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QUALITY and the ECONOMY
As mentioned in the previous newsletters, each month a board officer or committee chair will provide a topic of interest to the members of the section. This month it is my turn...
I am Jerome Lofton and I am currently the Chair-Elect for the section.
Given the current global turmoil regarding the economy, I chose this as my topic, not from a perspective of "profound knowledge", but as a subject to probe its inner workings; "our" impact on it; and to provoke thought... To that end, I have titled my topic "QUALITY and the ECONOMY".
Wikipedia defines the economy as follows: "An economy is the realized social system of production, exchange, distribution, and consumption of goods and services of a country or other area. A given economy is the end result of a process that involves its technological evolution, civilization's history and social organization, as well as its geography, resource endowment, and ecology, among other factors. These factors give context, content, and set the conditions and parameters in which an economy functions." (1)
How do we, as quality professionals, ASQ members and US industry participants, impact this?
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