Quality is dead in Europe – long live excellence ‐ true or false?
Abstract
This deliberately provocative paper challenges the replacement of quality and total quality management by the term “excellence” in the EFQM excellence model. It also claims the current emphasis on “points scoring” is detracting from the fundamentals of quality management.
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Citation
Dale, B.G., Zairi, M., Van der Wiele, A. and Williams, A.R.T. (2000), "Quality is dead in Europe – long live excellence ‐ true or false?", Measuring Business Excellence, Vol. 4 No. 3, pp. 4-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/13683040010377737
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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