Assessing business excellence: a guide to business excellence and self-assessment
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Porter, Leslie J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam [Netherlands] Elsevier 2004
Edition:2nd ed
Subjects:
Online Access:FAW01
Volltext
Item Description:Originally published: Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996
Assessing 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 * Includes practical case examples * Provides an explanation of the major excellence business models and frameworks from around the world * A regularly updated web site accompanies the text
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-443) and index
Physical Description:ix, 451 pages
ISBN:9780750655170
0750655178
9781429483971
1429483970
0080493939
9780080493930

There is no print copy available.

Interlibrary loan Place Request Caution: Not in THWS collection! Get full text