Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank has named four organizations as recipients of the 2012 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest honor for performance excellence through innovation, improvement, and visionary leadership.

Cédric Touchette, holder of the Guinness record for fastest speed on a gravity-powered street luge (157.41 kmh/97.81 mph) decided to take up a new challenge: pass the symbolic mark of 100 mph, with no engine.

When NASA engineers asked, “Could Mars have once harbored life?” and set out to investigate by launching the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, PQ Systems was in the background, not only cheering on their efforts, but also contributing indirectly to t

It can be tempting for foreign players to look at the operating and marketplace challenges that Australian enterprises face and see only quality problems. It’s a temptation that should be resisted.

With the motto, “Improved Operations through Improved Safety,” Delta Q Consultants provides risk assessments, accident investigations, safety consulting, and applied research and development specializing in fire and explosion dynamics for a wide range of clients.

There are several programs on the market that provide information to consumers about energy efficiency. However, the ENERGY STAR program, a joint effort of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S.

The definition of invigorate is: To put vitality and vigor back into someone or something. Sounds pretty easy, right?

In many organizations, employees go through their days assuming their hard work goes unnoticed by co-workers and, especially, their bosses. Feeling this way, these employees will lose motivation, and productivity will be mediocre at best.

During the early 1980s, when I was a young man fresh out of college, I wanted to work in the advertising industry as a writer. I took the traditional approach and sent résumés with my three best writing samples to 80 advertising agencies. The response I got?

Isee the same cycle in so many places. What cycle? A five-step process for ensuring that ideas fail.