LinkedIn Post: Business Strategy and Clothes Dryers
TAGS: bill parcells | blitz | business strategy | clothes dryer | consulting | delivery | lean | linkedin | post | quality | sports As a follow-up to my recent post on the importance of business strategy, I published my first LinkedIn post on Sunday equating the settings of a clothes dryer to the …Continue reading →
ASQ Influential Voices: Why is Strategy Important?
TAGS: asq | bill troy | blitz | consulting | cost | delivery | hoshin | influential voices | kanri | lean | operations | planning | priority | process | quality | safety | sports | sqdc boards | strategy This month’s entry from ASQ’s A View From The Q blog, written by ASQ CEO Bill Troy, centers around strategy – specifically, what is the purpose of strategy and how …Continue reading →
ASQ Quality in Athletics: A Call to Action
TAGS: asq | athletics | blitz | consulting | continuous improvement | group | lean | nfl | operations | process | qatar world cup | quality | quality in athletics | richie incognito | safety | six sigma | sports | steroids The American Society for Quality features a relatively-new special interest group called Quality in Athletics. For the last few months, I’ve been in a mood. An angry mood, the kind of …Continue reading →
ASQ Influential Voices: Quality and Education Part 2 – Seth Godin on School
TAGS: blitz | compliance | consulting | education | fear | influential voices | interesting | lean | quality | school | seth godin | stop stealing dreams As a continuation on the discussion about the link between quality and education for the ASQ Influential Voices, the following is perhaps one of the most influential TED Talks I …Continue reading →
ASQ Quality for Life Video: Lean In Sports
TAGS: american | asq | blitz | consulting | costs | customer satisfaction | interview | lean | non value added time | operations | process | quality | quality for life | society | sports | video Last year at the American Society for Quality (ASQ) World Conference on Quality and Improvement I had the opportunity to record an interview about how Lean and quality can have …Continue reading →
Waving Goodbye to 2013
TAGS: 2013 | 2014 | asq | beyond lean | blog | consulting | happy | karen martin | lean blitz | lean blog | mark graban | matt wrye | new year | operations | podcast | process | pug | rob neyer | sports In short, 2013 was a pretty tough year, both personally and professionally. Some really great opportunities presented themselves, while I also found there is a great deal of professional growth …Continue reading →
ASQ Influential Voices: The Value of Appropriate Training
TAGS: asq | audit | augusta greenjackets | concessions | consulting | customer | customers | expectations | influential voices | lean | lean blitz | learning | manager | measure | operations | paul borawski | process | quality | sports | training In August, ASQ CEO Paul Borawski penned his thoughts about companies providing training around quality, using data from the Global State of Quality survey to show that companies with centralized …Continue reading →