Quality and Innovation

For 25 years, I’ve helped senior leaders and execs build data-driven processes to exchange chaos for clarity, execute successful strategies, explore opportunities, and drive 10-100x performance improvements.

Throughout 2024, I will be SCHEDULING short and long-term consulting for data/AI management and/or building and deploying AIs & Machine Learning models for YOU. If your organization needs to unlock insights from source systems, set up an AI Strategy, set up AI Governance/Data Strategy, find high ROI opportunities with AI, or help your MS/PhD workers perform more effectively, contact me at nicole@qzuku.com with subject CONSULTING INQUIRY.  I am a broker for data/AI products and professional services providers.

 Previous consulting projects include:

• Using AI & machine learning to determine market segmentation, Ideal Customer Profiles, Voice of the Customer (VOC), profitable product combos, how/whether macroeconomic conditions are impacting sales patterns, etc.
• Organized strategic plan development and operations plan alignment to strategy for $10M-500M programs
• Wrote an application in R/Python/Shiny to explore Industrial Hygiene exposure assessments (as a means to validate data collection approach in an enterprise software system) – https://radziwill.shinyapps.io/IHSTATR/
• Helped multiple operations teams in a $100M organization develop a layered KPI/metrics scheme (KPI tree) with clear lines of responsibility, regular reporting, and consensus development
• Helped guide strategic $1-10M IT investments (high-level enterprise architecture, multi-criteria decision making, machine learning)
• Improved alignment by helping organizations restructure processes, roles, and reporting relationships
• Built new competencies by creating and delivering custom courses for professionals on quality management and quality engineering topics, e.g. Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMEA/FMECA)
• Built new competencies by creating and delivering custom data science courses (using RStudio) for business and disciplinary experts, including demos and tools like https://radziwill.shinyapps.io/sdm-clt/
• Supported ideation, development, and refinement of NSF, NSF SBIR/STTR, DOD, and DOE grant proposals
• Writing and/or ghostwriting custom research/marketing pieces on management, technology management, emerging technologies (e.g. blockchain), and Environment, Health & Safety, and Quality (EHSQ)

Here’s a report I co-authored, edited, and designed the camera-ready PDF. Click to read full text.

Here’s an insight report I wrote and published in February 2023.