Customer Service, Total Quality Management, Consumer Guides
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Overview
Total quality for your company. Apply Total Quality and reap thebenefits in your company with this clear, concise guide to key points.
Written especially for busy executives with no time to waste
deciphering jargon, this book takes you straight to the heart of Total
Quality and shows you how to: APPLY the famous Hoshin Kanri Planning
Process; MANAGE key processes in both manufacturing, sales, and
service organizations; CREATE a customer-obsessed organization; HANDLE
customer complaints; DEVELOP a rigorous, successful improvement cycle;
SECURE employee participation in improvements; AUDIT or review a Total
Quality effort. This indispensable sourcebook also reviews the
principles of Total Quality, analyzing the nature of "quality," the
primacy of the customer, learning and growth in the organization, and
more. This band-new revision of a business bestseller brings you: new
quality initiatives; new ways to generate the highest quality products
and services; new material on long-range planning, with insights on
how nations and great companies plan for success; new section on how
to create a business scorecard to measue the health or pulse of the
business, and how to link the scorecard to key processes and business
planning; expanded review of Total Quality Principles; The Chief
Executive's role in the Total Quality effort; revised and expanded
section on conducting Total Quality reviews or audits; and more!
Editorials
Booknews
Drawing from his years with an international high-tech company, Soin presents the fundamentals of total quality for executives who have no time to waste deciphering jargon. He explains the Hoshin Kanri planning process, a customer-obsessed organization, customer complaints, a successful improvement cycle, employee participation in improvements, and other aspects. His ideas can be applied in manufacturing, sales, or service organizations. The first edition was published in 1992. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
November 1, 1999
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Professional
Pages
362
Format
Hardcover, 1998
ISBN
9780070595514