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Welcome to the online home of the Hawaii Section of the American Society for Quality. 

(The "Members Area" requires a password for access.  If you are an ASQ Hawaii member, use the contact form to request access.)

Events

Living and working in Hawaii provides us with unique benefits, opportunities and challenges. How can we position ourselves and our organizations to learn from and share our rich history in a respectful and sustainable way?  Join us at our ASQ July meeting to find out. Please visit our events page for information.

News and Announcements

Slides and handouts from our annual dinner in May are available in the members only section.

7/18/2008: Aloha Quality Network
The third quarterly newsletter of 2008, the "Aloha Quality Network"!  is available online by clicking here.

Section Membership Meetings
Our section's annual banquet was held in May at Sam Choy's in Kapahulu!  Pictured below are many of our members who enjoyed a great program, dinner, and of course the company of other section members!

Future Programs
We would like to invite you to submit program ideas for our monthly membership meetings.  If you would like to see a presentation on a particular topic, or would like to present, please email your ideas to our current rsvp address (please check the events page for the current address).  For a list of programs scheduled in the near future, please visit the events page.

ASQ Business Tips (from asq.org)

Clear Expectations - Have expectations been communicated?
Context - Do team members understand why they are participating on the team?
Commitment - Do they want to participate?
Competence - Are the appropriate people participating?
Charter - Has the team designed strategies to accomplish the mission?
Control - Do they have enough freedom, empowerment, and ownership to accomplish their charter?
Collaboration - Does the team understand the stages of group development?
Communication - Are team members clear about the priority of their tasks?
Creative Innovation - Is the organization interested in change and does it value creative thinking?
Consequences - Do team members feel responsible and accountable?
Coordination - Are teams coordinated by a central leadership team?
Cultural Change - Does the organization recognize that the team-based culture of the future is different from the traditional, hierarchical organization it may be currently?

BUSINESS TIPS OF THE WEEK

“Business Tip of the Week” seeks inspiration through words of wisdom and encouragement.

Keeping Dreaming, Stay Excited…
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” 
—John Barrymore
“I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.”
—Edward Victor Appleton

Live a Little…
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” 
—Stephen Covey
“If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.”
—Win Borden

Take Action and Experience…
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” 
—Pablo Picasso
“To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.”
—Abigail Van Buren

Learn and Learn Again…
“Failure is success if we learn from it.”
—Malcolm Forbes
“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”
—Andre Gide
“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.” 
—Woodrow Wilson

ASQ Section 0623
Revised: July 18, 2008