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ALSO CALLED: Data Quality Control, Total Quality Management, TQM, and Quality Standards
DEFINITION: Total Quality Management (TQM) is a comprehensive and structured approach to organizational management that seeks to improve the quality of products and services through ongoing refinements in response to continuous feedback. TQM requirements may be defined separately for a particular organization or may be in adherence to established standards, such as the International Organization for Standardization's
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Quality Control White Papers
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Value-Driven Healthcare: Transforming the Environment with Business Intelligence
sponsored by SAP America Inc
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Find out why the benefits from applying business intelligence (BI) in the healthcare environment are tremendous. Learn how leveraging the wealth of information to understand patients and physicians, to monitor operational performance, and to anticipate the need for action or change are strong incentives for adopting BI.
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009
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Data privacy best practices: time to take action!
sponsored by IBM
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This white paper explains the steps you need to consider when developing your privacy strategy and implementing your first data privacy project. Find out how you can help your organization implement best practices in privacy protection and make your privacy project successful from start to finish.
Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 04 Sep 2009
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Automated testing ROI: fact or fiction? A customer's perspective: What real QA organizations have found
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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The white paper explores the fundamentals of automated software testing, explains how such an endeavor is actually an investment for a company, and details how a company can get a return on their investment.
Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009
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Best Practices and State of the Art Tools for Modern GUI Creation
sponsored by Instantiations
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GUI building tools allow developers to spend less time and money creating Java GUIs, because they can focus on creating application-specific functionality rather than coding the low-level logic required for GUIs to run.
Posted: 04 Feb 2009 | Published: 04 Feb 2009
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Making Quality a Deliverable in Eclipse-Based Java Development
sponsored by Instantiations
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CodePro AnalytiX as part of a continuous or nightly-build process, seamlessly integrate it into any Eclipse-based Java development environment, or use a combination of the two implementation approaches.
Posted: 04 Feb 2009 | Published: 04 Feb 2009
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Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence through Real-time Performance Management and Continuous Improvement
sponsored by SAP America Inc
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Manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the transition to new IT technology all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise.
Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 26 Jan 2009
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Observing Data Quality Service Level Agreements: Inspection, Monitoring, and Tracking
sponsored by DataFlux Corporation
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This paper discusses how implementing a DQ SLA via formalized processes can transform data quality management from a constant "fire-fighting" mode to a more consistent, proactive approach.
Posted: 05 Jan 2009 | Published: 05 Jan 2009
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The Executive Guide to Business Analyst and Project Management Terminology
sponsored by Global Knowledge
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In this guide you will learn the most commonly used business analysis and project management terms and it helps you better communicate with business analysis and project management professionals.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008
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Qos: What Is It? Why Do We Need It?
sponsored by Global Knowledge
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QoS can be used in converged networks to provide voice packets priority access to resources, or it can be used to differentiate data packets from different application stream and provide access to resources according to policy.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008
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Agile Development: A Manager's Roadmap for Success
sponsored by VersionOne Inc.
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This white paper presents the key characteristics of successful agile managers as they introduce and scale agile methods. Learn what agile managers can do to help their teams and organizations adopt agile development practices to deliver real...
Posted: 02 Oct 2008 | Published: 02 Oct 2008
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Strategic QA: Steps to Effective Software Quality Assurance
sponsored by IBM
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This whitepaper details the challenges and solutions available for organizations wishing to improve their software development process, reduce costs, improve quality and increase reliability of planning.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 10 Jul 2008
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Best Practices for Implementing Automated Functional Testing
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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By automating functional testing, you can take major steps forward to improve automated business processes. Your development and QA teams can increase the speed and accuracy, and your IT department can achieve a higher ROI from software projects.
Posted: 29 Apr 2008 | Published: 29 Apr 2008
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QUALITY CONTROL DEFINITION (continued): … ISO 9000 series. TQM can be applied to any type of organization; it originated in the manufacturing sector and has since been adapted for use in almost every type of organization imaginable, including schools, highway maintenance, hotel management, and churches. As a current focus of e-business, TQM is based on quality management from the customer's point of view.TQM processes are divided into four sequential categories: plan, do, check, and act (the PDCA cycle). In the planning phase, people define the problem to be addressed, collect relevant data, and ascertain the problem's root cause; in … Quality Control definition sponsored by SearchCIO.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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