Board of Directors meeting - Day 2
With the bulk of the business decisions behind us from yesterday, today was looking toward the future strategically.
But first we began the day with some recognition. Several members of our BoD are moving on toward other exciting times within their ASQ lives. Leaving the BoD after this fiscal year is over and receiving testimonials for their 'time served' were:
- Jochen Amelsberg, Director at Large
- Kam Gupta, Director representing SAC
- Brenda Fisk, Director representing SAC
- Gary Johnson, Director representing DAC
- Ron Atkinson, Chairman of the Board
Additionally, Mike Nichols was presented his Past President's pin and a gift of new golf clubs for serving as ASQ President 2007-2008.
Ron Atkinson was also presented with a gift of a new Cannon EOS Digital SLR Camera.
Next we moved on to the Global Transformation Initiative, led by Mike Nichols, having a conversation about what the future should bring. Did you know ASQ has members in 129 countries around the world...we already are a Global organization. this initiative is to better align out current position with a the future growth that we anticipate! Some further benefits will include:
It is driven by elected delegates, not staff and is an outcome of ASQs Future Studies and Stakeholder Dialogues
Your BoD provided additive resources so there will not be any loss of services to existing members
The concept of 'ASQ Global' is to focus external to North America while ASQ (HQ in Milwaukee) will focus internal to NA.
Our services will be enhanced to a 24 x 7 operation!!!!
Then we moved on to Membership, led by Aimee Siegler, and addressed the 'Segmentation' of our membership based on years of membership, not years as a quality professional or practitioner. In each segment of a members tenure as a member, they have different needs and expectations. We addressed how we can best serve each segment...more to come on this in the future.
We had a Living Strategy exercise navigating through uncertain times led by Paul Borawski.
Reports and a sense of the board on a Baldrige Body of Knowledge was presented by David Spong. The sense of the BoD is to move forward with development of a business plan to build a B-BOK.
Then we had reports on Public Policy Advisory Council and Research Committee activities by Kay Kendall.
Finally, Michelle Mason gave us an overview of tomorrow's Ideas to Action Gathering...you'll get more on this tomorrow!
Before we adjourned, Ron Atkinson gave us these parting words:
- Good meeting, thanks to Mike for a good agenda
- We accomplished a lot of difficult things this week and did it with a degree of easy
- After 7 years, Ron wished the BoD a fond farewell and mentioned that he has no idea what to do with the time he's getting back...we all believe he'll find a way to put that new camera to work!
To end my day I headed to the hotel lobby and had a chance to greet some old friends and colleagues before heading to a working dinner at a wonderful Vietnamese restaurant named Kim Son...it was wonderrful. I highly recommend it!
