B.I.D. History

The creator of the first edition of the QC100 TQM, Jose E. Prieto, founded the publishing group JBAN in 1973 and, since 1986, when international partners joined, he presides Business Initiative Directions (B.I.D.) whose primary activity is oriented towards sharing quality culture in leading companies worldwide.

The founding team, formed by engineers, physicists, mathematicians, economists, sociologists and journalists, continues contributing ideas and improvements to the QC100 and giving opportunities for all those companies investing in Quality processes.

In 1984, the founder of B.I.D., Jose E. Prieto, created the pioneered concept, Quality Mix.
In the past decades, Business Initiative Directions, due to its innovative ideas, has succeeded in becoming one of the first four worldwide organizations to implement Quality Culture in top local, national, continental, and global companies.

B.I.D. is currently the most important private organization in the world presenting a quality award on the basis of principles as solid as those of the Deming in Japan (only for Japanese companies), the Baldrige in the U.S. (only for U.S. companies), or the EFQM in Europe (only for European companies).

B.I.D. has professional relations with companies in 178 countries whose products and services help position them as leaders who invest in innovation, technology, training and installations.