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OverviewAssessing Business Excellence presents a strategic framework for business excellence and total quality management and shows how you can be actively involved in continuous improvement by systematically reviewing your business activities and results against holistic business excellence frameworks. For all practitioners who seek to use total quality management to improve their organization's effectiveness, efficiency and responsiveness, this title is the essential route map to business excellence. From two leading expert authors comes a book where the most recognized quality award criteria are used to explore the concepts of business excellence and self-assessment. This book: * Introduces the major business excellence and total quality frameworks including The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and the European Quality Award and ISO9000:2000 * Compares the frameworks and identifies their strengths and limitations * Introduces the self-assessment process * Explores the main approaches to self-assessment * Illustrates the practical benefits of self-assessment through case examples Full Product DetailsAuthor: Les Porter , Steve TannerPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: 2nd edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.816kg ISBN: 9781138137806ISBN 10: 1138137804 Pages: 472 Publication Date: 22 December 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroducing excellence; A quick guide to the National Quality Awards; The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award; The EFQM Excellence Model; The Deming Prize The other major national excellence frameworks; The ISO9000:2000 Quality Management System; How do the models compare?; The models and self-assessment; Building an excellence platform; The excellence hall of fame; Further reading; Appendices; Index.ReviewsAuthor InformationL. J. Porter Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |