Alan C Clark CQP FCQI is principal consultant of Key Business Improvement which provides coaching, consultancy and training in continual improvement and innovation as well as management education programmes.
He also trains and speaks on systems thinking, SPC, leadership, strategy, A3 Thinking and quality. For more than 30 years he has been helping people in organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors.
Alan’s early career was as a Chartered Engineer in the automotive supply chain, later progressing through a variety of roles in technical, quality and sales management in the spring industry into general management. He was formerly Founding Chair of the Deming Special Interest Group at the CQI and was a member of its Professional Policy Board. As well as writing articles over the years for Quality World, Alan is the author of the workbook Picture Your Business; a booklet The Gist of Process Mapping and the eBook Simply Manage.