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Welcome to my blog, which I hope you'll find to be an interesting mixture of real-world experience, ideas, comments and observations.
Tom Gaskell
I've worked in industry as a consultant, manager and quality trouble-shooter for most of my career.
After spending 14 years in a multi-national consulting organisation and 10 years working in telecomms design and manufacturing start-ups, I set up the Cambridge (UK)-based quality, manufacturing and business consultancy Primilis (http://www.primilis.com) in 2006.
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BBC News has changed on this blogsite
If you were expecting to see the pretty scrolling BBC news headlines box over on the right hand side of this site then I’m sorry, but I have taken it down. It was a facility provided by WidgetBox and had … Continue reading
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Do it once and do it properly
A month ago I told the story of the water pipes and my front garden http://www.qualityandproducts.com/2009/06/23/be-sceptical-about-product-lifetime-claims/. I explained that, rather than replace the whole faulty pipe, my water company insisted on fixing only the specific bit that had burst, thereby … Continue reading
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