Quality Management Systems (QMSs) have become a mainstay in today’s industries, whether it is defense, frozen food manufacturing or healthcare. These systems, such as ISO, can be acquired and adopted after audits by a certifying body. These audits only check current compliance and not current performance. Only a minimum set of requirements are evaluated in order to gauge eligibility. However, there is no formal investigation into whether an organization can actually manage to successfully implement a QMS, whether ISO or any home grown system for that matter. Quality Management Systems are not silver bullets. They can only work when the organization as a whole is willing to accept it and more importantly has the knowhow, skills and intention to implement it. Implementing a QMS, when there is a lack of readiness to do so, will cause myriad troubles for any organization. This study focuses primarily on how to assess whether an organization, namely Ispahani Islamia Eye Institute and Hospital, has the capability or ‘potential’ to successfully implement a QMS. The study identifies six key elements that are crucial prerequisites for successful QMS adoption and uses these key elements to develop a questionnaire based tool for numerically measuring Islamia’s potential to successfully implement and adopt a QMS. The method will be developed in such a way so as to be meaningful for other organizations in general and across multiple industries.
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Quality Assurance, Management, Implementation, Potential, Quantitative Measure
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