‘Your C-Suite & CQO ~ Is There One Common Sense Reason to Keep a CQO Out of Your C-Suite’? New Zealand Organization for Quality, ‘Quality Business’ magazine ~ Article, March 2025

This article addresses an issue that must surely resonate with business professionals in virtually all management disciplines as it applies in all large organizations globally regardless of their industry sector.   We pose one fundamental question that spurs many other thought-provoking questions:  ‘Is There One Common-Sense Reason to Keep a CQO Out of Your C-Suite’?

We have collectively more than 90 years of experience in managing Quality in two high-consequence, heavily-regulated business sectors, namely Nuclear Energy Production and Commercial Aviation – which, we think you’ll agree, are indeed high-risk and high-value. In our extensive reflections on and discussions about our experiences and insights, we were compelled to address the CQO subject.  In essence, by this article we are challenging C-Suites everywhere to appoint a CQO!

NOTE: This paper is a GQM Advisors abbreviated version for The New Zealand Organization for Quality, ‘Quality Business’ magazine Issue#1, March 2025.  It’s abbreviated from our paper ‘Your C-Suite & Your CQO’ ~ White Paper, September 2024, posted on this web page ~ see https://gqmadvisors.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GQMadvisors-C-SteCQO-WhtPpr-08-15-24-R1-23pgs.pdf