Hey Ron:

 

I have read the book and learned a lot about the concepts of inherent quality and value. Your book, Inherent Quality Simplicity, speaks to the ideas that allow us all to understand the fundamental nature and evolution of quality. The techniques and suggestions to embrace and evolve quality throughout our personal lives and our business practices are fixed between the covers. Respect, individual value, promotion of building quality as part of a mindset, and instilling this mindset into daily activity are all great takeaways from the read.

 

Keith White

Manager Business Solutions

College of the North Atlantic

Ideally each person around the world can give positive energy, show all respect, and be helpful to others (perhaps as part of the Pay It Forward Movement, or in relation to the Pay It Forward Foundation). Thank you for doing so and for trying to help make the world a better place with increasingly greater forms of happiness, love, peace (value) and joy (quality). Perhaps your efforts will help the real world be even better than a movie and goodness will live on forever to more so enable new dimensions of sustained greatness for all. Perhaps your efforts will more so enable the intrinsic and pervasive value of end to end trust and related quality collaborations. Perhaps attending this RSA keynote will help... Moving Towards 'End to End' Trust: A Collaborative Effort (indented is an excerpt from the RSA site).

Scott Charney serves as Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing, Engineering Excellence, and Environmental Sustainability. Trustworthy Computing (TwC) is Microsoft’s effort to help ensure a secure, private and reliable experience for computer users. This includes working with business groups throughout the company to ensure their products and services adhere to Microsoft’s security and privacy policies, as well as engaging with governments, industry partners, and computer users on important security and privacy issues such as critical infrastructure protection, software assurance, and identity management.

Imagine a more trusted, privacy enhanced Internet experience where devices and software enable people to make more effective choices and take control over who, and what, to trust online. To achieve this vision, the industry must come together to enable technological innovation, evolve global public policy, and foster societal shifts around the issues of privacy and security. Join Scott Charney, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Trustworthy Computing, to hear more about advances towards a state of ‘End to End Trust’.

 

The greatest improvements typically are radical and require paradigm shifts. While the latter typically does not occur overnight, sharing early a few aspects of related notions and possibilities can help enable them or positive steps and patterns towards them, and towards further opening minds in the direction of new dimensions of progressive excellence.

 

Between now and perfect vision leap year 2020 open minds and enable paradigm shifts that help to progressively make things better. Thank you for doing so.

Congratulations to an inherent quality of the IT profession, CIPS Past President Stephen Ibaraki.

It has been expressed that information is the seed for an idea and that information is the source of learning. It has also been said that information must be organized, processed and made available to the right people in a format that supports decision making in order to be a benefit. Applying this thinking to words once expressed by Watts S. Humphrey (if you want a high-quality software system, you must ensure each of its parts is of high quality) ideally all interconnected with software, technology and information can increasingly help ensure continually higher degrees of inherent quality from various perspectives related to software, information, technology and public good.

Knowledge is intrinsically gained and pervasively powerful when information is innovatively shared and collectively matured — Ron Richard

Start your blog on IT Knowledge Exchange. Perhaps say you got the idea to do so from IQS101 or VIIP.

Have played a prior Tigers Woods PGA Tour version and thought it was decent. Unaffiliated with the game, and yet to try the new version, perhaps the newest version has even more inherent quality... more here: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 Review (PS3).

The big story around games or gamers however may be "Xbox and Rock the Vote to Give Voters a New Platform for Change: First-of-its-kind partnership". This post takes no credit for the related idea however applauds appealing to the intelligence of all, including talented gamers.

Sharing awareness of a new article by SearchSecurity.Com's Executive Editor Dennis Fisher entitled Google Chrome unlikely to attract security-minded users. Wonder what percentage of the Internet population that is or will become.

What do you inherently value most about your favorite browser?

If the title of this post caught your eye, you may like to dip into the Think Tank on Internet Evolution. Ideally something within helps you increasingly improve quality intrinsically and pervasively.

Simply sharing awareness... story here (SearchSecurity.Com). Perhaps for the sake of business and IT pros, and the general public, the enhancements will help improve the inherent quality of a popular and fairly decent Internet browser.

Dark Knight is a very good movie with an interesting ending. Its inherent qualities make it worth seeing. The next in the series will surely also please; and with apparently over $400 million made in just 18 days, the next in the series should be well worth creating. On a different note, and in relation to the second part of the title of this post, something else that may be worth seeing may be videos associated with Black Hat. Feel free to share something related if you found interesting (e.g. perhaps something about Hacking). This post takes no credit for Dark Knight or Black Hat, however does appreciate that both surely have innate characteristics intended to ensure quality and value. IQS101 does as well, for example a good person as Friend (be sure to visit his site). 

This post draws from the original manuscript that was completed in 2006 after more than a decade of research (IQ10125; an 8.5x11 437 page document). Page 306 of the manuscript mentioned that in 2006 the CQO of AECL (Atomic Energy of Canada Limited) also held a seat on the NQI Board of Governors. Do you have a CQO in your organization and are they active within the industry in some manner outside of your organization? Are they helping to extend quality intrinsically within your organization and pervasively from various worldview perspectives? Ideally you do, and ideally in someway they are. Drawing further from the manuscript (this time in and around pages near 316), increasingly "quality" is being embedded from various perspectives, including within responsibilities and titles. Looking back on a Quality Digest article written many years ago by A. Blanton Godfrey, who then was chairman and CEO of Juran Institute, it is perhaps understandable why. The noted article was directed at challenges associated with the CQO role. However the article can easily be applied to any present time senior quality role. In the article Godfrey reported that the role of the quality director had and continued to dramatically change. This is still true in 2008. Godfrey believed as a result of related challenges that quality management jobs had become some of the least desired positions. This may or may not be true today in your organization but the points Godfrey wrote about are perhaps worth internalizing to help ensure such positions are better defined and understood so senior quality roles have potential for greater levels of success. Godfrey noted that while in several organizations the job had quickly evolved to chief quality officer, it was generally considered easier to create the title than to find someone who could actually do the job. Drawing some conclusions (and using Godfrey’s article as input) it may be said reasons for this may have revolved around regular turn-over within quality roles due to such factors as the:

• Time required for establishing a quality foundation, critical mass and cultural shift within organizations and industries (e.g., quality, software and information technology, and other industries)
• Expectations that the senior quality resource would have the equivalent low-level skills typically found in many varied specialists
• Evolutionary attempts to mature the quality industry and profession, concurrent with establishing and maturing organizational quality programs and tools, concurrent with attempts to mature other industries, tools and professions (including the software and information technology industry, tools and related global IT profession and professional specialties).

Even in 2008, despite challenges, the quality movement is strong. In fact more than ever before it is more intrinsically and pervasively evident, and needed. Does your CEO have the time and knowledge to do what a CQO would? Has the role of the CIO become highly important, challenging and complex? Could your C-level suite use a hand ensuring within their respective areas of responsibility that quality assurance, control, improvement and management are increasingly embedded, or innately increasingly occurring? There are a million reasons and then some for you to be a CQO and for you to support the CIO and other C-levels. If you are someone who works hard to provide support to the CIO and other C-levels you may be interested in reading this.

In today's world it is important to enable and embrace change while ensuring both managed consistency and managed improvement. It is important to appoint a senior quality resource, and from there to detail plans for positive collaboration, knowledge building, knowledge transfer and continual improvement. For organizations that do this, and therefore that ensure their senior quality resource is supported through positive collaboration with the collective skills of the organization, these are truly exciting times!

Build on the strengths of your organization, and embed a positive mindset and role for helping evolve quality, value, excellence and simplicity to be increasingly more intrinsic and pervasive. Thank you for doing so.

This post simply shares awareness of something in the blogosphere that you might like to read and comment on, Fixing the Internet Traffic Jam (presented by Internet Evolution in two parts, the related inherent qualities of the Internet that are associated with the pieces are noted below with links to the related posts):

1. by Larry Roberts
2. by Vint Cerf.

Taking no credit, simply sharing awareness. Have a nice day.

While this post takes no credit, it does share awareness of a few web pages whose inherent quality may be helping to make a positive difference by sharing awareness, uniting people and providing incentive for public good. See the difference people made in '08; and perhaps register for this year's Earth Hour.  For an interesting piece on G8 countries, and a need to step it up, click here. And lastly for today, you may also be interested in looking into The Simpler is Smarter Contest.

International Professional Practice Partnership (IP3) Chair Charles Hughes lunches with Bill Gates. Story Here.

A: IBM Roadrunner. More detail here ... imagine the power associated with the Cloud in years to come.

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