Innovation and Value Creation Technical Committee

Mission: Turning Good Ideas into Great Results

Mission Statement: To extend strategic development and problem-solving methodologies into creative design practices to satisfy increasingly sophisticated customers and marketplace environments with innovative solutions; to promote an environment where innovative ideas are actively planned, executed, and rewarded, and teach others to do the same.

Charter: The Innovation and Value Creation (IVC) Technical Committee of the American Society for Quality, Quality Management Division (QMD) is responsible for 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 innovation, as well as the technologies, methodologies and tools 

       needed for effective innovation management.

     * Provide business leaders with necessary perspective to support innovation and value creation

       as part of quality management.

     * Maintain relevant content for the CQM/QE certification and other Bodies of Knowledge.