Thank you to everyone who attended the networking meeting at CheckFree in Chandler, AZ. This meeting was attended by 41 individuals, representing 15 different companies.

Here's what we learned from CheckFree ...

These are exciting days to be a part of CheckFree. Work is underway across the entire company to drive excellence in market growth, quality, profitability, and leadership. Through the hard work of their associates, CheckFree has never been in a better position to deliver on market expectations, while making strategic investments to extend their market leadership well into the future. Whether it's through broadening customer relationships, enhancing their products or services, or delivering operational performance, everyone's contributions hold incredible potential for CheckFree's future. In nearly every area of the company, the principles which make up the core of their Six Sigma commitment are coming alive!

Six Sigma is the way CheckFree does business. It is a methodology and a philosophy that emphasizes the customer, and compels them to understand their business as a set of cross-departmental activities (processes). It enables the work they do in achieving their goals, and you will see it deployed throughout CheckFree every day -- even if you don’t recognize it at first.

The philosophy, tools and methodologies of CheckFree Six Sigma are limitless in their ability to help them achieve every one of their business goals and objectives. When applied at the right time and in the right way, the power of their Six Sigma approach will result in superior achievement across their entire business - an unbeatable edge for CheckFree leadership.

A copy of the CheckFree presentation will be posted on our web site as soon as it is available.

Immediately following CheckFree's presentation and a 30-minute Q&A session, we moved directly to the site tour. 

Following the site tour, most of the group wanted to continue discussion on Quality Monitoring. Others discussed assessment tools.

The new Arizona Coordination Team was introduced...

Carmen Shelton, CheckFree
Amanda Martin-Palmay, Toyota/Lexus
Robbie Sinteral, Club Med
Beatrice Perry, The Perry Group
Matt Fairbanks, Kayenell
Neal Duncan, AbleTel, Inc.

The next local networking meeting will be held at Toyota/Lexus on June 7th. Please take a few minutes and register to attend this meeting today.

Meeting Pictures

Meeting Attendees

Name	Company Name
Armijo, Christine	DHL Worldwide Express
Baenen, Douglas	RightNow Technologies
Bauer, Mark	RightNow Technologies
Bowman, Jason	Workrite Ergonomics
Canez, Joe	Take Charge America, Inc.
Carter, Lela	CCNG
Diaconescu, Irina	Take Charge America, Inc.
Duncan, Neal	AbleTel, Inc.
Fairbanks, Matt	Kayenell, Inc.
Geidel, Gregg	Black Box Network Services
Hehman, David	GC Services
Jacobs, Chad	Pillar Communications, Inc.
Jackson, Judy	Deluxe Corp.
Langley, Diana	Deluxe Corp.
Lavery, James	Desert Schools Federal Credit Union
Martin-Palmay, Amanda	Toyota/Lexus Financial Services
Matthews, Urusla	Deluxe Corp.
Mayfield, Pamela	Liberty Mutual
Mulcahy, B.J.	BPA International, Inc.
Pacheco, Angel	Intuit, Inc.
Perry, Beatrice	The Perry Group, LLC
Prince, Erv	IEX
Puchmelter, David	AGIA Insurance Services
Rhodes, Allison	Van Guard
Schwalen, Brad	Pillar Communications, Inc.
Sedlak, Tracy	Club Med
Shelton, Carmen	CheckFree
Sinteral, Robbie	Club Med
Smith, Therese	Pulte Homes, Inc.
Sprong, Jay	Lensco
Stewart, Teresa	American Healthways
Tweter, Lisa	Liberty Mutual Arizona Direct Center
Ugarte, Judy	Deluxe Corp.
White, Karl	Intuit, Inc.
Yannetti, Gaelen	MFS
Zimmerman, Jan	Spherion