Risk Factors in Implementing Total Quality Management in Your Organization

This TQM article is about Implementing Total Quality Management (TQM) in an organization. It is quite known to the business world that this is not an easy task. However, there is a systematic approach to assess its likelihood of success in implementing TQM provides an early sign for actions. Below are a set of questionnaires to assess 5 critical success factors for a Implementing Total Quality Management in an organization. It is a simple and direct questions asked to draw the readiness of an organization in its sate of preparedness. The questions should be answer in a skill of 0 to 10, being 0 is the lowest score and 10 is the highest score. when allocating score, the instantaneous answer in mind should be taken instead of think through too thoroughly. There are 2-3 questions to each of the Critical Success Factors.

Strategic Focus

To what extent are team improvement objective focused on strategic organization goals?To what extent are team success related to the organization financial success?

Risk Factors in Implementing Total Quality Management in Your Organization

Management Commitment

To what extent do senior managers review the progress of improvement teams?How often senior management involve in the team activities?How often are team improvement recommendations approved by senior management

Links to the Line Organization

How well are team improvement recommendations executed by the rest of the organization (other department with similar processesTo what extent improvement recommendations are derived from a systematic tools?To what extent are team improvement recommendations piloted before a solution is launched?

Organizational Versus Functional Focus

To what extent are employee in your organization rewarded for meeting organization goals? How well do employee work across functions and departments in your organization?To what extent are team emphasize on organization improvement project as opposed to functional projects?

Methods and Support

To what extent do your teams get training and support from trained facilitators on a regular basis?To what extent do your teams follow a consistent Improvement Methodology?To what extent do your sponsor understand the Improvement Methodology?

In summary: Upon completion of all the questions, you can draw the score into a radar chart with the high score at the outer sphere of the radar chart. The shape of the radar chart would provide a clear indication which is the area of focus for improvement. These questionnaires should be taken as an indicators for success in Implementing Total Quality Management.

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Diabetes - What Are The Risk Factors?

Diabetes is like the film that was "years in the making"-it takes literally years for Diabetes to develop. If you know what to look for you can see it coming and actually prevent it all together. If you don't see it coming until you have it-it is too late.

The risk factors are as obvious as the nose on your face. Here's how you can overcome some of them and possibly avoid this terrible disease

The risk factors for Diabetes basically fall into two basic categories: Controllable and Uncontrollable. Most of them are interrelated.

Diabetes - What Are The Risk Factors?

The CONTROLLABLE risk factors are:

WEIGHT. Too much body fat particularly around the mid section. As we get older our metabolism slows down making it more difficult to maintain/lose weight. Unless you have been under a rock somewhere you probably have heard about the growing obesity problem in America.

SMOKING. Smoking makes it more difficult to get your blood sugar under control. Smoking has all sorts of other associated risks as well.

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. A direct result of being overweight and a risk factor for other serious diseases.

HIGH CHOLESTEROL. A direct result of diet and indirectly weight.

INACTIVITY. A by product of weight. As you get older your energy level declines leading to inactivity and weight gain.

DEPRESSION. People who are depressed often are inactive and gain weight.

Some UNCONTROLLABLE risk factors are:

FAMILY HISTORY. If mom or pop had it your chances of getting it are pretty good.

ECONOMIC STATUS. There is a growing amount of scientific evidence that relates income levels to diet which relates directly to obesity. I have had a gut feeling that obesity is more a problem of the poor than the well to do. These studies seem to bear this out. In other words, poorer folks don't eat as well which leads to obesity.

AGE. If you are over 50 you are more likely to get type 2 diabetes. Guess why? After 50 your metabolism slows down, you're less active, etc. You are more likely to gain weight and on and on.

Are you starting to see a theme here? As my doc used to say "it is all about the weight." Lose weight and your blood pressure goes down, your cholesterol is lowered, you will probably be exercising making you sleep better and a happier person. What's not to like with that?

Plus you will lower the major risk factors for a disease you do not want. What are you waiting for?

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