Who Has Inspired You About Quality?
In his January post, ASQ CEO Bill Troy asks, “Have you met someone whose teachings on quality influenced you or inspired you? What were these lessons?” Although he acknowledges the “quality gurus” he...
View ArticleTop Books Every Quality Professional Should Read
In January 2015, Julia McIntosh shared what the ASQ staff believe are the “Top 8″ books every quality professional should have on their shelf. Before I read her blog post, I thought about what would...
View ArticleQuality Has Always Been Global
Image Credit: Shutterstock, from http://asq.org/blog/2015/02/why-should-quality-go-global/ In his February post, ASQ CEO Bill Troy asks “Why Should Quality ‘Go Global’?” ASQ has, over the past several...
View ArticleWhat (Really) is a Data Scientist?
Drew Conway’s very popular Data Science Venn Diagram. From http://drewconway.com/zia/2013/3/26/the-data-science-venn-diagram What is a data scientist? What makes for a good (or great!) data scientist?...
View ArticleData Quality is Key for Asset Management in Data Science
This post was motivated by two recent tweets by Dr. Diego Kuonen, Principal of Statoo Consulting in Switzerland (who you should definitely follow if you don’t already – he’s one of the only other...
View Article3 Steps to Creating an Innovative Performance Culture
Image Credit: Doug Buckley of http://hyperactive.to Want to leapfrog over your competitors by designing an extremely high-performance culture for your organization? If so, I have the secret formula. It...
View ArticleIf Japan Can, Why Can’t We? A Retrospective
June 24, 1980 is kind of like July 4, 1776 for quality management… that’s the pivotal day that NBC News aired its one hour and 16 minute documentary called “If Japan Can, Why Can’t We?” introducing W....
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