American Society for Quality - Quality Management Division

Products:

  • Certified Quality Manager Handbook (2nd edition)
  • Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence Refresher Course
  • Quality Improvement Handbook
  • Principles of Quality Costs (3rd edition)
  • The Quality Management Forum

 

Workshops:

  • Cost of Quality Workshop (half day, one day, and two day versions)
  • Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence Refresher Course (three day workshop)

 

  • Services:

  • Update to the Certified Quality Manager Course materials
  • Annual Quality Management Conference
  • Review and submit Fellow nominations
  • Develop qualified instructors for the Quality Manager Refresher Course
  • Update and grade Certified Quality Manager Exam
  • Provide input to update the Certified Quality Manager Body of Knowledge
  • Host Exams at QMD Annual Conference
  • Submit QMD members for awards and recognition
  • Coordinate activities of volunteers
  • Display the QMD booth at conferences and other events
  • Solicit information for posting on our web site
  • Peer-review articles for future publication
  • Maintain a speakers list

 

We also provide basic information on the following topics:

  • Leadership - Developing leaders
  • Teams - Project management, kaizen blitz, natural teams, self-directed work groups, and virtual teams

 

  • Strategic Planning:

  • Processes (traditional, Hoshin planning, scenario planning, future search)
  • Strategic management

 

  • CustomerFocus:

  • Voice of the customer (VOC)
  • Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
  • Measuring and using satisfaction data
  • Customer service management
  • Relationship management

 

Improvement tools:

  • seven basic QC tools, seven management tools, 6 sigma, lean, theory of constraints, and benchmarking
  • Metrics - Cost of quality, and balanced scorecard
  • Baldrige - Use of criteria for driving organizational improvement

 

Supplier/supply chain management

Management:

  • Knowledge management
  • Quality managemenht systems (ISO series)
  • Topics on Deming's System of Profound Knowledge - Psychology, systems thinking, variation, and learning theory
  • Project management
  • Process management

 

Training and development:

  • Integrating e-learning and other training delivery methods
  • Organizational development
  • Speaking the language of senior management