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Gotcha Walks
Bruce Hamilton
Happy spring! Here’s a story about “Toast Kaizen” that I’ve never told. In 1998, as general manager at a medium-size manufacturing company, I created the original toast video for my management team. I was trying to get them out of their offices to “go see” not only the factory floor, but their own departments. Managers needed this direct observation to understand our continuous improvement…

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Leaders Can No Longer Fake an AI Strategy

The era of corporate AI theater is ending. A recent Wharton Human-AI Research and GBK Collective study finds that 82% of enterprise leaders use generative AI at least weekly, and 46% use it daily. That is no longer experimentation.

Yet McKinsey’s 2025 state of AI survey shows a…

9 Reasons You Should Write All the Time

I write. And I write a lot. Emails. Blog posts. Books. More books. Articles. Tweets. I’m surprised I don’t have full-on carpal tunnel syndrome. Writing is draining, laborious, frustrating, and tiring.

You should write too.

What? Mike, you just said a whole bunch of negative…

Geomagic Freeform Is Built for Complexity but Simple to Use

Quality Digest interviewed Kevin Atkins, product manager for Geomagic Freeform at Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence Division. Atkins has more than 25 years of experience in 3D modeling and sculpting. His understanding of organic design not only helps in development and management of Geomagic’…

Beyond the Plateau

On a recent gemba walk, everything looked right. Large digital dashboards lined the production floor, displaying real-time updates on throughput, quality, downtime, and schedule adherence. Metrics were green, trends were stable, and performance was highly visible. By most standards, it was a…

ASQ’s WCQI 2026: Why This Year Is Different

There are always good reasons to attend the American Society for Quality’s World Conference on Quality and Improvement (WCQI). The sessions are substantive, the networking is genuine, and the exhibit hall gives you a concentrated look at where the tools and technologies of our profession are…

When Women Shape the Rules, Consumers Benefit

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.

That’s why International Women’s Day and World Consumer Rights Day aren’t just two dates on the calendar—they are part of the same…

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