2005 Issue #1

International Rational Process Achievement Awards Profiles of the 2004 Grand Winners Sun Microsystems, Corning Shanghai, and Australian Vinyls and the complete winners list.

News & Notes Rapid results using PSDM sup¬ported by KT eThink^® software at pharma co …The Oregon Economic and Community Development Industrial Site Certification process requires KT DA to determine site suitability … PL Jim Huntsberger, FNB Orrville, Ohio shares credo for working with others…New KT book! The Rational Project Manager: A Thinking Team’s Guide to Getting Work Done.

Fuji Hunt Newsletters Feature KT Process Program leaders Dennis Loane and Wayne Beckerman of Fuji Hunt Photographic Chemicals use their company newsletter, The Developing Word, to support the use of KT process in quality and improvement efforts. Reprinted here are two recent articles.

Targeted Community Service: DA Helps Girl Scouts Choose The Best Service Project by Pam Hyland, CEO, Girl Scout Council of the Congaree Area, Inc. Senior girl scout representatives in South Carolina select the issue to address for their statewide annual service project with some help from their leaders, Interbake Foods and KT Decision Analysis.

Inforum: A Tribute To Ben Tregoe Benjamin B. Tregoe, Jr., co-founder and chairman emeritus of Kepner-Tregoe, Inc., died on April 20, 2005. Facing a continued fight with cancer, Ben resigned from the KT Board of Directors earlier this year. At his final board meeting, the Kepner-Tregoe partners issued a tribute.

Learn more about this innovator and leader in an audio interview with him, “The Promise of Rational Process,” at www.kepner-tregoe.com/tregoe