Sunil Kaushik – The world is too small? or Is it?

Welcome to June 2015 edition of Carnival of Quality Management Articles and Blogs.

The search for “Improving measures of measurement of process” took us to the first building block -‘performance measures and metrics’. We now take one more step forward and look for some basics to the ‘structuring for the process of improvement’.

Processes, Products & Services – The European Foundation for Quality Management, EFQM, as a first step in their holistic Excellence Model proposes to structure the improvement efforts by taking a Process view of the world rather than the more traditional view.

Providing structure to continuous process improvement – Khwaja Moinuddin – identifies Value Stream Mapping, Six Sigma DMAIC, Lean Methodology and organizational structuring as some of the ways to provide structure to continuous improvement methodologies.

Business Process Improvement Process hierarchy — Business Process Improvement Process Hierarchy

Structure for success with business process improvement – Jeff Fielding – identifies effective project management and change management as the base for managing the process of improvement. He further identifies some key organizational roles like Project Management Team, Process Owner, Process Improvement Team, Project Leader, Field Test Groups that can play the key role.

Driving business process excellence: structure initiatives to get quick results – Dave Bhattacharya – a well-structured framework can dramatically increase success of strategic initiatives – the proper framework has built in components to identify the proper project methodology and has accounted for change and project management.

Applying the DMAIC Steps to Process Improvement Projects – Harry Rever – provides a detailed application of DMAIC steps, as a basic structure for the process improvement projects.

Obviously, there would be no ONE way of structuring for the process of improvement, suffice it to say that in order to be sustainable, process of improvement must be flexibly structured so as to be scaled up (or down) to the needs of the circumstances.

We would continue our journey of the process of improvement for a few more months.

In the meanwhile, in the second part, we have Samir Chougle’s Blog, Maverick SAM, from among the Influential Voices Blogroll Alumni. Samir Chougle is a bookworm. This is what his present list is:

• The Godfather by Mario Puzo

• Quality Management in Construction Projects by Abdul Razzak Rumane

• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman

• The Great Indian Dream by Arindam Chaudhuri Malay Chaudhuri

• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

We turn to our regular sections now:

Bill Troy, ASQ CEO has presented guest post of Sunil Kaushik – our ASQ’s Influential Voice for the month: How Lean Helped Me Travel To Egypt With Just $500

Julia McIntosh, ASQ communications in ‘Roundup: How Should the Quality Field Prepare For the Future?’ many of the ASQ Influential Voices bloggers, in their responses share their views about how quality professionals will need to prepare for the future—and the past. The basis for the discussion is ASQ’s 2015 Future of Quality research report. ASQ has been preparing this report since 2006. This year’s report is a departure from the norm. The experts and authors beyond the quality community have compiled the major forces that will impact global priorities—and how the quality world will need to respond.

We then move over to ASQ TV Episodes: Introducing Quality Into Your Workplace – Not everyone in your workplace will be well-versed on quality methods and principals. This episode offers some ideas on getting quality novices in your organization familiar with basic concepts, including explaining how the absence of quality can have a major impact.

Related videos:

• Durham

• The ASQ Audit Division site

Our ASQ’s Influential Voice for the month is – Sunil Kaushik

Sunil Kaushik is a certified ASQ-SSBB, PMP, and SPSM with more than a decade of experience in project and quality management with Fortune 100 companies. He provides training on quality management at schools, universities, and corporations using innovative methods such as origami and food tasting. His next project is a round-the-world bicycle tour with a mission to train as many schools and universities on quality along the way as possible while explore high-quality street food across the globe. His blog is Train and Trot.