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total quality management

noun

  1. an approach to the management of an organization that integrates the needs of customers with a deep understanding of the technical details, costs, and human-resource relationships of the organization TQM
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Then in the late 80’s Total Quality Management was a business philosophy for all the company’s activities.

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The franchisor could offer marketing support or provide the franchisee with total quality management tools and services.

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“We’re not a complex company with lots of departments. There are incredibly high-quality engineers, and business people with the raw street smarts needed to make money, with not a lot of buffering between the two. We operate under a regime of total product development, an innovation equivalent of ‘total quality management’ in manufacturing; everyone is expected to take part in the effort to build better products.”

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Production concepts, such as lean manufacturing, six sigma and total quality management, have been around for decades, but now new ideas, such as distributed manufacturing, are being tried.

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They combine a cautious and long-term-oriented approach to business with management practices, such as lean manufacturing and total quality management.

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