Is your quality and continuous improvement culture excellent?

Ten questions to find the Gap

Can you (or your delegate) answer most questions/statements with a strong 'yes'?

  1. Our organization places a strong emphasis on continuous improvement and quality control. 

  2. We have implemented a standard process, such as TQM, Lean, or Six Sigma.

  3. Our HR job competency matrix is closely linked to this process, ensuring that all employees have the necessary training and skills to contribute to quality improvement efforts. 

  4. We ensure that all non-conformance issues are properly reported, tracked, and followed up on (Litmus test: check whether in plants behind every non-conformance report, there is a distinctive action and a follow-up is done with clear metrics)

  5. We also run an employee suggestion process that specifically focuses on perceived customer quality.

  6. We believe in the accuracy and transparency of our quality reporting, which is designed to be customer-focused and avoid "watermelon reporting" (green on the surface but red inside). 

  7. Our quality policy is regularly updated to reflect changes in digitalization, ESG, and triple bottom line focus. 

  8. The leader of our quality and continuous improvement efforts reports directly to the CEO/COO 

  9. Our team measures the speed between customer complaints and our ability to provide a fix, not just the response time. 

  10. We also measure customer satisfaction using metrics such as Net Promoter Score and make sure to keep the input conditions (customers, products, time) stable year to year when measuring customer satisfaction - to get true results on a stable data basis.


If you answered „yes“ to most questions, great!

You created a robust quality & continuous improvement culture in your firm. You probably delight your customers and shareholders consistently.

If you answered ‘no’ or are unsure about it, you most likely have an excellent opportunity to improve your margins and customer experience.

Feel free to get in contact for an exploratory dialogue with the helmig advisory AG to assess the art of the possible.

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