I received the new issue of Demand and Supply Chain Executive Magazine – one of my favorite supply chain periodicals. To my surprise as part of the honor myself and Mark Gavoor received as a 2010 Pro to Know, my lovely picture was chosen to grace the cover of the magazine. Well, not [...]

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The Quality Approach to achieve this alternative definition of quality is to follow the basic tenets of Total Quality.  In 1991, The General Accounting Office of the US Government published a wonderful study, Management Practices: US Companies Improve Performance Through Quality Efforts.  In this study, they defined five tenets or principles of Quality Management.  These [...]

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In his book, Introduction to Quality, Kaoru Ishikawa defined quality in the following way: An alternative definition of QC could in fact be, ‘Everyone doing what should be done, in an organized, systematic way’ It is a very simple and easy to understand definition that almost anyone can relate.  Everyone just needs to do what should be [...]

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This is a follow-up from my previous blog posted February 11, 2010 http://blog.demandcaster.com/2010/02/11/oh-toyota-where-to-from-here/. I posted this on my personal blog site and wanted to share it here as well. Enjoy, I will be looking forward to your comments! Everyone is talking about Toyota. It is amazing to me that the car company most known for quality, reliability, [...]

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In the late summer and early fall of 2009, seemingly everyone was worried about the H1N1 virus.  Of course, why wouldn’t they be? The pundits through the media painted a relative scary scenario.  It was an exciting story that had nothing to do with the economic malaise or health care reform.  People were interested, paid [...]

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