Care-is-Cure

Mr Foolhardy slips over a banana peel. After a few steps he falls again over another banana peel. He gets up and starts walking. On seeing third banana peel he says: "Oh-My-God, now I have to fall again!!!" .... Like Foolhardy, some do love 'falling' followed by getting 'cured' reactively 'again-n-again' than taking preventive 'care'. What should the case really be?

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Wednesday, 22 July 2020

Cost-of-Quality: COQ is a relative term!

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Components of the Cost-of-Quality in Kaizen parlance are as follows. 1/ Costs of external-failures incurred due to failures at cust...

Friday, 17 July 2020

Appraisal or Prevention! What's better?

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In-process inspection inside a company is typically a 'cost of appraisal' for the company. Is the same true for a supplier, f...

Saturday, 23 August 2014

Judge If It's Paralysis-By-Analysis

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A mother instructs her child not to run too fast, not to run outside the given track in the garden, not to run without sports shoes, etc. et...

Thursday, 14 August 2014

Do You Force Customers To Quit

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Insurance policy of both my car and scooter was about to expire. I'd sold off the scooter. So when my insurance agent called me to rene...

Sunday, 16 February 2014

One-Is-Better for JIT

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In response to an interview on style-tricks, an actress said: Focus on just one body part and show it off. Whatever may be the message...

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Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Prevention: The Best Cure! ... Is it really so?

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Can cigarette butts start (bush) fire s? A study at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) provided solid proof. The laboratory tria...

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