Essay by Mike Shesterkin, Exec. Director In last week’s article, we covered the joy I discovered applying science to industrial product development. In this piece, we’ll pick-up the story and dig a bit deeper into my life’s story. Following in the Footsteps When I started work in the paint lab, my career plan – which …
Essay by Mike Shesterkin, Exec. Director In previous articles, we covered ideas having to do with how we go about learning, acquiring knowledge and the critical role science – and in particular, the scientific method – plays in our collective understanding of the world around us. What we’ve been doing is building a solid foundation …
Essay by Mike Shesterkin, Exec. Director In our last article, we took a broad, philosophical swipe at the notion of science, the acquisition of knowledge and how it is these things are, for the most part, shaped by a 17th century view of the cosmos. In this article, we’ll look again at knowledge and what …
Essay by Luke Contos, Principal, Sustainability Systems, LLC I have often thought, how to get others to be more sustainable? Well this may be one idea that I hope you will incorporate in your life!! This started many years ago when I would collect my household hazardous waste and go to the annual County-Wide Hazardous …
Essay by Mike Shesterkin, Exec. Director Happy New Year! Now that we’re back from the holidays, we’ll pick up where we left off in our tour of the world of quality management. In our last article, we established a foundation for why it is Deming thought in terms of continual, rather than continuous improvement. In …
Essay by Mike Shesterkin, Exec. Director This week, our journey in the realm of quality management takes us onto an important side road. Last week, we left off with a brief introduction to Dr. Deming and his seminal position within the history of quality management. We’ll come back to Dr. Deming time and again on …
Essay by Mike Shesterkin, Exec. Director This week, we’ll pick up where we left off in our journey through what the International Standards Organization (ISO) calls “Quality Management”. In this article, we touch upon what’s happened since the 1987 issuance of the ISO9001 standard and how these changes are reflective of the notion of “continual …
Op-Ed Essay by Mike Shesterkin, Exec. Dir. SMSBF Now that we’re fully into the “Holiday Season” – that time stretching from Halloween to New Years – and considering this is the last edition of this publication for 2020, I thought it would be worth reflecting on something that is central to the history of Westernized …
Monica Plawecki, SMSBF Staff Writer As the end of 2020 quickly approaches, many of us are looking forward to the New Year and the potential for a “fresh start,” politically speaking. With a COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon, a new Presidential administration assuming office–and with it, an expected shift toward more progressive, socially just, and …
Essay by: Mike Shesterkin, Exec. Director In this week’s article, we’ll continue our exploration of the business as a system and what we can learn along the way from the International Standards Organization (ISO). In last week’s article, we established a fundamental understanding of quality as having to do with the gap between what’s expected …
