Back to Basics: Essentials First
Back to Basics: Essentials First
Mastering the seven quality tools for sustained excellence
- Publication:
- Quality Progress
- Date:
- September 2026
- Issue:
- Volume 59 Issue 9
- Pages:
- pp. 56
- Author(s):
- Pal, Nikhil
- Organization(s):
- Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario
Abstract
With artificial intelligence and digitalization dominating every quality conversation, it’s tempting to treat the basic quality tools as relics. That assumption is wrong. The seven basic quality tools remain essential for problem solving, process improvement and operational excellence.