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Since 2010, ASQ has been pleased to host the World Quality Month website, offering organizations around the world an opportunity to celebrate successes and share results for others to learn from.

Parties to legal disputes often reflexively consider suing one another in litigation. As an alternative, parties can use alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”), including arbitration and mediation.

With the attention Six Sigma has been receiving, I thought it might be interesting to offer my perspective as someone who worked from the inside of a large organization to launch a major Six Sigma initiative.

In his well-renowned 1959 lecture, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” Physicist Richard Feynman challenged his colleagues in the scientific community to think more practically and abandon looking for answers on the large scale—i.e. the composition of the universe, gravitational effects on planets—and instead look at matter on a smaller scale, the atomic scale.

A new article from the MSSC explains the importance of skills standards.

Quality cops and the quality patrol. These are just two of the many names quality managers and technicians have been called over the past 70-plus years.

Your organization has its policies. Your organization has its procedures.

Many good companies fail. Whether you own a business, are employed by one, or have invested in one it is very disconcerting because your career and financial security are at stake.

Over the past few years I’ve written several articles concerning the transformation of the quality profession.