Since March 2020, I have been intimately involved in the COVID-19 response. I have also read and researched many articles related to this pandemic.
For me, there are 66 lessons that we can learn through our response and living through a pandemic. Some of these lessons may overlap with each other.
These 66 lessons have been categories into five categories. Continue reading
This is the second part of the dialogue with Ian Dalling. In this part Ian discusses Quality 4.0, the skills needed by quality professional in the future and Integrated Management Systems.
Ian Dalling is the Director of the “Unified Management Solutions”. It specializes in integrated approaches to quality and risk management. He is a Chartered Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, a fellow of the Charter Quality Institute, and a fellow of the International Institute of Safety and Risk Management. He holds degrees in engineering and physics. From 2007 to 2020 he chaired the Chartered Quality Institute Integrated Management Special Interest Group. He led the development of the world’s first universal system standard (MSS1000). Continue reading
If you are building a home addition, you would not have a contractor begin demolition where you think you want the addition to go, construct what seems to make sense and hope the project will meet your expectations. You would hire an architect to obtain or recreate plans for the existing structure and draw up plans for the new configuration. Then, she would create a work plan for how the project would be executed, based upon the materials, techniques, equipment, and personnel to be used. Continue reading
On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) learned of several cases of severe pneumonia in the Chinese city of Wuhan. This strain of coronavirus has since spread through China and into other countries. WHO later named COVID-19. Continue reading
A while back, I felt that pretty much everything was out of sync and I was highly disorganized. There was a growing list of undone things whether that was around the house, at work, with my family, or at the places where I volunteer.
It was definitely time for a reorganization.
A few weeks later, things were back in order (I even had time to write again), and a big part of my reorganization was refocussing on the systems I use for productivity. Continue reading