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David Hutchins

How Quality Goes Round in Circles

Many firms have dramatically improved their competitiveness by introducing Quality Circles. However, unless a culture of Total Quality Management is first implemented, such initiatives are usually short lived. To make effective use of this radically different technique, managers must readjust their attitudes towards the workforce and the entire process of corporate management. Revised in 2025

Congratulations to our Japan Study Mission Participants of May 25 to June 5, 2025!

We are delighted to announce that our participants who attended the Japan Study Mission from May 25 till June 5, 2025 have received the prestigious combined JUSE (Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers), GET (Global Excellence Team) and DHIQC (David Hutchins International Quality College) certificate, as jointly issued. Expertly guided by Kola Olutimehin (getKOLA) and

The Loose Brick – an element of Hoshin Kanri?

 The ‘Loose Brick’ concept is well known in Japan but virtually unheard of in the West. It is a key element in the Risk Management Element in ‘Hoshin Kanri’ (Reference David Hutchins Book) The over all objective of Hoshin Kanri is to create an organisation in which everyone from the top to the bottom is working

What is Hoshin Kanri?

‘Hoshin Kanri’ (Reference David Hutchins Book) is a Japanese term that has no direct translation into English. There three key elements but each element breaks down into multiple sub elements Many ‘would be’ experts attempt to create trite simple models but there is nothing simple about Hoshin Kanri, why? Because it represents a model that

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