Why Industrial Organizations are Failing at Quality and What You Can do to Achieve Winning Results

Quality is at a crossroads. Despite advances in technology and transformation efforts, industrial organizations are grappling with increasing product recalls, inefficiencies, and customer dissatisfaction. Why? Because traditional quality approaches are stuck in the past.

In our Executive Brief eBook, Leaders' Guide to Embedded Quality, we confront these challenges head-on with our latest research and analysis, offering Chief Quality Officers a groundbreaking framework to turn quality into a competitive advantage.

This Executive Brief delivers actionable strategies to help leaders address systemic issues and move beyond compliance to achieve sustained Delivered Quality.

Key Insights You'll Discover: 

• The North Star - Delivered Quality: Learn why it's critical to shift your focus to Delivered Quality—the customer-defined standard of excellence—and how to align your efforts to create meaningful, measurable outcomes.

   

• Building a Comprehensive Quality Strategy: Gain key insights on developing a value-chain-spanning strategy that drives a positive Culture of Quality, aligns with corporate objectives, and integrates advanced Quality 4.0 technologies.

• Solutions and Platforms for Success: Learn how to leverage digital solutions like Quality Data Architectures, Enterprise Quality Management Software, and Connected Workforce Applications to achieve efficiency and collaboration.

   

• The Transformation Multiplier Effect: Understand how embedding quality across the value chain amplifies the impact of broader industrial transformation initiatives.

• Overcoming Barriers to Change: Explore practical approaches to change management, enabling seamless transitions to new processes and mindsets for your workforce.

Why This Report Matters

For decades, quality has been boxed into a compliance-first mindset, often siloed from broader business objectives. As manufacturing has evolved, this outdated approach has left many companies struggling to protect their brand reputation, meet customer expectations, and keep pace with technological advancements.

By redefining quality for the modern age, this Executive Brief emphasizes the need to integrate quality into every facet of the value chain. Focusing on Delivered Quality enables businesses to not only meet but exceed customer expectations, turning quality into a force multiplier for competitive advantage. The insights within reveal how Embedded Quality can shift the perception of quality from a cost center to a profit driver, equipping leaders to earn executive buy-in and scale transformation efforts effectively.

This guide is indispensable for Chief Quality Officers who are ready to lead their organizations into a new era of quality excellence.