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The Quality Yearbook, 1998
Edited by James W. Cortada and John A. Woods
McGraw-Hill



The Quality Yearbook, 1998 Edition is the fifth anniversary edition of the standard reference to what's going on in the practice of quality management. The Quality Yearbook is an annual 800-page anthology and reference for people who want to keep up to date with the whats and hows of this approach to managing. In this edition, you'll find over 70 articles, both original and reprints from many sources covering every aspect of quality management from culture and leadership to process management and measurement to ISO 9000. Each edition also includes a reference section with lots of information for finding out more. In the table of contents just below, the green dot () indicates an original article written for The Quality Yearbook.

CWL Publishing Enterprises is responsible for all production work on The Quality Yearbook. This 800 page book goes from manuscript to final pages ready for printing in 8 weeks.



TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART ONE. BACKGROUND FOR QUALITY
The Story Behind the Book: Using Quality Practices to Create The Quality Yearbook, James W. Cortada and John A. Woods

Classics in Quality
Co-ordination, Mary Parker Follett
Hands On, Value Driven, Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman

Quality Perspectives
Reflections About a Most Unforgettable Person: W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993), Peter B. Petersen
Reflections on the Current State of Quality Improvement Initiatives in the U.S., Robert E. Cole

PART TWO. QUALITY BY INDUSTRY
MANUFACTURING SECTOR
The Second Generation of Quality: Global Supply Chain Integration in Japan and the U.S., Aleda V. Roth
Quality at the Top, William A. Levinson
Mastering the Quality Staircase, Step by Step, Kee Young Kim, Jeffrey G. Miller, and Janelle Heineke
Kaizen Makes Dollars & Sense for Mercedes-Benz in Brazil, Mark Oakeson

SERVICES SECTOR
Achieving Excellence, Eberhard Scheuing
Managing Our Way to Higher Service-Sector Productivity, Michael van Biema and Bruce Greenwald
The Agility Revolution, Carl Beidleman and Manash Ray
Fulfilling the Strategic Promise of Shared Services, Leland I. Forst
Expanding the Customer Care Frontier, Wayne R. Wilhelm and Bill Rossello

PUBLIC SECTOR
Government
Reflections on the Implementation of TQM in Government, James S. Bowman
Four More Years of Reinventing Government, Brad Stratton
Communities as Systems, Peter R. Scholtes

Health Care
A Benchmarker's Benchmark, Rhoda Weiss
Health Care Organizations Can Learn From the Experiences of Others, Nada R. Sanders
Quality Comes Under Scrutiny, Kevin M. Smith and Michael D. Maniccia

Higher Education
Market Forces Driving Change in Higher Education, Julie Horine
Using the Baldrige Award Criteria in College Classrooms, Michael Ensby and Farzad Mahmoodi

Education K-12
Transforming Education Systemically, Julie Horine
Eight Reasons Why TQM Can't Work, Alan Blankstein
Customer Feedback From the Classroom, Sharron Walker

PART THREE. IMPLEMENTING QUALITY
QUALITY TRANSFORMATION
Planning
Strategic Planning Is Back, Patricia A. Galagan
Strategic Planning with the Hoshin Process, David A. Kenyon

Leadership
Make It Simple! How Simplicity Could Become Your Ultimate Strategy, Bill Jensen
When It Comes to Real Change, Too Much Objectivity May Be Fatal to the Process, David K. Hurst

Cultural Transformation
The Six Values of a Quality Culture, John A. Woods
Culture-Change Lessons, John H. Sheridan
Conceptual Reengineering at Nissan, Robert J. Thomas
How to Manage Key Business Processes, Rico Yingling

Knowledge Management
Spotlight on Knowledge Management: Developing a Strategy to Improve
Organizational Effectiveness, Eric Lesser and Laurence Prusak
Knowledge Managers Guide Information Seekers, Ruth L. Williams and Wendi R. Bukowitz
Demystifying Business Intelligence, Kenneth A. Sawka

Voice of the Customer
Building Customer and Shareholder Value, Alan S. Cleland and Albert V. Bruno
A New Twist to a Quality Classic, Michael Sackmary
A Study of "Best" Versus "Average" Buyer-Seller Relationships, Dorothy A. Paun

Teams and Teamwork
Compensating Teams, Perry Pascarella
Does One Reward Fit All? Bob Nelson

Systems Thinking/Learning Organizations
Infrastructure for a Learning Organization, Peter M. Senge
Managing an Organization as a System, Alan P. Brache and Geary A. Rummler

Communication
Cascading Communications Creates Momentum for Change, Cheryl Wild, Nicholas Horney, and Richard Koonce
Is Empowerment Just a Fad? Control, Decision Making, and IT, Thomas W. Malone

QUALITY TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
Process Reengineering
Re-engineering Our Quality Initiatives at Cargill, Inc., Phil Forvé, Fred Baumer, and Kevin Crowley
Anatomy of a Turnaround, Charles M. Bokman

Process Management and Measurement
Mistake-Proofing: Process Improvement Through Innovative Inspection Techniques, John Grout
A Framework for Process Effectiveness Measures, Michael N. King and Teresa Dickinson
COQ Systems: The Right Stuff, Dean L. Bottorff
The Value-Added Ratio, Patrick Shannon
Cause-and-Effect Diagrams Alone Don't Tell the Whole Story, Ronald E. Turner
Managing Complexity, David Kerridge and Sarah Kerridge
Make Customer Service Analyses a Little Easier With the PGCV Index, Willard C. Hom

FUNCTIONAL PROCESSES
Suppliers and Purchasing
The Bullwhip Effect in Supply Management, Hau L. Lee, V. Padmanabhan, and Seungjin Whang
What's Wrong With Supply Chain Management? Robert M. Monczka and Jim Morgan
Information Supply Chain: Build Systems to Meet Needs, Richard L. Dawe, Dale S. Rogers, and R.J. Leep
Purchasing Rebuilds to Battle Poor Quality, Tim Minahan

Logistics
The Cost of Failure, Robert J. Bowman
Logistical Thinking, Sam Tulip
The Lessons of Honeywell, Robert J. Bowman

Information Technology and Management
IT Strategies for Profitably Providing High-Level Customer Service, Jan Hopland
Integrated Operations: Getting the Big Picture, Nick Wreden

Accounting/Finance
Measuring Change at Conair-Franklin, Jack Downie anmd Gail Pastoria
ABM Lifts Bank's Bottom Line, Robert B. Sweeney and James W. Mays

Product Development
Facilitating Global Organizational Learning in Product Development at Whirlpool Corporation, Deborah Duarte and Nancy Snyder
How Hewlett-Packard Runs Its Printer Division, Lawrence M. Fisher
Have You Looked at Your New Product Development Environment Lately? Philip H. Francis and John R. Greenwald

Human Resources
Involving Temporary Workers in Process Improvement Activities, John J. Lawrence
Study Clarifies Job-rotation Benefits, Lisa Cheraskin and Michael A. Campion
An Incentive Compensation Plan With an Eye on Quality, Robert H. Kluge

STANDARDS AND ASSESSMENTS
ISO 9000
Coping with ISO 9000 and QS-9000 in Transition, Amy Zuckerman
12 Rules to Make Your ISO 9000 Documentation Simple and Easy to Use, C.W. Russ Russo
Rockwell Leverages ISO 14000 and ISO 9000 Management Systems, Annette Dennis McCully
Achieving Peak to Peak Performance Using QS 9000, John Brown

Baldrige Criteria/Quality Audits
Baldrige Award Celebrates Its 10th Birthday With a New Look, Karen Bemowski
How to Use a Values Audit, David Trickett
Integrated Performance Measurement Systems: An Audit and Development Guide, Umit S. Bititci, Allan S. Carrie, and Liam McDevitt

PART FOUR. QUALITY REFERENCES
Annotated Bibliography of Quality Books and Articles
Quality Resources On-line '98
Directory of Magazines, Journals, and Newsletters that Cover Quality
A Quality Management Tools Library
Why Best Practices? The Shortcut to Productivity and Results, James W. Cortada
Quotes on Quality
1997 Baldrige Award Winners



Would you like to order a copy of The 1998 Quality Yearbook? Go here



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If you are interested in the effective management practices that TQM is all about, here are some other books by John Woods and Jim Cortada to check out:

The 1998 ASTD Training and Performance Yearbook

QualiTrends: 7 Quality Secrets that Will Change Your Life

The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Quality Terms and Concepts

Supervision (a new college text with the theme of the "systems view" of organizations)

TQM for Information Systems Management

TQM for Sales and Marketing Management

Ten Minute Guide to Teams and Teamwork

Best Practices in Customer Service



In The Quality Yearbook, we have recommended many different books useful in learning more about the theory and practice of managing for quality. To find out more, visit our virtual bookstore, where you can learn more about these books and where you can purchase them from the Amazon.com online bookstore.



Every year in The Quality Yearbook, we include a section on quotes from many sources related, directly or indirectly, to many different aspects of managing and leading for quality. Click here for Quotes on Quality.



Links to Quality Management and Training Web Sites and Discussion Lists (lots of sites and lists pertaining to enlightened management and effective training)



Articles on quality management issues from John Woods and Jim Cortada:

The Six Values of a Quality Culture (an overview of the values consistent with the systems view of organizations and necessary to successfully implement quality management practices)

Paradigms, Systems, and TQM (an insightful article on why the practices of quality management will always yield the best results for any organization)

Why Best Practices: The Shortcut to Productivity and Results (how to identify and use best practices to quickly improve performance)



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