Making Quality pay-off BIG!

Do you want to inch up the charts or do you want to leap? I think that is the greatest reason Lean-style thinking has develop Kaizan events. Focus on results and “LET’S GITTER DONE!” However, if you want to get something accomlished having a trained practicioner or Black Belt may prove very beneficial to you. Read More …

Cost of Quality

I was reading a past Ten Step Project Management Newsletter about the cost of quality and thought it was a great addition to this week’s posts. Building quality steps in the workplan adds a certain amount of effort and cost to the project. However, these incremental costs will be rewarded with increased benefits and reduced Read More …

Quality Improvement – it needs to be easier than tying a knot!

Forget Six Sigma, let’s get some results. Think about the 80/20 rule. If you are going to get 80% of your results from 20% of the problem than narrow even further to 95/5 if you can. So when you institute a quality program focus on small areas that get big results. Why waste your efforts Read More …

Quality in Marketing: You must start with these 2 definitions

Quality in marketing may be considered too subjective and therefore difficult to define. However, there is a lot about quality and marketing that can be made objective. But to first understand quality in marketing, I think it is important to understand two terms: Process and Metrics. Quality is not an event – it is a Read More …

GET CLIENTS NOW ANSWER CENTER: JUNE 2009

Great Resource, Take a look…Get Clients Now Answer Center Learn more about Business901 as a Get Clients NOW! facilitator! New in the Answer Center Have You Created an Impossible Business? – Article by C.J. Hayden It’s easy to think that any business can be successful if you work hard enough, but there are many situations Read More …