We are finding that almost every profession is being disrupted. What do we mean? Revolutionary change – not evolutionary or incremental improvement.
The UK Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) recently developed a new framework that may point to the future of quality and other professions. Continue reading
Every revision of ISO 9001 invites a revision to the sector schemes based on it. For example, the aerospace and defense industries’ AS9100 relies on ISO 9001 as its foundation. So does the auto industry’s ISO/TS 16949. When ISO 9001 changes, sector schemes need to change with it if they are to remain sector schemes. With the upcoming revision of ISO 9001 expected in 2015, we hear grumblings from some sector schemed industries about wanting to part ways with ISO 9001. Maybe they never should have become so intimate in the first place. Continue reading
Are not supply chains a question of “intelligence”?
This piece came to my mind when seeing it printed in gigantic types on a big truck.
This year a campaign was started in the EU against mega trucks, and for a number of good reasons: road wear, accident risks, and need of far away warehouses where to load and unload these enormous vehicles. Continue reading
The buzzword seems to be ‘communication’ these days, which is ironic since there is no shortage of tweets, messages, emails and posts on LinkedIn. Yet, there are dozens of webinars and articles (just like this one) on communication.
Why is that? Continue reading
In the past I have written about the global Supply Chain and the risks involved in streamlining and controlling various types of risks. I thought I would take a breather from that format and write about something else which has been on my mind for a long time.
Can and or will United States manufacturing recover and bring along with it the US economy? Continue reading