In this webinar, Dr Watson draws together two key themes which are occupying the quality profession at present: Quality 4.0 and Sustainability.
The biosphere is warming, and the water is evaporating and soon the food supply will be shrinking. These are highly predictable systemic effects of the expansion of “Greenhouse Gas” (GHG) in the atmosphere. The situation itself behaves like a “law” that quality professionals typically evaluate with causal thinking.
However, like many causal situations when the conditions become in extremis then the luxury of logical inquiry abates, and the sense of urgency increases as the outcomes become more evident. Root cause analysis should no longer be performed in such a situation – the time is necessary for using predictive analytics to determine action plans that make rapid reversals of the situation. We should not argue if our environment has reached a tipping point or make an effort to set goals that are decades away.
We should not be concerned about “blame casting” for problems that have become evident, we should take an action-oriented approach to change. Yes, the so-called” carbon footprint” of organizations can be calculated, but much more importantly we should work on increasing the “carbon handprint” – the amount of carbon that organizations remove from the environment as well as what they stop contributing to it. Reversal of the environment is required, not a “net zero” type of outcome.
These events are not discrete, calculable events – they are probabilistic with wide bands that define the effects. How can quality professionals learn to interpret the current situation and recommend action based on our knowledge base and approach to harmful situations that beg to be eliminated? Quality can enable a healthier biosphere and it is imperative that we examine the intersection of quality with the sustainability movement to emancipate “HOPE” – the Health Of Planet Earth.
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