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This is the first pocket guide of its kind to bring together auditing techniques and guidelines as a structured systematic program for monitoring and promoting continual improvement. Use this guide to develop an assessment tool for your programs that will ensure there is quantifiable and sustainable improvement and identifiable opportunities. A glossary of terms and appendices, including tools such as Continual Improvement Map for ISO 9001, Continual Improvement Perception Survey, and ISO 9004 Assessment Criteria Checklist, are helpful in applying the principles outlined in this useful pocket guide.
There are many techniques and a variety of tools available to improve or change an organization, but how do executives and senior management decide which are right for their organizations? The Executive Guide to Improvement and Change is designed to help managers and executives understand the many different approaches to organizational change and improvement. The book explains that there is not one technique that works best for any organization, but rather that the managers and executives need to develop their own strategies with a blending of different methods. The authors share the tools and techniques that they have used to successfully make changes and improvements in their own organizations, which include examples from manufacturing, healthcare, service, government, telecommunications, education, and more. The Executive Guide to Improvement and Change covers a variety of techniques ranging from auditing to teamwork, Six Sigma to Customer Satisfaction, and more. The book will assist executives and managers lead improvement and change initiatives within the organization and the larger business community, as well as educate those who aspire to senior positions of leadership.
This book is a concise, step-by-step guide that takes the reader through a basic problem-solving process, describing how the concepts of corrective and preventive action are incorporated into this process. An excellent reference for developing, implementing, and maintaining a Corrective and Preventive Action System, this book is designed to help organizations understand the key components that will help them achieve results for their organization. The book covers the philosophy of continual improvement by describing how to use data found within the organization to drive improvement and also provides a useful orientation to corrective and preventive action requirements found within ISO 9001:2...
For the first time, an author has demonstrated that safety and environment are influential factors within the quality arena. Pascal Dennis explains how applying quality management principles to safety and environmental issues can result in growth for an organization where safety and environment endeavors are concerned. This is the only book demonstrating that problems stemming from quality, safety and environment share the same root cause and respond to the identical remedies offered by a modern quality management system. Extremely well-written, Quality, Safety, and Environment: Synergy in the 21st Century includes chapters focusing on the histroy of the quality revolution, behavior-based...
The value of the ASQ Certified Quality Auditor Handbook, Fifth Edition, is clear. It is designed to help new auditors gain an understanding of the field and prepare for the ASQ CQA exam. In addition, experienced auditors can refer to it as a helpful reference; audit managers and quality managers can rely on it for guiding their auditing programs; and trainers and educators can use it for teaching fundamentals. This in-depth overview of quality auditing represents auditing practices for internal and external applications. It provides practical guidance for both system and process auditors as well. Many current topics have been expanded to reflect changes in auditing practices since 2012, with...
Perfect for anyone charged with implementing a quality audit program or those performing the audit, this book is an ideal reference on the established techniques of quality auditing. This third edition serves as a guide to learning and applying the basics of quality auditing, and expands on the basic auditing principles by showing how the quality audit can be used to improve business performance. This new edition includes: - An expanded background and history of quality auditing - A general model for auditing any quality management system - Added information on process audits and the system-process-product relationship - Auditor competencies and qualifications - An explanation of audit repor...
Internal quality audits can provide an unbiased view of the processes that directly impact the products and services of an organization. Yet, while most internal auditors have been trained using many of the methods and techniques of external auditors, an internal audit is very different and requires different methods and techniques. Internal Quality Auditing is the first book to provide a comprehensive guide designed for use by audit program managers or internal auditors. From helping to determine the objective of the audit to performing the audit, and writing the audit report, this book will act as a guide for quality audit managers in the implementation and resolution of effective internal...
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Das Automobilgeschäft stellt in vielen Ländern einen bedeutenden Wachstumsmotor für die Wirtschaft dar. Um im globalen Wettbewerb zu bestehen, müssen die Unternehmen der Automobilindustrie ihre strategische Ausrichtung und ihr Marketing optimieren. Dazu bietet dieses Buch eine auf die Branche abgestimmte Übersicht zu allen wichtigen Aspekten für ein erfolgreiches Automotive Management. Erfolgsfaktoren und Lösungsansätze werden von Experten aus Wissenschaft, Beratung und Unternehmen der Automobilwirtschaft umfassend und ausführlich beschrieben und mit zahlreichen Beispielen aus der Praxis illustriert.
Markus B. Hofer kombiniert verschiedene Methoden und Datenquellen und entwickelt ein Prognosesystem zur optimalen Erstpreispositionierung und zur Absatzschätzung. Sein Multi-Source-Prognosekonzept berücksichtigt neben dem auf Präferenzdaten basierenden Simulationsmodell auch historische Absatzzahlen, die zukünftige Produktpolitik sowie die erwartete Marktentwicklung im betrachteten Segment.