Quality Drives Economic Value
Today I got the email announcements of the ASQ Quality Management Division (QMD) annual conference in Irvine, CA at the Hyatt Regency Irvine hotel. I was looking forward to the details as I am involved in their March 1st one-day workshop on How to Use ISO 9001 to Reduce the Risk from Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).
Reading the QMD conference brochure I was pleased to see our workshop has good alignment with the conference vision and preamble:
Quality Drives Economic Value: As we proceed further into the new millennium, the many threats from competition and a tightening economy compel today‘s organizations to provide superior products and services, while optimizing organizational performance. The 18th Annual Quality Management Conference will provide you with “ready-now” tools and strategies for excelling in today's dynamic business environment.
Looking for more synergy with SOX implementation, I see from the conference session details, that I will be definitely attending the following 9 one-hour sessions:
- What Your CEO Wants You to Know by Bill Denney
- Management Review and the Budget by Denise Robitaille
- Human Error Management: Quality Drives Economic Value by Larry Tew
- Impact of Baldrige on Corporate Financial and Non-financial Performance by Denis Leonard
- Quality Costs: Applied by Doug Wood
- Quality Management Systems: Realizing Financial and Economic Benefits by Paul Palmes
- Driving Measurable Business Results by Shane Yount
- Quality Management Information Systems (QMIS) by John Cachat
- Finally, Getting the Attention of Senior Management by Tom Taormina
Due to SOX, large corporations having been investing vast sums for:
- better policy deployment,
- better controls and business rules,
- more accurate measurements,
- better infrastructure and systems, and
- greater transparency across the enterprise
Now I can see from the QMD conference agenda, the ASQ quality management experts are moving in these same directions with principles and methods to help members move operational quality management up to enterprise-wide quality and risk management.
