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| | | | Site Information | | | Contains information about the Texas Quality Award for businesses including winners, examiners, and sponsors.
| Quality Texas is a non-profit corporation that evolved from a concept introduced by the governor's office in 1990. In 1991, cooperative efforts between that office, the Texas Department of Commerce, and Texas businesses helped Quality Texas deliver the first of many quality awareness seminars. Over two years, Quality Texas seminars were delivered to 1800 individuals representing more than 700 organizations.
At the same time, EDS Corporation assigned an executive to lead development of a state quality award. A development committee was formed with representatives from the state, business, and education. The committee created the Texas Award for Performance Excellence, open to government, education, nonprofit, and business organizations. The American Productivity & Quality Center was chosen as the original award administrator, and applications were first accepted in 1993.
Quality Texas was established in 1994 to administer the Texas Award for Performance Excellence as an independent corporation. Offices were established in Austin, and in 1995, Quality Texas achieved non-profit 501(c) 3 status.
What Is Quality?
Quality is the essential character of excellence and superiority. Quality is measured by all our customers and is critical for the success of any product, organization, or service company. The Quality Texas Foundation seeks and embraces businesses and organizations that recognize the value of customer satisfaction resulting from superior quality and continuous improvement and are willing to communicate quality principles across the state.
Our Goals
The Quality Texas Foundation was created to establish a greater awareness of quality principles in Texas. It is one of the most respected state programs and has helped make Texas a performance excellence and customer satisfaction provider of quality goods and services. The program is designed to:
Promote business excellence awareness and practices in Texas businesses, including government, profit, non-profit, and educational organizations
Teach and communicate proven, successful performance excellence strategies and programs
Foster teamwork within and among organizations
Stimulate a continuous improvement process by supporting innovation, benchmarking, information sharing, and networking relationships
Recognize quality achievements within Texas organizations through the Texas Award for Performance Excellence
Support economic development, job creation, job retention, and improved competitiveness in the state of Texas
Speakers Network
Quality Texas maintains a network of speakers to cover the ten regions of Texas. The speakers are volunteers and are familiar with Performance Excellence concepts and with Quality Texas. The speakers deliver talks that describe Quality Texas, the Texas Award for Performance Excellence process, and continuous improvement to any interested groups.
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| | Date Added: Thu May 06 2004 | | Last Updated: Thu May 06 2004 | | | | |
