This is an expanded version of an article that Balestracci wrote for Quality Digest in December 2007. 
--Editor

(Strategic Vision: San Diego) -- Volkswagen of America and Ford Motor Co. were recently announced as full-line corporate leaders in Strategic Vision Inc.’s (SVI) Total Quality Index (TQI).

(BMGI: Amsterdam) --To ensure its team was maximizing the business' performance levels, Graphic Packaging International (GPI), a producer of packaging solutions with 15,000 employees worldwide and annual revenues over €13 billion ($18.3 billion), turned to Breakthrough Management Group Internati

US Synthetic manufactures high quality polycrystalline diamond compacts (PDCs) used in drilling for oil and natural gas.

(GE: Billerica, MA) --  The CRxFlex is the latest addition to the suite of digital radiography conversion options from GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies.

It started slowly but surely. With the slump of the U.S. economy, companies started downsizing first by the dozens, then by the hundreds.

(CPM Marketing Group: Madison, WI) -- CPM Marketing Group Inc., developer of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for health care providers, announced the launch of its Physician Relationship Management System.

(ASQ: Milwaukee, WI) -- A new three-part webinar series—Journey to Excellence—spotlights nine health care organizations and their use of the Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Criteria to drive organizational transformation. Based on the recently published book by Kathleen J.

In response to what it claims was a misleading press release issued by Hexagon Metrology last week regarding an intellectual property suit, Xspect Solutions Inc.

Besides the fact that it flies, an airship—better known as a blimp—has about as much in common with other aircraft as a whale has with fellow sea creatures.