In companies, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) accelerate the speed with which information is exchanged between employees, facilitate the processing of data and improve the quality of intra-company communication. As such, ICTs are powerful management support tools and can help...

This paper presents and discusses two case studies in the Portuguese motor vehicle industry – Salvador Caetano’s Ovar Industrial Division (SCOID), a ‘Brownfield site’ with minority Toyota ownership; and Autoeuropa, a ‘Greenfield site’ wholly owned by Volkswagen. Basically, it...

The main purpose of the paper is to analyze different channels for innovations. We consider the influence of various incentives for innovation in Russian companies taking into account the organization of industries — vertical or horizontal orientation, peculiarities of corporate demography,...

In this study a CHAID-based approach to detecting classification accuracy heterogeneity across segments of observations is proposed. This helps to solve some important problems, facing a model-builder: 1. How to automatically detect segments in which the model significantly underperforms? 2. How...

This paper aim to make a pass between the world economy and the lean six sigma system and his contribution for the reduce cost for products and realize quality improvements and cost reduction potential by a logical and well-structured training approach. In the many company, starts to implement...

This paper study quality management like advantage source and the cooperation relationships like strategic variant, it exposes the particularities that shows insertion of human resource as base for quality management under management contract conditions

The universities have to assure the highest level of quality management, to help teachers and students to acquire the European knowledge. The universities must be encouraged to develop better for the promotion of academic and civic values. However, the reality is often quite different: we find...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the employee’s perceptions of the impact, of Total Quality Management (TQM), on their roles within the organization and how they perceived the effectiveness of the quality processes in Pakistan Pharmaceutical industry. The universe of this study was the...

The current world affairs, competitive strength of the firm result from creation or identification of a management system suitable for carrying out raised performance. By design, formation and manifestation, performance management is constitute like an essential set and completely theoretic, put...

Research Project Management Process, implies the allocation of important human and financial resources to guarantee fulfilling of the goal by respecting the pre-defined schedule, under the conditions of expected quality. Considering that, informatics is looking for solutions to support the teams...