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Let’s get Brazil talking about quality!
The quality profession wants to be heard in Brazil. That is why the Brazilian Academy for Quality is working to make senior managers understand how important quality management is for their businesses’ success. Basilio Dagnino, CQP FCQI, former President of the Brazilian Academy for Quality, talks to Alicia Dimas about how the Academy is promoting quality management and what challenges quality professionals face in the country

Time to challenge and reshape the cost of quality paradigms
Bob Goodwin, CQP MCQI MSc PGDip, explains why the cost of quality should not be the main focus for quality professionals

Innovation: the great opportunity
The CQI’s fifth Corporate Connect event of the year explored how human design thinking can encourage successful innovation.

Innovation – What does it look like in quality environments?
Sponsored article: This article looks at how quality methods can provide the structure and environment required to stimulate and develop innovation in business, to better serve customers and stakeholders.

How I’m engaging 1,000 employees in ISO 9001:2015
Kelsey Hopkinson, group environmental compliance manager at Places for People, explains how her organisation is transitioning to the revised standard for quality management systems.

ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 – CQI Transition Policy
CQI and IRCA Transition Policy for ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015

Leading Quality in the 21st Century (ebook)
A collection of six articles commissioned by the CQI from experts at Oakland Consulting looks at the new challenges facing the quality profession.

How quality adds billions to the UK's economy
How much is quality management worth to the UK? A groundbreaking study revealed that in 2011 quality management practices contributed £90bn to the economy (six per cent of GDP), £9.1bn in taxes to the treasury and 1.4 million jobs.
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