You’ve been feeling like you’re stuck in a rut career wise and maybe you’ve been awaiting that long overdue promotion. So how do you move your career forward? We have some suggestions on how you might start to work on your own personal development and start to take action. Our first suggestion is to write
What is in a name! I call this ‘fake quality news’ for good reason! Six Sigma and Lean advocates collectively herald the acronyms, words and names I have put in this title as if they are the latest thing in Quality. If there was no damage done this would not be a problem but unfortunately
The Fishbone Diagram is a Brainstorming based technique explained in depth in our Quality Fundamentals Unit Business Performance Improvement. Its value is that it enables the orderly clustering of possible causes of a problem into groups whilst the brainstorming process is taking place. and links ideas that possibly have some interactive relationship. Without the Fishbone diagram or something like it,
This simple technique predates everything that could possibly be described as being the ‘Quality Profession’ and owes more to the likes of Fredrick W Taylor and Frank and Lillian Gilbreth than to any of the latter-day quality guru’s. Originally it was part of a concept called Critical Examination. Using this concept, an organisation would design,