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I think ASQ is awesome. I think it is amazing that there is an organization that wants to spread the word about quality. I am a member. I liked them on Facebook. I have bought about $500 worth of quality … Continue reading
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Courses on quality improvement are all over schools of nursing and medicine, but not my field, social work. Social work has continued to teach Program Evaluation to our masters students, even when so few of our graduates engage themselves in … Continue reading
Last year, the ASQ journal Quality Progress published an article on the 7 new quality tools, meant as an update to the 7 classic quality tools known to many quality professionals (affinity diagrams, tree diagrams, interrelationship digraphs, process decision program … Continue reading
Lack of money and time. Lack of buy-in. Competing demands. Lack of training and skills. Lack of authority. Lack of research capacity. Ever-changing requirements from accreditors, funders and licensing bodies. These were the major challenges reported by 16 quality professionals … Continue reading
A recent post noted how little training in quality improvement appears to have made it to the quality improvement workforce in child welfare. Why is that? … Continue reading
Rarely does the public get a glimpse into the working of quality improvement systems in place in a public social service. In 2012, the National (Child Welfare) Resource Center on Organizational Improvement (NRCOI), conducted semi-structured phone interviews with 31 state … Continue reading