COMPANIES WHO SUCCESSFULLY DO SO CAN MAXIMIZE PROFITS.
January 1, 2015
In their haste to improve bottom-line performance, companies often forget to integrate two important planning activities—strategic and quality planning.
Quality cops and the quality patrol. These are just two of the many names quality managers and technicians have been called over the past 70-plus years.
In “Only the Paranoid Survive,” Andrew Grove, the former CEO of Intel, discusses “strategic inflection points”—times when an industry’s fundamentals change significantly. Many businesses do not survive them.
1903 was a big year. The Wright Brothers took to the skies, the Ford Motor Company got on the road, and a young William Boeing left Yale and headed to the West Coast.