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Embracing failure as a quality professional
Kevin Newey CQP MCQI, Head of Quality at Graphcore, explains why quality professionals should embrace failure rather than fear it.
Breaking down language barriers
Quality Engineer Benjamin Clifford, who works for DISCO Corporation in Japan, was a finalist in the Emerging Talent category at this year’s CQI International Quality Awards. Here, he explains his journey into auditing, and how a multi-lingual auditing programme is improving standards in his organisation.
Values are key to ‘doing the right thing’
CQI CEO, Vince Desmond, looks at recent quality failures to explore the growing relevance of this year’s World Quality Week theme, ‘Quality conscience: Doing the right thing’.
- International
WQW webinar: Sustainability and the CQI Competence Framework
As part of our World Quality Week celebrations, we have partnered with Catalyst Consulting to examine sustainability in the context of the CQI Competence Framework. We’ll look at the knowledge, skills, and behaviours already embedded in the Framework, and how CQI members are positioned to support and deliver their organisations’ sustainability goals.
- United Kingdom
CQI Greater Manchester - Purposeful leadership: creating the conditions for a better future
Keynote, Clive Wilson MSc FCIPD FCMI, will discuss purposeful leadership: consciously creating the conditions for a better future in the face of a pandemic, climate change and an era of unprecedented disruption.
- International
WQW webinar: Quality Actions Can Enable the Move to a Habitable Environment
As part of our World Quality Week celebrations, we are delighted to host honorary Fellow Dr Greg H Watson as he discusses two key themes which are occupying the quality profession at present: Quality 4.0 and Sustainability.
- International
WQW webinar: The Why, What and How of Environmental Sustainability
Sustainability is very often referred to in terms of John Elkington’s triple P model: people, planet, profit. The current status of the three Ps can be evaluated using the evolution of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). That will show that the planet part is coming out poorly as reflected in global warming and reduction of biodiversity.
The benefits of the CQI mentoring programme in regrade
Two CQI members who utilise the mentor programme have completed regrade. Abigail Cooper, CQP FCQI, Quality & Improvement Manager, Otis Elevators, regraded as a Fellow. She is also a mentor to Gaurav Bijlani, CQP MCQI, Production Test Equipment Manager, Hanover Displays Ltd, who applied for member grade under her mentorship. They discuss how mentoring support helped them with regrading.
It all starts with study
Mitch Beedie, a freelance researcher/writer, suggests a study, decide, plan, do (SDPD) cycle.
Selecting the right problem-solving strategy
Derek Scott, CQP FCQI, Quality Manager at Rubberatkins, Scotland, takes a look at models and strategies for problem-solving.