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

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Events

Monthly Membership Meetings

Our next monthly membership meeting will be a half day seminar on September 18th featuring recorded lectures from the 2009 ASQ World Quality Conference.  See the events page for more details.

News and Announcements

Hawaii State Award of Excellence

The mission of the Hawaii State Award of Excellence is to continually raise the level of excellence in all Hawaii’s organizations while perpetuating that which is unique to the islands and her people. For all Hawaii’s organizations including business, government, health care, military, education and not-for-profit, we strive to:
• Raise the economic vitality and/or profitability of Hawaii’s organizations.
• Enhance the quality of life in our communities.
• Assure the state of Hawaii’s economic success.
• Information sharing of successful performance strategies and the benefits derived from using these strategies.

For more information about the Hawaii State Award of Excellence, please click here.

 

 

Second Quarter 2010 Newsletter Posted

06/14/2010: The second quarterly newsletter of 2010 has been posted!  In this edition, Glenn shares lessons learned from the 2010 ASQ World Conference on Quality in St. Louis, we have an article on Retrospective Sessions, we report detailed session demographics, recognize our members that have recently attained new certifications, we discuss the SIPOC tool often used in process improvement projects, and report the 2010-2011 ASQ Board Election results. You can open the newsletter by clicking here (Adobe PDF format).

 

 

2010 Baldridge Conference - September 24 and September 28

Click the postcard for more details!

 

 

June 15, 2010 Membership Meeting: Quality and Business Analysis: Sister Disciplines

Thanks to all everyone who could join us for our June membership meeting!  Our speaker was Jim Steele, an IT Manager with 25+ years of experience in diverse technologies. Based on the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), the professional organization for Business Analysts (BAs), his presentation and informal interactive survey explored the similarities and differences of the Quality and Business Analysis disciplines, how working together may benefit the disciplines, and how working together could benefit particular projects. For more information, go to http://www.theiiba.org/am/. Jim is working to establish an IIBA chapter in Hawaii (see http://techhui.ning.com/group/iibahnl). IIBA was founded in 2003. IIBA now has greater than 12,000 members in more than 100 chapters around the world in over 40 countries. Studies have shown that BA participation on projects have increased project success rates. The rapid growth rate of the profession and improved success rates make it more likely there will be BAs on any IT, Quality, and Process Improvement projects. Mahalo to Bonsai who provided another outstanding food service experience. Mahalo to Jim for sharing.

 

 

May 18, 2010 Annual Banquet

Thanks to all who attended our annual banquet! Robert Eubanks showed material and data on focused medical analytics and discussed how the data and results were generated. He continue by explaining how HMSA use the data in a new initiative with their physician quality “innovation network.” He ended with an overview of HMSA’s commitment to the quality process and show representative examples of their accreditation process with the National Association for Quality Assurance (NCQA). Mahalo Robert for sharing. Mahalo to Willows for their hospitality of great food and great views!!  Click here for a high resolution (1 MB) version of the photo below.

 

 

April 20, 2010 Monthly Membership Meeting

Our speakers Joyce Jo and Gene Young are DoN Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belts and work at the Fleet & Industrial Supply Center at Pearl Harbor involved with the NAVSUP Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) Program. They shared their training and experience on A3 which is the heart of lean management & leadership at Toyota. They also discussed how it is not just another CPI tool but an effective problem solving approach used with PDCA while creating empowered problem solving employees. The CPI journey of current state, the root problem, action plans and sustainment are all documented on one 11x17 page. They also shared their insights to what we learned from attending the A3 workshop conducted by Mr. John Shook, LEI Institute and assisted by Tracey Richardson in December 2009. Mahalo to Bonsai who did another outstanding food service experience. Mahalo to Joyce and Gene for sharing.  A copy of the presentation is available in the Members Area section (login required - see section email announcements for login information in the signature of the email).

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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.

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Revised: August 23, 2010