Pascale Carayon, Director
3130 Engineering Centers Buiding
1550 Engineering Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Tel: 608/263-2520
Fax: 608/263-1425
E-mail: cqpi@engr.wisc.edu
cqpi.engr.wisc.edu

THE MISSION OF THE CENTER for Quality and Productivity Improvement is to create, integrate and transfer knowledge to improve the quality, safety and performance of industrial, service, governmental, health care, educational, social and other organizations. In these ways, the Center will contribute to:

• Improved functioning and increased success of organizations of all kinds

• Increased fulfillment of individuals working in those organizations

The vision of the Center is to excel in the advancement and integration of knowledge through research on theories, concepts, and methodologies of human factors engineering, quality and productivity measurement, management and improvement, and innovation and organizational change.

Since its inception, CQPI has been at the forefront in the development of new techniques for improving the quality of products and processes.

Today, the Center is also at the forefront of developing methods aimed at improving:

• Quality of work processes

• Quality of working life

• Quality of healthcare

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