25 years of Qimpro Awards – Part 2

As you are aware, Qimpro Awards recently celebrated its 25th edition this November. In my previous blog I had enumerated the many virtues of our Qimpro Platinum Standard winners in Healthcare—Dr. Milind V Kirtane and Education—Dr KV Kuppusamy. This week I will be talking about 

25 Years of Qimpro Awards

Recognizing the need to celebrate greatness in quality—Dr JM Juran, the Quality Guru conceptualized the Qimpro Awards in 1989. Twenty-five years hence, they are India’s premier quality citations for recognizing individual excellence in quality management. In the early years, recognition was restricted to the Business 

‘MADE In India’ before ‘MAKE In India’

‘Make in India’ can be a great invitation by national statesmen to invest in India. This is a MACRO subject. It can be very good for the Indian economy. On the other hand, ‘Made in India’ must be the Gold Standard promise to customers, by 

Plan A and Plan B: The Customer

A few months back, we heard a slogan: Zero Defects. That was at a national level. More recently we have been hearing another term: Right To Service, in Maharashtra. The two jingles have a common denominator – Customer. Zero defects in the eyes of the 

Your competitor knows your best practices – Better than you!

How many market leaders actually know their resident Best Practices? The answer is most likely to be “Don’t know”. However, there is a high probability that their competitors do…formally or informally! In a cruel competitive world, what is the aim of one’s competitors? The answer 

Did you know you’re against Quality? Undo it with Dr Juran

No one is against quality. There is an abundance of literature on the importance of quality; on the advantages of high quality; on the need for awareness about quality However, what has been missing are answers to upper managers’ questions How do we go from