...committed to quality delivery. The organizations success is due to the Keizen approach and how they keep the employees involved in the changes or amendment or the organizations processes and procedures. Figure 1: The 4-P cycle of continuous improvement There is however minor improvements on their approach to the TQM / BEM models. They should make use of the balance score card to measure their performance against it. This could quantify and qualify their success and be measured. There are five elements to strategy that they must take into account: 1. Sustainable decisions: what is to be done? 2. Processes and projects to deliver strategy: How is it to be done? 3. Competitive advantage: Why it must be done? 4. Exploitation of connections between the organization and its environment: Why it must be done? 5. Vision: When and with what result? A common solution to problem that might be experience should be to implement the following attributes to ensure a successful organisation: 1. Effective leadership; 2. Emphasis on customer requirements; 3. Commitment to continuous improvement; 4. Learning and growth strategy; 5. Human resource development; 6. Quality assurance system; and 7. Effective information systems. 2. Questions 2.1 What role has the Quality Management System and the ISO 9001 standard played in BT`s total quality journey? BT has committed itself to quality in 1986. That commitment rewarded BT with numerous quality awards. BT...
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...Measuring Business Excellence Performance measurement tools: the Balanced Scorecard and the EFQM Excellence Model S. WongrassameeJ.E.L. SimmonsP.D. Gardiner Article information: To cite this document: S. WongrassameeJ.E.L. SimmonsP.D. Gardiner, (2003),"Performance measurement tools: the Balanced Scorecard and the EFQM Excellence Model", Measuring Business Excellence, Vol. 7 Iss 1 pp. 14 - 29 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13683040310466690 Downloaded on: 14 April 2015, At: 10:28 (PT) References: this document contains references to 27 other documents. To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com The fulltext of this document has been downloaded 13506 times since 2006* Users who downloaded this article also downloaded: Joaquín Gómez Gómez, Micaela Martínez Costa, Ángel R. Martínez Lorente, (2011),"A critical evaluation of the EFQM model", International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, Vol. 28 Iss 5 pp. 484-502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02656711111132544 Downloaded by MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY At 10:28 14 April 2015 (PT) Michael Trevor Hides, John Davies, Sue Jackson, (2004),"Implementation of EFQM excellence model self-assessment in the UK higher education sector – lessons learned from other sectors", The TQM Magazine, Vol. 16 Iss 3 pp. 194-201 http:// dx.doi.org/10.1108/09544780410532936 Andy Neely, Mike Gregory, Ken Platts, (1995),"Performance measurement system design: A literature review and research agenda", International...
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...Measuring Business Excellence Sustaining and transferring excellence: A framework of best practice of TQM transformation based on winners of Baldrige and European Quality Awards Ian McDonaldMohamed ZairiMohd Ashari Idris Article information: To cite this document: Ian McDonaldMohamed ZairiMohd Ashari Idris, (2002),"Sustaining and transferring excellence", Measuring Business Excellence, Vol. 6 Iss 3 pp. 20 - 30 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13683040210441959 Downloaded on: 16 October 2015, At: 16:13 (PT) References: this document contains references to 10 other documents. To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com The fulltext of this document has been downloaded 1354 times since 2006* Downloaded by Anglia Ruskin University At 16:13 16 October 2015 (PT) Users who downloaded this article also downloaded: Masood Abdulla Badri, Hassan Selim, Khaled Alshare, Elizabeth E. Grandon, Hassan Younis, Mohammed Abdulla, (2006),"The Baldrige Education Criteria for Performance Excellence Framework: Empirical test and validation", International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, Vol. 23 Iss 9 pp. 1118-1157 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02656710610704249 Tito A. Conti, (2007),"A history and review of the European Quality Award Model", The TQM Magazine, Vol. 19 Iss 2 pp. 112-128 http:// dx.doi.org/10.1108/09544780710729962 S. Wongrassamee, J.E.L. Simmons, P.D. Gardiner, (2003),"Performance measurement tools: the Balanced...
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...第十五屆決策分析研討會 The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Case Study: Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. Chakrit Chansukko William Firman Ha Tuan Anh Abstract The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award framework is probably the best-known excellence award model, and the world’s most widely used excellence framework for self-assessment. The criteria are designed to help organizations improve their competitiveness by focusing on two goals: continually delivering improved value to customers, and improving overall organizational performance. Our final project concentrates on Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, which receives the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in the service category. The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company manages thirty six luxury hotels in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean. All have received four- or five-star ratings from the Mobil Travel Guide and diamond ratings from the American Automobile Association. The Ritz-Carlton company has received all the major awards the hospitality industry and leading consumer organizations can bestow. It is the first and only hotel company twice honored with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award from the United States Department of Commerce. The Ritz-Carlton method is close attention to performance data collection and a broad educational platform to deliver the findings. In this report, we will study deeply about The Ritz-Carlton Company, the external and internal performance...
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...INSIGHTS TO BUSINESS EXCELLENCE SPRING Singapore 2 Bukit Merah Central, Singapore 159835 Tel: +65 6278 6666 • Fax: +65 6278 6667 www.spring.gov.sg © SPRING Singapore 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this publication should be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without prior permission of the copyright holders. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained herein is comprehensive and accurate, SPRING Singapore will not accept any liability for omissions or errors. CONTENTS 3 Foreword 4 Business Excellence Initiative 6 Impact of Business Excellence Journey 12 Case Studies 15 Conrad Centennial Singapore (Conrad) 21 Qian Hu Corporation Ltd 27 Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd 33 Teckwah Industrial Corporation Ltd 39 TNT Express Worldwide (S) Pte Ltd 45 Housing & Development Board (HDB) BE BE FOREWORD The business excellence initiative helps organisations strengthen their management systems and processes for higher productivity and growth. There has been a growing number of organisations embarking on the business excellence journey. Currently, about 800 organisations, employing some 550,000 employees or 20% of the workforce, are certified by SPRING for attaining commendable performance on the business excellence journey. The implementation of the business excellence framework by organisations requires the commitment and involvement...
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...private and public sector applicants begin their journey towards performance excellence. The Challenge Award consists of a 12 page application using the most current criteria of the CAPE Program at the category level. | http://www.calexcellence.org/ | The California Prospector Award | C.A.P.E | Created to help applicants advance their performance excellence initiative before committing to the complete California Awards for Performance Excellence™ application process. The Prospector Award™ consists of a 25 page application using the most current criteria of the CAPE™ Program at the category and item levels. | http://www.calexcellence.org | California Award for Performance Excellence | C.A.P.E. | top level award offered by CCE and adheres to the BNQP criteria. The Eureka Award offers seven categories: Large and Small Service; Education; Health Care; Non-Profit; Government; and, Military. | | Annual Food Quality Award | Food Quality Magazine | It honors the dedication and achievement of a North American Quality Assurance/Quality Control team that has made exceptional contributions to food safety and consumer satisfaction with a positive impact on business results. | http://www2.dupont.com/Qualicon | Akao Prize | Quality Function Deployment Institute | The Akao Prize is now awarded to individuals around the world who have demonstrated Excellence in their practice and dissemination of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) for many years. Taken into consideration are research...
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...Arturo Calvo-Mora Antonio Leal José L. Roldán, (2006),"Using enablers of the EFQM model to manage institutions of higher education", Quality Assurance in Education, Vol. 14 Iss 2 pp. 99 – 122. Arvinder P.S. Loomba Thomas B. Johannessen, (1997),"Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award", Benchmarking for Quality Management & Technology, Vol. 4 Iss 1 pp. 59 – 77. Bell, R. and Keys, B. (1998), “A conversation with Curt W. Reimann on the background and future of the Baldrige Award”, Organizational Dynamics, Vol. 26 No. 4, pp. 51-61 . Bou-Llusar, J.C., Escrig-Tena, A.B., Roca-Puig, V. and Beltran-Martin, I. (2009), “An empirical assessment of the EFQM excellence model: evaluation as a TQM framework relative to the MBNQA model”, Journal of Operations Management, Vol. 27 No. 1, pp. 1-22. Chris Hakes (2007). The EFQM excellence model for Assessing Organizational Performance (Google eBook). uk: Van Haren. p12. Constanze Clarke (2006) Automotive Production Systems and Standardisation: From Ford to the Case of Mercedes-Benz (Google eBook). 5th ed. uk: Springer Science & Business Media. p60. Dahlgaard, J., Kristensen, K. and Kanji, G.K. (2007), Fundamentals of Total Quality Management, Routledge, New York, NY. Decarlo, N.J. and Sterett, W.K. (1990), “History of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award”, Quality Progress, Vol. 23 No. 3, pp. 30-2. EFQM. (2012). Fundemental Concepts. Available: http://www.efqm.org/efqm-model/radar-logic. Last accessed 10th April 2015. ...
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...Fore School of Management Roll No.92066 Quality Process – Wipro WMG XVIII B Neelandra Nath Goswami Introduction Reinvention and Wipro go hand-in-hand as far as technology and process advancement is concerned. Wipro is a global IT services company that provides Consulting, Business Process Outsourcing, Business Technology Services, Enterprise Application Services, Infrastructure Management, Testing, Product Engineering, Engineering Design and Product Support. Its services are spread across a range of strategic domains. It is the first CMMi Level 5 certified software services company and the first outside USA to receive the IEEE Software Process Award. However, when Wipro was formed as a vegetable oil refining company in 1947 the dramatic change in the company’s industry dynamics could only have been predicted considering the fact that it was always reinventing itself. Now, after three decades in the IT industry, backed with unmatched technical expertise and insights, it has maintained the highest levels of compliance and quality that go with the changing times and technologies. Our knowledge investments are backed by years of R&D and have led to the creation of labs and ‘Centers of Excellence’ that have produced innovative solutions. Wipro’s Quality Policy & Quality Management System As the world’s first SEI CMM Level 5 company, Wipro endeavors to deliver reliability and perfection to customers by maintaining high standards in service offerings and products...
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...IJFPSS, Vol.1, No.2, pp. 35-38, Dec, 2011 H. Darestani Quality excellence model: A review of researches in Developing countries Wan Khairuzzaman Wan Ismail1, Hassan Darestani2*, Maziar Azimzadeh Irani3 1 2 International Business School (IBS), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia Faculty of Management and Human Resource Development, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia, 3 International Business School (IBS), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia dhassan2@live.utm.my (Received Nov 2011; Published Dec 2011) ABSTRACT There have been fundamental changes in management since 1950, and these changes are still affecting enterprises around the glob. Quality as the main issue of these changes has received special consideration. The European foundation for quality management (EFQM) was established in 1988 in order to achieve quality leadership and continuous improvement. EFQM is a model which is designed for all kinds of organization and with utilizing self assessment as a strategic tool helps companies to identify their weaknesses, strengths and areas of improvement. This paper reviews some of the studies conducted in developing countries about applying EFQM in enterprises with special attention to small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs). The main purpose of this study is to find whether EFQM model have been successful in building winning and efficient organizations in developing countries. Due to the situation of global market and competitive...
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...Quality Management Systems Introduction An organisation will benefit from establishing an effective quality management system (QMS). The cornerstone of a quality organisation is the concept of the customer and supplier working together for their mutual benefit. For this to become effective, the customer-supplier interfaces must extend into, and outside of, the organisation, beyond the immediate customers and suppliers. A QMS can be defined as: “A set of co-ordinated activities to direct and control an organisation in order to continually improve the effectiveness and efficiency of its performance.” These activities interact and are affected by being in the system, so the isolation and study of each one in detail will not necessarily lead to an understanding of the system as a whole. The main thrust of a QMS is in defining the processes, which will result in the production of quality products and services, rather than in detecting defective products or services after they have been produced. The benefits of a QMS A fully documented QMS will ensure that two important requirements are met: • The customers’ requirements – confidence in the ability of the organisation to deliver the desired product and service consistently meeting their needs and expectations. • The organisation’s requirements – both internally and externally, and at an optimum cost with efficient use of the available resources – materials, human, technology and information. These requirements can only be truly met...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS |S/NO. |DESCRIPTION |PAGE | | | | | | |Executive Summary |2 | | | | | |1.0 |Company Profile |3 | |1.1 |Our Services |3 | | | | | |2.0 |Market Research |4 | |2.1 |Market Analysis |4 | |2.2 |Competitors |5 | |2.3 |SWOT Analysis |6 | | | ...
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...A PAPER ON INSTITUTIONALIZING CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS THROUGH USE OF ESTABLISHED PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORKS By: Author 1: Prof. Cdr. Bhushan Dewan Director, VNS Business School, Bhopal MOBILE- 08120395060 Email- bhushan.dewan1@gmail.com ABOUT AUTHOR 1: 21 years of corporate experience as Vice President, Tata Consultancy Services, President-Tanla Solutions Ltd., Sr. VP- Adani Group, Commander-Indian Navy. 17 years of academic experience as Director Naval IT Management Institute, author of 2 books on Management of Technology. Speaker at various national & international seminars; Served as Jury Member of CII Award for Human Excellence, Jury Member, QIMPRO Platinum Award for Quality. And Author 2: Prof. Arun Mishra Assistant Professor, VNS Business School, Neelbud, Bhopal Mobile: 9893686820 Email: arunjimishra@gmail.com ABOUT AUTHOR 2: Author is an MBA from FMS, Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, Sagar (M.P.). He is having total 9 years of work experience. Since 2 years he is in academics. Earlier to this he has served in various corporate in various capacities for 7 Years which include ICFAI, HDFC Bank, Wander Ltd. Wockhardt Ltd. etc. ABSTRACT Old-fashioned command-and-control companies were merely trying to manage the "white space" in their organizational charts. Today's companies must manage the white space in entire value chains. Value chain is a high-level model of how businesses receive raw materials as input, add value to the raw...
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...History of Quality Management The history of Total Quality Management can be traced in early year’s of 1920′s in the area of production quality control, and remarkably the concepts developed in Japan beginning in the late 1940′s and 1950′s, pioneered there by Americans Feigenbum, Juran and Deming. Quality Management Gurus and theories Quality Management resulted mainly from the work of the quality gurus and their theories. the American gurus featured in the 1950′s Japan: Joseph Juran, W Edwards Deming, and Armand Feigenbum; the Japanese quality gurus who formulated and extended the early American quality ideas and models: Kaoru Ishikawa, Genichi Taguchi, and Shigeo Shingo; and the 1970-80′s American Western gurus, notably Philip Crosby and Tom Peters, who further extended their thoughts towards Quality Management concepts after the Japanese successes Total Quality Management (TQM) Total Quality Management features centrally the customer-supplier interfaces, (external and internal customers and suppliers). A number of processes sit at each interface. Central also is an organizational commitment to quality, and the importance of communicating this quality commitment, together with the acknowledgement that the right organizational culture is essential for effective Total Quality Management Processes – understanding processes and methods for process improvement Understanding processes is essential before attempt is made to improve them. This is a central aspect to Total...
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...Management Information Systems MANAGING THE DIGITAL FIRM Kenneth C. Laudon New York University f Jane P. Laudon Azimuth Information Systems PEARSON feerttifie tall Pearson Education International Brief Contents Part One Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Part One Project Organizations, Management, and the Networked Enterprise 1 Information Systems in Global Business Today 2 Global E-Business: How Businesses Use Information Systems 38 Information Systems, Organizations, and Strategy 80 Ethical and Social Issues in Information Systems 124 Analyzing Business Processes for an Enterprise System 165 Part Two Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Part Two Project Information Technology Infrastructure 167 IT Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies 168 Foundations of Business Intelligence: Databases and Information Management 222 Telecommunications, the Internet, and Wireless Technology 260 Securing Information Systems 312 Creating a New Internet Business 351 Part Three Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Part Three Project Key System Applications for the Digital Age 353 Achieving Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy: Enterprise Applications 354 E-Commerce: Digital Markets, Digital Goods 388 Managing Knowledge 428 Enhancing Decision Making 470 Designing an Enterprise Information Portal 508 Part Four Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Part Four Project Building and Managing Systems 509 Building Systems 510 Project Management:...
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...Introduction to Quality Chapter 1 The History and Importance of Quality In a broad sense, quality assurance refers to any planned and systematic activity directed toward providing consumers with products (goods and services) of appropriate quality belong with the confidence that products meet consumers’ requirements. Quality assurance has been an important aspect of production operations throughout history. * The Age of Craftsmanship During the middle ages in Europe, skilled craftsperson, adequately trained by craft guilds, served as both as manufacturer and inspector. Quality assurance was informal; every effort was made to ensure that quality was built into the final product by the people who produce it. These themes which were lost with the advent of industrial revolution are important foundations of modern quality assurance efforts. * The Early Twentieth Century In the early 1900s, the work of Frederick W. Taylor, led to new philosophy of production. Taylor’s philosophy was to separate the planning function from the execution function. Managers and engineers were given the task of planning, supervisor and workers took on the task of execution. Inspection was the primary mean of quality control during the first half of the twentieth century. * Post- World War II After the war, during the late 1940s and early 1950s, Quality was not a priority of top managers. Top management showed little interest in quality improvement on the prevention of defects...
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