Total Quality – A Strategic Issue for the 1990’s
Having been involved in implementing Total Quality (TQ) in Pakistan, I am often asked about the progress being made by organizations in implementing TQ as a strategic issue.
Having been involved in implementing Total Quality (TQ) in Pakistan, I am often asked about the progress being made by organizations in implementing TQ as a strategic issue.
After the World War II, Japan was in a state of crisis. It was struggling to rebuild its economy and put people to work.
ISO 9000[1] and TQM are probably the most talked about topics in Pakistani corporate world today.
A large company had been continuously losing its market share since 1994. With the ever-increasing cost of operations coupled with poor customer service and vendors/dealers relations, added with lost employee’s integrity, loses were at all-times high in 1998.
Since the past one decade or so, a lot is being said about the “change”. Almost every individual and every organization is dissatisfied with the status quo and is desirous of “change”.
Having been involved in implementing Total Quality (TQ) in Pakistan, I am often asked about the progress being made by organizations in implementing TQ as a strategic issue.
Change comes these days whether we want it or not, sweeping through our lives and organizations like a fast train on a straight track.