What is Insights on Excellence®?
ASQE’s Insights on Excellence® (IoE) Benchmarking Tool establishes a global data set across ten categories of organizational performance excellence—Operations; Voice of the Customer; Workforce; Leadership; Strategy; Technology; Measurements & Results; Barriers & Disruptors; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG); and the latest IoE category, Cost of Quality.
Survey participation in the IoE Benchmarking Tool is an exclusive benefit of ASQ Organizational Membership, but the industry- and category-specific reports created using the annually compiled benchmarking results are complimentary for members and nonmembers. The data also supports the trending content for ASQ’s member-exclusive thought leadership events like the Ascend Webinars and Excellence Roundtables.
THE LATEST IoE RESEARCH
2026 ASQE INSIGHTS ON EXCELLENCE BENCHMARKING HIGHLIGHTS REPORT
The 2026 ASQE Insights on Excellence Benchmarking Highlights Report analyzes organizational performance across ten categories, with data highlighting a persistent gap between recognizing the importance of quality and executing it consistently, along with challenges related to technology adoption and use, information sharing, and ongoing supplier issues that impact outcomes. The report also features a sidebar with subject matter experts who weigh in on the data, offering practical insights and recommendations.
Explore the insights in this report to understand that while organizations have strong quality foundations, opportunities remain to improve technology use, supplier collaboration, cross-functional learning, and the connection between quality and business performance.
Lean Six Sigma for Good Podcast – Using Lean to Minimize Waste Within ESG Initiatives
Join Brion Hurley, ASQ Senior Member and Founder and Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Consultant at Business Performance Improvement, Beth Cudney, ASQ Fellow and Professor of Data Analytics at Maryville University, and Erin Bauer, former Product Development Manager at ASQE, as they explore insights from ASQE's 2024 IoE Focus Study: Utilizing Lean to Minimize Waste Within ESG Initiatives. In this episode, they discuss cost of quality, circular economy, ESG versus Sustainability terminology, how lean can be used to advance organizational performance in sustainability, why lean Six Sigma makes ESG initiatives easier to implement, and career opportunities for process improvement and quality professionals to work on ESG.
They also touch on the Organizational Membership benefits of the IoE Benchmarking Tool and provide a sneak peek of the topic for the next ASQE IoE Focus Study.