Tag: Process

Before You Act

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

‘Treating an uncertain world as if it were predictable only gets you into trouble.’

‘If you can’t predict the future- and increasingly you can’t- action trumps everything.’

‘If you believe that passion and desire must be in place before you act, you may never start.’

‘Nothing happens until you take that first smart step.’

‘Before you act … you need to know what you want.’

‘The people who excel at creation don’t spend months or years assembling resources. They like to get started quickly- immediately, if possible.’

‘A key part of moving forward is understanding current reality.’

‘In the worst of all possible worlds, you are going to fail quickly and cheaply as a result of using Creation. That is not a bad thing.’

‘You are only one thought away from an insight that can make a problem go away, perhaps turning it into an opportunity in the process.’

‘Problems are good news (almost always). Really.’

Source:

Leonard A. Schlesinger, Charles F. Kiefer, & Paul B. Brown (2012). Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future

Juran On Quality By Design

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Improve Academy, Innovation Management, Management, Workplace Learning

‘There should be no vagueness on the question of ‘Deployment to Whom?’

Chronic wastes are reduced through the quality improvement process.’

‘Creation of new wastes is reduced through revision of the quality planning process.’

‘The design for process control should provide the operating forces with the means for corrective action.’

‘A state of self-control consists of:

Knowing what the target performance is

Knowing what the actual performance is

Having the means for changing performance in the event of noncomformance

‘Product conformance decisions should ideally be made by the opperating forces at the lowest levels of organization.’

‘Proof of human controllability is best provided by demonstration.’

‘The question ‘Who is responsible for quality?’ is inherently unanswerable.’

‘One way to break out of the adversary relationship with suppliers is to experiment.’

‘All processes exhibit variability.’

‘Quality goals should be based on process capabilities rather than on prior process performance.’

‘Inadvertent human errors can be reduced through errorproofing.’

‘Product development requires not only functional expertise; it also requires use of a body of quality-related know-how -the quality disciplines.’

‘Goals should be written out. This discipline helps to assure that goals are understandable.’

‘Customers’ needs are a moving target.’

‘Who is responsible for quality?’

Source:

J.M. Juran (1992). Juran on Quality by Design: The New Steps for Planning Quality into Goods and Services