Mother Earth is the ultimate customer This article appeared in Business India, July 16-29, 2018. The industrial system – what we make, buy, and use – sits within a larger system of nature. This industrial system includes, amongst others, a wide range of products such …
We are living under the tyranny of the current vertical style of management. I call this silo management. Silo management breeds Costs Of Poor Quality (COPQ). A collection of avoidable waste, rework and other inefficiencies. Unfortunately, this phantom is legitimized in our budgets. In India, …
Repost: This blog was originally posted on 30 September 2015 Quality is about delighting your customer. Delighting through product and service features that satisfy the customer; as well as that are delivered to the customer without deficiencies. But hold your breath. The definition of customer …
Why should a taxpayer support inefficient processes? This article appeared in Business India, June 18-July 1, 2018. From early June, there has been much said about our national carrier, Air India. Almost all have been critical about its operational inefficiency, as well as interference of …
Historic Quality in India This article appeared in Business India, May 21-June 3, 2018. In the days when historians assumed that history began with Greece, the Greek historian Herodotus recorded the first known reference to cotton grown in India. He wrote, “Certain wild trees bear …
A couple of weeks back I was in conversation with a friend who is a Researcher at the head office of Microsoft in Seattle. During the course of our chat, I learned that the current research at Microsoft was aimed at Smart Cities and Smart …
