About Duke
Duke is a knowledge architect specializing in quality management. He has been in private practice since 1985 working with organizations in the U.S., Aruba, Bermuda, Canada, England, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands, South Korea
He has been elected Fellow of the American Society for Quality and is certified by ASQ as a manager of quality/organizational excellence, quality engineer and quality auditor. He has taught review courses for ASQ’s CMQ/OE, CQA, CQT
Duke holds undergraduate degrees in technology and business, a masters degree in adult education, and has completed doctoral coursework in applied management and decision sciences. He has served as an adjunct university faculty member teaching statistics and management research. He is also a graduate of the international program in the Gestalt approach to organization and system development.
He is the author of three books, Root Cause Analysis: The Core of Problem Solving and Corrective Action and Performance Metrics: The Levers for Process Management, and Musings on Internal Quality Audits: Having a Greater Impact, co-editor of The Certified Quality Manager Handbook (2nd ed.), and has written numerous articles for publications such as Quality Progress, Quality World, Business Improvement Journal, APICS-The Performance Advantage, Manufacturing Engineering, The Auditor, and Quality Management Forum.
He is a frequent speaker for professional and trade audiences at the local, regional, national and international levels, including AEM, AISC, APICS, ASQ, ASTD, AITP, AOQ, IIA,
Duke’s LinkedIn Profile
See a video of Duke in action as well as some client testimonials.
Duke in the news:
Anniversary of 26/11
Book signing at 2010 ASQ World Conference
Musings: My Blog
A Process for Lack of Quality
If your organization screws up so often that you actually advertise that you will (sort of) fix it, you have a serious problem. See Domino's "Delivery Insurance" They're promoting it like it's a great feature (as compared to fixing potholes).
Who Else Should They Listen To???
I loved (that's a joke) BMW's comments in this article about the big grille: https://www.autoblog.com/2019/12/17/bmw-defends-big-grille/ I'm thinking that yes, people who buy the vehicles probably are ok with the grille. But what about all the people who DON"T buy a...
The Complexity of Finding Root Causes
You just can't not learn if you listen to Richard Feynman: z6dRcL$g$L.yyYa45
Great Keynote by Human Error Guru
Sidney Dekker is thought of as one of the top gurus relative to human error. Here's a worthwhile video of one of his presentations. Although it's safety-focused, it's just as applicable to quality errors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E-YN6hD1WU
(Trying to) Understand Human Behavior
Here's a lecture that provides a great view of why human behavior is so complex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bnSY4L3V8s Unfortunately he doesn't take it further with recommendations on how to move people from the Us to the Them view.
Normality in SPC
I've never been one to worry too much about normality of data. Here's a tremendous article explaining why it isn't particularly important for control charts. https://www.qualitydigest.com/inside/statistics-column/normality-myth-090819.html
Interesting Perspective on Risk-Based Auditing
Although likely intended for financial auditors, a lot of the advice is also relevant for quality auditors. https://internalaudit360.com/conducting-risk-assessments-the-total-quality-auditing-way/
Articles on Analytics for Auditors
I've done webinars and written articles on how analytics could be used by quality auditors. Here are a couple of good articles giving more detail, albeit related to financial or IT audits. However, the concepts and techniques are applicable in any field where there...
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