Charter
The QMA’s primary mission is to help local manufacturing leaders improve their capabilities, competitiveness and sustainability.
Values
Trust
Build a manufacturing community climate of mutual respect and trust through openness, credibility and trusting others
Integrity
Demonstrate QMA mission, values & principles by acting in an honest, respectful and socially responsible ways
Leadership
Key members take an active & shared leadership role that demonstrates commitment to achieving our mission
Communication
Encourage open and honest dialogue between members and our external partners
Guiding Principles
We will:
- Focus on what works for our members, our external partners and the community
- Demonstrate the highest levels of professionalism & respect in all we do
- Help each other when we can
- Recognize & celebrate the successes where appropriate and routinely learn from our efforts that fall short of our goals
- Promote the benefits of the local manufacturing sector and its importance to the community
Approach
- We all “give a little” to get back “a lot more”
- Keep everything QMA as LEAN and informal as possible
- Flex to give members the real value added activities & help they want, when and where they want it
- Our chosen activities are all “pull” from member needs, no “push”
- Agenda must be industry driven & supported by local economic development partners
- Effectively communicate every possible networking opportunity
- Use an “On-line” communication strategy to make it as easy as possible for all
- Ruthlessly protect the time constraints of members i.e. Site tours ~ once per quarter – breakfast meeting format, < 2 hours
- Make it easy for local manufacturing leaders to share, learn from others, & cooperate towards common goals
- Use the “Member needs help” concept to offer help while protecting confidentialities
- We create and destroy sub groups or strategic interest groups where there is “Pull”
- No-selling – information exchange and networking only
- Yearly renewal of our charter is essential to ensure balance between strategic and tactical goals needed to meet our mission
Measuring Success
- Leveraged Funding Dollars made available for local manufacturers
- Number of members from manufacturing firms per event – if useful, people will come
- Member satisfaction checks & testimonials & Communication “touches”
- Improving member Companies’ results