Created: 10-05-2009

Description: The Achieving ASQ Certification network is designed to enable discussion among and provide resources to individuals pursuing any of our certifications. An ASQ certification demonstrates your dedication to quality—giving you an advantage over your competition and increasing your earning potential. Certification is a mark of excellence. It demonstrates that the certified individual has the knowledge to assure quality of products and services. Certification is an investment in your career and in the future of your employer.

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Created: 10-14-2009

Description: This is an ASQ Network for members in Brasil.

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Created: 11-05-2009

Description: To gather Alexandrian based ASQ certified members and quality professionals in one group forum for quality discussions and close sharing of knowledge and cooperation if possible

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Created: 10-08-2009

Description: This is a private network for staff members of ASQ Global from all offices: USA, China, India, Mexico. Please post group photos, interesting documents & comments here.

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Created: 10-13-2009

Description: Listing and description of leading and recognized best practices in the application of quality principles in government organizations in the United States and internationally. These are organized by the key MBQNA categories; Leadership, Strategic Planning, Customer Focus,Measurement, Analysis and Knowledge Management, People Focus, Process Management and Results.

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Created: 11-06-2009

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Created: 10-15-2009

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Created: 10-20-2009

Description: Networking, community connections for members in the Dominican Republic.

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Created: 10-20-2009

Description: Networking, community connections for members in Ghana.

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Created: 11-05-2009

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Created: 10-19-2009

Description: ASQ SharePoint is a password-protected virtual office space currently used by many ASQ Member Leaders, teams, committees, and boards. This network will help answer questions you may have regarding this resource.

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Created: 09-23-2009

Description: Are you an educator, or someone interested in working with educators to understand and implement the core values, and criteria of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award? Do you want to connect with people that are implementing Baldrige? Are you looking for answers to questions about how to address various aspects of the criteria? The network provides an opportunity to participate in an interactive learning community designed to help people and organizations share knowledge and practical solutions with regard to implementing the Education Criteria for Performance Excellence.

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Created: 09-23-2009

Description: The Baldrige for Healthcare Network provides an opportunity to participate in a learning community that is designed to help individuals and organizations share knowledge and practical solutions on how to best deploy Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence in healthcare organizations. This network is designed to provide an interactive experience to help facilitate learning and exchange.

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Created: 09-04-2009

Description: This is a community for people who are making or have successfully made a transition. There can be many types of transitions: from industry-to-industry, from staff to management, from US-based to global. This is a community to share stories about how quality knowledge and expertise have helped talented professionals make transitions.

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Created: 09-17-2009

Description: The ASQ Community Good Works program provides $5,000 in matching grants along with vital quality expertise to community-based, not-for-profit organizations engaged in local projects. The quality experts use their knowledge and skills to design and implement quality-improvement plans. Are you considering a project that uses quality principles to improve your community? Do your plans include collaboration with a local not-for-profit organization or government agency? Could your project’s outcomes provide ASQ with an example that will encourage others to use quality tools for community improvement efforts? If so, a Community Good Works grant may be available. Community Good Works grants are awarded to nonprofit community-based organizations that will use the funds to improve their organization and services. Through the Community Good Works program, ASQ seeks to utilize quality tools, technology, and concepts to effectively, efficiently, and visibly demonstrate the value of quality in community improvement projects and activism while leveraging ASQ’s strong volunteer base.

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Created: 09-03-2009

Description: Does part of your work involve providing consulting services on a full- or part-time basis? If it does, I'm sure you'll find the Consultants' Network to be a valuable resource. We've got information that will prove useful to highly seasoned veterans as well as those who have joined the profession recently or even those who are considering a change in roles. Mission: To provide a forum for consultants to make contacts and exchange ideas. Vision: 1. To facilitate connections among consultants by providing online communications and an annual in-person gathering. 2. To provide a non-endorsed list of consultants that can be accessed by other ASQ members, non-members and their organizations. 3. To encourage participation of consultants in Society activities, such as conferences and publications, as a way of demonstrating their capabilities Benefits: * An opportunity to post a standardized resume on ASQ’s website in an area that can be viewed by other consultants who are looking for assistance or partners to collaborate on projects * One-stop access to requests for ASQ conference presentations and articles for publication * Online postings and links to articles on consulting and other related skills * An annual meeting that features presentations on consulting and other related skills, as well as an opportunity to network with other consultants * A discussion board to share ideas, best practices and exchange ideas

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Created: 09-23-2009

Description: The Economic Case for Quality® Network seeks to use the knowledge and experience of quality leaders and share their insight into quality tools, technology, and concepts that will effectively, efficiently, and visibly demonstrate the value of quality to organizations and their executives. The network provides a community for quality novices and professionals to gather and share knowledge for making the economic case for quality. The main objective of the ECQ program is to provide those who work in the field of quality with ideas, answers, and best practices to help their organization make better business decisions and perform more effectively. By turning quality conversations into language that senior executives understand, the use of quality and its role in leading world-class organizations in today’s tough economy will become apparent. Ultimately, changing the perception that today’s executives have about quality and the profession is a key objective. A 2004 survey of 600 executives revealed that although 99% of those polled believe that quality contributes to the bottom line, only 64% believe quality is a management tool. In addition, 60% measure the economic impacts of business process improvement initiatives, with the manufacturing segment most likely to do so.

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Created: 09-23-2009

Description: The environmental microbiology network is designed to enable discussion between microbiologists in the environmental field, those interested in ensuring the quality of the laboratory activities, and those involved with auditing environmental microbiology laboratories.

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Created: 10-05-2009

Description: Welcome to the Financial Services Network Mission: To allow for the exchange and benchmarking of the latest methods and techniques for business process excellence within the Financial Services industry. Vision: To facilitate the exchange of presentations by participants in the network on successes, to allow for benchmarking exchanges and to allow for presentations by leading topic experts on the latest methods and techniques. To provide a voice of the customer from within the financial services industry on what their needs are for advancement of process improvement techniques. Benefits: - A discussion board - A filter for links to relevant articles, white papers and case studies for this industry segment - Being involved in developing virtual learning opportunities - Face to face or virtual networking opportunities with like minded professionals

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Created: 09-23-2009

Description: The world is changing. And quality professionals need to change right along with it. Technology has minimized or eliminated boundaries that used to define the limits of business and communication. The population is getting older: Most of us will be 60 or more by 2025. There's a new spirit of social responsibility in the air, but at the same time we see threats ahead from environmental damage and continued increases in resource consumption. And quality is changing too. Those who want to lead the way in the world of quality are going to need new sets of knowledge and skills, and greater flexibility than ever before. Are you scared? Or are you excited and hopeful? The Future of Quality Network is a place to learn more about the challenges facing quality in the months and years to come, and to connect with other professionals facing the same challenges.

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