Baldrige Quality Program State & Local Programs' Annual Workshop

Steve Brant will be participating in the annual State and Local Workshop for the national network associated with the Baldrige National Quality Program, 22-24 July 2007 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD.

Steve is a founding board member of the Keystone Alliance for Performance Excellence, which champions the continuous learning and improvement philosophy of organizational improvement throughout Pennsylvania. In this capacity, Steve is working to build support for an alliance between the continuous improvement organizational development profession in the United States (best represented by the Baldrige Program) and that portion of the corporate social responsibility movement that recognizes the need to use a continuous learning and improvement approach to its work.

The "common ground" between the two is The UN Global Compact's Performance Model (PDF document), which is based on what is commonly known as "quality management" (as developed by management theorists such as Dr. W. Edwards Deming).