Total Quality Management category: 175 books

Effective Management of Benchmarking Projects shows you how to apply benchmarking to a variety of projects. Effective Management of Benchmarking Projects equips the project team or manager with all the necessary competence for managing projects effectively. This practical book begins with definitions...

Providing an understanding of what is meant by quality and its unique position in a manufacturing environment to improve competitive business performance, this text defines all the fundamental ingredients required to introduce an improvement in quality. Concise and easy to read, the theory is backed...

How do we harness the elusive concept of preventive action? People often think of preventive action as the extra thing you do after you've finished corrective action--like an extra coat of sealant. Actually, preventive actions are the initiatives you establish to minimize the number of corrective actions...

If the term "management review" conjures up visions of a wasteful and burdensome ordeal, The Management Review Handbook is just what you need to add value to your review process. The Management Review Handbook provides managers with a simple explanation of how to effectively document, implement, and...

Safety and Health Management Planning addresses new regulations and practices to help you achieve safety and health management success. Emphasizing the reduction of costs through cost/benefit analysis, this book covers practical material and real-world examples of common exercises, including safety...

This handbook will guide you through the various paragraphs of the international standard ISO9001:2015 and offer interpretations to provide you with models and templates to use, change, modify, and embed into your new quality management system. So I invite you to have a look through this handbook...

Implement the world's most powerful improvement Methodology in 30 Days Lean and Six Sigma are two of the most important developments to come out of management theory. On their own they offer clear strategies for improving efficiency and controlling quality; together they are an even more formidable...

It’s time once again to make much of a simple concept; that two groups with different names, languages and cultures might put aside their old habits, pettiness and grudges, recognize the overwhelming alignment of their most critical self-interests, and join their complementary strengths to achieve...

Lean Six Sigma, Simplified **An Extensive Introduction to the Concepts That Drive Lean Six Sigma, Applicable to All Industries and All Experience Levels** For decades, the data-driven and analytical business improvement and quality control program Lean Six Sigma has been revolutionizing the way organizations...

Most companies acknowledge the need for a good quality system in their organization. However, most of today's quality initiatives are based on heavy-weight processes, models and metrics. At a time when the attention span of people is shrinking, how do you crystallize key ideas to simplify the process...

Kaizen principles have been viewed as one of the key factors to Japanese competitiveness. Kaizen techniques became famous when Toyota used them to rise to world's automotive leadership. The company is credited as pioneer to formalize Kaizen technique and implement it as part of a global business...

Small businesses face many challenges today, including the increasing demand by larger companies for ISO 9001compliance, a challenging task for any organisation and in particular for a small business without quality assurance experts on its payroll. Ray Tricker has already guided hundreds of businesses...

Over the last 25 years there has been a considerable increase in the awareness of quality related issues. In the world of business and commerce, this awareness has manifested itself in the development of what was the British Quality Standard BS 5750 into what is now the international standard BS EN...

All organisations have a responsibility to ensure they have a minimum negative impact on the environment and act as a haven for human development that contributes to positive outcomes for society. But small businesses have limited resources with which to pursue sustainability initiatives and must...