Total Quality Management (TQM)

Total Quality Management (TQM)
Management practices designed to improve the performance of organizational processes in business and industry.

Based on concepts developed by statistician and management theorist W. Edwards Deming, TQM includes techniques for achieving efficiency, solving problems, imposing standardization and statistical control, and regulating design, housekeeping, and other aspects of business or production processes. See also International Organization for Standardization (ISO); Total Quality Control (TQC).

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