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Establishing Forums to Build a Quality Oriented Culture

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Establishing Forums to Build a Quality Oriented Culture Total Quality Management (TQM) says that quality is everybody’s job. Train your middle managers on quality to build a right leadership ecosystem. TQM is not just a philosophy. Don’t Kill It!

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EBM: Deming & Quality

LDRLB

In 1982, Edwards Deming published “ Out of the Crisis ” identifying 14 points for management which if applied would enable Japanese manufacturing efficiencies to be realized. Adopt this new philosophy by management and workers alike. Train on the job (both workers and management) in order to reduce variation in how job is done.

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Outside In: Customer Perceptions Define Service/Quality Levels

The Practical Leader

It starts with the belief that service/quality is not the absence of defects as defined by management, but the presence of value as defined by customers. This developmental effort led to the expansion of our system to bring together service, quality, and our lengthy experience in the field of organization and leadership development.

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Transforming a Management System – A Case Study From the Madison Wisconsin Police Department

Curious Cat

This post in an excerpt from The Quality Leadership Workbook for Police by Chief David Couper and Captain Sabine Lobitz ( buy via Amazon ). The New Quality Leadership Workbook for Police. Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. Step 3: Teach Quality Leadership.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth. It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate.

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Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important to Me

Deming Institute

Thankfully, I also had some very good managers who still fell victim to conventional wisdom management ideas, such as a store manager creating special sales incentives and contests that seemed silly and unnecessary. During my junior year in college, I was running for leadership positions in my fraternity.

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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software).