What is Insights on Excellence®?
ASQE’s Insights on Excellence® (IoE) Benchmarking Tool establishes a global data set across the established eight categories of organizational performance excellence—Operations, Voice of the Customer, Workforce, Leadership, Strategy, Technology, Measurements & Results, Barriers & Disruptors—and the latest optional IoE category: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices.
Survey participation in the IoE Benchmarking Tool is an exclusive benefit of ASQE Organizational Membership, but the industry- and category-specific reports created using the annually compiled benchmarking results are available to members and nonmembers of both ASQ and ASQE for free. The data also provides the trending content for ASQE’s member-exclusive thought leadership events like the Ascend Webinars and Excellence Roundtables.
THE LATEST IoE RESEARCH
2024 ASQE IoE FOCUS STUDY: QUALITY IMPACTS IN TECHNOLOGY WITH AI/ML/VR
Since 2020, ASQE has emphasized the importance of digital transformation and Quality 4.0 throughout our IoE research, highlighting the relevant factors that contribute to the advancement of technology. In this Focus Study, we explore the rising use of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and virtual reality (VR) technologies for improving organizational performance and examine the increasingly critical role that quality plays to manage big data, optimize systems, and create the foundational methods and skills that advanced analytics depend upon to be effective.
48% of respondents chose delays from suppliers as the most selected ongoing quality issue in 2023
48% of respondents indicate that their organizations will be increasing the involvement of quality professionals in ESG initiatives in the next 3 years
92% of respondents agree that their training is related to future necessary skills
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, 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.