Management systems and organizational performance : the search for excellence beyond ISO 9000

Abstract

This book gives you a framework for understanding how all of the new management techniques (even the fads) fit-or usually do not fit-your own business, and offers insight into avoiding potential business disasters. Identifying an organizational revolution built on cycles of planning, action, learning, and on a humanized scientific method, Stankard shows how firms that have won the Baldrige Award for performance excellence do, in fact, excel in the marketplace and on Wall Street.