Archive for the ‘critical thinking’ Category


Sustainability and Critical Thinking

Sustainability To thrive in the current and future economy, an organization must be able to embrace innovation within their business culture. Successful organisations must tap into their imagination, knowledge and experience and continually re-invent their core business processes in order to achieve long term sustainability. Organisations with a systemic innovation capability will find new business [...]

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21st Century Quality Part 6: Actual and Potential Field Failures

In the TS 16949 standard there is a requirement to control actual and potential field failures.  As can be found in a number of quality standard requirements there are some weird and wonderful interpretations of this requirement.  The explanation provided to TS auditors by the IATF is clear, logical and applicable not only to automotive [...]

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Five Strategies Used to Influence our Thinking

Every day in every way people try to influence our thinking.  Here are 5 ways that people try to get us to comply with their wishes through the arguments that they make.  Critical thought about these statements can help avoid poor decisions.

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Critical Thinking – Part Three: The Elements of Critical Thinking.

There are nine elements that can have significant effects on our thinking and our actions. Purpose and Goal – There is always some goal or objective to our reasoning. If the goal is unclear, unrealistic, or confused in some way, the reasoning used to achieve it will be problematic. If our employees are unclear on [...]

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Critical Thinking Part 2:Training Employees to Think Critically

Every minute of every day your employees are exposed to ideas, suggestions, instructions, opinions and out and out fabrications. The decisions that they make based upon this information effects the quality of your products, the productivity of your organization and arguably, your bottom line.

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