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Tag Archives: quality management
The Quality vs Price Dilemma
“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten” Continue reading
What’s the Remedy for Inefficiency?
In 2014 the NHS was allocated a budget of £95.6 billion. By any standards that is an eye watering sum. I can’t help thinking that SHOULD be enough. If we imagine for a moment that the UK had no NHS and decided to establish one tomorrow, and its budget was to be £95 billion – would anybody in their right mind design it to look like the one that has evolved? I very much doubt it Continue reading
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Tagged effectiveness, efficiency, inefficiency, nhs inefficiency, quality management, shaun sayers
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Quality and efficiency
This article explains the term efficiency and describes exactly why it is part of every quality professionals remit Continue reading
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Tagged effectiveness, efficiency, ISO 9000, ISO 9001, quality management, tqm
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Is a General Approach to Quality Management Still Possible?
There may have been a time when life and markets were simpler and less complex, so at one point a general approach might have been more feasible, but I am starting to think those days are gone. Maybe long gone, and the sooner we realise that, the sooner we can stop looking for something that can never exist and point ourselves at a more practical revised approach. Continue reading
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Tagged quality, Quality Improvement, quality management
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Intelligent Quality Management
Those of you who have followed my posts will no doubt realise I do not get my kicks out of any specific technique. I don’t really get involved in highly technical or clever debates. I do, however, spend a lot of time trying to understand how things work. There are a few simple dynamics thathave to be both accepted and understood. Continue reading