In the last few years and because of the changes in the environment and world economy, the term Social Responsibility (SR) has become an increasingly discussed topic among consumers and organizations: – consumers have become more alert of which products/services should buy, depending on how those products/services have been produced,– Read more…
It is a pleasure for me to present today the first Guest Blog Post by Christian Paulsen. He is a Senior Lean Six Sigma Consultant who helps companies optimize performance and adds value to organizations by driving continuous process improvements and bottom line cost savings. Christian brings over 20 years of manufacturing leadership experience Read more…
Moving quality beyond product is the new topic ASQ CEO Paul Borawski has proposed to discuss with the Influential Voices. The topic came out because of the new annual survey from The Conference Board CEO Challenge® 2012: Risky Business—Focusing on Innovation and Talent in a Volatile World. The final report from the Quality Council, that Read more…
After I wrote about the Civic Audits in Argentina, I have received an interesting comment/question I want to share with you, about the use I have given to the word DEMOCRACY in that post. Q: You have given us something to think about. Interesting concept to apply on the local level Read more…
In May, ASQ CEO Paul Borawski wrote in his blog about “The Government/Quality Puzzle“. Some of his thoughts were: “Why do citizens expect and demand so little accountability for the poor use of resources in government? Why do so few leaders charged with leading countries, states, provinces, and cities require Read more…
This month, ASQ CEO Paul Borawski wrote in his blog about happiness and job satisfaction in the quality field, and asked a question to discuss with the Influential Voices group: “Are quality professionals happy on the job?” This interesting topic came to live because a recent study from CareerBliss.com, published Read more…
Un interesante artículo escrito por la columnista Jacquelyn Smith de la revista Forbes revela que, según un estudio realizado por la empresa CareerBliss las personas que trabajan como Ingenieros en Aseguramiento de Calidad de Software son los empleados mas felices/satisfechos en los Estados Unidos. El estudio se llevó a cabo encuestando a mas Read more…
March is here and so it is the new ASQ CEO Paul Borawski blog post, with an interesting topic to discuss: How Do You “Sell” Quality? How do you convince senior executives (often CEOs) and public officials that quality is important and an essential strategy for–pick your ending–performance excellence, competitiveness, Read more…
This is really fun! I couldn’t stop laughing while reading Mark Graban blog post about a Twitter game he started few weeks ago. He asked people to come up with jokes about popular bands and songs names, with a little quality-releated change on it. My favorite band is Justin Time-berlake Read more…
Between February 19 and 25 in the U.S, we celebrate the National Engineers Week. Go to ASQ Facebook page, and participate, anwsering questions about engineers, to win one of its popular engineer certification handbook! To all my Software and Systems Engineers, Happy Week colleague! Let me share with all of Read more…
In his February blog post, ASQ CEO Paul Borawski, have proposed to discuss with the Influential Voices group about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers, how we can encourage younger generations to pursue those careers, and how STEM is taught and encouraged in our countries.I’m a System Engineer graduated in Argentina. Back in 1999, I faced the Read more…
January is the month to, look back to the past year, and forward to the coming one.2011 – Last year was one of the best year in my life. I became a mom of a beautiful baby boy, Matias; my life changed forever, and now, happiness as well as worries are in Read more…
