total quality management definition

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Definition Total Quality Management (TQM) E-mail Print A AA AAA LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Share This RSS Reprints Total Quality Management (TQM) is a comprehensive and structured approach to org anizational management that seeks to improve the quality of products and service s through ongoing refinements in response to continuous feedback. TQM requiremen ts may be defined separately for a particular organization or may be in adherenc e to established standards, such as the International Organization for Standardi zation's ISO 9000 series. TQM can be applied to any type of organization; it ori ginated in the manufacturing sector and has since been adapted for use in almost every type of organization imaginable, including schools, highway maintenance, hotel management, and churches. As a current focus of e-business, TQM is based o n quality management from the customer's point of view. TQM processes are divided into four sequential categories: plan, do, check, and act (the PDCA cycle). In the planning phase, people define the problem to be add ressed, collect relevant data, and ascertain the problem's root cause; in the do ing phase, people develop and implement a solution, and decide upon a measuremen t to gauge its effectiveness; in the checking phase, people confirm the results through before-and-after data comparison; in the acting phase, people document t heir results, inform others about process changes, and make recommendations for the problem to be addressed in the next PDCA cycle. Related glossary terms: CIO (Chief Information Officer), business integration, b usiness process, systems thinking, clean room technique (clean room design), wor k breakdown structure (WBS), B2E (Business2Employee or Business-to-Employee), Co mpliance: Glossary, C-level, infrastructure management (IM)

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