Finance & Governence Technical Committee

Mission: Provide thought leadership through the development and dissemination of comprehensive quality based techniques/tools (i.e. Cost of Quality) to integrate quality and financial management systems.

Mission Statememt: To extend quality management tools/techniques and problem-solving methodologies financial systems, as well as financial measures and approaches to quality management to provide guidance to senior management and organizational leadership on critical aspects of organizational governance, in order to address a critical chasm between quality practitioners and senior management.

Charter: The Finance and Governance (FG) Technical Committee of the Quality Management Division (QMD) is responsible for acquiring, organizing, and where necessary developing high-level content, in the form of articles, books, conference publications, courses, web-based media, and other products, that:

• Educate executive, business, and quality professionals in the development of business strategies that include tools/techniques to more effectively integrate quality and financial systems to establish business impacts and organizational performance.
• Provide business leaders with the needed perspective to support the integration of financial and quality techniques and approaches as part of advanced quality management for executive support.

High Level Strategic Plan:

To address the finance gap within the existing model of ASQ by:

• Defining the next generation of cost and finance
• Bridging the current chasm between high-end practitioner of tools and techniques but losing sight of the business priorities, having deviated from the original spirit and intent of the cost of quality model.
• Process – not adhering to the spirit and intent of the financial models. Changing may not address why we are not adhering to the original model.
• Before we go now – look at the old, are they sufficient and adequate – what part of the old model is still sufficient and adequate but not being adhered to
• Discussions between C-Suite and Quality profession. Maybe have a newer view.
• Put cycles between product and actual revenue – ties in very nicely with the overall direction of where Quality needs to be.

Objective (Goal):
The goal is for this technical committee to serve as an “incubator” of content, presentations, initiatives, and organizational innovations related to the integration of Quality and Financial Management. This is the starting point for Cost initiatives which can eventually be leveraged by every section, division, committee, and organizational entity within ASQ.

Scope:
The scope of this technical committee is presently across the Quality Management Division, which will extend to Society-wide perspectives.

Leader: Daniel Zrymiak

Leader Bio: Daniel Zrymiak is an ASQ Fellow and possesses multiple ASQ recognitions and certifications. Daniel has been a quality practitioner since 1992 in business services, manufacturing, software, medical devices, and management consulting, and is currently employed by Accenture as a Program Manager. Dan is also a university faculty member and an author of Six Sigma quality material.

Members: Tom Pyzdek, Jd Marhevko, Mike Adams, Kurt Roudabush, Sandford Liebesman, Larry Dyer

Papers and Presentations