Institute for Economic Empowerment

The QWE process is a continuous improvement cycle that incorporates planning, project management, and quality improvement concepts. There are four general phases:

1. Conduct the self-assessment
2. Learn from others
3. Develop a Strategic Action Plan
4. Improve the quality of the work environment for employees who are blind or have significant disabilities.

This is a three year cycle, with the all four phases occurring in the first year, and annual updates of the Strategic Action Plan in the second and third year. For each high level phase, the diagram lists the detailed steps that may be taken. The diagram also shows the Excel spreadsheet tools available to support and document the work.

See the QWE Documents menu selection on this website to download the QWE Guidebook for a more detailed descriptions of the steps in the process, and to download the QWE Planning and Analysis spreadsheet tool.