Spring Into Action
Last year, I was presented the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. It was a great honor for all of us at General Systems Co.—and for all of us in the quality profession—to be recognized for our efforts related to total quality and innovation....
Raising the Bar
Now more than ever, companies must measure and manage their quality costs to compete at a high level in today’s global marketplace....
The International Growth of Quality
Human, economic, and technological changes in the international arena require that businesses deliver high quality value to customers. Fundamental to any business's competitive strength is its ability to understand and implement the language of quality....
The Future of Quality: Customer Value
This article is from the book The Power of Management Capital, available through Quality Press, item number P1026. Copyright restrictions do not allow its individual sale or its placement on My ASQ....
Quality, Not Quantity, of Management
This article is from the book The Power of Management Capital: Utilizing the New Drivers of Innovation, Profitability, and Growth in a Demanding Global Economy, available through Quality Press, item number
The Power Behind Consumer Buying and Productivity
Quality has been crucial to the consumer buying and productivity that kept the U.S. economy going during recent economically difficult months. Some of the country's leading companies have developed a new appreciation for one of quality's most basic...
How To Manage Quality in Today's Economy
is the key to profitability and sales growth by A. V. Feigenbaum 26 I Q U A L I T Y P R O G R E S S I M A Y 2 0 0 1 VEN IN TIMES OF STRONG ECONOMIC expansion and growth, major business forces squeeze the profit structure of all organizations. Q U A L I ...
New Quality for the 21st Century
The worldwide marketplace demands a redefinition of quality in the relentless pursuit of improvement. The 1990s have provided six drivers of this new vitality for quality: fundamental changes in how people think about and act on the need for quality;...
Changing Concepts and Management of Quality Worldwide
In the global marketplace, total quality systems and processes have affected many companies over the decades, while current trends are changing how quality is viewed and managed. Quality is a common, internationalized concept in today's business...
The Internationalization of Quality
A discussion on the impact on quality control as more firms become...
Quality and Productivity
Quality programs are now producing the potential for a tremendous managerial step forward in total...
Industry Coordination On Standards Is Needed
A system approach to standards and specification is urged by Dr....
Liability Prevention--Quality Control: New Partnership
Product liability loss control must become a continuous program instead of only responding to crises. A major new way to accomplish this effectively is through systems engineering which develops strong new quality assurance programs that really do meet...
Quality Strategy for a Full-Employment Economy
New quality strategies are needed if industry is to meet the mounting challenge of consumerism. The systems approach to quality and reliability probably is the most important development in the quality and safety field during the past...
International Academy For Quality--Worldwide
The first report on the International Academy for Quality (IAQ) presented at the 24th Annual Technical Conference in...
Quality Programs for the 1970s
Quotes A. V. Feigenbaum on QC's future--advance to leadership or retreat to its original...
