10 Building Blocks for a Quality Culture

Communication: Is Anyone Listening?

If you look up the definition for ‘communication’ you’ll see that it involves sending a message then having the sender ensure that the message was received and understood the way the sender intended. ‘Sending an e-mail’ is NOT ‘communication’. It is simply ‘sending a message’. E-mails are often misinterpreted and if action is required by

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Trade off other Values for Quality??

Building Block #9 You need to be ready to trade off other values in favour of Quality There’s an anecdotal ‘constraint model’ in the world of Engineering: Quality – Price – Timing: pick any two. By staying focused on ‘errors are unacceptable’ (or at least have a rate of errors we can live with) we

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