ASQ InfVoices – Global Quality, Great Quality

The topic of ASQ Influence Voices in February 2015 was “Why Should Quality “Go Global”?” Mr. Bill Troy (CEO, ASQ) asked questions that ASQ’s mission statement talks about increasing the use and impact of quality in response to the diverse needs of the world? Are we doing enough, throughout the world, to accomplish that mission?

Globalization has identified as one of key forces in ASQ Future of Quality studies and then it ranked top three key forces in 2005 (No. 1), 2008 (No. 1) and 2011 (No. 3), respectively. In 2013, I proposed “Asiaization (亞洲化)” would be one of key forces based on different Asia countries GDP analysis. Globalization is a big set, Asiaization is a sub-set and Localization is an element. Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) has been recognized as a WorldPartner of the ASQ since 2002 and HKSQ is also a founding member of Asian Network for Quality (ANQ) which established in 2002. HKSQ has through ASQ and ANQ platform to connect the world quality professional for sharing quality knowledge and experience.

The following diagram demonstrated HKSQ strategy that “Serve Locally, Think Globally”. Per Bill’s comment that “We know we must attract more young professionals to quality, and to an ever-increasing degree, demographics tell us those young professionals will come from outside the U.S.” I agreed to attract more young quality professionals from outside. However, we need to Serve Locally first based on our limited resource and Think Globally afterwards such as invited global experts/professionals for exchanging quality new technology and knowledge.

Finally, I would like to conclude that Quality is common language in the world. Quality itself is Global and let’ call it “Global Quality (GQ)”. GQ also means Great Q > Big Q > Little Q!

Reference:
A View from the Q - http://asq.org/blog/
20130929: Asiaization is the Future of Quality - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2013/09/asiaization-is-future-of-quality.html