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The last, and often most difficult increment in product quality level or process productivity, cannot be realised via …
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Management approaches based on improvements in all aspects of quality are being vigorously promoted by private consultants and government agencies as the route to improved organizational performance. Raises the question of whether these approaches work and attempts to answer it by describing a...
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Examines the relationships between quality and productivity improvement approaches currently adopted by Chinese firms … company’s quality performance is correlated to its quality and productivity improvement approaches; a company’s operation … performance is correlated to its quality and productivity improvement approaches; and a company’s financial performance is …
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describing the learning process for productivity and quality. The experimental devices consisted of reflective mirror, path paper … are ignored in presented curve. In fact, operators are easy to get tired for attending quality and productivity …
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Examines the literature to identify the essential components of kaizen or continuous improvement programmes. Relying on published sources on the North American experience with continuous improvement, also tries to identify organizational structures and practices likely to lead to successful...
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This paper examines the recent quality movement in Greater China and the development of total quality management (TQM) since the 1980s in the following three aspects. First, China is determined to upgrade quality management at the enterprise level by a top‐down approach. The efforts of the PRC...
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Purpose – The purpose of this article is to present a conceptual model that posits the strategic relationships between information technology, clinic operations and physicians and the subsequent outcomes to patients, physicians and clinics which can lead to competitive advantages in the...
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Revisits the strategic resource management (SRM) model, a framework that was developed 20 years ago as a managerial tool for performance measurement and integrated decision making in retailing. Shows certain modifications to the SRM model, focusing on the gross and net margin return on retail...
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