Total Quality Management - CII Institute of Logistics
Total Quality Management - CII Institute of Logistics
Total Quality Management - CII Institute of Logistics
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<strong>Total</strong> <strong>Quality</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />
1.11 Strategic Planning for <strong>Quality</strong><br />
Strategy<br />
A strategy is a pattern or plan that integrates an organization's major goals, policies<br />
and action sequences into a cohesive whole. Formal strategies contain three elements:<br />
1. Goals to be achieved.<br />
2. Policies that guide or limit action.<br />
3. Action sequences, or programs, that accomplish the goals.<br />
The leading practices for firms that do effective strategic planning include:<br />
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Both top management and employees actively participate in the planning<br />
process.<br />
They use customer wants and needs to drive the strategy.<br />
They involve suppliers in the strategic planning process.<br />
They have well-established feedback systems for continuous measurement<br />
and re-evaluation <strong>of</strong> the planning process.<br />
Steps in Strategic Planning<br />
The steps in the strategic planning process are shown in Figure 3. Once the company's<br />
mission, vision, and guiding principles have been determined, the organization must<br />
assess the gap as to where it is now, and where it wants to be as described in its vision.<br />
Using this assessment, it must then develop goals, strategies, and objectives that will<br />
enable it to bridge this gap.<br />
<strong>CII</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Logistics</strong> 28<br />
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