The Hampton Roads Quality Management Community focuses on actions to support deployment and execution of Continuous Improvement initiatives among regional organizations.
Initiatives that transform the capacity and productivity of entire organizations take place on a scale different from that of efforts to improve operations of a work center or a department. True transformation is characterized by startlingly high ambitions, the integration of different types of change (organizational, operational, commercial), and a prolonged effort often lasting many months and, in some cases, even years.
In support of such broad effort, the HRQMC regional context and institutionalized agenda provides the critical cultural elements needed to enable workforce personnel and management to become stakeholders of change.
HRQMC is a non-profit Community of Practice.
Organizations participating in the Community include:
- Amadas Industries
- City of Norfolk
- Lifetouch National Studios
- NNSY
- NGSB
- WBB Consulting
- USCG Atlantic Area
- USCG Finance Center
- Community Mediation Center
- Earl Industries
- Stihl
- HRTC
Domain of the Community:
Continuous Improvement of Organizational Productivity
Practices of the Community:
- CI Project Management Workshops
- Test Labs of CI initiatives
- Community Training Opportunities
Representatives of the Community meet monthly to coordinate and facilitate the agenda. Notes of these meetings are posted, along with charters and workshop materials, on the web.
Beyond the agenda of immediate support of continuous improvement deployment, the regional community provides a means of addressing various critical innovations to strengthen our economic base:
- Extending the Production Enterprise
- Leveraging the Technological Advantage
- Capitalizing on cooperative Models and Shared Facilities
- Intersecting with National Security needs
- Increasing the Adaptive Capacity of Small and Mid-Sized Manufacturers
- Road Mapping Technology and Federal Research Priorities
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