Quality Is Still Free: Making Quality Certain in Uncertain Times

by Philip B. Crosby

Book Overview

This work provides an analysis of the author's entrepreneurial experiment in which he took quality ideas learned in corporate settings and adapted them to the business world at large. It re-examines... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070145326
• ISBN13: 9780070145320
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Quality is profitable

Crosby wrote an excellent book that is very useful to managers, quality professional and any individual concerned about quality. The author clearly explains the meaning of quality, which is conformity to requirements. He also shows a useful way to measure quality in terms of cash and not just the usual metrics such as the number of rejects per specified number of units produced. The profits that would flow from producing quality products and services is a good measure. Crosby explains that adopting the cost effective practice of preventing errors will result in avoiding rework, scrap or servicing, which result in increased profits. The author explains that quality processes should pervade the whole organisation, including areas like public relations or industrial relations, and not confined to customer specific areas. The book is practical oriented with the author providing some suggestions on how to implement his philosophies in a manufacturing organisation. The book is a bit dated but this does little to diminish the quality of the author's message. The book is applicable to all organisations in any industry, although the author had a bias towards manufacturing enterprises. This is a classic book that is highly recommended.