Baldrige Honors 3 with 2008 Awards

Three organizations were named recipients of the 2008 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award: Cargill Corn Milling North America of Wayzata, Minnesota in the manufacturing category; Poudre Valley Health System of Fort Collins, Colorado in the health care category; and Iredell-Statesville Schools of Statesville, North Carolina in the education category.

For details, visit the Knowledge Center Hot Topics page on Baldrige.

Paul Borawski: The Future of Quality

ASQ’s Executive Director And Chief Strategic Officer,
On Where We Go from Here

Watch, Listen or Download.

The world is changing - and quality professionals who want to stay at the head of the parade need to change too.

See and hear Borawski describe ASQ’s 2008 Future of Quality Study, which identifies seven key forces that will shape what comes. View or listen online, or download the files for later.

Also visit ASQ’s 2008 ASQ Futures Study page, which outlines the major forces at work and lays out different scenarios for how those forces could play out in years to come. Download a full-color PDF brochure detailing the study in PDF form, and read more about the current study and ASQ’s Future of Quality research since 1998.

Helping Hospitals Avoid "Never Events"

Simply put, a "never event" in healthcare is something you want never to happen. The latest Quality Quarterly Report from ASQ details a recent study of healthcare quality practitioners, and offers suggestions for ways that healthcare institutions can prevent “never events” from happening. The suggestions range from simple, common-sense steps to solutions afforded by modern technologies. The report also points out things that patients can do to reduce the likelihood of suffering one of these unfortunate occurrences.

ISO 9001:2008 - Buy it Today

You can buy an electronic copy of ANSI/ISO/ASQ Q9001-2008 today. (That's the American National Standard version of ISO 9001:2008)

The electronic copy is a PDF that can be viewed on your computer but can't be printed. Buy it.

Want a hard copy instead? You can order a hard copy right now. Order it.

Need a site license? Look no further.

ASQ will be the only place to get the American National Standard version of ISO 9001:2008.

Everything you need to know about ISO 9001:2008: We've made the update to ISO 9001 the subject of our latest Hot Topics page in the Knowledge Center. Check it out for details on the release, relevant articles from our archives, and some words of comfort (in mp3 format) from John E. "Jack" West.