May Chair Message

 
April was a very active month for the Quality Management Division. The leadership team members and technical committees are preparing for the WCQI in Anaheim on May 21, 22, and 23. QMD is an active participant in the ICQI, as well as in the main WCQI sessions. QMD will display the newly designed trade show booth with the “Golden Q” of Quality. There will also be a wheel of Quality game that tests conference attendee’s knowledge of Quality and provides them an opportunity to win prizes. This year QMD will also participate in the ASQ sponsored “Bingo” game in which attendees can get their bingo card stamped to become eligible to win door prizes. More information is provided in the QMD announcements page about WCQI.
The technical committee featured in this month’s chair message is the Finance and Governance Technical Committee. Dan Zrymiak chairs this committee. Dan is from British Columbia and is one of the global members of the QMD leadership team. He is presenting session M09, Outsourcing Life Cycle, at WCQI and ISE 09, Cost of Poor Quality, at ICQI. Additional finance and governance presentations will be made by Mike Adams, Sandford Liebesman, and Jd Marhevko at WCQI.
Beyond conference presentations, the Finance and Governance Technical Committee is also active in other areas of interest. They are currently sponsoring Doug Wood’s revision of the popular book, Cost of Quality. Preliminary discussions are also under way for a possible future certification related to finance and governance. Watch for the Finance and Governance Technical Committee e-blast this month for more information about the activities of this committee. There is a link on the QMD home page for volunteers if anyone is interested in participating on this committee.
Planning for WCQI was not the only QMD activity in April. The vice-chair of operations, Jerry Rice, had his peer-reviewed article, Applying Lean and Six Sigma to Your Dermatology Practice, published in the Journal of Nurses’ Association (March/April 2012, Volume 4, Issue 2). Jerry’s article is another example of the ways Quality theories and methodologies are being relied upon to provide improvement opportunities in service industries, such as healthcare.
QMD participated in two regional events in April, the Toronto Quality Day and the BOSCON 2012 Quality Conference. Detailed information about the Toronto Quality Day is provided on the QMD global page. BOSCON 2012 provided another regional opportunity for local QMD members to meet members of the QMD leadership team. At this event, a group of speakers from QMD represented the work of various technical committees.
We remain very active in our attempt to reach out and learn the needs of our members and to make QMD membership a value-added experience for all Quality professionals.

Milt Krivokuca
ASQ-QMD Chair 2012-2013

Boston Event:  Bill Hackett, QMD and Local Boston ASQ Members

New Members Welcome to the Quality Management Division

New QMD members, please take a couple of minutes to view this very brief 5-minute welcome message from your 2012-2013 chair. After you have viewed this welcome message, please take a couple of minutes to answer several very brief survey questions. Let us know if you would like you name to be entered for our monthly drawing for a free copy of one of the popular books from the QMD Executive Guide Series. Each month ten survey respondents will be selected at random to receive one of these QMD sponsored publications. Thank you for taking come time to help the QMD leadership team gather information in order to provide products and services that provide value and meet our member’s needs.