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Praveen Gupta, President of Accelper Consulting, has been working in the business performance improvement field since 1980. He worked at Motorola in the Semiconductor Product Sector and Communications Sector and at AT&T Bell Laboratories for nine years. He founded Accelper Consulting (formerly Quality Technology Company) in 1989 to provide training and consulting services to businesses. Accelper Consulting is focused on improving business performance through quality methods as well as developing new tools when needed.Praveen has been working on Six Sigma since its inception and has recently looked beyond Six Sigma as well as at challenges in improving performance. As a result of his experience with more than 100 companies, he has developed a Strategy for Execution Map that consists of five items, namely: 1. Rapid Benchmarking for setting goals 2. Six Sigma Business Scorecard for monitoring performance 3. Six Sigma for improving profit 4. Business Innovation for achieving growth 5. The 4P (Prepare, Perform, Perfect, and Progress) Model for sustaining process excellence Praveen has trained executives for Motorola University in Six Sigma, Design for Manufacturability, Cycle Time Reduction, Statistical Process Control and Managing Continuous Improvement. He has consulted with more than one hundred corporations in achieving improved performance.Praveen holds an MSEE in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and is a CQE, a CSQE and a PE in Illinois. He is also an ASQ Fellow and a Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Praveen has published several books, including his best-selling Six Sigma Business Scorecard, The Six Sigma Performance Handbook, Business Innovation, and Improving Quality in Healthcare. Praveen can be contacted at Accelper Consulting at (847) 884-1900 or by email at praveen@accelper.com. Arvin Sri, a Senior Consultant at Accelper Consulting, has over 20 years of experi¬ence in business process improvement and Six Sigma in several industries. Arvin has helped Accelper’s clients by providing Six Sigma Green Belt training and assisting clients through guiding Six Sigma projects successfully. His process approach helps clients achieve benefits with short-term deadlines. He helps clients implement enterprise-wide management systems to sustain improved processes.Prior to joining Accelper Consulting, Arvin worked for ICI and Siemens. He led the teams for process improvement and cost-saving projects in the areas of sales, planning, purchasing, inventory management, distribution and outsourcing. Arvin is a contributing author to The Six Sigma Performance Handbook and Six Sigma for Transactions and Service, both published by McGraw-Hill. Arvin works with Praveen on several research projects.Arvin’s areas of interest include customer relationship management, teamwork, project leadership, communication, process thinking, statistical thinking, and performance improvement. Arvin holds a BSME from IIT Roorkee, an MSIE from NITIE Mumbai, and an MBA from Benedictine University, Illinois.