Toronto,
Ontario, May 24, 2004 – Philip Crosby Associates announced
that the American Society for Quality (ASQ) awarded the 2004 Philip
B. Crosby Medal today to James R. Evans and William M. Lindsay.
The presentation took place during the 58 th Annual Quality Congress
in Toronto.
The
authors received the medal for the publication of the sixth edition
of The Management and Control of Quality, a leading textbook in
the area of quality management.
The
Board of Directors of the ASQ, a 104,000-member professional association
for quality professionals founded in 1946, created the Philip
B. Crosby Medal in 2002. The medal is given annually “for
authoring a distinguished book contributing significantly to the
extension of the philosophy and application of the principles,
methods or techniques of quality management”. It is an appropriate
remembrance of the late Philip B. Crosby (1926 - 2001), as he
authored 15 books on quality that have been translated into 17
languages and have sold over 2.5 million copies in both hard and
soft cover. Crosby’s Quality CollegeTM still teaches the
fundamentals of quality management to both multi-national corporations
and small manufacturing and service companies in over twenty countries
around the world.
The
sixth edition of The Management and Control of Quality continues
to embrace the fundamental principles and historical foundations
of quality management, while providing a foundation for understanding
and applying Six Sigma. Overall, 50,000 copies of the book have
been sold, and it is widely used on college campuses across the
United States.
Last
year, ASQ presented the Philip B. Crosby Medal to Subir Chowdhury,
author of The Power of Six Sigma: An Inspirational Tale of How
Six Sigma Is Transforming the Way We Work, (Dearborn Trade Publishing,
2001).
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About Our Companies ~
In
today’s marketplace, only capable companies will survive
and thrive. The overarching goal of Philip Crosby Associates (PCA)
and The Capability Group (TCG) is to give companies the culture,
tools, methodology and resultsfocused support to become ‘Capable
Organizations’ — useful, reliable, adaptable, and focused
on customer success.
PCA
and TCG deliver on this goal by first working with clients to
assess where they are on the maturity spectrum and where they
want to go. For companies early in the process, we work hand-in-hand
with management to install a culture of prevention — the
culture that has been championed by the PCA side of our business
since quality management guru and PCA founder Philip Crosby published
Quality is Free in 1979. Over the past two decades, Crosby’s
techniques have been implemented by many of the Fortune 500, seeking
excellence.
Once
the foundation of the Capable Organization is present, TCG steps
in to help clients take their efforts to the next level by further
reducing costs, enhancing quality and promoting growth. TCG was
founded by Kevin Weiss, who was a Quality Leader and Master Black
Belt for General Electric when that company first implemented
Six Sigma — a program CEO Jack Welch has attributed with
"changing the DNA of GE". With a proprietary Cost-Quality-Growth
Model created based on the knowledge that GE’s success was
due to much more than a typical Six Sigma deployment, TCG has
helped shape Cost-Quality-Growth Programs for companies such as
Shimano, American Express and Sony.
Along
the journey to the Capable Organization, PCA and TCG provide a
comprehensive set of training programs and materials as well as
consulting and assessment services to accelerate progress. Products
and services range from courses and CDs geared towards the education
of hourly workers to intensive seminars for managers and executive
teams. For more information, contact Chris Johansen of Philip
Crosby Associates and The Capability Group: 617716-0214 or chris.johansen@capabilitygroup.com
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