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VadiK teachings Vadim Kotelnikov

Total Quality Management
(TQM)

Vadim Kotelnikov, founder of 1000ventures - personal logo VadiK

Inventor Business e-Coach

Author Innoball

Founder Innompic Games icon

 

   

Integrated approach to quality and continuous improvement

 

 

 

 

TQM, also known as Total Quality Control (TQC), is a management tool for improving total performance.

It integrated approach by management to focus all functions and levels of an organization on quality and continuous improvement.

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Five Main Advantages of TQM

  1. Encourages a strategic approach to management at the operational level through involving multiple departments in cross-functional improvements and Systemic Innovation processes

  2. Provides high return on investment through improving efficiency

  3. Works equally well for service and manufacturing sectors

  4. Allows organizations to take advantage of developments that enable managing operations as cross-functional processes

  5. Fits an orientation toward inter-organizational collaboration and strategic alliances through establishing a culture of collaboration among different departments within organization

TQM and Continuous Improvement Firm (CIF)

Two different perspectives of the same phenomenon

  • The TQM Perspective – the beliefs and practices required of management to bring about and perpetuate a continuous improvement firm (CIF).

  • The CIF Perspective – the organization itself in all its integrity, full-blown, operating and practicing the total quality management (TQM) approaches.

TQM and Just-in-Time (JIT)

  • JIT – seeks improvement through reduction of waste

  • TQM – ensures that the improvements are fundamental and not superficial

Barriers to Successful TQM

Main Difference Between TQM and Six Sigma

  • Total Quality Management (TQM) programs focus on improvement in individual operations with unrelated processes

  • Six Sigma focuses on making improvements in all operations within a process

Main Subjects for Suggestions in Japanese Companies

  • Improvements in product quality... More

Canon Production System (CPS) includes:

Two Key Management Concepts Supporting the TQM Strategy

  1. Cross-functional management

  2. Policy deployment

Balanced Organization

5 Basic Elements

Corporate Culture (Earth):

 

Why TQM?

"If you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel of sewage, you get sewage.
If you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel full of wine, you get sewage."
~ Schopenhauer's Law of Entropy

Over the years TQM has become very important for improving a firm's process capabilities in order to achieve fit and sustain competitive advantages. TQM focuses on encouraging a continuous flow of incremental improvements from the bottom of the organization's hierarchy. TQM is not a complete solution formula as viewed by many – formulas can not solve managerial problems, but a lasting commitment to the process of continuous improvement.

Areas Targeted by TQM in Japan

The Main Driving Force

The main driving force of TQM is customer satisfaction.

Customer Value Creation: Yin-Yang Strategies

Deming's 14 Point's Plan for TQM

Point 1: Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of the product and service so as to become competitive , stay in business and provide jobs.

Point 2: Adopt the new philosophy. We are in a new economic age. We no longer need live with commonly accepted levels of delay, mistake, defective material and defective workmanship.

Point 3: Cease dependence on mass inspection; require, instead, statistical evidence that quality is built in... More

 

 Case in Point  14 TQM Slogans at Pentel

Pentel is a Japanese firm manufacturing stationary products. The following is a list of 14 Pentel's slogans for explaining Total Quality Management (TQM) and Quick and Easy Kaizen philosophy to its employees.

  • Be problem-conscious at all times.

TQM Requires Cultural Transformation

With TQM quality is not the product but the process. To institute the process, corporate trainers must bring about a cultural transformation wherein all employees shed their individualism for a unified set of corporate values.

TQM was the brainchild of Dr. W. Edward Deming. TQM helped Japan with its postwar economic recovery. That was because it meshed with Japanese culture... More

8 Best Practices of Successful Companies

Be the Best Possible

10 Tips by Ten3 NZ Ltd.

  • Quality is not just product related.  Quality is not just the product; it's a combination of the product and "add-ons," i.e. packaging, availability, convenience of use and value adding customer service, etc.  The same applies to you in the employment market. Possessing a tertiary qualification may only get you 50% of the way towards being internally promoted or externally employed.  The other 50% will depend upon what your acquired "add-ons" are, i.e. what makes you more valuable than your competitor in the mind of potential employers/customers.  Ask yourself "what value adding skills have I acquired and applied to my work within the past 2 years that demonstrate skill flexibility, continuing career development and quality as an employee?"... More

Three Stages of the Suggestion System

1. Encouragement. In the first stage, management should make every effort to help the workers provide suggestions, no matter how primitive, for the betterment of the worker's job and the workshop. This will help the workers look at the way they are doing their jobs... More

 Case in Point  Canon

The objectives of Canon Production System (CPS) are to manufacture better quality products at lower cost and deliver them faster. To achieve these goals, 9 wastes are to be eliminated... More

Lean Enterprise: 13 Tips

 Case in Point  Wall-Mart

In his 10 Rules  for Building a Business Success, Sam Walton, the Founder of Wall-Mart advises: "Listen to everyone in your company and figure out ways to get them talking. The folks on the front lines the ones who actually talk to the customer are the only ones who really know what's going on out there. You'd better find out what they know. This really is what total quality is all about. To push responsibility down in your organization, and to force good ideas to bubble up within it, you must listen to what your associates are trying to tell you."

TPS-Lean Six Sigma

TPS-Lean Six Sigma is like a ‘turbo-charged’ Lean Six Sigma program. TPS-Lean Six Sigma is a revolutionary, holistic concept. It actively has human capital embedded in Lean Six Sigma in a manner that not only stimulates commitment, integrity, work-life balance, passion, enjoyment at work and employee engagement but also stimulates individual and team learning in order to develop a motivated workforce and sustainable performance improvement and quality enhancement for the organization... More

 

Edward Deming advice quotes

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

Edward Deming

Thought Leader

Steve Jobs advice quotes

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Steve Jobs

Apple

Henry Ford advice

Quality means doing it right

when no one is looking.

Henry Ford

Ford Moror

Plato teachings quotes

All things will be produced in superior quality when each man works in accordance with his natural gifts.

Plato