Colleges - OE - Mission Statement
The College of Operational Excellence is a special interest group of POMS that seeks to create a community for researchers pursuing operational excellence philosophies, paradigms, principles, systems, and techniques (e.g. TQM, JIT, Lean, Six Sigma, Continuous Improvement, Quality Assurance, Theory of Constraints, Agile among others). The college embraces the full spectrum of research paradigms including modeling, empirical and field-based work and facilitates close interaction between academics and practitioners through focused conferences.