Harley Davidson has lost its focus on quality as evidenced by our most recent bike trip and by dozens of others expressing their opinions about HD motorcycles. That hasn't seemed to impact HD's business momentum in large part due to the success of their marketing strategy and brand image. But will it be enough? I know I won't ever own a Harley, at least not until they clean up their quality issues.
Show your boss, your customers, and most importantly yourself that you're serious about your career and are willing to make an independent investment in your ongoing knowledge and capabilities.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle
I've had enough, I'm divorcing my e-mail notifications. You get them from your computer, you get them on your phone, everytime I start my browser (and if you have your homepage set to one of those 'I can solve all of your problems just join my website' services), there it is, the notification staring at me, expecting me to do something about it.
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Managing complex system development projects can be difficult, especially when there are both committed and shared resources.
A SIPOC diagram is an effective tool for identifying all elements required for a process, but does not provide a useful tool to manage the process execution.
By breaking a SIPOC into project phases, the SIPOC can be an effective project management tool.
Last fall, after practicing process and organizational improvement for more than twenty years, I passed my first certification exam from the American Society for Quality (ASQ). While I had been encouraged to get my Six Sigma Black Belt, I did not have the project affidavits. So, I perused the ASQ web site and chose the Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE). I did not choose it because it was the longest. I chose it because its body of knowledge appeared best aligned with mine.
