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Manufacturers Go Lean and Green
Industry Week has released its annual survey of U.S. manufacturers and the results show one thing unequivocally: American manufacturers are going lean. 70% of survey respondents reported lean manufacturing initiatives at their plants. The next most popular improvement methodology, Total Quality Management, was adopted at half that rate. ...
Tags: Lean Manufacturing, Marketing Research, Manufacturing, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Industry Week, Survey, Manufacturer, It Operations, Marketing, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2007-09-24
Toyota Sales and Marketing Get Lean
Toyota is famous for lean manufacturing, but the No. 1 automaker applies the whole lean philosophy way beyond the production floor. Lean is a "knowledge environment," says Nick Dieltsien, who's responsible for strategic planning at Lexus Europe. In an interesting video from Nimbus Consulting (7:06), Dieltsien explains how and why...
Tags: Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Sales Strategy, Toyota Motor Corp., Marketing Research, Sales Force Management, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Sales, It Operations, Marketing, Management, Andrew Hines
Blog posts 2007-05-25
Getting the Best Results from Your Advertising Agency
In order to show themselves in the best light, advertising agencies will make a lot of claims and promises when trying to win new business. Once an agency has been selected, it is important to regularly review agency performance to see that initial promises are being kept, and that the...
Tags: team, marketing, advertisement, brand, commission, performance, agency, media, financial, knowledge, Process improvement, TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, certification, ISO 9000
Articles 2007-02-28
Customer Centred Six Sigma Initiative
From the executive summary: ‘Today, Six Sigma is viewed as a powerful and disciplined methodology that assists organizations to focus on developing and delivering near-perfect products and services. It is a powerful approach to business performance improvement by systematically finding and eliminating causes of mistakes or defects in business processes....
Tags: Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
An Introduction To Six Sigma Quality
Six Sigma is a business strategy towards reducing defects and improving quality of organizational systems, processes, and products. It emphasizes on checking the quality of systems and products at every stage of the production cycle rather than making it a one-time affair at the end. The end result is zero...
Tags: Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
Presentations 2003-01-01
ISO 9000- 2000: Executive Briefing
Quality of a product refers to the degree of ‘value' as perceived by the consumer. In the same way, quality of an organizational system or process is the degree of ‘perfection', which is attained by that particular system or process. It is imperative that organizations give due emphasis to the...
Tags: America, ISO 9000, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
Presentations 2003-01-01
Six Sigma
Six Sigma is a business strategy towards reducing defects in organizational systems, processes, and products. It entails setting very high objectives, analyzing present results, comparing the same with the benchmark set, and accordingly fine tuning the product, process, or system at hand. The Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control process...
Tags: SysThink Communications, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
Presentations 2003-01-01
Witness For Six Sigma
From the executive summary: ‘Six Sigma is a structured continuous improvement program used by many of today's successful companies. Over the years, it has evolved into a statistically oriented approach to process improvement. Six Sigma is a process improvement methodology that focuses on the customer. Like a number of other...
Tags: Six Sigma, Process Improvement, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
Six Sigma And Total Information Quality Management
From the executive summary: ‘Six Sigma has gained popularity recently as it has achieved dramatic benefits in organizations that have understood and implemented its rigorous processes. As a measure of quality, Six Sigma refers to six standard deviations and means a process performance of no more than defects per million...
Tags: Information Quality, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2004-10-01
Back To Basics
From the executive summary: ‘Now that the bull-run party could be coming to an end, and corporate America is bracing for an economic slowdown, many companies are getting back to blocking and tackling. They are focusing on the basics, like quality control, customer service, and good old- fashioned cost cutting....
Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2001-01-03
Six Sigma Going Beyond Manufacturing
From the executive summary: ‘Businesses today are standing upon the threshold of a new era in quality. To respond to increasing customer expectations, they must be willing to reinvent and improve themselves on a continuous basis. It is essential that they be adequately prepared for rapid, and sometimes unexpected, change,...
Tags: APQC, Customer Expectation, Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2001-03-01
Got Six Sigma On The Brain
The Six Sigma boom has taken the corporate world by storm. However, there are still some companies who are debating over its pros and cons. Researches also show divided results. Some companies feel that Six Sigma is the most apt way to streamline processes. On the other hand, some organizations...
Tags: QCI International, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
ISO 9000
From the executive summary: ‘Companies today compete on a global scale. In order to remain competitive, organizations must be able to adapt to corporate climate. One obstacle many companies face today is the ever-increasing standards of quality customers expect from their respective firms. To overcome this obstacle, many organizations have...
Tags: ISO 9000, FreeQuality.org, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Iso standards, Process Improvement, It Operations, Quality, Business Operations
White papers 2001-03-26
Helping an Energy System Manufacturer Achieve Annual Savings of $100 Million by Using Supply Intelligence
This case study highlights how an energy system helped the manufacturer achieve annual savings of $100 million by using supply intelligence. Sourcing managers were also unable to translate separate contracts between a supplier and the various operating units to a single leveraged relationship with the vendor. A process-oriented company, with...
Tags: Wipro Technologies, Intelligence, Six Sigma, Manufacturing, Purchasing & Procurement, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations, Management
Case studies
The Philosophy Of Total Quality Management (TQM)
From the executive summary: ‘The importance of quality to successfully compete in the marketplace is axiomatic. The question facing organizations is not whether to seek ever-higher quality, but how to most efficiently achieve it. Unfortunately, the answer rarely lies in a specific set of techniques or management practices. Organizations, in...
Tags: University Of Michigan, Philosophy, Total Quality Management, Productivity, Quality, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
Business Strategy
The quality aspect encompasses every area of a business organization. Institutionalization of best practices and a commitment to continuous improvement with regard to all areas of the organization is pre-requisite for enhancing organizational quality. Total Quality Management is an approach towards maintaining quality of processes and systems in the organization....
Tags: Organization, McGraw-Hill Companies, Business Strategy, Quality Aspect, Quality, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Business Operations, It Operations
Presentations 2003-01-01
Quality Management
Quality is the measure of ‘excellence' of a product or an organizational process or system. It is measured as the degree of conformance to pre-defined specifications. Total Quality Management TQM is an approach towards maintaining quality of processes and systems in an organization. TQM calls for checking quality at every...
Tags: University Of Illinois, Quality Management, Total Quality Management, Quality, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, It Operations, Corporate Law
Presentations 2003-01-01
Some Pros And Cons Of Six Sigma
From the executive summary: ‘Six Sigma is a business strategy that seeks to identify and eliminate causes of errors or defects or failures in business processes by focusing on outputs that are critical to customers. It is a measure of quality that strives for near elimination of defects using the...
Tags: Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
Integrating Improvement Initiatives
From the executive summary: ‘Six Sigma is an approach to product and process improvement that has gained wide acceptance and has delivered large business benefits across many industries. As application of this framework spreads to software development we must consider how Six Sigma relates to and can be integrated with...
Tags: Six Sigma Advantage, Improvement Initiative, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
Six Sigma Software Metrics Maturity
From the executive summary: ‘Six Sigma brings sharp focus on customer and business requirements and the defects connected with the failure to satisfy them. When Six Sigma was first started, this meant shifting from the common manufacturing ‘yield' metric1, which tracks defective ‘units' to the more detailed view of defect...
Tags: Six Sigma Advantage, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
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