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Out of the crisis / W. Edwards Deming.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Engineering Study, c1986.Description: xiii, 507 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0911379010
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD70.U5 D45 1986
Contents:
Chain reaction: quality, productivity, lower costs, capture the market -- Principles for transformation of western management -- Diseases and obstacles -- When? how long -- Questions to help managers -- Quality and the consumer -- Quality and productivity in service organizations -- Some new principles of training and leadership -- Operational definitions, conformance, performance -- Standards and regulations -- Common causes and special causes of improvement, stable system -- More examples of improvement downstream -- Some disappointments in great ideas -- Two reports to management -- Plan for minimum average total cost for test of incoming materials and final product -- Organization for improvement of quality and productivity -- Some illustrations for improvement of living.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks HD70.U5D45 1986 1 Available 33710000864665

Includes bibliographies and index.

Chain reaction: quality, productivity, lower costs, capture the market -- Principles for transformation of western management -- Diseases and obstacles -- When? how long -- Questions to help managers -- Quality and the consumer -- Quality and productivity in service organizations -- Some new principles of training and leadership -- Operational definitions, conformance, performance -- Standards and regulations -- Common causes and special causes of improvement, stable system -- More examples of improvement downstream -- Some disappointments in great ideas -- Two reports to management -- Plan for minimum average total cost for test of incoming materials and final product -- Organization for improvement of quality and productivity -- Some illustrations for improvement of living.

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