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About WINOC |
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MISSION
Founded in 1981 by a group of business, civic, and labor leaders, WINOC contributes to the success of businesses and organizations located throughout northeast Ohio and beyond by providing strategies and resources for quality and productivity improvement through people. |
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WINOC’s Distinctive Role in Northeast Ohio |
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| Regional Focus | Labor Management Cooperation | Systems Approach | Customized Training | Leadership |
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WINOC is focused on helping organizations in Northeast Ohio (and their plants wherever they are in the case of corporate business clients). |
Through a grant from the Ohio Department of Development, WINOC operates the Northeast Ohio Center for Labor Management Cooperation. Partnering with nine other grantees across Ohio, WINOC works with management and organized labor to drive quality and productivity improvement through employee involvement. |
WINOC focuses on the organization as a whole. As a system, we see organizations performing at three levels: strategic, process and work. Driven by short-cycle, Baldrige-compliant assessment methods, whether it is planning in the Board Room or executing Lean initiatives on the plant floor, WINOC helps organizations at all three levels with aligned and systematic approaches designed to drive organization-wide performance improvement. |
Although we can provide standardized training, we are at our best when we provide training uniquely customized to meet specific client needs and as part of larger organizational improvement initiatives. |
We work directly with leadership to ensure that the benefits we bring to our clients have staying power. Many of our Advisors have been top executives themselves. |
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There are also many ways in which WINOC supports the missions of other non-profit organizations. We help northeast Ohio enterprises network with each other. We promote public awareness of best practices. Our labor management work directly supports efforts to retain employers in northeast Ohio. Our efforts to drive performance improvement directly contribute to regional business growth. |
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Operational Model |
WINOC receives funding from various sources including fees for services and programs, grants from government and foundations, and contributions from local businesses. WINOC uses a small headquarters staff function supported by a larger network of external Advisors and Partenrs. Headquarters staff include Mr. Robert (Bob) Meyer as Vice Chairman & EVP, Dr. Hira Fotedar as (Acting) President & COO, and Ms. Mary Jo Lupica as Accounting Administrator. External Advisors include partnering companies, specialists hired for specific client engagements as well those permanent Advisors listed on our web site at www.winoc.org. Since its establishment, WINOC has helped more than 1,500 regional organizations design and implement systematic, people-based approaches to quality and productivity improvement. |
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Services |
WINOC specializes in helping organizations develop a comprehensive strategy and implementation plan for continuous improvement to achieve performance excellence. Customized services help businesses focus on improvement planning, measurement and how to make a positive impact on organizational performance results. WINOC helps more than 50 organizations each year plan, train for, and implement quality and productivity improvement, facilitate employee involvement, and enhance labor/management cooperation. Whether Lean Manufacturing facilitation on the plant floor Lean Administration in the office, WINOC helps business to become lean Enterprises. WINOC works with business, education, health care and government organizations to plan and implement strategic improvements. WINOC supports public programs relative to quality, productivity improvement and best practices. Through our ODOD grant, WINOC offers public programs on Labor Management Cooperation. WINOC also supports its clients with public programs offered through the auspices of organizations such as Corporate College and the Ohio Award for Excellence (OAE). Through its website, the Communicator Newsletter, engagement of its Trustees and other means, WINOC helps build public awareness of best practices related to quality and productivity improvement. |
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Leadership |
A 8-person volunteer executive committee and a 27-person board of trustees govern WINOC. WINOC's Board has balanced representation from management, labor, and civic leaders. Dr. Hira Fotedar, former Vice President of Quality and Operational Excellence at Eaton, chairs the Board. Dr. Fotedar also provides Advisory Services to WINOC clients. Vice Chairman Robert Meyer was a pioneer in the employee involvement movement in the U.S.A. having served with Babcock and Wilcox, The Hoover Company, and the U.S. Department of Health. Bob manages the Northeast Ohio Center for Labor Management Cooperation at WINOC, which is funded from a grant by the Ohio Department of Development's Ohio Labor Management Cooperation |
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(330) 725-4885 Fax (330) 721-2933 |
For more information please contact us. |
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