The industry-based model for quality management and measurement whose premise is that operational waste needs to be eliminated is:
a. Six Sigma.
b. ISO 9000.
c. Lean Enterprise.
d. Baldrige National Quality Award Pro-gram.
C
Lean Enterprise is a model of quality measurement that was originally associated with Deming but reintroduced to the United States by Womack in the mid-1990s (Jones & Womack, 2003). The premise of this model is that operational waste in an organization needs to be eliminated.
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