Find out more about total quality management with our selection of articles, links and guides to help you identify best practice, techniques and tools to apply to your business.
Online books, guides and publications
Briefings
Directors' Briefings and Start-Up Briefings are four-page guides written for the busy practitioner, director and entrepreneur providing concise, practical advice on core business issues.
- Directors' briefing: ISO 9000 (PDF 146kb/4 pages)
A guide that describes ISO 9000:2000, the international quality system standard series. In this guide, find out about the benefits of using a quality system, how to introduce the new system and how to achieve ISO 9001 accreditation.
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Online articles
The library provides access to a range of articles in full text from leading business, finance and management journals.
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Useful links
Quality management standards (Business Link)
Business Link page on the importance of setting up a quality management system which gives guidance on how to implement a system and get it certified.
British Standards Institution (BSI)
BSI's Quality homepage including information on ISO9000 and ISO14000. Access guidance notes, reports and case studies. Free registration is required.
Excellence model (BQF)
Published by the British Quality Foundation (BQF), the excellence model is the most widely used organisational framework in Europe. The framework and its components are described.
Quality management
A guide from the Is4profit website that defines quality management and works through the process from setting targets to assessing needs and making improvements.
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