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30 Dec 2021

Quality Capsule On The Fundamentals Of Quality Management

So far we have covered three terrains on the road to world-class quality: Resolve. Quality Capsule #023....

Article
14 Oct 2021

Quality Tool - Pareto Analysis

History Pareto Analysis gets its name from the Italian-born economist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) who observed t...

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27 Sep 2021

Quality Tool: Cause-Effect Diagram

Author’s Tip Re-read Quality Capsule 6 – Structured Quality Improvement: Problem Diagnosis...

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16 Sep 2021

Is Climate Change A Cause Or Effect - My 11th Quality Capsule On Green Quality

Over the past decade, the intensity of Climate Change has been spiraling. There can be no debate about this. Eac...

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11 Aug 2021

Balancing Business Growth And Green Values - My 9th Quality Capsule On Green Quality

Green Quality Movement We are a Think Tank for a Green Quality Movement in India. The members of this Think Tank...

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04 Aug 2021

I AM GUILTY - My 8th Quality Capsule On Green Quality

COPQ I started my Qualitist innings in 1987. At that time, Quality was not a priority for any organization. Each o...

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28 Jul 2021

Gandhian Model For Sustainable Growth - My 7th Quality Capsule On Green Quality

Trusteeship Trusteeship is a socio-economic philosophy that was propounded by Mahatma Gandhi, in the 1940s. It p...

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21 Jul 2021

CLIMATE CHANGE: A Time Clock - My 6th Quality Capsule On Green Quality.

We all know, that the industrial system generates waste from extracting and harvesting resources, and from how we p...

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14 Jul 2021

My 5th Quality Capsule On Green Quality- PROFESSIONAL GREEN QUALITISTS

Job Design SIPOC Over the past three decades, Professional Qualitists have solved chronic quality problems th...

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07 Jul 2021

My 4th Quality Capsule On Green Quality- GREEN INNOVATIONS

Much more than being Different Once upon a time, a century back, purchase decisions by customers were based on t...

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30 Jun 2021

My 3rd Quality Capsule On Green Quality- GREEN QUALITY SOLUTION

As Qualitists we all know that to Manage for Quality, we need to work with the Quality Trilogy: Quality Panni...

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16 Jun 2021

My 2nd Quality Capsule On Green Quality- BROWN QUALITY TO GREEN QUALITY

Once upon a time, India was a land of green coastlines, green rivers, green forests and green soil. Our national as...

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02 Jun 2021

My 1st Quality Capsule On Green Quality - LESSONS FROM GREEN QUALITISTS

Quality is not new. Think of the craftsman who built the Jagannath Temple in Puri, the Taj Mahal in Agra, and the P...

Article
26 May 2021

LEGITIMIZING PROCESS INCAPABILITY

On one of my monthly visits to the head office of a television manufacturer, the Chairman was a worried man. No. Co...

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19 May 2021

Sweating The Training

In the 1990s, a multi-national business machine manufacturer was a preferred employer at engineering and management...

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12 May 2021

Heroic Leadership

On a Sunday afternoon, I received a long distance call on my land line, from the Vice Chairman of a tractor manufac...

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28 Apr 2021

My 6th Quality Capsule On The Power Of Quality Fables

Lessons from Kargil In end May 1999, the Pakistan army crossed the Indian Line of Control (LOC). India was shock...

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21 Apr 2021

Peels And Meals

The new President of an Earthmoving Equipment plant in South India, was a Qualitist. He had the knack of spotting c...

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14 Apr 2021

Quality Handbook And The Art Of Tractor Design

Four decades back, the Vice Chairman of an Indian tractor company was struggling to compete with international trac...

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07 Apr 2021

Absenteeism: A Chronic Problem

Three decades back, the Quality Council of a steel plant in India, was chaired by the Managing Director, Dr I I Jam...

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31 Mar 2021

Halve Your COPQ. Double Your Profit

The Chairman of a large steel plant, in the 1980s, resisted any formal quality intervention on the grounds that eve...

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24 Mar 2021

My 1st Quality Capsule On The Power Of Quality Fables

Victor Fernandez, a South American, was appointed by a multi-national pharmaceutical company, to lead the Indian op...

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03 Feb 2021

Knowledge From Experience. Wisdom From Juran

Dr J M Juran There are many definitions of Quality. I have found Dr J M Juran’s definition of Quality abso...

Article
27 Jan 2021

World-Class Quality: Fable 3

Customer Focus is no longer a choice. Learn from an expatriate. A simple approach that can build an organization-wi...

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20 Jan 2021

World-Class Quality: Fable 2

World-Class Quality requires an orchestra of capable processes. A South Korean manufacturer of entertainment electr...

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13 Jan 2021

World-Class Quality: Fable 1

Here is a benchmark example of World-Class Quality. This Quality Fable is not fiction. It is about real people and....

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06 Jan 2021

World-Class Quality: Integrate

The final geographical terrain is Integrate all quality practices for delivering world-class quality. There...

Article
23 Dec 2020

Quality Capsule On The Fundamentals Of Quality Management

The third geographical terrain is Commence the journey to attaining world-class quality using accurate geograp...

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16 Dec 2020

Quality Capsule On The Fundamentals Of Quality Management

The second geographical terrain is Plan to deliver world-class quality. To plan, the top and senior manager...

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25 Nov 2020

Quality Capsule On The Fundamentals Of Quality Management

Lessons from Leaders Over the past three decades, as a Qualitist, I have had the opportunity to interact with su...

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