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The Quality Management Environment

There are 4 key areas that make up the Quality Management Environment. - Core Values - Corporate Strategy - Quality Performance Excellence Models - Tools & Techniques There is a core of values and culture, surrounded by the other 3 areas. The core is where the mission and values of an organization are formed. Therefore, related issues like a focus on green building would be developed.
July 18, 2011
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There are 4 key areas that make up the Quality Management Environment.

  • Core Values
  • Corporate Strategy
  • Quality Performance Excellence Models
  • Tools & Techniques

There is a core of values and culture, surrounded by the other 3 areas. The core is where the mission and values of an organization are formed. Therefore, related issues like a focus on green building would be developed.

The next area is corporate strategy. The connection to the first area the core values means that strategy is rooted in a strong values system. The corporate strategy is what focuses on the long term perspective and the customer.

The third area is the quality models. This includes the Baldrige or NHQA or other excellence models. They provide a means for organization wide self-assessment and a mechanism for identifying Opportunities for Improvement (OFI). The models are a tool to help achieve the corporate strategy which is directed by the values at the core. This perspective also ensures that the use of quality models are not a bolt on approach but have a direct connection to the strategic drivers of the organization.

The fourth area, the tools and techniques. This represents a wide range of tactical and operational tools, such as problem solving tools including fishbones, flowcharts, control charts and even management systems. These are the boots on ground tools that are essential to achieving the strategic plan and putting into action any OFIs identified through self-assessment.

For fully mature quality management all four areas must be present. With one missing the direction of the company is not clear, how to achieve it is vague and misdirected, there is limited coordination of efforts and few or the wrong tools are used to make impacts.

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About the Author

Denis Leonard

Denis Leonard has a degree in construction engineering an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in quality management. Denis is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality, a Certified Quality Manager, Auditor and Six Sigma Black Belt. He has been an Examiner for the Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Examiners a Judge on the International Team Excellence Competition and a Lead Judge on the National Housing Quality Award. A former Professor of Quality at the University of Wisconsin, he has experience as a quality manager in the homebuilding industry as well as construction engineer, site manager and in training, auditing and consulting with expertise in strategic and operational quality improvement initiatives. His work has achieved national quality, environmental and safety management awards for clients.

Denis is co-author of 'The Executive Guide to Understanding and Implementing the Baldrige Criteria: Improve Revenue and Create Organizational Excellence'.

http://www.BusinessExcellenceConsulting.net

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