BCIG SPEAKER EVENT:
“Irresponsible Practices in Technical Professions: Heuristics for Leading the
Change”
Clinical
Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)
ABSTRACT: The presentation is based on Raheja’s book “Irresponsible
Practices in Engineering: Heuristics for Leading the Change” to be published by
Wiley in 2008. It shows how organizations introduce irresponsible behavior
subconsciously, holding back our creativity and the ability to innovate. Based
on experience of 30 years as new product engineering consultant to world class
organizations, he shows how irresponsibility is perpetuated. But there is a way
out of it. He brings out the lessons learned in the form of heuristics, some
known since the time of Socrates and Plato. Heuristics are "rules of thumb",
educated guesses or intuitive judgments necessary for efficiency and innovation.
They encourage thinking instead of believing and uncovering new possibilities
instead of our marginal sequential thinking.
Participants will receive a copy of the unpublished introductory chapter
which summarizes the contents in the book. There will be two door prizes of
Raheja’s book Zen and the Art of Breakthrough Quality Management.
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3:00 - 4:30 pm May 8, 2008
Dev Raheja is an international consultant on new product engineering to
automotive, aerospace and medical device industry and author of the books
Assurance Technologies Principles and Practices and Zen and the Art of
Breakthrough Quality Management. He has served as Adjunct Professor at
University of Maryland and at University of Stoellenbach in South Africa and has
lectured at UCLA, George Washington University, University of Wisconsin and
University of Alabama. Prior to consulting career, he served in management
positions at General Electric and Booz-Allen & Hamilton. Through thinking
outside-the-box he has rescued four companies from going out of business. One of
them became a world market leader. He has received several awards from the
technical societies including the Scientific Achievement Award from System
Safety Society. He enjoys teaching creativity and innovation techniques.
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