Strategic management analyzes the major initiatives taken by a company’s top management on behalf of owners‚ involving resources and performance in external environments.[1] It entails specifying the organization’s mission‚ vision and objectives‚ developing policies and plans‚ often in terms of projects and programs‚ which are designed to achieve these objectives‚ and then allocating resources to implement the policies and plans‚ projects and programs. A balanced scorecard is often used to evaluate
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Quality management The term quality management has a specific meaning within many business sectors. This specific definition‚ which does not aim to assure ’good quality ’ by the more general definition‚ but rather to ensure that an organization or product is consistent‚ can be considered to have four main components: quality planning‚ quality control‚ quality assurance and quality improvement.[1] Quality management is focused not only on product/service quality‚ but also the means to achieve it
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www.sciedu.ca/ijba International Journal of Business Administration Vol. 2‚ No. 1; February 2011 Comparative Analysis of Business Students’ Perceptions of Service Quality Offered in Kenyan Universities Sarah Wambui Kimani (Corresponding author) The Catholic University of Eastern Africa P. O. Box 62157‚ 00200‚ Nairobi‚ Kenya Tel: +254-716-642262 E-mail: swambui@cuea‚ swambuikimani@yahoo.com Elias Kiarie Kagira Department of Business Administration‚ Africa Nazarene University (Kenya) P.O
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QUALITIES OF A HERO Sacrifice - is the forfiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim. Determination - is a fixed intention or resolution; a firmness of purpose or resolve. Loyalty - is the feeling of allegiance or the act of binding oneself to a course of action. Courage - is that firmness of spirit and swell of soul which meets danger without fear. Dedication - is a selfless devotion; complete and whole hearted fidelity or the act of binding
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MANAGEMENT OF QUALITY Quality cannot be ignored; every purchasing decision is based on price and quality What is Quality? It’s the ability of a product or service to consistently meet or exceed customer expectations. Slogans related to quality: * Talk is cheap but recalls are not. * There is nothing is more frustrating than working hard and then knowing that what you did‚ didn’t work out. * People want to do good job‚ and we have to enable them. To meet or exceed customer expectations
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Managing Cost of Quality: Insight into Industry Practice Andrea Schiffauerova *‚ Vince Thomson ** * École Polytechnique de Montréal‚ Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering‚ Montreal ** Department of Mechanical Engineering‚ McGill University‚ Montreal‚ Canada Article Reference: Schiffauerova‚ A. and Thomson‚ V.‚ “Managing cost of quality: Insight into industry practice”‚ The TQM Magazine‚ 2006 Abstract This paper reports on the study of the quality costing practices at four large
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Cost of Quality (COQ) "The cost of quality." It’s a term that’s widely used – and widely misunderstood. The "cost of quality" isn’t the price of creating a quality product or service. It’s the cost of NOT creating a quality product or service. Every time work is redone‚ the cost of quality increases. Obvious examples include: The reworking of a manufactured item. The retesting of an assembly. The rebuilding of a tool. The correction of a bank statement. The reworking of a service‚ such as
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Quality Initiatives Aiming for 120% product quality “We have to aim for 120% product quality. If 99% of the products we make are perfect‚ that would seem like a pretty good record. However‚ the customers who become the owners of the remaining 1% will surely consider their products 100% defective. It is unacceptable that even one customer in a thousand–even one customer in ten thousand–should receive a defective product. That’s why we have to aim for 120%.” When founder Soichiro Honda said this
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MANAGEMENT OF QUALITY Introduction Quality refers to the ability of a product or service to consistently meet or exceed customer requirements or expectations. Different customers will have different requirements‚ so a working definition of quality is customer-dependent. In order to rebuild its economy after the Second World War‚ Japan focused on quality improvement‚ making it a national imperative. This took place during a time when quality was not uppermost in the minds of business organizations
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the Mercedes-Benz quality system The main purpose of this essay is to analyzed and discussed the Mercedes-Benz quality system. We hope that this essay will merit your approval. Yours sincerely Dai Wei Table of contents 1. Executive summary 2. Introduction 3. Literature review 4. Quality management system 5. Mercedes-Benz mission 6. Mercedes-Benz strategic objective 7. Human Resource Management in quality system 8. Cost in quality system 9. Customer
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