Texas Quality Organization
The Quality Management Division (QMD) recognizes the importance of effective quality management in all organizations from the traditional manufacturing sector to the current issues affecting healthcare. QMD is the largest ASQ division and we actively support the endeavors of the industry specific divisions. The QMD provides support that extends to many of our partners in quality, such as the many state quality award organizations.
One of the most active state quality programs with which QMD collaborates is the Quality Texas Organization. The Chief Executive Officer of Quality Texas, William Denney, PhD., has been a QMD leader for many years and he continues in an advisory capacity. Texas – Quality has a very unique one-day, Baldrige-based healthcare event taking place on March 1, 2010. Any healthcare organization considering the implementation of Baldrige-based criteria should not miss this event. The day features four keynote speakers from healthcare systems that have received national Baldrige recognition. For more information, please visit: www.texas-quality.org January 4, 2010.
Winter 2009 Quality Management Forum
The Winter edition of the Quality Management Forum is now available on the QMD website. November 20, 2009.
New Orleans QM Conference Local Coordinator
Please welcome Anne Moyer as the Local Coordinator for the March 2010 New Orleans Quality Management Conference. Anne's duties will include recruiting and coordinating activities of local volunteers, identifying proctors for on-site certification exams, acting as local contact for printing/etc, recommending speaker/attendee gifts, and assisting special local arrangements. She brings much experience to this role having served as Local Coordinator for the ASQ Customer-Supplier Conference. Anne can be contacted at “anne.martinez.moyer@monsanto.com” October 30, 2009.
New Operations Manual Chair
Please help us to welcome Owen Ramsey as the new Operations Manual Chair. In this role, Owen will help to maintain the QMD's processes and procedures to keep us all on track. October 26, 2009.
QMD VOICE OF CUSTOMER SURVEY
Take our on-line QMD Survey o help us understand what you are looking for at this link:
http://asq.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8Dj2SbB5a9FWSG0&SVID=Prod. October 26, 2009.
New Vice-Chair of Technical Committees
We'd like to welcome Claud Russey in as our new Vice Chair of Technical Committees. Claud will be managing the multiple committees that we have on a variety of topics. Our committees issue articles, write books on key topics and focus on the new trends in quality and improvement across several cross-cutting topics. If you are interested in joining one of our committees, please contact him directly. Claud can be contacted at claud@fusionqhse.com October 26, 2009.
QMD Seeking Volunteers
We're looking for a Webmaster and other web-based to help support the content on this website. We'd love for you to join the team. Please contact Dr. Ron Meier at rlmeier@ilstu.edu if you are interested. October 26, 2009.
New Welcoming Chair
We have a newly created role that is being managed by our new Welcoming Chair, David Levy. Did you know that he will be trying to manage resources to call of our new members to just say, "Hi"? David is developing an extensive team of volunteers that will fan-out and try to contact our new QMD members. Our objective is to understand what is you are looking for as a deliverable from the QMD so that we can better support your needs. We use this VOC feedback as part of our input for our Strategic Planning activities. If you are a new member and you haven't been contacted and would like to provide your feedback, please either call any of our Leadership members or take our short 6 question survey at this link: http://asq.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8Dj2SbB5a9FWSG0&SVID=Prod. October 26, 2009.
QMD Annual Conference
Stay tuned for regular information regarding our Quality Management Conference on March 4-5, 2010 in New Orleans. Click on the Conference tab at the left for more information. October 26, 2009.