#299 – IAN DALLING: FUTURE OF THE WORK: QUALITY – JIM KLINE PH.D.

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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

#298 – IAN DALLING – FUTURE OF THE WORK: QUALITY – JIM KLINE PH.D.

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This is a two-part series with Ian Dalling of the United Kingdom. These pieces discuss a wide range of issues. The first piece discusses the idea of quality and the impact of the Bretix on the quality profession in the United Kingdom. The second will discuss the impact of Quality 4.0 and the future of the quality profession. Ian Dalling is the Director of the “Unified Management Solutions”. It specializes in integrated approaches to quality and risk management. Continue reading

#296 – ARE GOVERNMENT ENQUIRIES FIT FOR PURPOSE? (GRENFELL TOWER FIRE) – IAN DALLING

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“On 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, it caused 72 deaths, including those of two victims who later died in hospital. More than 70 others were injured, and 223 people escaped. It was the deadliest structural fire in the United Kingdom since the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster and the worst UK residential fire since the Second World War. Continue reading

#294 – DO YOUR DUTY! – IAN DALLING

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Lord Horatio Nelson’s famous message “England expects that every man will do his duty”, signalled from HMS Victory to the fleet before the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, is just as relevant in today’s COVID 19 and other planetary crises including global warming, the toxic pollution of our environment, and the genetic modification of our food threatening our health and consciousness. Nelson’s message is now applicable to everyone on Earth irrespective of race or creed or whatever roles they may perform. Continue reading

#237 – ‘UPSIDE – DOWNSIDE’ OR ‘BACK – TO – FRONT’ THINKING? – IAN DALLING

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Management is not a one-sided coinage, it has an upside and a downside, and all is perceived and judged on the level of the conscious mind. It is about maximising gain while minimising loss in all its forms significant to stakeholders. It is at the basis of commercial activity and inseparably dances together like conjoined associates born out of management exercising choice. Continue reading