U.S. Senate Productivity and Quality Award
for Virginia and DC
Our Mission
The mission of SPQA is to promote continual improvement strategies and provide training, mentoring, and recognition to organizations in pursuit of performance excellence.
Our Work
SPQA uses the Baldrige Performance Excellence Framework as our foundation in our efforts to assist organizations in Virginia and Washington, DC to achieve better results.
Our Story
For more than three decades, SPQA has been serving healthcare, businesses large and small, not-for profits, school systems and government agencies to achieve excellence.
Virginia’s “Ones to Watch”
A Program To Help Virginia’s Small Businesses Reach Their Full Potential
Learn MoreVirginia SPQA’s Ones to Watch initiative is based on the Baldrige Excellence Framework. The program helps Virginia businesses improve financial results, customer loyalty, job creation, operational effectiveness, improvement strategies, and workforce engagement.
Featured Content
QUEST: The official conference of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
Learn how your organization can achieve outstanding performance. Join others interested in performance excellence and quality improvement at the premier showcase of current and former Baldrige Award recipients April 8–11, 2018, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Baltimore, MD. QUEST Information
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Partnership for Excellence Key Dates
Partnership for Excellence Key 2018 Dates January 18 Monthly Webinar – Topic: Innovation-Quality for Tomorrow February 15 Monthly Webinar – Topic: Innovation Mgmt. System Feb 27 – Mar 1 Green Belt Training – Columbus, OH March 15 Monthly Webinar – Topic: Metric of Urgency…
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Focus on the Baldrige Board of Overseers: Pat Greco
Repost from NIST 01/09/2018 In an ongoing blog series, we will be interviewing members of the Board of Overseers. In the interviews, they share their insights and perspectives on their experiences, on the Baldrige Program and its products and services, and on the Baldrige approach to organizational improvement. Following is an interview of Pat Greco, Ph.D.,…
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