FOOD FOR THOUGHT: THE QUOTE
KNOWLEDGE
"Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important"
Seth Godin (change agent)
01/27/2010 - QualitiAmo Staff
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: THE QUOTE
PEOPLE
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor"
Vince Lombardi (coach)
01/11/2010 - QualitiAmo Staff
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: THE QUOTE
CHANGE
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts"
Winston Churchill (statesman)
01/07/2010 - QualitiAmo Staff
THE ARTICLE
WHAT IS NOT QUALITY MANAGEMENT?
After giving some definitions of "quality", let's try to understand what you absolutely can not define as Quality management.
01/05/2010 - QualitiAmo
THE ARTICLE
LET'S TRY TO DEFINE QUALITY
A definition of "quality" is not so easy. Over the years, however, many Quality management gurus have tried. Among the most popular definitions, we will include:
01/04/2010 - QualitiAmo
THE ARTICLE
EXCELLENCE IN BUSINESS PROCESSES
The world economy, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, is becoming increasingly dissimilar connotations to the paradigm of 900.
12/07/2009 - QualitiAmo
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: THE QUOTE
CHANGE
"People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones"
Charles F. Kettering (American engineer, inventor)
10/27/2009 - Staff di QualitiAmo
THE ARTICLE
WHAT IS QUALITY?
Try to do a simple experiment: take up a newspaper or magazine and see in what contexts you mentioned the word "quality". Will find it used in the most diverse, with completely different meanings to each other and for purposes as diverse.
11/23/2009 - QualitiAmo
WORD OF THE DAY
GENCHI GENBUTSU
In Kaizen methodology, is defined as "Genchi genbutsu" the real place where something happens or the real thing which is being referred to. These are the assumptions, in short, to successfully manage something and to start a good Problem solving process.
11/18/2009 - QualitiAmo
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: THE QUOTE
TEAM
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"
Oliver Wendell Holmes (American physician, professor, lecturer and author)
11/17/2009 - Staff di QualitiAmo
THE ARTICLE
THE PERCEPTION: EFFECTS RELATED TO AN EVENT OR OBJECT
Some of the features of events and objects can have an effect on how they are perceived. We talked in our Q-Club presenting illustrations, like the one you see on this page, creating the misperceptions.
11/03/2009 - QualitiAmo
THE ARTICLE
WRONG PERCEPTIONS AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Perception is a psychological process of creating an internal image of the outside world.
This is a cognitive process through which individuals collect and organize information about people, objects and events.
11/02/2009 - QualitiAmo
IMPROVING
THE KAIZEN IMPLEMENTATION PHASES
- Phase 1: Planning and Preparation
The first challenge is to identify an appropriate target area for a rapid improvement event.
10/29/2009 - QualitiAmo
IMPROVING
THE KAIZEN METHOD
The Japanese make a distinction between Kaizen and innovation: Kaizen is gradual, uses small steps, conventional know-how and a lot of common sense, while innovation is viewed as being more radical because it comes in big steps.
10/28/2009 - QualitiAmo
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: THE QUOTE
LEADERSHIP
"A great education doesn't guarantee good leaders, because leadership isn't a cognitive skill"
(Anonymous)
10/27/2009 - Staff di QualitiAmo
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: THE QUOTE
NON CONFORMITY
"Failure is success if we learn from it"
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (Publisher of "Forbes magazine")
10/26/2009 - Staff di QualitiAmo
IMPROVING
KAIZEN HISTORY
The story of the Kaizen miracle started in the 1930s.
Sakichi Toyoda, founder of Toyota, which manufactured automatic looms at the time, liked to tell his co-workers: “Open the window; it is a big world out there”.
