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QuEST Forum provides comprehensive materials, presentations, references and documents on Best Practices, Knowledge Library, TL 9000 quality management system, and much more.

Articles
Best Practices Resources
Brochures
Case Studies
Insights and Intents
Knowledge Library
Performance Data Reports
Presentations
State of the Forum
Supplier to Service Provider Metrics Request Letter
TL 9000 Handbooks
TL 9000 Product Category Selection and Validation Guidelines
TL 9000 Industry Reports
TL 9000 Sample Contract Language
TL 9000 Resources
FAQ

Articles

• TL 9000: A Telecom Industry Success Story(ISO Focus, March 2008) (PDF, 214KB)
• Evaluating the Success of TL 9000 and QuEST Forum Bob Clancy (Quality Digest, December 2007)
• TL 9000 - zmodyfikowany standard ISO 9001:2000 dla telekomunikacji
  (May 2003, Polish Translation) (PDF, 380KB)
• BEAMing Up to Quality (Quality Digest, May 2002) (PDF, 93KB)
• Moving from QMS Conformance to Business Excellence in Telecom
  (Quality Digest, May 2002) (PDF, 234KB)
• The Road to TL 9000: From the Bell Breakup to Today (Quality Progress, June 2001) (PDF, 187KB)

Best Practice Resources

Brochures

• 2011 Network and Service Reliability Benchmarking Study(PDF, 419KB)
• QuEST Forum Overview Brochure (PDF, 498KB)
• QuEST Forum Membership Brochure (PDF, 1165KB)
• Performance Benchmarking Brochure (PDF, 453KB)
• Performance Data Reports Brochure (PDF, 570KB)
• TL 9000 Brochure (PDF, 596KB)
• Jump Start Brochure (PDF, 638KB)

Case Studies

• SBC: Achieving Supply Chain Excellence through TL 9000 (PDF, 113KB)

Insights and Intents

• QuEST Forum Insights and Intents (PDF, 1.1MB)

Knowledge Library

The Knowledge Library offers a comprehensive online database of papers and presentations from past Best Practices conferences, industry data, and research. QuEST Forum Members access to the Knowledge Library

Presentations

• A Best Practice for Providing Field Performance Data to Suppliers, Archie McCain, BellSouth (PDF, 909KB)
• Leveraging Employee Suggestions for Process Excellence, Cherry Hudson, Corning Cable Systems (PDF, 3.1MB)
• A Measurement System that Drives Performance Excellence, Kay Hunn, Lockheed Martin (PDF, 4.1MB)

State of the Forum

• State of the Forum Presentation (PDF, 6293KB)

Supplier to Service Provider Metrics Request Letter

• Template - Supplier to Service Provider Metrics Request Letter (DOC,17.5KB)

TL 9000 Handbooks

TL 9000 Resources

QuEST Forum Site FAQ