Quality, experience and professionalism: QiS
As readers of this blog know, I am very interested in the matter of quality relating to small businesses. I have been giving the proposed Quality is Standard (QiS) ‘Seal of Quality’ network a great deal of thought. There seems…
New year resolutions
So now it’s back to work after a really relaxing and enjoyable few weeks. The snow is lying deep and beautiful, a great start to 2010. I try not to make too many new year promises to myself – the…
Courses – basic requirements
I recently decided to treat myself to a course in botanical drawing. I have been drawing and painting plants for many years, but just like work, updating one’s hobby skills is never a waste of time. I had two aims…
Word of mouth advertising – good or detrimental?
I am a member of the Linked-in Business-Intelligence group and find it most useful. I particularly like Jared Matthew Kessler’s blog entries, they are always thought-provoking and to the point. His recent blog post As someone who is involved in…
Gap Analysis
I’m spending spare moments doing desk research on quality systems for micro enterprises, but I’m easily sidetracked. So when I read that gap analysis could be a valuable tool, I naturally had to find out more about this method of…
Business Intelligence
I recently joined Linked-In’s Business Intelligence Group and found some interesting reading. If you are interested in Business Intelligence (also known as competitive intelligence) have a look at Deepak Seth’s blog. He is writing a series on BI and they…
Quality, standards and blogs – and Icerocket
I read about the Icerocket search engine in Phil Bradley’s column in Update. (March 2009). The default for this search engine is blog searching, and I am keen to follow recent trends in the area of Quality – and where…
Collaboration and growth + Quality
Catching up on my reading I came across an article in ErhvervsBladet (20.01.09) written by Jon Arskog which extols Abelone’s idea of collaborating with potential competitors in order to handle bigger projects. (It seems to have taken the rest of…