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Continue reading →: Apply to Participate in the 2012 YQP Quality Showcase!
(Image Credit: Doug Buckley of http://hyperactive.to) Are you an entry-level Young Quality Professional (YQP) who has participated or led a project that resulted in tangible benefits for your organization or community? Are you a student in high school or college who has worked individually, or with a team, to apply quality tools…
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Continue reading →: All About TRIZ for Innovation
TRIZ, the “theory of inventive problem solving” conceived by the Russian innovator Genrich Altshuller in the mid-1940’s, is a collection of analytical tools intended to capture “innovation logic” so it can be systematically applied to solve engineering problems. Using TRIZ, individuals and teams have an actionable guide for thinking out-of-the-box…
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The Rubric as a General Purpose Quality Tool
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Continue reading →: The Rubric as a General Purpose Quality ToolAccording to dictionary.com, one of the definitions for rubric is “any established mode of conduct; protocol.” But the context you’ve probably heard this word in is education – where a grading rubric or a scoring rubric is used to evaluate a complex artifact like a student essay. In my opinion,…
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Continue reading →: Should You Get Your Six Sigma Black Belt (SSBB) from ASQ?
A couple of weeks ago, I got this email: Comment: I am basker from NJ, and I have a PMP certification, I want to get a six sigma black belt certification — are there other certifications out there other than one from ASQ ? that you would suggest and what…
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Continue reading →: SPIE Chairs: Here’s Help Processing Your Reviewer Ratings
The Problem: You are a Chair for a SPIE conference, your review team has provided numerical ratings for all your oral and poster submissions, and now you have to sort through all the numbers and prepare a draft program. The Solution: Use R! 1. Go into MySPIE into the “Review…
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Continue reading →: My 2012 Resolution is Myopium
The dictionary defines myopia as narrow mindedness, the inability to see things that aren’t right in front of you. However, the positive spin on myopia is that you can choose to hold only those things in your vision that support what you want to achieve, and where you want to…
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Continue reading →: Collins and Hansen’s Great By Choice: A Story of Quality Consciousness
Jim Collins, author of Built to Last (2004) and Good to Great (2001), released a new compendium of his research this fall entitled Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that these authors have also stumbled upon…
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