Impacto competitivo de las herramientas para la gestión de la calidad

The aim of this article is to assess the impact of tools for quality management in the competitiveness of organizations, depending on whether they have adopted practices related to quality management in accordance with standard ISO 9001:2000 or on the model EFQM.

It has conducted a survey to 107 assessors of quality management models. The results obtained show that organizations with quality management system based on ISO 9001:2000 use mostly tools of wide purpose, designed to analyze their situation and to draw suggestions for improvement, which has relatively positive impact on their competitiveness. Moreover, those organizations that adopt the EFQM model use more specialized and focused tools, which leads to a marked improvement in more detailed aspects of their competitive capacity.

The classification detected on tools to improve quality, might enable organizations to choose those most effective in terms of its quality strategy.