Some links on quality study in universities, CQI start

This is just a cut and paste job at the moment. I have found a page from the current Quality World magazine available online. There are several comments about the future of quality and I have found links for the academic bases. I am interested in where this is happening. I get the impression that quality is not widely studied in UK business schools but maybe it is just hard to find the links.

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http://www.bus.miami.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-directory/management-science/gitlow/index.html

Professor Howard Gitlow, Professor of Management Science, University of Miami, US

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Professor Andrew Thomas, Professor of International Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Glamorgan, Wales

http://news.glam.ac.uk/news/en/2012/apr/16/new-professor-appointed-business/

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Prof Sung H Park, Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, South Korea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul_National_University

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Professor Douglas Montgomery, Arizona State University, US

https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/10123

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Professor Thong Ngee Goh, National University of Singapore, Singapore

http://www.ise.nus.edu.sg/staff/gohtn/home.html

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Professor Bo Bergman, Professor of Quality Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology

http://www.chalmers.se/en/staff/Pages/bo-bergman.aspx

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Professor Bengt Klefsjo, Professor of Quality Management, Lulea University of Technology

http://www.ltu.se/staff/b/bengtk-1.80967?l=en

http://pure.ltu.se/portal/files/4705582/Six_Sigma_and_Total_Quality_Management__Different_Day__Same_Soup

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Juhani Anttila, Academician, International Academy for Quality, Finland

http://www.linkedin.com/in/juhanianttila

http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/026/050/ecp0726050.pdf

http://qiblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-dawn-of-new-revised-standard-iso.html

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Dr Shirley Coleman, Industrial Statistics Research Unit, Newcastle University, England

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/maths/staff/profile/shirley.coleman

http://blogs.sas.com/content/jmp/2013/05/31/celebrating-statistics-with-professor-shirley-coleman/

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Dr Alex Douglas, Liverpool John Moores University, England

http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/LBS/119287.htm

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Professor Jiju Antony, Professor of Quality Management, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

http://www.strath.ac.uk/dmem/staff/antonyprofessorjiju/

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There are two PDF files that turned up. there may be more later when I check out more around these sites. Both mention ISO 9000 . There may be more academic content during the discussion on the revision. ISO 9000 is not very exciting as an academic topic but it remains an issue.  see the blog post by Juhani Anttila.

Brands, positioning, Futurelearn, Will Hutton

I have started the Brands course on Futurelearn. More later when it sinks in. I can see why some academics are uneasy about this sort of thing. The approach seems somewhere between academic study and a pitch for brand services. There are no disaster stories so far and the video is all about people who love their brands. By the way I managed to fix Google + so it won't bombard my friends with endorsements from me. Maybe I'm getting paranoid.

Anyway, Futurelearn seems ok so far. There are links to Amazon where books have more detail. The video is mostly in Flash so you can't keep it. But there are PDF versions of most of the content. 

Content Marketing is one way to describe it. There is definitely a push for the full course on which the material is based. But I don't think this is intended as a cut down version. All the elements appear to be there.  

At the weekend I read Will Hutton in the Observer and there was a sort of mention for the MOOC towards the end. It is suggested that the "elite" universities will be able to raise their fees, with a negative effect on the "standard" universities-

The rest of the university sector would increasingly be devastated: it would have to reconstitute itself around a limited range of digital courses and online learning in order to slash fees as students became more and more aware that the debt could not be justified by any job they are likely to get.

This is the only mention for digital courses. The Guardian Education pages still have not much reporting on Futurelearn. Today a story on adult learning deplores the OU current charges for degrees at £5000 a year. Still this is less than £9000, or £16,000 or whatever number Will Hutton is thinking of.  There could be more attention for the OU current developments online.

It appears that in the UK the "elite" universities are outside and above the MOOC beta.  I think this is more like positioning than branding. More on this as the course continues. Apparently a brand can respond to feedback. So I expect web education to take several forms over time.

The Web Science course has not started yet but there is a Google group. If I want to endorse something I will put it in my own words by the way.  In the content so far there is frequent mention of the research going on in real space. But again there is a lot on offer for free and as a content marketing offer it seems reasonable so far.

I am trying to find time to re-read ReThinking Science and get a better idea of what modes one and two are supposed to be about. Brands are probably a mode two sort of subject. The web has partly developed outside of universities. The MOOCS are using some technology that has alo been used by companies. In most areas of training there has been a significant shift in how budgets are allocated given digital options. Early next year there will be another BETT with some scope for universities and adult learning. Also another Learning Technologies at Olympia. By then there may be more clarity on how the UK universities respond to the MOOC situation. 

ABC stats Guardian online exclusive

By exclusive I mean not in the print version. 

Yesterday I paid 0ne pound and forty pence for the Monday Guardian with the media section. I could not find anything about the numbers on print circulation. So today I checked through Google and found a few Guardian stories but all online only as far as I know. My guess is that they think the print audience can continue in a different world just as long as it might possibly hang on. 

The Guardian is doing ok for the season but there is still a decline over the year.  There is more interest in other titles. The FT is down 16 % on the year. In a blog post by Roy Greenslade ( what would it cost to repeat this in print by the way? ) it is reported that the FT will move to a single print edition for the UK.  

Comment from Roy Greenslade

It is clear from the decision to take this new step that Barber is preparing for the day when it becomes uneconomic to continue producing the newsprint paper. It will, in effect, become obsolete.

Other interesting numbers are the Guardian "headline" circulation - 197,542 - and the Saturday number - 355,173. This suggests the possibility that if the Guardian reduced print production there might still be a weekend magazine.

The weekend content is likely to be mostly for consumer interests. The specialist sections such as Media and Education are now much better online than in print.  

My guess is that most business to business magazines are also moving online or losing advertising to other online sites. Maybe the Guardian will have something about this at some time. Will Haymarket be included in the occasional profiles? They seem to be making some moves. Next week the Cross Media event includes Brand Republic as a media partner. 

Sound keynote updated #mtw3 John Burgoyne

Management Theory at Work version three continues with a new version of the talk already available on YouTube. Search on #mtw3 to find the previous clips. 

There will be video clips from this hour long talk later. It will take some time to edit. 

If you need to skip to the main points, try virtual action learning around minute 35,  some links to TQM around 50 minutes in, and mention of an update to the book on the Learning Company around 57 minutes in. 

I'm travelling at the moment so will do a longer description later. 

What strikes me is a more relaxed approach to leadership than in the previous talks. Instead of something coming to an end there is a question of how virtual leadership will be thought about. Also there are stronger links with quality and systems. Maybe this is because I asked some specific questions about my own interests. But I think there is more coherence over a longer period of time than I was expecting. The issues around the first two Management at Work conferences fit into this perspective without major blocks. 

Sound of talk on same topics found on YouTube #mtw3 , keynote for third Management Theory at Work. Recorded near Lake Windemere in August 2013

Peter Scott policy without MOOC or anything online

Peter Scott points out that the party conferences have had little to say about higher education. 

One paragraph is quoted to show where the MOOC is not mentioned

But there is little scope for other cuts, because that would mean cutting support for high-cost subjects such as science and engineering or cutting what is always lauded as world-class research. Neither would be compatible with the platitudes of (all) politicians about the role of higher education in the global knowledge economy.

Not sure about this. There can be research about technology that is not based on massive budgets. Just enough to extend arts and humanities towards web design. And the "global knowledge economy" includes social media and e-learning. 

Maybe the research universities will be left alone and can largely ignore Futurelearn and soforth. This seems to be what Peter Scott is expecting as there is no mention of anything like this in his policy review.