Leadership
Nothing is more important than leadership, fully aware of their responsibilities associated with the required compliance and effectiveness Quality System, and actively engaged. Effective leadership is what makes an organization successful in fulfilling its mission. Leadership is the catalyst that makes all of the components within an organization to work together; without effective leadership, business resources are not fully utilized. and the organization struggles to simply keep up. Without effective leadership, organizations move too slowly, and lose eventually their competitive edge as they struggle to keep up in an ever changing world. The effects of strong leadership upon an organization cannot be emphasized enough.
In a previous publication of mine, Management Control Quality Plan, I stated the following:
Strategy is about shaping the future and is truly the heart of leadership. By definition, strategy means constantly improving your position. If a company wants to thrive in today’s regulatory environment, the quality management system (QMS) needs to be an integral part of the strategic solution. A strategic QMS plan can provide an advantage only if it is holistic in design yet simple in execution while based upon a core set of intelligent strategic maxims.
That publication provided a strategic approach, in essence, for structuring the Quality System for management control over everyday work of the organization and utilizing it for identification of targeted improvement activity for whatever is constraining the enterprise. In other words, operating within an environment of continual improvement.
This book differs in that it offers a strategic approach that enables leaders to first improve management control over the Quality System and strategically address high concern issues in a logical manner. Once management control is improved, transformative efforts of self identified issues can then be more predictably achieved. This then leads to a Quality System that operates within an environment of continual improvement as described in the previous publication, Management Control Quality Plan. The first publication provided the strategic concept, this publication defines the associated strategic plan and its execution. Utilizing such a plan will provide for effective leadership in remediating and transforming your Quality System into a strong Quality Management System.