...1 Manufacturing firms in the United States became vulnerable to outsourcing for several reasons. The biggest reason is most likely the fact that workers in other countries, particularly third world countries, will perform the same job for a much lower wage than workers in the United States. When these firms pay outsourced workers lower wages they are able to increase profits without making any other significant changes to the manufacturing process or the organizational structure. A good example of outsourcing is the production of clothes in other countries. If a clothing manufacturer is able to produce the same clothes for much lower labor costs in a country other than the United States they will be able to significantly increase their profits. An example of service firms being outsourced is customer service representatives in other countries. Often times when a consumer calls a customer service line of an American company they will be speaking with a customer service representative in a country other than the United States. This is for the same reason as manufacturing being outsourced. If a firm can pay workers in another country lower wages they will have higher profits. A way that could bring manufacturing back to the United States is for firms and companies to focus on producing a high quality product. It may be that if a firm holds its products to high standard, these standards will be unattainable when the manufacturing of that product is outsourced. The argument...
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...SUBJECT: Army Communities of Excellence / Baldrige National Quality Program 1. Purpose. Army Communities of Excellence (ACOE) program uses Performance Improvement Criteria which is based on the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award. ACOE adapts this criteria to fit the unique nature of the Army's mission. It uses applicable business practices to continuously improve the Army's ability to create combat power in peacetime and war. 2. Discussion: 1. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award was created by Public Law 100-107, signed into law on August 20, 1987. The Award Program, responsive to the purposes of Public Law 100-107, led to the creation of a new public-private partnership. Principal support for the program comes from the Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, established in 1988. The Award is named for Malcolm Baldrige, who served as Secretary of Commerce from 1981 until his tragic death in a rodeo accident in 1987. His managerial excellence contributed to long-term improvement in efficiency and effectiveness of government. The Findings and Purposes Section of Public Law 100-107 states that:" a. the leadership of the United States in product and process quality has been challenged strongly (and sometimes successfully) by foreign competition, and our Nation's productivity growth has improved less than our competitors' over the last two decades. b. American business and industry are beginning to understand that...
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...2011 2011 Quality Management Systems at Al Ain Dairy Quality Journey All types of organizations around the world doing their best to maximize their profits and deliver quality product/services, these efforts took place to improve themselves in terms of business performance from all aspects, also they attempts always to benchmark with world class best practices in the same field. Customers nowadays become very aware regarding quality products. They are not willing to choose any product with poor quality even with a low prices, behavior of customers in this particular era is searching benefits beyond price. On the other hand, competition between organizations becomes too tough, quality issues is the key answer if they want stay in business and further more stay in competition by making quality the first priority. In this paper I am going to discuss a humble but still going experience of dairy products company, which is still improving and growing year by year, and quarter by quarter. All of this improvement as I will discuss later is a result of applying quality measures in different functions of this company. Also am going to discuss how they apply those quality measures and how they benefits of it. Al Ain Dairy applied different quality measures and gets recognition by winning several awards like “Sheikh Khalifa Award” and “Emirates Award”. Moreover, quality certificates were gained after an extremely hard work, certificates such as ISO 9001: 2008, ISO 14001, ISO28001 and ISO...
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...BUSINESS PROCESS CHANGE PLAN GB560 Designing, Improving and Implementing Processes Session # 01 Teresa Rose Kaplan University January 26, 2014 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to discuss change process that needs to take place for the Gundersen Health System to become energy independent by the year 2014. Most healthcare organizations do not include the upper management in the process of business. This paper will discuss how to do a change of process to reach the goal of being energy independent, it will show how the change will be a Six Sigma Process. It will look at Capability Maturity Model (CMM). It will touch on Porter’s three – phase process. A current diagram and a change process diagram. The paper will also touch on goals to be placed into affect. It will state the tasks and measurements for the goal. Introduction to Gundersen Health System Gundersen Health Systems was first named Gundersen Lutheran Hospital and was founded in 1902 by the primary Doctor, Adolf Gundersen. It was renamed Gundersen Clinic and Lutheran Hospital, and in 1995 it was name Gundersen Lutheran Inc. It is now known as Gundersen Healthcare Systems. The system is made up of 24 Medical Clinics, 4 Worksite Clinics, 2 Express Care Clinics, 4 Podiatry Clinics, 8 Behavioral Health Clinics, 12 Eye Clinics/Institutes, 2 Sport Medicine Clinics, 4 Reproductive Clinics. It has 3 Affiliated Hospitals,...
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...FORM C: ABDC 2013 JOURNALS LIST REVIEW RATING UPGRADE SUBMISSION *** PLEASE NOTE THAT: FORM C is designed to formalise requests to the ABDC Journals Review Panel 2013 seeking an upgrade in rating of an academic journal which is currently included and rated in the ABDC 2010 list e.g. seeking to raise a rating from a “B” to an “A” journal. Please complete a separate form relating to each journal for which you wish to make a submission of this type. Journal Title: THE TQM JOURNAL QC1. FIELD of RESEARCH (FoR) PANEL to which this request is directed (tick one box only): 0806 Information Systems 1401-1499 Economics 1501 Accounting 1502 Finance 1503 Management 1504-07 Marketing/Tourism/Logistics 180105/1801025 Business and Taxation Law QC2. WHAT ABDC 2013 RATING DO YOU PROPOSE FOR THIS JOURNAL? A* A B C QC3. WHAT ABDC 2010 RATING WAS THIS JOURNAL ASSIGNED? A* A B C QC4. WHAT ERA 2010 RATING WAS THIS JOURNAL ASSIGNED? A* A B C not applicable QC5. NOMINATE “THE BEST” COMPARATOR JOURNAL (journal from the ABDC 2010 list that is most similar in research quality): TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS EXCELLENCE QC6. JOURNAL INFORMATION Editor’s Name: Dr Alex Douglas Web Address: www.emeraldinsight.com/tqm.htm Institution: Liverpool John Moores University, UK NATURE OF SUBMISSION QC7. Primary submitter type (tick one box only) Higher Education Institutional Submission (e.g. formal submission from Business Faculty/School)...
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...Business Process Management Journal A systematic review of Lean Six Sigma for the manufacturing industry Saja Ahmed Albliwi Jiju Antony Sarina Abdul halim Lim Article information: Downloaded by North South University At 22:57 26 January 2016 (PT) To cite this document: Saja Ahmed Albliwi Jiju Antony Sarina Abdul halim Lim , (2015),"A systematic review of Lean Six Sigma for the manufacturing industry", Business Process Management Journal, Vol. 21 Iss 3 pp. 665 - 691 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-03-2014-0019 Downloaded on: 26 January 2016, At: 22:57 (PT) References: this document contains references to 63 other documents. To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com The fulltext of this document has been downloaded 961 times since 2015* Users who downloaded this article also downloaded: Saja Albliwi, Jiju Antony, Sarina Abdul Halim Lim, Ton van der Wiele, (2014),"Critical failure factors of Lean Six Sigma: a systematic literature review", International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, Vol. 31 Iss 9 pp. 1012-1030 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJQRM-09-2013-0147 M.P.J. Pepper, T.A. Spedding, (2010),"The evolution of lean Six Sigma", International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, Vol. 27 Iss 2 pp. 138-155 http:// dx.doi.org/10.1108/02656711011014276 Diego Pacheco, Isaac Pergher, Guilherme Luís Roehe Vaccaro, Carlos Fernando Jung, Carla ten Caten, (2015),"18 comparative aspects between...
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...The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0263-5577.htm Comparing the quality management practices in UK SMEs Maneesh Kumar Strathclyde Institute for Operations Management, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, and Quality management practices 1153 Received 5 May 2008 Revised 23 June 2008 Accepted 17 July 2008 Jiju Antony Centre for Research in Six Sigma and Process Excellence (CRISSPE), Strathclyde Institute for Operations Management, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Abstract Purpose – The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of research into the area of quality initiatives (QI) such as ISO, total quality management, lean, Kaizen and its application within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, very few empirical studies have reported the application of Six Sigma in SMEs; the reasons may be attributed to several myths associated with Six Sigma. The purpose of this paper is to assess the current status of QI in the UK manufacturing SMEs and report the differences in the quality management practices of Six Sigma SMEs against the ISO certified firms. Design/methodology/approach – A survey-based approach was adopted to understand the established quality management practices in the UK SMEs. A short survey instrument was designed by reviewing the literature on quality improvement initiatives in SMEs. A sample of 500 manufacturing SMEs across UK was selected through stratified random sampling...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This research paper acknowledges different quality management tools. It is about the evolution of different quality tools and defining the best practice Strategic model in IT organization in relation to achieving quality within their business processes and integrating business processes to achieve strategic goals. Previous research and study indicates the various quality system tools in order to achieve quality management objectives in the competitive business environment. This research paper investigates and finds out the evolution of different quality system tools and significance of various quality tools and then designing best practice strategic model for future in Information Technology organization. The importance of this proposed research is that currently IT companies are experiencing increased global competition and parameters like complexities of the product, different markets, customer focus, high quality of product, decision making and integration among various business units in the global environment and the environment in which the firm operates are the issues of concern. Traditional quality tool in IT systems are not capable of coping with these demands and still stay competitive. Changes are needed in order to achieve sustainable results and maintaining fitness and overcome the problems of traditional tools. Today industrial companies need stable position socially and economically...
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...9690010114 Yogendera sharma CONTRIBUTED PAPERS A41, Thursday, December 28, 4:00-5:30 P.M. Session: Case Studies - I Session Chair: Prashant Kulkarni Institute of Finance and International Ma 418 Global Marketing and Challenges for Future: Franchising in Banks K. Ravichandran, Gandhigram Rural University, drkravichandran@yahoo.co.in R. Muruganandham, Sudharsana Raamanujan, R, P. Nandakumar, M. Sasi Siddharth Thiagarajar College of Engineering, vr_muruganandham@hotmail.com, siddharth_mss@sify.com raamanujan@gmail.com, nandacivil@gmail.com The global economic scenario is undergoing a major innovative metamorphosis at a rate never experienced before. All organizations have their brands to face the global marketing challenges to secure a role of leader in this state of economic revolution. Our paper identifies the current marketing challenges and global economic threats for service industries. Besides our paper also explores the management strategies to overcome these challenges in the liberalized economy. The banking service is considered, where the franchising marketing strategies, introduction of new products and delightful customer service by new private sector banks and foreign banks pose a serious threat to the existence and survival of public sector banks profitwise. Hence our paper deeply discusses the benefits of e-banking with a view to minimize transaction cost cum operating expenses thereby increasing the overall net profit...
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...Doc 73Q019 Convention on International Civil Aviation Iyaviationcivile intern Convenio sobre Aviacion Civil lnterna rpa~aa~ca ofi H UHH sgs&gd@& v"l'ff-y#F&&,'Y%LL ?r International Civil Aviation Organization Organisation de I'aviation civile internationale Organization de Aviacion Civil lnternacional MeWyHapo~Hag P ~ ~ H H ~ ~ U M a Iw a ~ c ~ o k O rpF asuaqm Doc 730019 Convention on International Civil Aviation Convention relative a Iyaviationcivile internationale Convenio sobre Aviacion Civil lnternacional This document supersedes Doc 730018. Le present document annule et remplace le Doc 730018. Este documento remplaza el Doc 730018. H~CTOFII~(M~ AOKyMeHT 3aMeHFleT DOC 730018. Ninth Edition - Neuvieme edition - Novena edicion - klwatine Aeemoe - 2006 International Civil Aviation Organization Organisation de I'aviation civile internationale Organization de Aviacion Civil lnternacional Me>y~ly~apo~HasI OPraHH3a4HFI ~ P ~ > K C ~ ~ HaBHauHH CKO~ FOREWORD This document contains the text of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, signed at Chicago on 7 December 1944 (hereinafter referred to as the "Convention"), in the English, French, Russian and Spanish languages. Each of these texts is equally authentic. The English text is the text adopted and signed at Chicago on 7 December 1944, amended as indicated below. The French and Spanish texts are the texts adopted by and annexed to the Protocol on the Authentic Trilingual Text of...
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...TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND SIX SIGMA Edited by Tauseef Aized Total Quality Management and Six Sigma http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/2559 Edited by Tauseef Aized Contributors Aleksandar Vujovic, Zdravko Krivokapic, Jelena Jovanovic, Svante Lifvergren, Bo Bergman, Adela-Eliza Dumitrascu, Anisor Nedelcu, Erika Alves dos Santos, Mithat Zeydan, Gülhan Toğa, Johnson Olabode Adeoti, Andrey Kostogryzov, George Nistratov, Andrey Nistratov, Vidoje Moracanin, Ching-Chow Yang, Ayon Chakraborty, Kay Chuan Tan, Graham Cartwright, John Oakland Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Notice Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained...
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...CONNECT FEATURES Interactive Applications Interactive Applications offer a variety of automatically graded exercises that require students to apply key concepts. Whether the assignment includes a click and drag, video case, or decision generator, these applications provide instant feedback and progress tracking for students and detailed results for the instructor. Case Exercises The Connect platform also includes author-developed case exercises for all 12 cases in this edition that require students to work through answers to assignment questions for each case. These exercises have multiple components and can include: calculating assorted financial ratios to assess a company’s financial performance and balance sheet strength, identifying a company’s strategy, doing five-forces and driving-forces analysis, doing a SWOT analysis, and recommending actions to improve company performance. The content of these case exercises is tailored to match the circumstances presented in each case, calling upon students to do whatever strategic thinking and strategic analysis is called for to arrive at a pragmatic, analysis-based action recommendation for improving company performance. eBook Connect Plus includes a media-rich eBook that allows you to share your notes with your students. Your students can insert and review their own notes, highlight the text, search for specific information, and interact with media resources. Using an eBook with Connect Plus gives your...
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