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The quality professional in the era of sustainability and Quality 4.0
Deming special interest group members Christopher Chinapoo CQP FCQI and Dr Kevan Leach examine the skills and roles the quality professional needs to operate collectively in the era of sustainability.
Cognitive bias and its impact on outsourcing
Cognitive biases can have a serious impact on supply chain management when it comes to outsourcing vendors. Krishnan Lakshminarayanan CQP MCQI, a Lead Auditor and Senior Manager at William Hare in India, examines some common examples and looks at how they can be avoided.
Sustaining stakeholder buy-in – Part 1
This article is the first part of a two part series where Professor Mitter Vedu, FCQI, examines the approach to sustain stakeholders’ interest in continuous improvement methodologies
Innovation: the great opportunity
The CQI’s fifth Corporate Connect event of the year explored how human design thinking can encourage successful innovation.
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.
Fish Fraud: How the Marine Stewardship Council tackles unregulated fishing
In the early 1990s the impact of overfishing on the marine environment and on seafood supplies was reaching a critical point. This year the Marine Stewardship Council is celebrating its 20th anniversary and the picture is looking far healthier. In an extract from June's Quality World magazine, Dina Patel speaks to supply chain standards director Michael Platt and manager Jaco Barendse to discover how they are leading the sustainable seafood movement.
Video: Lush – sustainable supply chains
Creative Buyer, Gabbi Loedolff explains how Lush works closely with local communities to continuously improve their cocoa supply chain.
Driving business differently
In part one of our new series following British start-up Riversimple, environment custodian Peter Lang explains why a radical new car needs a radical business plan.
Improvement through staff engagement
In part two of our series following British start-up Riversimple, staff custodian Stafford Lloyd explains the employee aspect of the company’s unique governance model.
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.