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  2. Cost of poor quality - Wikipedia

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    Cost of poor quality. Cost of poor quality (COPQ) or poor quality costs (PQC) or cost of nonquality, are costs that would disappear if systems, processes, and products were perfect. COPQ was popularized by IBM quality expert H. James Harrington in his 1987 book Poor-Quality Cost. [1] COPQ is a refinement of the concept of quality costs.

  3. Quality costs - Wikipedia

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    Quality costs. In process improvement efforts, quality costs tite or cost of quality (sometimes abbreviated CoQ or COQ[1]) is a means to quantify the total cost of quality -related efforts and deficiencies. It was first described by Armand V. Feigenbaum in a 1956 Harvard Business Review article.

  4. Quality, cost, delivery - Wikipedia

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    Quality, cost, delivery (QCD), sometimes expanded to quality, cost, delivery, morale, safety (QCDMS), [1] is a management approach originally developed by the British automotive industry. [2] QCD assess different components of the production process and provides feedback in the form of facts and figures that help managers make logical decisions ...

  5. Software quality - Wikipedia

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    CISQ reports on the cost of poor quality estimates an impact of: $2.08 trillion in 2020 [32] [33] $2.84 trillion in 2018; IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020 estimates that the average global costs of a data breach: [34] [35] $3.86 million

  6. Taguchi loss function - Wikipedia

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    The Taguchi loss function is graphical depiction of loss developed by the Japanese business statistician Genichi Taguchi to describe a phenomenon affecting the value of products produced by a company. Praised by Dr. W. Edwards Deming (the business guru of the 1980s American quality movement), [1] it made clear the concept that quality does not ...

  7. Unnecessary health care - Wikipedia

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    Unnecessary health care (overutilization, overuse, or overtreatment) is health care provided with a higher volume or cost than is appropriate. [1] In the United States, where health care costs are the highest as a percentage of GDP, overuse was the predominant factor in its expense, accounting for about a third of its health care spending ($750 billion out of $2.6 trillion) in 2012.

  8. Zero Defects - Wikipedia

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    To convince executives to take action to resolve issues of poor quality, costs associated with poor quality must be measured in monetary terms. [19] [11]: 121 Crosby uses the term "the price of nonconformance" in preference to "the cost of quality" to overcome the misimpression that higher quality requires higher costs. [18]

  9. Managed care - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The term managed care or managed healthcare is used in the United States to describe a group of activities intended to reduce the cost of providing health care and providing American health insurance while improving the quality of that care ("managed care techniques"). It has become the predominant system of delivering and receiving ...