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David Garvin

David Garvin's website (official or not) http://www.well.com/user/bbear/garvin.html
subjects David Garvin writes about Organizational Learning, Operations, Quality & Six Sigma
David Garvin's profile In the early 1980s, when everyone was talking about Japanese management, "quality circles," and "Theory Z," David Garvin of Harvard Business School did something truly interesting. He felt that, "If quality is to be managed, it must first be understood." So he studied one industry which was active in both the United States and Japan -- the room air conditioning industry -- analyzing the products to determine which plants in which country were turning out the highest quality. Then he analyzed every step of the manufacturing process, to find the differences that made the difference. He administered hundreds of questionnaires, toured plants, and questioned everyone from line supervisors to CEOs. His findings were often surprising. Some things that everyone thought guaranteed higher quality (such as exhaustive testing) did not, while some things rarely mentioned in the literature (such as the way the factory dealt with layoffs and seniority, and the length of production runs) made a big difference.

This detailed examination of a single industry provided a wealth of insights that apply to quality management in other industries. He explores his findings, and what they mean for other industries, in his book, Managing Quality: The Strategic and Competitive Edge.

In a wide-ranging conversation, I asked Dr. Garvin to tell us how his findings can make a difference in the health care industry. He started by mapping out a somewhat different, and more detailed, view of what exactly quality is.


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Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads
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"Business Schools Face Test of Faith." "Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools?" As these headlines make clear, business education is at a major crossroads.For decades, MBA graduates from top-tier schools...

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 Harvard Business School Press
 April 2010 - Hardcover
 Masters of Business Administration - MBA
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Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work
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Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get...

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 Harvard Business School Press
 March 2003 - Paperback
 Organizational Learning
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General Management: Processes and Action
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General Management: Processes and Action by David Garvin focuses on implementation, and the way that general managers get things done. Typically they work through processes like strategic planning,...

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 McGraw Hill
 July 2001 - Paperback
 General Management
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Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work
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Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get...

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 Harvard Business School Press
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 Organizational Learning
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Operations Strategy: Text and Cases
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Highly practical in focus, this volume proceeds from broad discussions of operations strategy, to assessments of specific strategies (competing on quality, productivity, and new products and...

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 Pearson Education POD
 October 1991 - Paperback
 Operations
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MANAGING QUALITY : THE STRATEGIC AND COMPETITIVE EDGE
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Compares American and Japanese quality management, pinpoints weaknesses in American production, and argues for a more sophisticated understanding of quality which can improve the competitive position...

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 Free Press
 February 1988 - Hardcover
 Quality & Six Sigma
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