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Mastering Business Excellence · Operational Excellence
Mastering Total Quality Management gives quality managers the economics, customer methods and culture work needed to prevent defects, not catch them.
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Inspection finds defects after the money has been spent making them. A quality function that lives on final inspection and rework is expensive in ways the ledger rarely shows.
Total Quality Management is the alternative: prevention designed into processes, customer requirements translated into specifications, and leaders who model the behaviors they ask for. Participants learn the thinking of Deming, Juran, Crosby, Feigenbaum and Ishikawa, the cost of quality model, voice of the customer tools, PDCA and the Lean waste lens.
Companies deploy it as 30 hours of self-paced online learning on the Blue Ocean learning platform, on web and mobile, so quality, production and service teams can study on their own schedules while the L&D team tracks enrollment, progress and completion on the administrator dashboard.
SIPOC, cost of quality and PDCA templates are included with the digital study resources, and knowledge checks and practice assessments sit in every module. Those who finish successfully are issued a digital, verifiable MBE credential.
Quality managers and quality engineers are the anchor of any cohort, but the program is designed to pull quality out of the quality department. Operations and production managers learn why the failure costs they absorb every month are a prevention problem. Continuous improvement and Lean practitioners gain the quality economics that justify their projects to finance.
Process and manufacturing engineers see how ownership and variation management fit together, and service delivery leads apply the customer-focus and voice of the customer modules to intangible outputs. Internal auditors benefit from the systems view in module eight. The strongest results come from cohorts that mix quality with the functions it audits.
The 18 modules build from philosophy to practice. Modules one to three lay the foundations: what quality means, the core TQM principles, the gurus, and the cost of quality model. Modules four and five concentrate on the customer, and modules six and seven on leadership, culture, teams and quality circles.
Modules eight to ten introduce the process approach, continuous improvement with PDCA, and Lean thinking. Modules eleven to thirteen supply the technical tools: the seven basic tools, control charts and Six Sigma. Modules fourteen to seventeen cover ISO 9001 alignment, excellence models, a culture of prevention and Quality 4.0, and module eighteen is an implementation capstone.
That is the point of it. Modules six and seven are about leadership, culture, cross-functional teams and quality circles, and module eight treats the whole organization as a system of interdependent processes with named owners. A quality head who enrolls production, service and supply chain colleagues alongside the quality team will find the shared vocabulary does more than any procedure.
Module three works through the quality economics model: prevention and appraisal spend on one side, internal and external failure on the other, plus the hidden failures that never reach a report. Participants learn to quantify each category for their own operation, which turns a quality improvement proposal into an investment argument a finance director can evaluate.
Module four establishes who the customers are, internal as well as external, and what they value. Module five then covers how to capture their voice through surveys and structured listening, how to measure satisfaction including Net Promoter Score, and how quality function deployment translates requirements into process specifications. The closing topic is turning satisfaction data into action.
Module six presents leadership as the catalyst for quality: modeling quality behaviors and values, building trust and psychological safety so problems are reported early, and aligning people, processes and purpose. Module seven extends this to employee involvement, quality circles, cross-functional collaboration, and the training, recognition and motivation that keep participation alive after the launch.
Lean is included in its own right. Module ten traces its origins in the Toyota Production System, then applies the eight wastes and value-added analysis, value stream mapping, and 5S, standard work and visual management to quality problems. Participants see that waste and defects share causes, and that TQM and Lean are complementary rather than competing methods.
Allow 30 hours of self-paced content on the Blue Ocean learning platform, accessed on web or mobile. Most organizations set a completion window of a few months and watch progress on the administrator dashboard, which reports enrollment, module progress and completion per person. Each participant who finishes the modules and the practice assessments is awarded a digital, verifiable MBE credential.
Use the Register Now button on this page. It opens Mastering Total Quality Management on the Blue Ocean Academy website, where individual learners can enroll directly.
Your organization licenses seats for a cohort or a whole team. Participants study the self-paced modules on the Blue Ocean learning platform, on web or mobile, and your administrator follows enrollment, progress and completion on a dashboard.
Yes. A pilot cohort in one department is a practical first step. Use the corporate license form, and a program advisor will map the relevant courses and license options to your teams.
Request a corporate license to take Mastering Total Quality Management across quality, production and service teams, or ask about a pilot cohort first.
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