Implementing Quality: A Practical Guide to Tools and Techniques

by Ron Basu

Implementing Quality provides readers with the basics of how to manage for consistently high quality and gives good coverage of both simple tools and advanced techniques which can be used in all businesses. Most books on managing quality focus on concepts and strategy rather than how to make it happen, but this text gives guidance on how to use these tools for different situations such as new start-up companies, stalled projects and the constant achievement of high quality in well-established quality regimes. Implementing Quality also covers Six Sigma, a measure of quality that strives for near perfection, in detail. This comprehensive, user-friendly and hands on book is a single source of reference of tools and techniques for all practitioners and students of operational excellence. Implementing Quality provides readers with the basics of how to manage for consistently high quality and gives good coverage of both simple tools and advanced techniques which can be used in all businesses. Most books on managing quality focus on concepts and strategy rather than how to make it happen, but this text gives guidance on how to use these tools for different situations such as new start-up companies, stalled projects and the constant achievement of high quality in well-established quality regimes. Implementing Quality also covers Six Sigma, a measure of quality that strives for near perfection, in detail. This comprehensive, user-friendly and hands on book is a single source of reference of tools and techniques for all practitioners and students of operational excellence.

336 pages, Paperback

First published June 3, 2004