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 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 INSIGHTS ON EXCELLENCE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND ANNUAL REPORT
In this 5th edition of our Executive Summary and Annual Research Report, ASQE brings the latest IoE research and trends to the forefront of the quality community and explores how our association efforts are optimized to assist in the pursuit of performance excellence. This comprehensive report provides association accomplishments and announcements on leadership, IoE Benchmarking Season highlights and research offerings information, a summary of the year’s membership-exclusive thought leadership events, and Certification Operation highlights. It also includes the latest findings from our 2024 IoE research, with a focus on supply chain disruption, technology integration, leadership performance, and driving sustainable efforts.
In the spirit of continuous improvement, ASQE includes our second Association Impact Report to showcase the ongoing ESG journey for our internal teams, incorporating sustainability, operations improvement, and social initiatives within our organizational strategic development. We conclude with a look forward at what we are working on in 2025 to meet the needs of our Organizational Members.
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.