
Discover what quality means and its everyday impact, and learn the basic components of total quality management for practical implementation.
Recognize that quality fulfills customer and interested parties' needs and that everyone bears responsibility. Apply Deming's principles: plan long-term quality, embed it in processes, and partner with suppliers.
Explore Deming's quality principles, focusing on continuous improvement through the pdca cycle, training and education, on-the-job training, Kaizen, leadership, participative management, and open communication to eliminate fear.
Explore Deming's ninth principle of breaking down departmental barriers, embracing an internal customer philosophy, cross-functional processes, and collaboration to prevent variation and drive ongoing process improvement across the organization.
Explore the eight principles of total quality management, including customer focus, employee commitment, process approach, integrated systems, strategic and systematic approach, continual improvement, fact-based decision making, and communication.
Explore customer driven organizations that understand needs and delight customers. Compare data driven and opinion driven decisions and use top-down and bottom-up communication, consulting customers through multiple channels.
Invest in prevention to stop errors before they occur and reduce inspection costs. Clarify your mission as your purpose and craft a long-term vision that guides future growth.
Explore the total quality management toolkit through brainstorming, capturing ideas, and applying the six thinking hats to enhance collaborative quality improvements.
Explore swot analysis focusing on internal characteristics, identifying strengths and weaknesses in financial, physical, human resources, natural resources, patents, copyrights, and current processes to guide quality improvements.
Explore how external factors shape opportunities and threats in SWOT analysis, including market trends, economic shifts, funding, demographics, privacy, and competition.
Explore swot analysis as a practical framework to assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and apply it to personal and organizational planning amid the external environment.
Learn the Pestel analysis—political, economical, social, technological, environmental, and legal factors—and how they shape total quality management decisions, standalone or with SWOT.
Explore how a flow chart visualizes any process with BPMN shapes, gateways, and swim lanes to reveal bottlenecks, boundaries, and responsibilities across departments.
Kaizen accelerates the DMAIC cycle for rapid, ongoing improvement, using define, measure, analyze, improve, and control with five whys for immediate root-cause resolution.
Explore the kaizen cycle within the dmaic framework, define, measure, analyze, improve, and control the process to identify root causes and implement lasting improvements.
Learn the PDCA cycle—plan, do, check, act—rooted in Deming's principles and ISO standards, and apply planning, testing, audits, and continual improvement to meet objectives.
Apply the do check act cycle to total quality management, pilot a small-scale production test, address nonconformities with root cause analysis per ISO 9001:2015, and pursue continual improvement.
Conclude the total quality management course by reaffirming quality definitions, data-driven and customer-focused practices, ISO 9001 foundations, and the plan-do-check-act cycle, plus kaizen and related tools.
Total Quality Management (TQM) is a customer-oriented process that aims for the continuous improvement of business operations. It ensures that all employees and their work align to common goals of improving product or service quality, showing continuous enhancement and improvement through continuous feedback. Strong support and commitment from the management is a key factor and principle that could influence the success of implementing a TQM system in the organization.
Outcomes
After completing this course, you will be able to:
Complete knowledge and understanding of total quality management and its importance to an organization
Increased skill, confidence and experience to partake in establishing a TQM system within the organization for ensuring standard quality delivered by all departments
Increased skill & experience to audit current systems to check for gaps in quality management & delivery & devise corrective actions & implement systems to handle
Greater skillset & capabilities to play an important part in influencing organizational success by successfully implementing TQM systems focused on the customer and employee, thus resulting in increased customer and employee satisfaction
Audience:
Quality managers responsible for ensuring adherence to quality standards in terms of operations as well as product and/or service delivery
Human resource professionals and other stakeholders involved in building a quality-sensitive culture
Internal and external auditors who need to ensure that the systems set up for quality management are delivering the desired results