Remember Peter Merrill, ASQ & ISO Innovation Professional

A very sad news received from Peter Merrill’s LinkedIn that Mr. Peter Merril passed away on 5 Jan 2025. On behalf of the Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ), I would like to express my deepest condolences to Peter Merrill's family, friends and colleagues. It is very pity that we missed Global Innovation Guru in the world. When I first met Peter Merrill was in ASQ Fellow Lunch 2016 and then I attended his talk named “Self-Managed Team build an Innovation Culture” in ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement (WCQI) 2016.

I brought his books named “Innovation Never Stop” and “Do It Right The Second Time”. After that I used it as one of key elements in my innovation course for introducing innovation culture in universities.

In 2020, it was still in COVID period, I attended Peter Merrill’s Webinar entitled “ISO 56000 – Build innovation into your organization”.

Moreover, Peter Merrill was one of guest speakers for ISO Webinar on ISO 56001 and the Framework for Auditors for CB members on justification for ISO17021-x for IMS was held on 10^th July 2024.

ISO TC 279 LinkedIn posted that Peter Merrill was one of ISO Excellence Awardees during the celebration of the international launch of ISO56001 in Lima – Peru on 17^th Oct 2024. 

Peter Merrill was one of guru affected my Innovation journey. I remembered that he gave me advice when ASQ asked experts to join ISO TC 279. He told me that it needed to inform local government for nomination. Then I forwarded ASQ invitation letter to ITC, HKSAR and then they nominated me as the 1^st and only one Hong Kong observer in ISO TC 279 Innovation Management. I also quoted his contribution in my talk for HKSQ Quality Month Seminar entitled “Background and Requirements of ISO 56001 Innovation Management System”.

Remember Mr. Peter Merrill’s contribution on innovation management in ISO TC 279. RIP.

Reference:

Peter Merrill LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-merrill-b321768/

ISO Excellence Awards 2024 - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/iso-tc-279-innovation-management_iso56001-activity-7259852863277871104-ue_X?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Message from Irene C. Makar - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7288543797465006080/

Message from Hiro Nishiguchi - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hiro-nishiguchi-6b2816b7_iso56001-activity-7286723055039528961-pBU4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Message from Rick Fernandez - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rick-fernandez-b66a123_my-deepest-condolences-to-peter-merrills-activity-7285317620742897664-sS9E/

20160515: ASQ Fellow Lunch 2016 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2016/05/asq-fellow-lunch-2016.html

20160518: ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement (WCQI) 2016 – Day 3 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2016/05/asq-world-conference-on-quality-and_18.html

20160916: My Innovation Journey - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2016/09/my-innovation-journey.html

20200728: Peter Merrill Webinar – ISO 56000 – Build innovation into your organization - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/07/peter-merrill-webinar-iso-56000-build.html

20240715: ISO Webinar on ISO 56001 and the Framework for Auditors - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/07/iso-webinar-on-iso-56001-and-framework.html

20241119: HKSQ Quality Month Seminar - “Background and Requirements of ISO 56001 Innovation Management System” - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/11/hksq-quality-month-seminar-background.html