{domain:"www.qualitydigest.com",server:"169.47.211.87"} Skip to main content

User account menu
Main navigation
  • Topics
    • Customer Care
    • FDA Compliance
    • Healthcare
    • Innovation
    • Lean
    • Management
    • Metrology
    • Operations
    • Risk Management
    • Six Sigma
    • Standards
    • Statistics
    • Supply Chain
    • Sustainability
    • Training
  • Videos/Webinars
    • All videos
    • Product Demos
    • Webinars
  • Advertise
    • Advertise
    • Submit B2B Press Release
    • Write for us
  • Metrology Hub
  • Training
  • Subscribe
  • Log in
Mobile Menu
  • Home
  • Topics
    • 3D Metrology-CMSC
    • Customer Care
    • FDA Compliance
    • Healthcare
    • Innovation
    • Lean
    • Management
    • Metrology
    • Operations
    • Risk Management
    • Six Sigma
    • Standards
    • Statistics
    • Supply Chain
    • Sustainability
    • Training
  • Login / Subscribe
  • More...
    • All Features
    • All News
    • All Videos
    • Contact
    • Training

D-Day: The Decision-Making Dilemma

Without factual, operational decisions, we’re condemned to a binary world

Umberto Tunesi
Thu, 04/04/2013 - 11:27
  • Comment
  • RSS

Social Sharing block

  • Print
Body

ADVERTISEMENT


In a world that every day becomes more and more volatile, uncertain, complex, controversial, and ambiguous, making any decision whatsoever is no light task.

ADVERTISEMENT

We are told that long before Julius Caesar said, “Alea jacta est,” (“The die is cast”) or Hamlet, “To be or not to be,” our forefathers used all kinds of—often bloody—tools to divine what to do. Likewise, the men who explored space from Earth were more astrologers than astronomers: They made their living from divinations.

Not from “predictions.”

When the ISO/TS 16949 writers ask for “predictive maintenance,” it seems they are thinking in terms of predictability, that is, a given event can be “anticipated, calculable, certain, expected, foreseeable, foreseen, likely, reliable, sure, and sure-fire.”

Six Sigma? Who has ever seen a Six Sigma approach applied to predictive maintenance of machinery? Who has ever seen a Six Sigma approach to decision making?

Raise your hand, please.

 …

Want to continue?
Log in or create a FREE account.
Enter your username or email address
Enter the password that accompanies your username.
By logging in you agree to receive communication from Quality Digest. Privacy Policy.
Create a FREE account
Forgot My Password

Add new comment

Image CAPTCHA
Enter the characters shown in the image.
Please login to comment.
      

© 2025 Quality Digest. Copyright on content held by Quality Digest or by individual authors. Contact Quality Digest for reprint information.
“Quality Digest" is a trademark owned by Quality Circle Institute Inc.

footer
  • Home
  • Print QD: 1995-2008
  • Print QD: 2008-2009
  • Videos
  • Privacy Policy
  • Write for us
footer second menu
  • Subscribe to Quality Digest
  • About Us
  • Contact Us