Features
From exclusive tours inside top organisations, to interviews with industry experts and opinion pieces written by quality innovators, read the latest features to improve your knowledge and understanding.
Developing knowledge and confidence
As part of a series of articles on different quality qualifications, Joanna Bak, a quality assurance assistant at Ixion, part of Shaw Trust, tells her experience of completing the Quality Practitioner Apprenticeship with Six Pillars Consulting.
Developing quality skills
As part of a series of articles in which quality professionals share their experiences of different quality qualifications, Hugh Edwards, Quality Manager at Qnostics, describes his experience of achieving an MSc in Quality Management at the University of the West of Scotland.
Exploring hidden dimensions: quality culture and cultural quality – Part 2
Continuing their series, IRCA-Certified associate auditor and international project quality lead Rasoul Aivazi and retired auditor Richard Brett use stories from their own experiences to explore how Japanese philosophies are intrinsic in quality.
The Hawthorne effect
If the outcome of an audit is influenced by the very act of carrying out the audit in the first place, how can we ever ensure accuracy? Welcome to the paradox that is the Hawthorne effect.
Auditing – start as you mean to go on
How can auditors ensure that their work is a meaningful and positive experience for the auditee? IRCA Principal Auditor Ryan Renard CQP MCQI takes a closer look.
Developing a quality career
We catch up with Catriona Large, Quality and HSE Advisor at CGG, winner of the Emerging Talent category at the CQI’s International Quality Awards 2023.
Not everything can be measured
Can measuring something actually devalue it? Ryan Renard CQP MCQI makes the case.
The quality career path of Emerging Talent winner 2019
In this interview we speak to Victoria Derbyshire CQP MCQI, 2019 winner of the Emerging Talent category at the CQI’s International Quality Awards and now a member of the CQI’s Board of Trustees.
Continuing the quality journey after winning Emerging Talent award 2020
In the latest of our series of Q&As with winners of the International Quality Awards Emerging Talent category, we catch up with the 2020 winner, John Jack, Quality Engineer at LifeScan.
Communicating quality through storytelling
Sandy Domingos-Shipley CQP MCQI on how to improve engagement through telling stories.
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