The New England Performance Excellence Initiative

Free of Cost, Full of Performance
Joining the NEPE Initiative is free of cost and a significant opportunity for your organization to identify strengths and opportunities to improve your performance. Read the Founding Document >>

1. General Membership - is open to private sector and public sector organizations wishing to improve their performance excellence.

2. Performance Communities -  Trade Associations, Professional Societies, Special Interest Groups, etc., which have an active performance excellence program.

3. Sponsoring Partners - Organizations that visibly encourage small enterprise to improve their performance by sponsoring the NEPE Initiative.

Key Benefits of Joining the NEPE Initiative:

Accelerate Your Improvement Efforts
Joining the NEPE Initiative accelerates your improvement efforts by taking you beyond the internal self-assessment process by introducing an external view of your performance improvement process through community collaboration.

Energize Your Employees
Organizations that participate in the NEPE Initiative pursue a common goal that increases team motivation and energizes improvement efforts by providing a tangible resource to your employees.

Gain An 'Outside' View of Your Organization
Learn from a regional team of outside experts in applied performance excellence. NEPE member organizations are ready to contribute their experiences, tools and collaboration online, and at NEPE Initiative events across New England.

Learn From Community Feedback
Seek out feedback from the NEPE Initiative 'performance community' to receive assessments of your performance improvement program, its strengths and opportunity for improvement.

Manage For Results
Performance results—the bottom line of the NEPE Initiative. Our 'results focus' can help your organization determine its most critical performance measures and improve performance in key areas such as financial performance,
customer satisfaction and loyalty, and process outcomes (e.g., student learning, health care outcomes, or product quality).

What Is The Objective Of The NEPE Initiative?

To recognize New England organizations for their achievements in quality and performance, as a way to raise awareness among all New England based organizations about the importance of quality and performance excellence, as a competitive edge for improving New England's standing as a favored destination to live, work, and play.

To What Extent Are Members Asked To Share Their Performance Processes?

NEPE Initiative members voluntarily decide how much time and effort to devote to activities such as online collaboration, speaking engagements and inviting tours of their facilities. 

Members are encouraged >to participate in the annual conference and regional conferences, >to provide basic materials to those who request it on their organization’s performance strategies and methods, and >to answer partner news media inquiries to promote and educate the New England community-at-work.

How Will My Organization Benefit By Joining?

Using performance management methods and processes results in better employee relations, higher productivity, greater customer satisfaction, increased market share, and improved profitability.

According to a report by a well known U.S. business membership organization, the majority of firms that have actively used a structured performance improvement system (e.g. Balanced Scorecard, Baldrige Criteria, etc.) for self-improvement, the evidence suggests a long-term link between use of such systems and measurably improved performance.

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