Total quality management in service sector: a literature review

F Talib, Z Rahman, MN Qureshi - International Journal of …, 2012 - inderscienceonline.com
Over the last two decades, service organisations have embraced total quality management
(TQM) as an effective management tool to improve their service quality. They have begun to …

Towards continuous improvement (CI) in professional service delivery: a systematic literature review

A Prashar, J Antony - Total Quality Management & Business …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Driven by rising consumerism and intensifying competition, the professional service firms
(PSFs), across the globe, are realising the significance of established continuous …

Software quality and IS project performance improvements from software development process maturity and IS implementation strategies

GH Subramanian, JJ Jiang, G Klein - Journal of Systems and Software, 2007 - Elsevier
The capability maturity model (CMM) is part of several software process improvement (SPI),
six sigma, and total quality management (TQM) initiatives in organizations. SPI and …

A study of the relationships between total quality management implementation factors and software quality

MJ Parzinger, R Nath - Total quality management, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
Many software development enterprises are using total quality management (TQM)
methodology to improve developmental efficiencies and enhance the quality of software …

A conceptual framework for total quality management in software organizations

G Issac, C Rajendran… - Total Quality Management …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
The factors of ever-increasing customer demand, global competition, and software quality
have made the process of software development with a focus on quality quite demanding …

Six Sigma in the Indian software industry: some observations and results from a pilot survey

R Mahanti, J Antony - The TQM Journal, 2009 - emerald.com
Purpose–The aim of this paper is to present the results from an empirical investigation of Six
Sigma in the Indian software industry Design/methodology/approach–The paper begins with …

An instrument for the measurement of customer perceptions of quality management in the software industry: An empirical study in India

G Issac, C Rajendran, RN Anantharaman - Software Quality Journal, 2006 - Springer
Most of the available literature on quality management is based on management's
perception; few studies examine critical issues of quality management from the customer's …

A holistic framework for TQM in the software industry: a confirmatory factor analysis approach

G Issac, C Rajendran… - Quality Management …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Global competition, which has now become fierce because of advancements in technology
and changing equations in the global economy, has made its impact on the software …

Significance of quality certification: The case of the software industry in India

G Issac, C Rajendran… - Quality Management …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Total quality management (TQM), ISO 9000, the Capability Maturity Model standards, and
the consequent operational-performance indicators of organizations are of interest to …

Software quality construction in 11 companies: an empirical study using the grounded theory

FP Seth, E Mustonen-Ollila, O Taipale… - Software Quality …, 2015 - Springer
This paper investigates software quality construction in 11 software companies using the
Grounded Theory research method. Our analysis shows that software quality construction is …