This structure allows and encourages flexibility, responsiveness,
empowerment, and innovation. With this structure, the company is well
positioned to continue to provide the kinds of extraordinary services
to its customers for which it has become well-known throughout the
industry.
Quality
We have been committed to quality service to our customers since our
beginning, but in 1990 a new structure began to take shape. We held
several leadership conferences, based on the theme, In Pursuit
of Excellence, from the studies of Tom Peters. Many of our associates
attended the conferences in the years that followed. In 1990 we also
began to study Dr. W. Edward Deming's philosophy of management. In
early 1991 we selected seven key company leaders to form our Quality
Steering Committee (QSC) and to become our advanced Deming students.
Since then many associates have attended Deming seminars, and we have
trained others internally in the Deming philosophy.
We have a customer-driven, people-centered approach to quality which
recognizes the worth of the individual, and applies it in an aligned
way to provide world-class services to our customers. It is our aim
to continuously improve every system in our company in a way which
improves our service and products.