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CHAPTER 1 :
THE TOTAL QUALITY APPROACH TO QUALITY MANAGEMENT
1. What is Quality? : 2. What is Total Quality? : 3. Key Elements of Total Quality:
- Quality is associated with products, - Is doing business to maximize the - Strategically based
services, people, processes and competitiveness of an organization through - Customer focus
environments that meets expectations Continual Improvement of the Quality of its - Obsession with quality
- Helps produce Superior Value. products, services, people, and environments. - Long term commitment
- Performance that meets customer - Teamwork
needs & expectation - Continual process improvement
- Satisfying the customer today and - Education and training
getting better tomorrow - High performance top priority