TOTAL QUALITY POSITIONING

Remember that hot strategy topic of the 1990's, Total Quality Management? As far as we know, TQM is still alive and well, particularly in those organizations that invested in learning how to implement it some years back. In reconsidering some of the basics of TQM, a nagging question occurred to us: Why hasn't anyone adapted and implemented the TQM principles to brand positioning? (If they have, it has been little noted, that's for sure.) We think virtually all of the fundamentals of TQM apply to brand positioning development and implementation as well. So, for this week, let's take a look at what we’re calling TQP: Total Quality Positioning.

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