------------------------------------------------- Quality Award Paper IndustryWeek Best Plants Award Keller Graduate School of Management Spring Semester, May 2010 Session GM588: Managing Quality (online) Instructor: Robert Lee 14 May 2010 Table of Contents I. Purpose and Background 4 Penton Media’s IndustryWeek Publication 4 Quality Award 5 Award Background 6 Award Principles 6 Award Details 7 Entering the Competition 7 Application Process 7 Selection of Finalists and Winners
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UPS: Strategic Analysis United Parcel Service, Inc. (“UPS”) was founded in 1907 as a private messenger and delivery service in Seattle, Washington. Today, UPS is the world’s largest package delivery company and the premier provider of global supply chain management solutions. They deliver packages each business day for 1.1 million shipping customers to 7.7 million consignees in over 220 countries and territories. In 2011, they delivered an average of 15.8 million pieces per day worldwide, or
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PLASTICS INC. 2011 BUSINESS PLAN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Plastics Inc. Mission: To provide a solution to the cutlery dispensing issues that our food service industry that will allow for efficiencies in day to day operations across the industry in all food service venues. Plastics Inc. Vision: To build a legacy of superior customer service, with the focus being our clients and their need for more efficiency in their day to day operations in the food service industry. Overview: Plastics
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The History of Violent Resolution So it basically all started with a Indian and asthmatic getting together in an MSN conversation with the help of 4 legends of Silent Assassins. Awaken and Hostile were two clans who had just been at their peak and starting to drop slowly. Awaken leaders (General Shop, Jerminator12 and Drew Koskey) and Hostile leaders (Stephen22288, Viper1500 and Tyler11) were set into an MSN conversation with each other to talk. They talked about life and how their clans were
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By Mac McClelland | Mon Feb. 27, 2012 7:00 AM EST "Don't take anything that happens to you there personally," the woman at the local chamber of commerce says when I tell her that tomorrow I start working at "Amalgamated Product Giant Shipping Worldwide Inc." She winks at me. I stare at her for a second. "What?" I ask. "Why, is somebody going to be mean to me [1] or something?" She smiles. "Oh, yeah." This town somewhere west of the Mississippi is not big; everyone knows someone or is someone who's worked
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innovation techniques that emerged from this location would set the foundation for building one of the most important and globally effective technology companies the world has ever seen. In fact, some diehard Apple fans come from all over the globe just to pose for pictures in front of this now-famous garage. Wozniak, the true technical mind behind the building process of Apple’s early computers, spent the summer of 1976 building the company’s very first computer. Figure 1 first apple computer
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their first flight and the ones after are an important part of their stories. From humble beginnings in Ohio to never ending amount of time devoted to stop the blatant infringement of their patents, their lives span from birth to death and do not just encompass one historic event on the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk North Carolina. Keywords: Aviation, Kitty Hawk, Beginning Wright Brother’s Before and After THE Flight Humble Beginnings The forefathers of modern aviation were not born into a famous
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but steadily learning street knowledge from Shorty. Later he would move again to Harlem. There he met Sammy, who was a pimp. Sammy was able to read women like a book. Malcolm would learn how and use it to read people later on. He was fast on his feet and adapting and taking in anything he can benefit from to survive in Harlem. Soon after West Indian Archie ran him out of Harlem because of a bet that neither was sure of who lost or won. He was well known gangster who ran the numbers racket. This
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in the Southeast, and LAY'S brand Potato Chips is still America's favorite potato chip. In 1961, the Frito Company and the H.W. Lay Company merged to become Frito-Lay, Inc. Today, Frito-Lay brands account for 59% of the U.S. snack chip industry. In 1965, Frito-Lay, Inc. merged with the Pepsi-Cola Company and formed PepsiCo, Inc. Since that time, Frito-Lay has operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of PepsiCo. Through Frito-Lay, PepsiCo is the largest globally distributed snack food company in the
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through a difficult transition. Frank Nuovo, the former chief designer at Nokia Corp., gave presentations more than a decade ago to wireless carriers and investors that divined the future of the mobile Internet. More than seven years before Apple Inc. rolled out the iPhone, the Nokia team showed a phone with a color touch screen set above a single button. The device was shown locating a restaurant, playing a racing game and ordering lipstick. In the late 1990s, Nokia secretly developed another alluring
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