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| Where is your focus---on the quality of business or the business of quality? |
by Mickey Garcia, Segment Manager, Medical Devices, MasterControl
Since W. Edwards Deming’s pioneering work in the 1950s, we have witnessed remarkable progress in the disciplines of both quality and management. Through the years, the best practices of the day have been given fancy names such as total quality management (TQM), Six Sigma and, most recently, Lean everything—just to name a few. With so many hifalutin terms being bandied about, it would be easy to dismiss an emerging term like performance excellence as just another buzzword. But there’s a case to be made for incorporating it more fully into our quality-related vocabulary: to help us, as Dr. Mikel Harry says, look beyond the mere business of quality and focus increasingly on the quality of business.
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