Quality Management
Perspectives: Adapting to Troubled Times
Quality personnel should recognize the economic climate as an opportunity to demonstrate the impact quality can have.
It’s up to them to adapt their skills, techniques, tools and leadership styles to help their companies navigate the troubled waters....
Know the Why
One of the primary reasons improvement projects fail is a lack of alignment with an organization’s vision, mission, goals and objectives. In an attempt to avoid that issue, a government agency in Guyana deployed a multi-tool method for improvement....
Lasting Impression
A recent paper found that quality initiatives have made significant contributions to three primary indicators of economic well-being:
gross domestic product, corporate tax revenues and employment....
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