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Top Sites

Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, University of Wisconsin-Madison   reports by experts including: W. Edwards Deming, George Box, Kaoru Ishikawa, Brian Joiner and Peter Scholtes.

Curious Cat Management Improvement Library   links to documents available online by the likes of: Deming, Scholtes, Drucker, Brewick, Senge, Ackoff. Also see the management dictionary and Six Sigma Resource Center

Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Several blogs host excellent discussion of management improvement in general and occasional discussions of management improvement in government including: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog, Evolving Excellence, Lean Blog, Lean Edge and the Management Exchange. See many more blogs: Curious Cat Management Blog Directory.

More Online Resources
American Society for Public Administration

Government Innovators Network at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard   Read about Ford Foundation grant winners since 1986, download applications and more.

Baldrige Award

Best Manufacturing Practices Center of Excellence run by the United States Department of the Navy. Great resource with thousands of description of specific practices of interest to all (not just manufacturing). All the items listed include contact information.

Brookhaven National Laboratory Quality Management Office   Some interesting information even though the site seems focused on Quality Assurance which we think is less effective than focusing on customers, process improvement, innovation, systems thinking...

Council for Excellence in Government

ASQ Government Division (previously the Public Sector Network)

GovLeaders.org "online resource for government managers who are committed to the continual development of their leadership and management skills"

Office of Lean Enterprise - State of Iowa

George M. Low Award NASA's Quality and Excellence Award

Archive for the National Performance Review   contains large amount of information on the many efforts to improve customer service in government.

Results Ohio

Oregon Progress Board

National Academy of Public Administration including the Center for Local and State Solutions (previously called the Alliance for Redesigning Government).

In School Solutions - an extensive site from Australia with a great deal of useful information.

Creative Learning Exchange

  
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Library points to an amazing amount of great online quality material: article, handbooks, training material, reports...


The intent of this guide is to list useful online resources for people pursuing continuous improvement efforts in the public sector. Please let me know of other online resources which belong. Also please tell me of errors or necessary changes.

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