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blog rootTotal Quality ManagementDonald L. Weintraub writes in his article "Implementing Total Quality Management" that there are five (5) pillars that make up total quality.  These should not come as a surprise to most engineers and managers:  customer satisfaction, total involvement, measurement, systematic support, and continuous improvement.  But, more importantly,...
Tags: Quality, TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Team management, Strategy, scottpmullins@..., Total Quality Management, team
Discussion threads 2006-06-14
'Value' replaces 'quality' in latest management strategy
TQM has helped many companies improve the quality of their product or service, but now a new management strategy, Total Value Management, takes TQM a step further. Learn the tenets of TVM and how it helps companies focus on long-term process improvement.By Rich KayTotal Quality Management TQM grew from the...
Tags: TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Quality, gantthead  , Total Quality Management, W. Edwards Deming
Technical articles 2001-10-01
Total Value Management helps balance priorities
Total Value Management TVM helps organizations assess the long-term implications of their actions and aims at striking a balance between the needs of all stakeholders. Find out how to craft a basic strategy for approaching TVM in your organization.By Michael R. WoodOnce upon a time, the buzzword was TQM (Total...
Tags: TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Quality, gantthead  , Total Value Management, Total Quality Management
Technical articles 2001-08-27

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A New Imperative: Total Service Quality Management for Wireline and Wireless Environments
The concept of Total Service Quality Management is essential for companies competing in today's fixed-line, data services and wireless telecommunications markets. This approach to service quality management consolidation and aggregates end-to-end service level data in real time to enable proactive management of service quality. It automates the process...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Quality Management, Service Quality, Wi-Fi, Service Level Management, Wireless, Telecommunications, It Operations, It service Management
White papers 2004-08-27
Software From IBM and 3OR Solutions Helps Beverage Bottler Improve Customer Relationship Management
3OR, an IBM Advanced Business Partner, specializes in software solutions that focus on management of quality assurance, workplace health, customer relationship and personal data. Calidad Total Plus Total Quality Plus is an integrated IT solution, specially designed for document management to meet international standards for quality management systems (ISO 9000),...
Tags: Beverage, IBM Corp., CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Quality, Iso standards, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Business Operations, It Operations
Case studies 2007-04-01
Information Quality in Customer Relationship Management Systems
Customer Relationship Management follows the increasingly necessary movement towards total integrated customer information in order to more adequately serve the needs of both business and consumer by tailoring services and products in the direction of both parties. This paper discusses the importance of information quality to customer relationship management and...
Tags: Information Quality, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2006-11-06
Anywhere. Anything. Anyone. Any Time.: Identifying Opportunities for Top-Line Revenue Growth, Competitive Advantage, and Bottom-Line Cost Savings
Ground-breaking quality metrics, including Total Quality Management TQM, Business Activity Monitoring BAM, Balanced Scorecards, Six Sigma, and the Malcolm Bridge Quality System, have helped companies and industries move toward more effective, efficient, and valuable business systems. However, even those enterprises with the most progressive use of quality management frameworks are...
Tags: Unisys Corp., Quality Management, Competitive Advantage, Quality, Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Business Operations, Marketing, Marketing Research, It Operations
White papers 2007-02-01
Software Quality Management for SOA: Enterprise quality managers take the helm
SOA brings challenges for every part of the IT organization, and the IT quality organization is no exception. SOA requires quality management across all types of testing--functional, performance, security and compliance. IT quality managers can develop a successful SOA quality program by finding the right strategy, implementing the...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2008-06-06
Adopting Quality Management for Business Success
Many organizations are taking advantage of Quality Management methodologies (such as Six Sigma®) to improve productivity, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. These methodologies require employees to perform set tasks and adhere to structured processes, involving changes to work habits that can sometimes be disruptive to...
Tags: Quality Management, Microsoft Corp., Quality, Business Operations
White papers
A Total Economic Impact Analysis of Remedy Asset Management: Retail
In November 2003, Remedy commissioned Forrester Research, Inc. to examine the total economic impact of implementing its Remedy Asset Management solution. Remedy Asset Management tracks the lifecycle and total costs of IT assets from purchase, to installation, usage, and ultimate retirement. It is part of its IT Management Services suite...
Tags: Analysis, Remedy Corp., Remedy Asset Management, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
Case studies
DOOSAN: 20 Percent Cost Savings
This webcast shows how Total Print Management is used to deploy the right devices to the right users, which improves productivity, utilization, monitoring, ordering and quality.
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
Webcasts 2007-01-01
Software quality management from IBM - A closed loop fitness program
In order to successfully deliver high quality business-critical software and systems that support business initiatives, businesses need to look at software quality management as a continuous, governed and automated programme throughout the delivery lifecycle. This whitepaper shows how IBM Rational's quality management approach can help ensure that successful delivery.This presentation...
Tags: Software, Quality Management, IBM Corp., Quality, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Management
White papers 2007-06-14
Enterprise Knowledge Management: The Data Quality Approach
The goal of Enterprise Knowledge Management: The Data Quality Approach, by David Loshin Academic Press, is to demonstrate that data quality is not an esoteric notion but something that can be quantified, measured, and improved. This introductory chapter outlines and defines data quality and its relationship to Knowledge Management and...
Tags: Data Quality, Knowledge, Knowledge Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
Download resources 2004-12-10
Optimizing Your Imaging and Printing Environment with HP Total Print Management Solutions
One often-overlooked area where you might be able to increase your company's productivity and reduce costs is in your printing and imaging systems. Research says such costs in total can run one to five percent of revenues. Find out how HP's Total Print Management solutions can help you save on...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Imaging, Printing, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
White papers 2004-08-30
A Practical Roadmap to Higher Quality
Understanding quality and cost in accordance with a set of interrelated business processes also serves to dramatize their core roles in measuring and directing IT efficiencies. For instance, quality metrics directly impact such ITIL disciplines as Incident, Problem and Availability management, Service Level Management, Capacity Management, and even basic Help...
Tags: Baseline, Compuware Corp., ITIL, Service Management, Service Level Management, It Services, Process Improvement, Financial Management, Help Desk, It Operations, It service Management, Quality, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance
White papers 2006-01-01
Get the Truth on Linux Management
In various older studies, Microsoft and some analysts compared the Total Cost of Ownership TCO of Linux and Windows servers. These studies concluded that Linux had a higher TCO, predominantly due to higher management costs. These findings contradict EMA's recent experience with Linux management, which has been getting easier over...
Tags: TCO, Linux, Roi/Tco, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
White papers 2006-02-09
The Quality Manual
A quality manual is a document stating the company management’s intentions for operating the quality system. It includes policies for all areas of the business affecting or affected by the quality system. These policies authorize department managers to implement procedures within the boundaries specified in the quality manual. They also...
Tags: Core Business Solutions Inc.
White papers 2002-01-01
Gain a measurable competitive advantage by ensuring enterprise data quality
Competitive advantageThose enterprises that can ensure the information used to make management decisions is derived from quality data will have a definitive competitive advantage in the marketplace.The download of Chapter One of [i]Enterprise Knowledge Management: The Data Quality Approach[/i], by David Loshin, shows you some of the problems that can...
Tags: competitive advantage, Mark W. Kaelin, it management
Discussion threads 2004-12-17
Microsoft Webcast: Deploying Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution for Quality Management the SMART Way!
Improving performance and customer satisfaction while controlling costs control are critical for survival and growth in any competitive business environment. Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management EPM Solution for Quality Management uses a data-driven approach to reaching these goals. SMART EPM by LMR Solutions provides a fast, cost-efficient, low-risk way to...
Tags: Webcast, Quality Management, Microsoft Corp., Quality, Business Operations
Webcasts
Do Organizations Consider Strategic Cost Management When They Outsource to China?
In today's economy, the driving force behind global competition can be summarized in a single equation: Value = (Quality + Technology + Service + Cycle Time) / Price. At the same time, the trend towards increasing outsourcing to China seems to focus entirely on the denominator - price. Although outsourcing...
Tags: China, Cost Management, Outsource, Equation, SAS Institute, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
White papers
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