The American Society for Quality

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• The American Society for Quality

An Overview
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Vision

• By making quality a global priority, an
  organizational imperative, and a personal ethic,
  ASQ becomes the community for everyone who seeks
  quality technology, concepts, or tools to improve
  themselves and their world.

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Role and Long-Term Objectives

• To be stewards of the quality profession by
  providing member value
• To be stewards of the quality movement by
  providing increased society value from ASQ
  activities

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Strategic Themes

• Living Strategy
• An evergreen approach

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Strategic Themes

• Priority 1 Support quality professionals and
  practitioners in their efforts to grow in value
  in the workplace and community.
• Priority 2 Prove and communicate the economic
  case for quality.

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Strategic Themes

• Priority 3 - Assure that a vital, growing Body of
  Knowledge is accessible to everyone.
• Priority 4 - Become the community of choice for
  quality.

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Strategic Themes

• Priority 5 Grow the use and impact of quality
  in every segment of the economy.
• Priority 6 Make sure the world knows the
  importance and value of quality.

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Living Community ModelA New Membership Path

• Community of choice
• Providing member value
• Steward of quality

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Reinvention of theMember Experience

• Flexible options
• New member types
• New benefits
• Increased membership value

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Living Community ModelMember Types

• Regular Member
• Associate Member
• Forum/Division Member
• Student Member
• Sustaining Member (single site companies)
• Organizational Member
• Educational Institution (pilot program)

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ASQ History

• Interest in quality control spurred by U.S. entry
  to World War II and growth in manufacturing to
  supply war materials
• Following government-sponsored quality courses,
  local organizations formed to share knowledge

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History

• Founded in 1946, ASQ merged 17 regional quality
  societies
• Regarded as the premiere resource for quality
  information for more than 60 years
• Virtually every significant initiative of U.S.
  quality movement can be traced to ASQ or its
  members

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Leadership

• 21 member board of directors
• Four-person Office of the President (chairman,
  president, president-elect, and treasurer)
• Serve in voluntary capacity

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Staff Directors

• Executive Director Chief Strategic OfficerPaul
  E. Borawski
• Managing DirectorsChristopher D. Bauman
• Brian J. LeHouillierMichelle Mason
• Laurel Nelson-Rowe

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Membership (as of 5/31/07)

• Honorary
• Fellow
• Senior
• Student
• Regular
• Associate
• Forum/Division
• Organizational
• Organizational (individuals)
• Organizational Site
• Sustaining

• 8
• 601
• 30,518
• 3,083
• 50,518
• 7,544
• 908
• 10
• 243
• 51
• 654

_________ 86000
Total Members
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Members by Industry

• 45.9
• 27.6
• 13
• 2.6
• 1.8
• 9.1

• Manufacturing
• Service
• International
• Healthcare
• Education
• Other

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Benefits of Membership

• Networking opportunities
• Customized content on www.asq.org
• Members-only e-newsletters
• Quality Progress magazine

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Benefits of Membership

• Member rates on ASQ certification, educational
  products, and services
• Career services
• Free or reduced rates on ASQ Library research
• Belonging to the worlds largest network of
  quality professionals

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Networking Groups Communities of Interest

• 255 local chapters throughout North America
  (Sections)
• International Chapter for members outside North
  America
• 25 industry- and function-related technical
  groups (Forums and Divisions)
• 14 Networks

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ASQs Global Quality Community

• 10,000 members outside USA
• Network of country councilors
• WorldPartners

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WorldPartners

• Instituto Profesional Argentino para la Calidad y
  la Excelencia (IPACE)
• National Quality Institute (Canada)
• PGQP Regional Program of Quality and
  Productivity (Brazil)
• Hong Kong Society for Quality
• Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers
• Korean Standards Association
• Singapore Quality Institute

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WorldPartners

• The Chartered Quality Institute (England)
• European Organization for Quality
• Excellence Finland
• Excellence Ireland
• Spanish Association for Quality
• German Society for Quality
• Turkish Society for Quality
• Israel Society for Quality

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Certification

• Biomedical auditor
• Calibration technician
• HACCP auditor
• Manager of quality/organizational excellence
• Quality inspector
• Quality auditor
• Quality engineer

• Quality improvement associate
• Quality process analyst
• Quality technician
• Reliability engineer
• Six Sigma black belt
• Six Sigma green belt
• Software quality engineer

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Certification

• Nearly 160,000 individuals have attained
  certification through ASQ
• Programs used in more than 40 countries

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Standards Development

• Administrator for
• ANSI ASC Z-1 (quality, environment,
  dependability, and statistics)
• U.S. Technical Advisory Groups for ISO Technical
  Committees 69 (application of statistical
  methods) and 176 (quality management and quality
  assurance)
• U.S. Technical Advisory Group on corporate
  responsibility (ISO 26000)

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Standards Development

• Administrator for
• IEC Technical Committee 56 (dependability)
• U.S. SubTAGs to Technical Committee 207
  Subcommittees 1 (environmental management
  systems) and 2 (environmental auditing)

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Baldrige Award

• Americas highest award for quality
• Established 1987
• Framework for excellence in manufacturing,
  service, small business, education, healthcare,
  and non-profit
• 70 recipients to date
• ASQ administers under contract to National
  Institute of Standards and Technology
• ASQ and members helped bring about expansion to
  include awards for education, healthcare and
  non-profit organizations

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The Future

• ASQ is diligent about quality and its future
• Periodic futuring studies give ASQ insight into
  future of quality

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From the 2005 ASQ Futures Study Key Forces

• Globalization
• Innovation/creativity/change
• Outsourcing
• Consumer sophistication
• Value creation
• Changes in quality

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