These days blogs and newspapers seem to make a daily reference to climate change, resource scarcity and security, the environment and the economy.

Command Medical Products of Ormond Beach, Florida, is a medical-device manufacturer that designs, manufactures, assembles, and packages disposable medical devices such as intravenous tubing, blood bags, IV bags, and catheters.

Here’s a story that proves once again that exciting quality applications can occur anywhere in the world.

The current recession is the fifth in my working career. And it is beginning to feel like the worst.

Those best adapted to particular conditions will succeed in the long run. This idea was invented by Herbert Spencer in Principles of Biology (University Press of the Pacific, 2002) to describe Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection of living species.

Criteria changes and lean Six Sigma

In these difficult economic times, organizations are looking at all possible means to operate profitably.

During a recession, the concept of lean should make absolute sense to an information technology (IT) manager who wants to pursue every channel to increase efficiency and productivity.

There are several issues about the Six Sigma approach to quality that bother me. First, Six Sigma is a performance standard that hardly anyone can understand. Secondly, it’s an engineering approach to quality management.

The cost of doing business is rising dramatically. Included in this is the cost to recruit and hire talent to join your team. It’s estimated that the total cost of one hire can exceed $30,000 when relocation and set-up expenses are included.

Organizations embarking on the journey to process excellence have much to gain if appropriate actions are taken in the early stages of deployment.