The ‘Loose Brick’ concept is well known in Japan but virtually unheard of in the West. It is a key element in the Risk Management Element in ‘Hoshin Kanri’ (Reference David Hutchins Book) The over all objective of Hoshin Kanri is to create an organisation in which everyone from the top to the bottom is working
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‘Hoshin Kanri’ (Reference David Hutchins Book) is a Japanese term that has no direct translation into English. There three key elements but each element breaks down into multiple sub elements Many ‘would be’ experts attempt to create trite simple models but there is nothing simple about Hoshin Kanri, why? Because it represents a model that
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It cannot be defined in the abstract although many have attempted it. There are multiple ‘official’ definitions that have been published by a variety of both national and international professional bodies and their respective gurus connected with these bodies. Such definitions find favour for a while until they are superseded by yet another ‘definition’ which
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April 21st 2021, David Hutchins has been presented with the Lifetime Outstanding Contribution Award by the International Lean Six Sigma Institute. Announcing the award last week, the ILSSi said, “ILSSI is honoured to be able to present this award to David Hutchins for over 60 years of service to the advancement of Quality Management. David
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1979 was a long time ago which is when the conference illustrated took place. Since then, Quality Circles in the West generally have had a long and bumpy history. Where they have been implemented properly, they delivered everything that could have been expected of them. Sadly, such cases were very much in the minority. The main
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Before agreeing to testing either for evidence of current infection, or to check if the subject had antibodies, the UK Government insisted that the tests selected must produce 100% results. It is claimed that this has been achieved which is good news. However, it is only part of the problem. The tests might be perfect but
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David Hutchins Innovation is delighted to announce the winner of the ‘Student of the Year Award 2019’. Selected from a strong pool of candidates, David Couldrey, Technical Director at Wicks Manor is currently studying the Diploma in Quality Leadership. DHI Chairman and Principal, David Hutchins said ‘David has shown hard work and dedication throughout, he
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November 2019. DHI are delighted to announce that DHI’s Founder and Principal was awarded with the ‘CQI Honorary Award’ at the International Quality Awards, hosted by the Charted Quality Institute (CQI) at London’s Connaught Rooms. The International Quality Awards celebrates excellence in the quality sector. Judged via a rigorous evidence-based process, these awards acknowledge the
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November 27th 2019, children from 90 schools – India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Thailand came together at the ICSQC 2019, Lucknow to work on projects for social change using Quality Circles. Plastic reduction, stress management, reliance on social media were just some of the topics the children addressed and clearly are issues which
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