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. Although originally introduced by Motorola in 1986 as a quality performance measurement, six sigma has evolved into a … statistically oriented approach to process and product quality improvement. Many organisations have reported significant benefits as …
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Explores the cultural differences between Japan and the USA as they influence in the practice of creativity. Western logic reflects its Cartesian heritage of a clear, linear path of reasoning or the “scientific method”. The western approach to creativity is innovation through sponteneous...
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Argues preliminarily that quantitative‐mathematical social science, including economics, is not possible because it applies a method useful in other areas to a field to which it cannot be applied and because the truth claim of science so conceived is self‐referential to begin with. The...
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Purpose – This paper seeks to present a conceptual framework to analyze and improve the quality of empirical databases … levels in order to interpret shifts in the quality of databases. The soundness of the framework and its capability of …, give rise to original operational results in the ICT field of data quality. Practical implications – The framework helps …
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as a signal of quality when objective quality is not demonstrably superior) is only effective when combined with “premium … quality positioning” throughout the marketing mix. Contrary to Koku’s argument, such premium quality positioning does succeed … for the case that was studied, and prices above that which objective quality would support are sustained.  …
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individual quality program to increase our personal standards. A modified version of the Baldrige Award Criteria for Excellence …
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Although information exchange among trading partners is consistently mentioned as a key requirement of successful supply chain management implementation, research on information exchange is scarce. This lack of research provides little guidance and support for those managers interested in...
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organizations should deviate from outdated quality → value → satisfaction → loyalty paradigm to a modern and more flexible paradigm …
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Quality management (QM) has been the purview of operations management for repetitive processes, where project … and QM has been focused on using PM to implement a total quality management culture or on assuring the quality of the …, project‐based organizations are fulfilling the principles of quality.  …
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The attainment of superior quality and reliability in a manufactured product depends upon the existence of a framework … is explained, highlighting a strategy for the effective deployment of statistical quality engineering.  …
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