As part of APQC’s annual research into priorities and challenges for the upcoming year, Marisa Brown conducts a global survey and interviews supply chain stakeholders from various industries and organizations. One of the people she spoke with this year, Stew Stremel, told her about an organization he works with that brings together global organizations to […]
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We have more good news to share! Read on for several important announcements. External Review The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is pleased to announce that a request for quotes has been issued through the GSA Schedule for the “Baldrige Reimagined” external review referenced in our last update. We are looking forward to this contract being
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Businesses are generally too busy to complete a full award style assessment and uncertain of the cost-benefits of this approach. The questionnaire approach while taking the shortest time offers unpredictable results and offers little if any insight to impart learning about business excellence necessary to ensure that benefits result. Through businessexcellencetools.com we are able to
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Productivity is an enduring hot topic among macro-economics nerds and managers in charge of operations, quality, and improvement programs. But current trends—notably remote work, rapid turnover, and the controversy over “quiet quitting”—have gotten more people thinking about what productivity really means and how it should be measured. Some leaders are struggling to set sustainable productivity
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The Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) recently hosted the NIST Innovative Technologies Showcase. It was a virtual event to highlight cutting-edge technologies from NIST. It provided a platform for the researchers to present the technical aspects and potential societal benefits of these technologies. The overarching theme for the event focused on transferring invention and innovation to
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Each November APQC is invited to speak at multiple “KNOWvember” events, and it’s a great opportunity to think about the issues most relevant and animating to knowledge management. This year I’m talking to member organizations about the relationship between KM and productivity, which has only strengthened in the era of digital and hybrid work. KM
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Today, CD-SAXS (critical dimension small angle X-ray scattering) is an industry-wide measurement technique for next-generation semiconductor fabrication. Developed by NIST researchers Wen-Li Wu and Joe Kline, CD-SAXS matured from a laboratory technique into a practical application with the help of industry partners through multiple cooperative research and development agreements. This collaborative effort was needed to
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(Benchmarking and Performance Excellence Self-assessment) The BPES pack has been used by over 300 organisations from the public and private sector and from small organisations (5 employees) to large multinationals. BPES is a comprehensive self-assessment programme that will enable your organisation to assess its management systems and performance against world-class performance criteria,
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OMG you all listened. You really listened about the gap in change management, and I couldn’t be prouder. Organizations and employees have been through a lot over the past couple of years with no real signs of slowing down. Employees are exhausted and the transformation and new technology projects keep piling up. Not surprisingly, this
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