IAQ General Meeting 2022 – Day 2 (Online & Onsite)

The IAQ General Meeting 2022 was held online & onsite on 18-19 May 2022 (at 4:00am & 11:00pm in HK time zone on 19 May). In Day 2, Acn. Elizabeth Keim (Chair) gave welcome speech in the beginning. 

The first guest speaker was Vivek Talwar and his topic named “The compelling need for Quality to move into the next level by becoming a champion of Sustainability”. Firstly, Mr. Talwar mentioned climate change and its impacts. He suggested that we need to refine/redefine our strategies on sustainability.

Then he explained different directions on sustainable development including environmental, economic and social dimension.  He suggested the use of quality initiatives to achieve improvements and ensure a strong foundation of sustainability. 

 

After that Mr. Talwar stated that leader usually defined the reason of existence of the enterprise and sustainability focused in enterprise strategy and quality focused in operation. Mr. Talwar said ideally quality covers this entire spectrum.

Finally, he concluded the tenets of quality for designing and delivering on World-class programs for all key stakeholders through the sustainability journey. For instance, create awareness in the quality ecosystem, transforming the role of quality embracing sustainability and come up with something like “Seven QS tools”. 

Then Prof. Kano gave comments that the presentation reminded him 50 years ago. In 1969, the first ICQC conference was held and for establishing IAQ. We were talking about quality is not only by inspection, but by process and by production. We had no idea at that time. Similarly, sustainability is different subjects we talk about that related to quality in society but how we can govern it. It is not only for organization but society governance. So how can quality professional work for it.

Next section is Acn. Narayanan Ramanathan to present Examining Committee Report including new members admitted and transition from associate to academician.

And then he briefed the committee duties and rules, as well as, some comments by committee members.

After that new member introduction and presentation section performed. 

Kim Stansfield is first new member presented his quality journey including QM and Systems Engineering pathway. Moreover, he distributed video link for his presentation details.

He concluded that systems thinking is foundation and modern QFD is the bridge between customer and business needs.

Anders Fundin is the second new member for self-introduction. His research focused on quality and sustainability.

Erika Leonardi is the third new member. She is quality training consultant and writer. Her slogan is “Method and Passion”.

The next session is “Reports on Healthcare and UN Global Compact work” by Bob King. He discussed what tools could be employed for 150 countries for healthcare innovation, especially on complex supply chain we faced now.

Acn. Willy Vandenbrande reported the IAQ Quality Sustainability Award. The purpose of the award is to identify and share good examples of how quality management principles, methods and tools have been used to develop more sustainable solutions and offerings while also reducing waste and optimizing the use of resources. The award 2022 started to be applied from 1^st Jun 2022.

The session before lunch was “Think Tank Reports” chaired by Acn. Lars Sorqvist. 

Acn. Raúl Molteni (chair of QiGTT) presented Quality in Governance Think Tank (QiGTT) 2022 guidelines 

He also briefed timeline of quality contributions to corporate governance.

Acn. Glenn Mazur introduced a new think tank named “Voice of Customer Think Tank”. VOC vision 2024 and user dimensions from level 1 to 3 were described.

The framework is based on SIPOC and also employed 5W1H for user scenarios.

Acn. Miroslav Drljaca presented the Quality in Logistics Think Tank (QiLTT) was established since Aug 2021.  QiLTT offered an alternative approach to understanding global phenomena such as logistics, for the future development.

Acn. Matthew Barsalou (Vice-chair, QiETT) introduced the mission and vision in the beginning. And then he reported the activities of Quality in Education Think Tank (QiETT). There were 14 white papers published and target to 17 white papers by end of 2023. 

Acn. Lars Sorqvist gave closing remark in think tank session and he said “Think Tanks offers a great way to fulfil the purpose of IAQ and at the same time develop a more active Academy!”

(Remark: Since it is over 3:00am in HK timezone, I left the meeting and missing the following session after lunch break.) 

Acn. Beth Cudney reported Secretary/Treasurer Report

New member introduction and presentation section: 

Rey Fremista, Joe DeFeo, Pat La Londe and Nicole Radziwill.

Nicole Radziwill presented her quality journey through video link that distributed to IAQ member. 

Her future plan by 2030 focused on data management, data engineering and data science that would be driven by quality.

Announcement: Call for Papers for the 20^th ANQ Congress 2022 Beijing, China 24-27 October, 2022

Closing remark by Acn. Elizabeth Keim

End of Day 2.

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