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Total Quality in Marketing

Total Quality in Marketing integrates the two areas of marketing and quality management and demonstrates how they are mutually compatible and complementary. Its primary focus is to assist managers in applying total quality principles to the overall marketing management process-preparing for a more highly competitive marketplace. Practical guidelines and processes are offered on how quality initiatives impact planning, organization, implementation, and quality control. This unique and valuable book presents a systems approach to quality-how to operationalize in the context of both the management and marketing cycles. It demonstrates how to establish effective team-based practices as well as describes the pitfalls of quality programs that are introduced as stand-alone programs without any linkage to overall strategy. This useful new book serves as a teaching tool and comprehensive reference source for integrating total quality. Case studies, exercises and chapter profiles also provide excellent support materials.

Quality is first and foremost about change, specifically organizational change. In
Chapter 8 reengineering and continuous improvement were discussed as
philosophies for change. How to identify and improve processes as a means of
effecting change were also discussed at length. The question then becomes to
what extent the change is helpful. In other words, standards of performance are
needed as a target. It is necessary to establish objective benchmarks in these
areas in order ...