reading, research, and related links
process / quality / productivity

organizations

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
"Founded in 1918... the ANSI Federation has maintained as its primary goal the enhancement of global competitiveness of U.S. business and the American quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems and promoting their integrity."

American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC)
"APQC is a nonprofit education and research organization supported by more than 550 founders, Clearinghouse designers, and members."

American Society for Quality (ASQ)
certification standards, quality FAQ, glossary, related sites

American Statistical Association

Center for Customer-Driven Quality
Purdue University

Center for the Study of Work Teams at the University of North Texas
A thorough and current set of links including those for
Teaming
Virtual Teams
Human Resources
Compensation
Appraisal
Facilitation Links
Conflict Management
Total Quality Links
Organizational Development Links
Leadership and Management
Labor & Management
Mentoring
Training and Individual Development
Research and Education
Chaos, Complexity and Systems Theory
Book and Journal Publishers Links

Council of Logistics Management
"The Council of Logistics Management is a professional business organization of individuals throughout the world who have interests and/or responsibilities in logistics and the related functions that make up the logistics profession"

Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS

EURO Association of European Operational Research Societies

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS)

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
"The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from some 130 countries, one from each country. The mission of ISO is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity."

Mathematical Programming Society

Military Operations Research Society (MORS )

OpResearch.com
"OR-Objects OR-Objects is a collection of 500 Java classes for developing operations research, scientific, and engineering applications. It contains data structures and algorithms for developing problem specific solutions as well as implementations of classical algorithms.
"OR-Bookstore is a collection of books related to Operations Research. Each book is rated by level of difficulty and most include a table of contents.
"OR-Links is a collection of links to operations research resources on the World-Wide-Web. OR-Links is a useful resource for those new to the field as well as seasoned Operations Researchers."

The Operational Research Society of New Zealand (ORSNZ)

The U.S. Standards Group
Quality, Environment, Dependability and Statistics (QEDS)
"... concerned with the development and effective use of generic and sector-specific standards on quality control, assurance and management; environmental management systems and auditing, dependability and the application of statistical methods." (standards and related links)

• World-Wide-Web for Operations Research and Management Science (WORMS)
"WORMS is a grassroots web site for operations research and management science.)
server not found, April 2001


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