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Seeking to improve their performance and product and/or service quality, many organizations focus exclusively on tactical quality issues. This is often done at the expense of the fundamental strategic direction of the organization. To avoid the mediocre results that sometimes stem from such poorly conceived total quality management programs, managers must learn to design, implement, and evaluate a strategic quality management effort.
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Ronald J. Recardo (1994) studied this question.
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