this, but is moving forward. 1998 JSM Program. E. Lagergren.By e-mail, There are three invited sessions, as shown in last set of minutes. The deadline for contributed papers just ended, on February 1. 1998 Continuing Ed. W. Letsinger.No update received. 1998 Q&P Research Conference. J. Hooper.Information can be found from the Q&P Web page (the wrong name for Q&P research conference will soon be corrected.) The manual on Web page, a new version out shortly. The 1998 and 1999 agendas are out, the former in detail. Registration form is also on the Web page. Hewlett Packard donated $5000 to the conference. The theme is collaboration among statisticians, managers, policy makers. Students are being subsidized for the conferences. See Web page for more information. The 1999 conference is 5/19-21 at GE and RPI, on 6-sigma quality and beyond. The 2000 conference is in Seattle, with Boeing and probably U. of Seattle. The topic is reliability. Publications. S. Schiller.There will be an article in Amstat news on the Q&P
conference, written by Ai-Chu Wu. It may changed to mention the applied
aspects of the conference as well as student focus. Newsletter. L. Moore, E. Walker.Esteban is looking forward to ideas from us. He will contact Lisa also. He has considered sending e-mail to all section members to ask for ideas, but Ramon suggested using the newsletter instead. Council of Sections. G. Vining and L. Vance.Geoff said there was nothing to report.. Committee to Nominate Fellows. C. Morgan.Carolyn is working with 2 individuals on working on Q&P nominations. Web. R León.The Web is going fine. Ramon is still waiting for new officers page from J. Voelkel. The posting of minutes, the agenda, and the officers' page are most frequently used. Membership. R. Fricker.Ron has been in touch with Innis, and has received brochures from her. He needs to have reprinted with 1998 officers, or perhaps not have officers in at all, but just Web Page address. Also this will probably need to be update for the August JSM meetings, based on the May meeting in which the Q&P Vision, and so on, will be reviewed. | ||
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Other Items |
V. Czitrom |
May 19 MeetingThis meeting is to review, possibly revise, and develop
more concrete plans, to move forward with Q&P's meaning, Vision, Mission.
Will be held at the Q&P Research Conference (Santa Rosa, CA.) Meeting
will be on Tuesday, May 19, 1998. Attendees will include G. Vining, T. Boardman,
V. Czitrom, perhaps J. Hooper and L. Hare. R. Fricker, S. Schiller, S. Devlin,
C. Morgan plan to participate by a 4-6 PM Eastern time conference call. This led to a discussion of the difficulty in implementing
two of the tactical plans (Communcation, R. León, and Adding Value,
J. Voelkel). We agreed to hold off on these plans, since they seem to overlap
(e.g.). Also, they may well be revamped at this meeting. Also discussed the need to meet 2x/year instead of once. L. Hare pointed out that a 3-yr rotation may not be enough to provide continuity. An example of this is that it seems hard to connect current work to past Q&P work, even though this past work is in the operating manual. J. Hooper noted that we used to have a 2nd meeting in the Winter meeting, sometimes a 3rd one at the Q&P conference. Questions were raised as to whether the initial mission was too broad. J. Hooper said that this was intentionally done, but that the early work of the Section also had specific work to do to server the customer. | ||
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Next Conference Call |
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Next Conference call The next conference call will be held on May 19, 4-6 Eastern time. It will be used to generated a discussion of the meeting that day. | ||