Events & opportunities

Breeding scheme design using quantitative genetics

March 21, 2022 to March 25, 2022

This training is a professional development course designed by the Excellence in Breeding (EiB) Platform to increase the skillset of plant breeders to design breeding schemes.

Operational Excellence Webinar: Continuous improvement culture

March 16, 2022

Getting to the bottom of what is causing a problem is difficult. Sometimes the person with the strongest opinion determines what steps will be taken to solve the problem. Many times the problem keeps coming back. Using root cause analysis tools can help take the emotion out of the discussion and systematically identify the main causes. Join us on March 16 to see how the Interrelationship Digraph works its magic to identify the main driver.

West Africa breeding operations workshop

February 21, 2022 to February 25, 2022

Workshop with operational leads and breeders in the West Africa region to discuss challenges and identify improvements.

Operational Excellence webinar: Root cause analysis and the 5 Whys method

January 19, 2022

Have you ever become frustrated by facing the same problem over and over again, despite repeated attempts to solve it? This EiB webinar aims to teach methods to get to the root cause of the issues you face in the workplace, and learn about how they have been put into practice in the Crop Health Improvement project at the International Rice Research Institute.