Quality Management in Times of Acceleration
Digital transformation has stopped being a trend and become a condition for competitiveness.
Digital transformation has stopped being a trend and become a condition for competitiveness.
Growth has a way of outpacing the quality systems built to support it: more products, more sites, more users, more regulatory requirements, and the quality team is expected to absorb all of it.
The FY 2027 White House budget proposal is not only a fiscal plan but a change in national quality architecture.
Nobody would get into a self-driving car simply because the door locks worked and the alarm system was functioning properly.
It can be surprisingly difficult for businesses to get accurate answers to questions about their own data. Often, the data live in different systems or aren’t easily accessible to employees without specific technical skills.
Markets run on trust. Trust runs on standards. And standards only work when the people shaping them reflect the people they are meant to protect.
The modern metric system—known as the International System of Units, or SI—is a model of consistency and logic. But in some cases, the logic seems to break down.
Most quality professionals have experienced this moment. A process improvement initiative is completed. Procedures are updated, the team is trained, and for a period of time everything works exactly as intended.
(ISO: Geneva) -- Sustainability claims are everywhere.
‘This product isn’t approved to be imported into this market,” says a customs official while reviewing the importation documentation.
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