Achieving Customer Experience Excellence Through A Quality Management System

A case for seeing customer experience, CX, and associated transformations as the next natural evolution of the quality management system (QMS) already in place in most companies.

For the past decade, process validation issues ranked within the top six of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) form 483 observation findings issued each year. This poses a substantial problem for the medical device industry and is the reason why the authors wanted to write this book. The authors will share their collective knowledge: to help organizations improve patient safety and increase profitability while maintaining a state of compliance with regulations and standards. This book was written to assist quality technicians, engineers, managers, and others that need to plan, conduct, and monitor validation activities. To that end, the intent of this book is to provide the quality professional working in virtually any industry a quick, convenient, and comprehensive guide to properly conducting process validations that meet regulatory and certification requirements. It provides an introduction and background to the requirements necessary to perform process validations that will comply with regulatory and certification body requirements.

About the Book: Quality is key to the competitive advantage in today's business environment. In this book, the term Quality has been interpreted in its broader sense of overall performance of a organization rather than quality of products and services. The value of this book is in the rich experience of the Author in the body of knowledge of quality management, both in the national and international context. He has presented the subject in the way that it can be easily used in the practical situations, which would convince the reader of its applicability in the real world. In addition to traditional theory of TQM, the book also covers the new concepts of quality management developed in the last decade, such as Six-Sigma, Lean Production, CRM, Balanced Score Card and Corporate Social Responsibility. The book provides practical guidance for preparing comprehensive quality improvement plan, which not only covers production of goods and services, but also other departments such as Design, Marketing, Material Management and HR, all of which play an important part in achieving organizational excellence. Implementation of TQM is always a major problem. The book includes an exhaustive self-checklist, which can be used as a barometer for effective implementation. In addition to being a practical guide for the industry managers, it can also be used as a textbook on quality management by Management and Engineering institutes. Contents: Part:-I Product Quality and its Control Creating Quality by Design Quality Control of the Purchased Product Quality Control of Manufacturing Processes Sales and Product Quality Organising Effective Quality Management Economics of Quality The Human Factor in Quality Management of Service Quality Part:-II Concept and Philosophy ISO-9000 Standards The Customer-Focused Organization Leadership and Team Building Lean Production System Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Six-Sigma Corporate Social Responsibility Balanced Score Card Quality Awards Implementation of TQM Part:-III Frequency Distribution Normal Distribution Theory of Probability Control Charts Control Chart of Attributes Theory of Sampling Inspection Standard Sampling Tables Test of Significance Statistical Tolerancing ABC Analysis Value Analysis Defect Diagnosis and Prevention Reliability Design, Evaluation and Control Maintainability 5 'S' Practices Quality Circles.

A step-by-step guide to designing and implementing an amazing customer service culture In today's competitive business environment, keeping customers happy is the key to long-term success. But some businesses provide much better customer service than others. It's not always clear what works and what doesn't, and implementing new customer service practices midstream can be a difficult, chaotic task. Business leaders who want to transform their business culture into one of customer service excellence need reliable, proven guidance. Unleashing Excellence gives you practical tools and step-by-step guidance tailored to your company's individual customer service needs. It shows you how to navigate your teams through every step of the implementation process to achieve true customer service excellence. The book covers the training and education of your group, how to measure the quality of your service, how to build a culture of personal accountability, and how to recognize excellence and reward it. Fully revised to include updated information on the latest tools and best practices, as well as the stories and lessons learned from those organizations that have used the process described in the book. Offers proven best practices for designing and implementing an excellent customer service culture Simple format divides content into nine "leadership actions" that guide you through a step-by-step process Shows you how to build a common customer service vision for your entire organization Customer service is vital to the survival of your business. If you want to move your organization's customer service practices from good to great, Unleashing Excellence is the key.

Telemetry is an automated way of collecting data at remote sites or locations, and transmitting it to collectors at receiving site for monitoring, analyzing, and driving improvement actions. This book provides the necessary knowledge and information to understand the telemetry infrastructure and associated details. It will enable readers to implement a telemetry program to address customer experience pain and improve customer experience. The authors of this book have all served in different roles and capacities in one of Silicon Valley’s premier technology companies. These roles include software engineering, customer assurance, quality management, technology development, and implementation. Their paths intersected in the area of quality management, and they have witnessed first-hand how the latest technology/market transitions around Internet of Things (IoT), digitization, and telemetry are impacting the company they work, as well as the high-tech industry and global economy as a whole. The real-time nature of data and the advent of machine-learning algorithms have set the stage for a new era that the authors call adaptive customer experience. The premise of this concept is that real-time availability of customer experience data opens the door for real-time responses based on machine-learning algorithms. This creates an unprecedented opportunity to change the relationship between customers and the systems they depend on in their digital world. The proliferation of sensors and improvements in data science capabilities are creating an environment where the possibilities for telemetry are limitless. The book provides several examples of use cases and applications that help bring telemetry to life.

This is an important and timely book. Students of organizational behavior for the last 15 years have been asking how to integrate the technology of data gathering and data analysis with critical organizational challenges. This book shows how to do that, using the field of customer service to illustrate the broader point. This volume allows lay readers to understand telemetry and helps them enhance their data-gathering activities to strengthen customer relations. Author of The Agenda Mover: When Your Good Idea Is Not Enough and Transforming the Clunky Organization: Pragmatic Skills for Breaking Inertia (Cornell University Press) Telemetry is an automated way of collecting data at remote sites or locations, and transmitting it to collectors at receiving site for monitoring, analyzing, and driving improvement actions. This book provides the necessary knowledge and information to understand the telemetry infrastructure and associated details. It will enable readers to implement a telemetry program to address customer experience pain and improve customer experience. The authors of this book have all served in different roles and capacities in one of Silicon Valley's premier technology companies. These roles include software engineering, customer assurance, quality management, technology development, and implementation. Their paths intersected in the area of quality management, and they have witnessed first-hand how the latest technology/market transitions around Internet of Things (IoT), digitization, and telemetry are impacting the company they work, as well as the high-tech industry and global economy as a whole. The real-time nature of data and the advent of machine-learning algorithms have set the stage for a new era that the authors call adaptive customer experience. The premise of this concept is that real-time availability of customer experience data opens the door for real-time responses based on machine-learning algorithms. This creates an unprecedented opportunity to change the relationship between customers and the systems they depend on in their digital world. The proliferation of sensors and improvements in data science capabilities are creating an environment where the possibilities for telemetry are limitless. The book provides several examples of use cases and applications that help bring telemetry to life.

Promotes the theory that superior customer service leads to a superior business organisation

An instructor's manual and a set of PowerPoint transparencies are available to supplement the text.