100 Methods for Total Quality Management / Edition 1

by Gopal K Kanji, Mike Asher

Overview

From force field analysis to ‘zero defects', from ‘brainstorming' to the Deming Wheel, this volume meets the need for a short, accessible reference to the 100 most frequently adopted methods for implementing total quality management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803977471
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/25/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Gopal K Kanji, Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics at Sheffield Hallam University, is also a founder editor of the two international journals namely, Journal of Applied Statistics and Total Quality Management. With a career spanning 37+ years in the field of statistics and quality teaching, publishing journals and books, writing technical papers and presenting research findings around the world, he is a true teacher, trainer, researcher and innovator and consultant.

More than 90 research papers and 15 books in Statistics and Total Quality Management have been published by him. He has been a very active member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and a promoter of ASQ in the UK. Recently, he was appointed as Vice Chair of the International Chapter of ASQ for Europe and the Middle East. He has presented papers at the Annual ASQ Congress. He is a fellow of the Institute of Statisticians, the Royal Statistical Society and member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). He is Academian of the International Academy for Quality (IAQ). He has been teaching and consulting in different parts of the world, and as chairman, has helped to develop a European Master programme in Total Quality Management under the umbrella of EFQM. He has also supervised many Ph D students in TQM and Applied Statistics.

Since 1995, he has organised World Congresses for Total Quality Management at Sheffield Hallam University, UK and other European countries. He has acted as a technical expert for the development of the European Customer Satisfaction Index. Recently he introduced a Business Excellence Model to measure stakeholders’ satisfaction within the organisations.

Table of Contents

Understanding Total Quality Management
The Role of TQM Methods
List of Methods (by Category)
Purpose of Methods (Alphabetical List)
Management Methods
Analytical Methods
Idea Generation
Data Collection, Analysis and Display