From the authors of
The Improvement Guide
,
The Health Care Data Guide, Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation,
and
Transforming Health Care Leadership
.
Quality as an Organizational Strategy
describes an approach to leading organizations based on W. Edwards Deming's charge that leaders need a new theory of management and a strategy built on quality. The book defines quality as a strategy and describes a framework of five activities for leaders that can generate both immediate results and long-term performance. The framework aligns the functions of measurement, marketing, planning, and execution of improvement projects to optimize the performance of any organization.
Five activities for leaders to focus the organization on improvement:
Purpose activity
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Establish and communicate the purpose of the organization
System activity
View the organization as a system (System Map and Vector of Measures)
Obtaining information activity (customer focus) - Establish a system to obtain information relevant to the Need the organization is fulfilling
Planning activity - Planning to improve
Managing improvement activity - Managing improvement efforts