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For Immediate Release
ASQ Weekly Newsletter to Feature Monthly Contest
Prizes to Include Quality Press Book and Quality Journal Subscription
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 15, 2008 — Who defined the “Zero Defects” quality approach? What recognition system was created by the United States Congress in 1987 to reward organizations that promote quality? These are just a sample of the questions that, if answered correctly, could win readers prizes in a new monthly contest to be featured in ASQ Weekly, the electronic newsletter distributed each Wednesday to ASQ members.
The contest — to begin with the August 27 issue — will challenge readers on a variety of quality-based topics. After the newsletter is distributed, respondents will have until noon on Friday of that week to submit their responses via e-mail. For the first several months of the contest, answers will be found in the ASQ Knowledge Center. In subsequent months, the questions will be based on articles featured in ASQ Weekly. ASQ members who submit the correct answer will be put into a random drawing to win a prize.
Participants have the opportunity to win one of several prizes. One prize is the book, The Logical Thinking Process: A Systems Approach to Complex Problem Solving by William Dettmer. Using real-world applications, Dettmer has streamlined the process of constructing logic trees while simultaneously ensuring that the results are more logically sound and closer representations of reality than ever before. Another prize — awarded one month only — will be a Quality Management Journal subscription, which provides members with a forum for communicating and discussing research findings.
About ASQ Weekly
ASQ Weekly serves as an electronic source of news and information to enhance the membership experience through a concentrated content attention on news members can use. ASQ Weekly content focuses on details about ASQ headquarters and member unit activities and quality practices, as well as information aimed at increasing subscribers’ awareness of member benefits.
The American Society for Quality, www.asq.org, has been the world’s leading authority on quality for more than 60 years. With more than 90,000 individual and organizational members, the professional association advances learning, quality improvement and knowledge exchange to improve business results, and to create better workplaces and communities worldwide. As a champion of the quality movement, ASQ offers technologies, concepts, tools and training to quality professionals, quality practitioners and everyday consumers, encouraging all to Make Good Great®. ASQ has been the sole administrator of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award since 1991. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., ASQ is a founding partner of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), a prominent quarterly economic indicator, and also produces the Quarterly Quality Report.
