{"id":1694,"date":"2017-04-05T21:33:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T21:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proqc.com\/blog\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2023-09-19T13:09:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T13:09:12","slug":"too-much-quality-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proqc.com\/blog\/too-much-quality-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Too much quality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wichita&#8217;s NPR station recently focused an OnWords <a href=\"http:\/\/kmuw.org\/post\/onwords-quality\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow noindex\">piece related to quality. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Consider the following:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You can usually tell that an organization has stopped caring about quality when it becomes the only thing they talk about.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As quality professionals, we revel in the fact that organizations might be talking too much about quality. 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Of course we know there is, but most quality engineers are going to revert to Deming:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In god we trust, all others bring data.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The last comment in this piece is compelling though:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;So if it seems like a quality improvement plan has pulled all the passion out of your product, perhaps you should go back and ask what quality means for the product you sell.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is noted as consistent with the Plan &gt; Do &gt; Check &lt; Act (PDCA) cycle and sums up the nature of continuous improvement nicely.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement and success have no meaning.&#8221; ~Benjamin Franklin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wichita&#8217;s NPR station recently focused an OnWords piece related to quality. 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