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Challenges of the Quality Evolution: The Way We Were … and Where you Need to be Now

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Excerpt: Quality through the decades has been an adventurous evolution.  This articles looks at the changes in philosophy, requirements and customer expectations from the 1980’s to the 2010’s – and summarizes where you need to be NOW to be competitive in the global marketplace.

Quality through the decades has been an adventurous evolution for those who’ve lived through it … not for the faint of heart, the action adverse or those afraid of culture and business change.  These changes have affected what we expect, what we buy, and even what we tell our friends, family and extended social networks.

Today’s global economy and technology explosion create even more challenges to be addressed: increased expectations, increasingly complex products, shorter timescales, while making the consequences of failure much more severe.  In addition, there are new challenges Read More

The 7 Deadly Improvement Sins:

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

The 7 Deadly Improvement Sins: How Many Do you Commit?

Sin #1: Process improvement is not tied to the Strategic issues the business faces.

Sin #2: The process improvement effort does not involve the right people, especially top management.

Sin #3: Process improvement teams are not given a clear & appropriate charter, and are not held accountable for fulfilling that charter. Read More