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Praveen Gupta

Praveen Gupta is the director of quality at Stephen Gould and author of “Business Innovation in the 21st Century.” He was a columnist for Quality many years ago. He wrote about manufacturing excellence. He has been pursuing process excellence since 2006. He has tried through the US TAG for ISO 9001 standards, implementing excellence at many companies, in education, and in social scenarios. Praveen teaches a Management of Innovation course at SJSU.

Praveen is a Fellow of American Society of Quality (ASQ), received the Alumni Award from Illinois Institute of Technology, a pioneer of implementing the Six Sigma methodology at Motorola, and the developer of the science of innovation, including his TEDOC (Target, Explore, Develop, Optimize and Commercialize) methodology. He has authored over a dozen books and published dozens of articles in trade and peer-reviewed journals or magazines.

He is the Quality Professional of the Year 2016, and an advisor to BrainPan, a firm founded by his students.

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Manufacturing Excellence: Barrier to Excellence: ISO 9001 Deployment

Praveen Gupta

February 25, 2010

ISO 9001 systems were designed to help business gain from the cumulative experience of best-in-class companies.

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January 28, 2010

It has been more than 20 years since the ISO 9000 series of standards was launched.

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December 22, 2009

Make a resolution to be perfect and creative in everything you do in 2010.

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December 1, 2009

American manufacturing has been taking flack for more than 20 years. The funny thing is that nothing has changed, and there may even have been some improvement. Still, our problems remain the same.

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October 28, 2009

We are at the same stage where the environment is overworked, and in order to move toward sustainability, we need to cut personal consumption of everything. I mean everything.

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September 29, 2009

The manufacturing crisis began in the mid-80s with international competition in the automotive industry. Instead of being recognized as a technical supremacy, experts attributed the competition to cost. In reality, it was the competitor’s superior performance, rather than cost, that challenged the manufacturing capabilities of the 1950s and 1960s.

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September 2, 2009

Large corporations in the United States must do something differently. For more than 25 years, manufacturing corporations tried to improve operations irrespective of their size-be it GM, Ford or a small company in a remote area. However, outsourcing of manufacturing continued and was followed by outsourcing of non-manufacturing operations.

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July 31, 2009

I am sure everyone at General Motors (GM) is thinking about how everyone else is using GM’s misery as an opportunity. It is okay to learn from others’ mistakes. Does that mean GM is the only one that made mistakes? Absolutely not.

Praveen Gupta

June 30, 2009

We cannot wait for managers to fix things for us. We should not wish for a better CEO to lead us to the magic land. We cannot expect our president to give us a vision and bail us out from the economic mess. It is time for us to wake up, see how deep a hole we are in, try to climb out and see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Praveen Gupta

May 27, 2009

Anytime I try to analyze why U.S. businesses appear to be losing their competitive edge, I look not just at manufacturing, but also at opportunities throughout the organization.

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