You already have a quality department, you just don’t realize it. Do you have suppliers or service providers? You have people managing supplier quality when you receive parts or services that don’t meet your specifications. Is your product manufactured? Whether you build it yourself or outsource to a contract manufacturer, you’ve got quality issues. Do your customers have problems with your product or service? Somebody in your team is managing your response. Poor quality is costing you money, whether through internal rework or post-sale costs. The question is whether you want to pull all this activity together into a separate, centralized organization.