October 1994 10, No. 7 Vol ,- CONTRIBUTING WRIT RS Patrima Ostholm [TraCy Pierce , [j CREATIVE DESIGN : Trevor Green i I. FCCJ Is an equaI access/ equal opportunity/affirma- Q) tive action .coIIege FCCJ received the 1994 Corporation of the Year Award from the Jacksonville Minority Business Development Center. The award was presented during the Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week ban- quet held last month. FCCJ received the award for its accom— plishments in developing minority business. FCC] named corporation of the year for minority business development prises. Contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, provided the vendor’s proposal meets or exceeds the project’s specifications. “Our plan is quite unique because we assure equal opportunity to minority ven— dors by inviting them to bid,” said Larry Snell, director of purchasing and stores. According to Snell, the plan does not use set-asides, sheltered com- petition or incentives. Nonetheless, since the plan was implemented, the share of minority con— tracts awarded has grown from 2.6 percent (approxi- mately $200,000) to 18.5 percent (more than $4 mil- lion) for the first six months of 1994. These accomplishments were achieved through the College’s minority outreach plan for purchasing, which was implemented in “The College’s increasing minority con- tract awards are a result of minority and woman businesses being competitive when early 1992. “We are very pleased to have won this award,” said College President Charles Spence. “This plan has required the com- mitment of our Board, administration and all employees.” The plan requires that all purchases in excess of $1,000 be competitively bid, assur— ing that at least 25 percent of vendors invited to bid are minority or woman business enter- given the opportunity,” said Snell. “Minority businesses have proved to FCCJ they don’t need anything but an equal opportunity and a chance to compete on a level playing field.” Since 1992, the College’s minority bidder list has grown from 150 vendors to more than 1,000. The vendors were added by net- working with other agencies, such as the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, and minority community organizations. The MED Week banquet also recognized out- standing indi- viduals, such as Margie Battest (right), a stu- dent in FCCJ’s Career Beginnings pro- gram, pictured here with Director of Purchasing and Stores Larry Snell and Assistant Dean of Instruction Brenda Simmons. ls quality just a borrowed buzzword from business? By College President Charles Spence our success is the effect which they have on the forest. In plainer English, our job is to sharpen our tools, and make them cut the right way.” Without corporate code words like empow- erment and teamwork, the author of this let- ter describes the essence of continuous quali- ty: doing right things right, doing them right the first time, and finding ways to do the right things better. This letter was written by Aldo Leopold in The concepts of continuous improvement and total quality management have become the organizational jargon of the 19908, but is business the birth- place of quality concepts? Not necessarily. I recently read a letter writ- ten by a National Forest super- visor to forest rangers in New Mexico. The author wrote about the Forest Service’s mission to protect and develop the resources under their jurisdiction. He delineated the three tools or “agencies” they had to accomplish that mission: the for- est users, their own energy and labor, and their funding. Then the author wrote: “It fol- lows quite simply that our sole task is to increase the efficiency of these three agencies. And it also follows that the sole measure of 1913, about 40 years before industrial Japan began implementing quality concepts and more than 80 years before FCCJ launched Quality Quest. In the letter, Leopold, who is largely regarded as the father of the National Forest wilderness system, also described his frustra- tion with bureaucracy. Continued on back page , OCR Text: October 1994 10, No. 7 Vol ,- CONTRIBUTING WRIT RS Patrima Ostholm [TraCy Pierce , [j CREATIVE DESIGN : Trevor Green i I. FCCJ Is an equaI access/ equal opportunity/affirma- Q) tive action .coIIege FCCJ received the 1994 Corporation of the Year Award from the Jacksonville Minority Business Development Center. The award was presented during the Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week ban- quet held last month. FCCJ received the award for its accom— plishments in developing minority business. FCC] named corporation of the year for minority business development prises. Contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, provided the vendor’s proposal meets or exceeds the project’s specifications. “Our plan is quite unique because we assure equal opportunity to minority ven— dors by inviting them to bid,” said Larry Snell, director of purchasing and stores. According to Snell, the plan does not use set-asides, sheltered com- petition or incentives. Nonetheless, since the plan was implemented, the share of minority con— tracts awarded has grown from 2.6 percent (approxi- mately $200,000) to 18.5 percent (more than $4 mil- lion) for the first six months of 1994. These accomplishments were achieved through the College’s minority outreach plan for purchasing, which was implemented in “The College’s increasing minority con- tract awards are a result of minority and woman businesses being competitive when early 1992. “We are very pleased to have won this award,” said College President Charles Spence. “This plan has required the com- mitment of our Board, administration and all employees.” The plan requires that all purchases in excess of $1,000 be competitively bid, assur— ing that at least 25 percent of vendors invited to bid are minority or woman business enter- given the opportunity,” said Snell. “Minority businesses have proved to FCCJ they don’t need anything but an equal opportunity and a chance to compete on a level playing field.” Since 1992, the College’s minority bidder list has grown from 150 vendors to more than 1,000. The vendors were added by net- working with other agencies, such as the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, and minority community organizations. The MED Week banquet also recognized out- standing indi- viduals, such as Margie Battest (right), a stu- dent in FCCJ’s Career Beginnings pro- gram, pictured here with Director of Purchasing and Stores Larry Snell and Assistant Dean of Instruction Brenda Simmons. ls quality just a borrowed buzzword from business? By College President Charles Spence our success is the effect which they have on the forest. In plainer English, our job is to sharpen our tools, and make them cut the right way.” Without corporate code words like empow- erment and teamwork, the author of this let- ter describes the essence of continuous quali- ty: doing right things right, doing them right the first time, and finding ways to do the right things better. This letter was written by Aldo Leopold in The concepts of continuous improvement and total quality management have become the organizational jargon of the 19908, but is business the birth- place of quality concepts? Not necessarily. I recently read a letter writ- ten by a National Forest super- visor to forest rangers in New Mexico. The author wrote about the Forest Service’s mission to protect and develop the resources under their jurisdiction. He delineated the three tools or “agencies” they had to accomplish that mission: the for- est users, their own energy and labor, and their funding. Then the author wrote: “It fol- lows quite simply that our sole task is to increase the efficiency of these three agencies. And it also follows that the sole measure of 1913, about 40 years before industrial Japan began implementing quality concepts and more than 80 years before FCCJ launched Quality Quest. In the letter, Leopold, who is largely regarded as the father of the National Forest wilderness system, also described his frustra- tion with bureaucracy. Continued on back page , Z ArchiveInABox,JAX,Outlook Newsletter,Outlook Newsletter 10-11,October 1994,P01 (16).tif, P01 (16).tif