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The Role of Leadership (400 words)
Research and summarize senior management's role in successful quality improvement programs. Be sure to use real, researched examples to demonstrate your points. The Baldrige Award site list of recipients could be a good resource for examples.
In general, identify senior management's specific role in these large-scale strategic quality programs? Cheerleader? Role model? Decision maker? Resource provider? What else?
Why must firms adopt the identified roles? What is the risk of not using the roles?
Indicate how senior and middle management should derive the metrics to use to monitor and communicate performance?
you should include a minimum of 3 new cited references.
General Quality Strategies and Tools (500 words)
Create a comparative table that shows the various definitions, risks, and value of each of the following quality management tactics:
Establishing customer expectations
Designing quality
Defining metrics
Mistake-proofing
Kaizen
Six Sigma
If there are other tactics you would prefer to address, feel free to switch out up to two of the above with others you find.
Be sure you are adding at least three new cited references with this submission.
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Cost of goods manufactured
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Why did some quality initiatives fail
: Discuss personal experience in regard to quality improvement programs. If you have no experience, you should gain some from friends or work colleagues or-as a last resort-news articles.
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What is the gain for u.s. producers
: If the United States imposes a tariff of $3 per pound, what will be the U.S. price and level of imports? How much revenue will the government earn from the tariff? How large is the deadweight loss?
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The fixed cost per week of running the stand
: Julie James is opening a lemonade stand. She believes the fixed cost per week of running the stand is $50.00. Her best guess is that she can sell 300 cups per week at $0.50 per cup. The variable cost of producing a cup of lemonade is $0.20.
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Why must firms adopt the identified roles
: In general, identify senior management's specific role in these large-scale strategic quality programs? Cheerleader? Role model? Decision maker? Resource provider? What else?
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A reaction that is taking place at equilibrium
: The Keq for the reaction shown below 2.6x102, therefore the reactants will be favored at equilibrium glucose-6-phosphate + water -> glucose + phosphate
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Departmentalization is hybrid of the functional
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Write paper on ethics-sustainability or stakeholder topic
: Write a paper on ethics, sustainability, or stakeholder topic of your choice. Your task is to research and present the topic and then discuss ways a company with which you are familiar can leverage the topic to create a more effective organization.
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Develop information systems functional requirements
: ISFM-300 Case Study, Stage 2: Business Process Analysis and Functional Requirements. This assignment demonstrates how business processes are analyzed to develop information systems functional (business) requirements
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