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What's the difference between reengineering and tqem?
Author(s) -
Wells Richard P.,
O'Connell Patricia A.,
Hochman Stephen
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
environmental quality management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1520-6483
pISSN - 1088-1913
DOI - 10.1002/tqem.3310020307
Subject(s) - business process reengineering , panacea (medicine) , total quality management , process management , business , quality (philosophy) , operations management , engineering , marketing , lean manufacturing , medicine , philosophy , alternative medicine , epistemology , pathology
Reengineering has become the latest corporate management buzzword, replacing, in many cases, total quality management as the panacea for industrial ills. How different are reengineering and total quality management (TQM), if at all, and how does each apply to environmental management? In this article the authors examine the concepts of reengineering and TQM as they apply to environmental management.