European Foundation For Quality Management (Efqm) Model
European Foundation For Quality Management (Efqm) Model
European Foundation For Quality Management (Efqm) Model
Submitted to:
Dr. Subramaniam
SIBM B
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It is the highest award provided to the organization who have shown excellence management,
production process and overall development of the organization. It is only awarded in Europe. It
can also be used as a tool for assessing how effective an organization is developing and
delivering stakeholder focused strategy. It offers a view of the organization, highlighting its
strengths, weakness and opportunity to improve as a result it can be used as benchmarking tool
to compare an organization to its competitors and other leading organizations. The organization
can be used as a role model for the functioning of other organization in terms of excellence.
A point is to be noted that not every organization is eligible for this award. They have to show
that they are committed to excellence and should be recognized for the excellence. And the
company has to be I Europe.
Fundamental Concepts
This model is built around 8 fundamental concepts which helps the organization to perform
excellence. It outlines the foundation for achieving the sustainable excellence in any
organization. The foundation can be used as a basis to describe attributes of excellent
organization. These 8 concepts have been identified through a rigorous process of interviewing
various CEOs of Top companies and many management scholars over the span of 25 years. Each
of these 8 concepts have their own Importance and contribute significantly to the organization,
but maximum benefit can be only achieved by embodying all 8 concepts. The fundamental
concepts are:
Source: EFQM
Enablers:
Enablers are the thing that organization needs to do to develop and implement its strategy.
Leaders:
Excellent Organizations have leaders who shape the future and make it happen, acting as role
models for its values and ethics and inspiring trust at all times. They are flexible, enabling the
Organization to anticipate and reach in a timely manner to ensure the on-going success of the
Organization.
Strategy:
Excellent Organizations implement their Mission and Vision by developing a stakeholder focused
strategy. Policies, plans, objectives and processes are developed and deployed to deliver the
strategy
People:
Excellent Organizations value their people and create a culture that allows the mutually beneficial
achievement of Organizational and personal goals. They develop the capabilities of their people
and promote fairness and equality. They care for, communicate, reward and recognize, in a way
that motivates people, builds commitment and enables them to use their skills and knowledge for
the benefit of the Organization.
Partnership: Excellent organizations plan and manage external partnerships, suppliers and internal
resources in order to support their strategy, policies and the effective operation of processes. They
ensure that they effectively manage their environmental and societal impact.
Process, Products, and Services: Excellent Organizations design, manage and improve processes, products
and services to generate increasing value for customers and other stakeholders.
Results:
There are four Results areas, shown on the right-hand side of the Model. These are the results an
Organization achieves, in line with their strategic goals.
Customer Results:
Excellent Organizations achieve and sustain outstanding results that meet or exceed the need and
expectations of their customers.
People Results:
Excellent Organizations achieve and sustain outstanding results that meet or exceed the need and
expectations of their people.
Society Results:
Excellent Organizations achieve and sustain outstanding results that meet or exceed the need and
expectations of relevant stakeholders within society.
Business Results:
Excellent Organizations achieve and sustain outstanding results that meet or exceed the need and
expectations of their business stakeholders
Radar Logic:
The RADAR logic is a dynamic assessment framework and powerful management tool that provides a
structured approach to questioning the performance of an organization.
Source: EFQM
Results:
Organization should Determine the Results it is aiming to achieve as part of its strategy. And it
should ask itself a question What are we trying to achieve?
Approaches:
Organization should Plan and develop an integrated set of sound Approaches to deliver the
required results both now and in the future. And it should ask itself a question How do we try to
achieve this?
Deploy:
Organization should Deploy the approaches in a systematic way to ensure implementation. And it
should ask itself a question How / Where / When was this implemented?
Asses and refine:
Organization should Assess and Refine the deployed approaches based on monitoring and
analysis of the results achieved and ongoing learning activities. And it should ask itself: