Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Quality Digest (magazine)
Electronic publication about quality management From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Quality Digest (abbreviated as QD) is an online news publication and a former monthly print magazine covering quality management subjects.[1] The content is divided between quality control, metrology,[2] compliance, Six Sigma,[3][4] and ISO standards and certifications.
 | This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments, a violation of Wikipedia's terms of use. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. (January 2023) |
Remove ads
History
Known as Quality Circle Digest from 1981 to 1987,[5] QD started as a print magazine by Donald Dewar as a part of the Quality Circle Institute (later also known as QCI International) that he had founded.[6] During the same year that Dewar started QCI, he started touring the United States teaching the principles of quality circles and participative management while promoting the newly launched magazine to American businesses. The first issue was published in 1981.[1][7] By 1989, the total circulation for Quality Digest magazine reached seventy thousand.[1]
Remove ads
Content
QD publishes writing by experts in the quality management fields, particularly articles about emerging quality initiatives and the quality circle.[8] Pete Robustelli, John Guaspari, H. James Harrington, and Donald J. Wheeler[9] are among those whose work appeared in the publication.
Criticism
When ISO 9000-based standards became a focus for American businesses during the 1990s, Quality Digest was criticized for containing an abundance of ads for services offered by organizations engaged in the business of the ISO certification process.[10]
See also
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads