Tag: quality
From Quality Revolutions to Design Thinking: Where Did All the Productivity Go?
Back when I was researching for my book, 'Design the Future', that simplifies design thinking for businesses and curious individuals, I noticed something striking. The popular 5-step Stanford design thinking model closely mirrors DMAIC, a…
Customer Feedback, Ratings and Reviews
Here in India, we citizens as consumers don't quite take customer feedback as seriously yet, as they do in some other countries. In my first job for a short stint at a BPO in Bangalore,…
The Next Educational Diversion from our normal human behaviour
In my book, I briefly discussed the topic of quality in the world of innovation and automation. My view was that through the quality revolution in the US and Japan and then other parts of…
Creating and Understanding Customer Feedback
A waffles order packaging (doesn't it look like a Viking head?) Creating and Understanding Customer Feedback If you've ever ordered waffles online, most likely they'll come in one of two kinds of packaging. One is…
Form or Function?
Form or Function? How about Form and Function? The eternal fight between form and function. Between show and effectiveness. Between being followed by a herd with questionable loyalty, and walking with a small group with…
Far From Perfect
Far From Perfect We recently ordered a table for home. A small and fairly simple design, with a Rosewood coloured Melamine polish coating. However, to make the base stable, the people from the store turned…