Discussion 1: Within the Discussion Board area, write 250-300 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Discuss the following points regarding the total quality management concept:

• Discuss personal experience in regard to quality improvement programs.
  • If you have no experience, you should gain some from friends or work colleagues or-as a last resort-news articles.
  • If news reports are used, references and in-text citations must be provided.
• What has led to the more comprehensive strategic view about total quality management?
• Why did some quality initiatives fail?

Discussion 2: Within the Discussion Board area, write 250-300 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Discuss the following points regarding the total quality management (TQM) concept:

Using personal experience in regard to the quality improvement programs that you discussed in the previous week, which of the following specific quality program tactics were involved?

1. Increased or decreased inspection
2. Designing quality in
3. 5S
4. Kaizen
5. Mistake-proofing
6. Other

Describe the specifics of what was done.