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Managing Quality, Fifth Edition is an essential resource for students and practitioners alike. This popular and highly successful introduction to Quality Management has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent developments in the field Includes new chapters on Improvement Approaches, Six Sigma, and new challenges in Quality Management Combines the latest information on the ISO 9000 quality management system series standards with up-to-date tools, techniques and quality systems Material has been re-ordered and changes to terminology have been made to bring the book completely up to date Provides a popular resource for students, academics, and business practitioners alike

Networking among individuals, companies, government agencies and other bodies is one of the quality-related technology transfer policies that have been actively promoted in recent years. With the increasing demand and need for high quality performance, networking between people and organisations with common needs and problems can provide the scale or scope to gain understanding and find new opportunities to improve quality. Their common interest may be shared technology, customer-client relationships or market interests. This book gives an overview of a variety of successful quality networking initiatives taking place in the European Union, and considers successful approaches, their results and impact. Also it contains useful information about a large number of organisations promoting quality networking at the regional, national and European level. This book is based on a 1994/5 study, conducted as part of the European Innovation Monitoring Initiative (EIMS) within the SPRINT programme of the EC Directorate-General on Telecommunications, Information Market and Exploitation of Results (DG XIII).

"De familiearchieven in het Haagse Museum Meermanno zijn minder bekend dan de rest van het negentiende-eeuws ensemble met zijn incunabelen, handschriften, Egyptische, Griekse en Romeinse oudheden, Romeinse munten en middeleeuwse schilderijen op paneel. Het archief van stichter baron Willem van Westreenen (1783-1848) biedt een zeldzaam gedetailleerde inkijk in de structuur en wordingsgeschiedenis van zijn verzameling. Het Meerman-archief laat zien hoe Gerard Meerman (1722-1771) als achttiende-eeuwse geleerde te werk ging en hoe zijn zoon Johan (1753-1815) onder Lodewijk Napoleon voor het eerst een cultuurpolitiek vorm probeerde te geven. De briefwisseling van de numismaat Van Damme (1727-1806) geeft een beeld van een internationaal opererende handelaar met een niet geheel vlekkeloze reputatie".--P. [4] of cover.