Total quality management and operational excellence : Text with cases /
John S. Oakland.
- 4th ed.
- Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
- xxiv, 555 p. ; 25 cm.
The notion of ""Quality"" in business performance has exploded since the publication of the first edition of this classic text in 1989. Today there is a plethora of performance improvement frameworks including Baldrige, EFQM, Lean, Six Sigma and ISO 9001, offering a potentially confusing variety of ways to achieve business excellence. Quality guru John Oakland's famous TQM model, in many ways a precursor to these frameworks, has evolved to become the ultimate holistic overview of performance improvement strategy. Incorporating the frameworks that succeeded it, the revised model redefines Quali.