Managing Quality Fads

Author : Robert E. Cole
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198028601
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Quality Fads written by Robert E. Cole and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can managers learn from fads? That is the question Robert Cole addresses in this insightful book about the various factors supporting and inhibiting organizational learning. A longtime student of the Japanese and American quality movements, Cole focuses on the response of American industry to the challenge posed in the early 1980s by high quality goods from Japan. While most American managers view this challenge as slowly but successfully met, many academics see the quality movement that emerged from it as just another fad. In seeking to reconcile these two views, Cole explores the reasons behind American industry's slow response to Japanese quality, arguing that a variety of institutional factors inhibited management action in the early 1980s. He then describes the reshaping of institutions that allowed American companies to close the quality gap and to achieve sustained quality improvements in the 1990s. Hewlett-Packard serves as an example of a company that made this institutional transition more effectively than most. Cole describes Hewlett-Packard's successful strategies while also pointing out the serious problems that it and other companies face as they attempt to adapt, improve, and go beyond Japanese practices. He also uses Hewlett-Packard, an exemplar of the highly decentralized company, to explore effective strategies for the creation, dissemination, and implementation of knowledge. Unprecedented as a scholarly treatment of the quality movement,Managing Quality Fads provides several important lessons for those interested in management decision making under conditions of uncertainty and organizational transformation in a rapidly changing business environment.

Author : Robert E. Cole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197703335
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Quality Fads written by Robert E. Cole and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Birnbaum
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management Fads in Higher Education written by Robert Birnbaum and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2000-08-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birnbaum traces the paths of seven popular management fads in higher education, presenting a model describing their life cycle -- development, diffusion, consequences and eventual disappearance. He shows how management fads contributed to several major problems in higher education, and explains what academic managers can do to maximize the benefits fads can provide while minimizing their organizational costs. Index.

Author : Joel Best
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520246268
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flavor of the Month written by Joel Best and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Joseph M. Juran
Publisher : Irwin Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Managing for Quality written by Joseph M. Juran and published by Irwin Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality guru Dr. Joseph M. Juran has compiled an international history of managing for quality. In this landmark volume, Dr. Juran offers his thoughts on the history of managing for quality in the U.S. and gives a remarkable summary tracing worldwide trends and suggesting the likely directions for quality into the next century.

Author : Paulo Pereira (mikrobiolog.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1789238773
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quality Management and Quality Control written by Paulo Pereira (mikrobiolog.) and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality management (QM) practices are the basis for the successful implementation and maintenance of any QM system. Quality control (QC) is identified as a QM component. Therefore, QM effectiveness is dependent on the QC strategy. QC practice is more or less complex depending on the type of production. The book is focused on new trends and developments in QM and QC in several types of industries from a worldwide perspective. Its content has been organized into two sections and seven chapters written by well-recognized researchers worldwide. Several approaches are debated based on sample traceability, analytical method validation, required parameters, class of exponential regression-type estimators of the population means, determination of impurities, viewpoints, and case studies.

Author : Adam Gordon
Publisher : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
ISBN 13 : 0814412866
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future Savvy written by Adam Gordon and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2008-09-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to succeed in their industries, decision-makers today need to anticipate the future outcomes not only in their own industry but also in society and technology as well. The better their view of the future, the better their decisions--and the bigger their profits–will be. Future Savvy is a hands-on, how-to book on evaluating the business, social, and technology forecasts that appear in everyday communications such as newspapers and business magazines, as well as in specialized sources like government and think-tank forecasts, consultant reports, and stock-market guides. Futures analyst Adam Gordon has spent his career deciphering changes and trends in a variety of industries. Now, he shows business leaders how to gain a clearer view of the future, as well as: • Recognize potential trends and outcomes more effectively • Discount poor and biased forecasts more confidently • Anticipate relevant opportunities and potential threats earlier

Author : Daniel Deneffe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100030082X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fad-Free Strategy written by Daniel Deneffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fad-Free Strategy provides a ground-breaking approach to making better business strategy decisions: more efficient, open to out-of-the-box opportunities and evidence-based. Most strategy books focus on Grand Strategy, the process that leads to high-level recommendations or, more accurately, hypotheses about where and how to compete. While this book briefly covers critical Grand Strategy practices, it deep dives into Operational Strategy, the process of validation, adaptation and possible rejection of those hypotheses. Operational Strategy is based on an in-depth understanding of customer preferences and anticipating the choices they make. Those choices rather than managers’ ambitions determine whether a strategy will generate the aspired financial results. The book explains, by means of detailed real-world cases across industries, how to generate validated solutions to any strategic problem such as: how to enter successfully into new markets, either as an innovator or as a latecomer? How to defend one’s position against aggressive new entrants? Or how to sustain margins when price is the only thing customers seem to care about? This remarkable book contains expert advice from accomplished strategic advisors and thought leaders Daniel Deneffe and Herman Vantrappen. Fad Free Strategy will be a useful tool for smart business executives at mainstream companies who are disappointed with strategy fads and simplistic solutions based on cherry-picked, anecdotal evidence from today’s hero companies. It will also appeal to economics faculty members teaching graduate courses in business strategy who are looking for an economics-based strategy textbook that is both rigorous and comprehensive. The book’s core ideas have been taught successfully in continuing and executive education programs at Harvard University and Hult International Business School.

Author : Anthony van der Wiele
Publisher : Eburon Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Fads written by Anthony van der Wiele and published by Eburon Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over hoe twee management-trends (Fads) normale managementpraktijk werden en de bijdrage van deze trends aan verbetering en verandering van organisaties.

Author : Harish Garg
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000067726
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reliability Management and Engineering written by Harish Garg and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reliability technology plays an important role in the present era of industrial growth, optimal efficiency, and reducing hazards. This book provides insights into current advances and developments in reliability engineering, and the research presented is spread across all branches. It discusses interdisciplinary solutions to complex problems using different approaches to save money, time, and manpower. It presents methodologies of coping with uncertainty in reliability optimization through the usage of various techniques such as soft computing, fuzzy optimization, uncertainty, and maintenance scheduling. Case studies and real-world examples are presented along with applications that can be used in practice. This book will be useful to researchers, academicians, and practitioners working in the area of reliability and systems assurance engineering. Provides current advances and developments across different branches of engineering. Reviews and analyses case studies and real-world examples. Presents applications to be used in practice. Includes numerous examples to illustrate theoretical results.