These 'customer' relationships build into a 'supply chain', all links of which must be strong if the primary activity is to be well run. Quality issues are important in every part of the process. The aim is for continual and constant improvement. Encouraging innovation, problem solving, and evaluation throughout all processes provides consistent quality. Teamwork and cooperation are vital means of implementing consistent quality improvement.
Prevention is better than cure.
The Code is itself an example of quality standards. There is some minimum quality implied in the Code, in that any organisation or church that adopts the Code must do something in all 27 elements. But there is no specification as to what this 'something' must be. Nonetheless some quality standard is implied, in that all 27 elements must be covered in some way. Further quality standards have been developed through the Global Connections Short-Term Mission Forums.