How to promote innovation?

Every month, ASQ – American Society for Quality selects a quality-themed topic for Influential Voices bloggers to discuss as part of a round table. The October  topic is: How can employers leverage quality to invite innovation? Here is my answer: It is well known that innovation is an important driver of Read more…

What is Smart Manufacturing?

As every year, ASQ has released the 2013 Manufacturing Outlook Survey that was fielded to respondents in the aerospace, automotive, food, medical device, pharmaceutical and utility industries, among others. After reading the summary on the ASQ blog, an interesting fact reflected that “only 13% of respondents use smart manufacturing, but 82% Read more…

The importance of “soft skills”

How “soft skills” influence in an interview, your job or daily routine? Are they more important than “hard skills”? This month, Julia McIntosh of ASQ’s Communications department wrote about different themes discussed in the past ASQ’s World Conference on Quality and Improvement 2013 in Indianapolis-Indiana, and I’ve selected “soft skills” to be Read more…

Defining Quality

Paul Borawski asked in his new post a simple/complex question:  How do you define quality?  As the world keeps changing, the definition of quality does too. So Paul extended his question to: “What do you use as the best, most inclusive, and illuminating definition of quality? Test your definition against Read more…

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