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Listening to the Customer: Implementing Quality Function Deployment.
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Schauerman, Sam; And Others – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1994
Describes Yoji Akao's concept of quality function development (QFD), a strategic tool that translates the customers' quality requirements into organizational language. Examines how El Camino College's (California) application of QFD matches constituent needs to college functions. Includes an 11-item bibliography and lists El Camino College's…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, College Administration, College Planning, Community Colleges
Strategies for Implementation: The El Camino College Total Quality Management Story.
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Schauerman, Sam; Peachy, Burt – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1994
Traces the development of the principles and practices of Total Quality Management (TQM) at El Camino College, in California. Discusses institutional resistance to change and the need for careful implementation analysis and constituent group involvement. Includes a nine-item bibliography of theoretical and descriptive works. (MAB)
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Principles, College Administration, Community Colleges
Strategies for Implementation: The El Camino TQM Story.
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Schauerman, Sam; Peachy, Burt – 1993
In spring 1989, a group of 33 administrators, supervisors, faculty, and staff from El Camino College (ECC) in Torrance, California, attended 10 days of training in Total Quality Management (TQM) tools and techniques. The subsequent implementation of TQM at ECC included the following six phases: (1) establishing a Campus Commitment to Excellence…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Listening to the Voice of the Customer.
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Schauerman, Sam; And Others – 1993
One of the major tenets of Total Quality Management (TQM) is that organizations need to adopt a strong customer focus. At El Camino College (ECC) in Torrance, California, a matrix was developed to identify and describe ECC's direct and indirect internal and external customers. ECC then applied Quality Function Deployment (QFD), a strategic tool…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, College Planning, Community Colleges