Essays on Quality Management

Executive Summary: Eliminating Discharge Delays

Executive Summary: Eliminating Discharge Delays Bed capacity has emerged as a critical issue in hospital quality management with evidence indicating that inefficient discharges contribute to slow care and patient flow while further increasing costs. Changes made to the prospective payment system by Medicare in recent years have increased pressure on hospitals to cut costs through, among other ways, reducing patient length of stay (LOS) (El-Eid et al., 2015).

‘Eliminating discharge delays’ is a quality management project that focuses on reducing patient length of stay and as such improving hospital throughput. The project entails implementation of several strategies that collectively ...

Our project scope is the implementation of the Time off Request System to the existing site of VIH Aerospace to improve response times and track holiday request. Our project has the following milestones:

■100% Requirements Gathering

■100% design ■100% Coding ■100% Testing and debugging ■100% transition to production The Work Breakdown Structure and the schedule baseline are related and depend on of each derivable of the project. The execution of tour project requires progress logic, and the project manager uses a Change Management Plant and a Communication Management Plant to guarantee a smooth advance of the project avoiding errors and miscommunications, considering ...

Human Resource Management

When it comes to Human Resource Management, things tend to get a tad bit trickier considering how the HR department’s entire job is to maintain the upkeep of the people to ensure the upkeep of the facility is being done. That being said, there are a few factors the HR department needs to consider before they can perfectly say that have done the best HR planning for the sports complex. For starters they need to make sure there are enough people doing the work and the maintenance of the facility is going as planned. Secondly, they need to ...

Quality Management is adopted by various organizations to make sure that they are working according to the standards maintained globally. The paper highlights the importance of quality management approach adopted by organizations to attain desired success. Quality management approach became widely accepted in the late 1980s and 1990s when organizations realized the importance of quality factors that contribute to success. There are separate elements that contribute to the quality concept which eventually becomes the reason for organizational success. Elements include the use of statistical data, Six Sigma, teamwork, continual improvement, customer satisfaction, and employee involvement. Consumer-driven organizations try to ...

Executive Summary

The Purpose of the Project Catheter-related urinary tract infections are common in the hospital due to the widespread inappropriate use of urinary catheterization, in health care facilities. To achieve a holistic approach to catheter-related infection, there should be a dedicated team of professionals to offer personalized, and patient-centered care consisting of nurses, cardiologists, radiologists, and physicians specialized in vascular access.

The Types of Data Collection

For this process to be completely successful, three primary tools will be useful in evaluating the quality initiative. They include a cause analysis, SWOT which will determine the organization's ability to provide a good environment improvement to thrive and ...

Abstract

This report discusses the strategies that can be employed by companies in improving data quality methods. It is important to work on data quality management because businesses cannot thrive without correct data. Today, it is data related to all businesses that stores all the information which is essential for the business. Without proper and correct data, it is probable that the business might suffer from quality issues and the customers and clients would have a hard time working with the business. It can build a bad reputation because incorrect data will lead to mistakes in the system which can ...

Introduction

A report following a global study of 44,000 people in the tourism sector by TripBarometer Connected Traveller report states that China is among the few top ten nations with connected travellers and categorises 49% of the Asians as connected travellers as most of them use a PC or mobile for booking trips . TravelBurma App targets the Chinese travellers, local business travellers, and other foreign travellers in the age group of 21-50 years. As Myanmar is a business district unit, people often prefer travelling there than any other part of China. During the year 2015, more than 4.68 million ...

Introduction

Globalization and technological advancements have the tremendous impact on organizations from various perspectives. Internationalization of supply chains, automation of the operational processes, international mobility of individuals and changes in the sales and marketing strategies are some of the most obvious outcomes of the technological progress and globalization. It is not a secret that individuals are becoming more flexible in their choices and brand preferences as they have greater access to information and increasing the choice of competitive and substitute products (Johnson, 2006). With that companies, must seek for innovative ways to compete in the increasingly complex market. This competitiveness ...

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Dr. Lorrie McGovern Literature Review Abstract Innovations are inevitable in the business nowadays as they lead to the increased efficiency. The more efficient the company is, the higher the profit it gains. This is equally fair for the product innovation and management improvement. Moreover, financial innovations are now even more desired. All these changes are beneficial for all parties, as development of the entrepreneurship leads to the social and political improvements. Therefore, within this paper, a literature review will be performed to reveal main discussions on the innovations in the financial management, especially in the commercial lending. Both advantages ...

CHAPTER 15 CRITICAL THINKING ASSIGNMENT

<<FName, LName>> <<Class>> <<Professor>> <<School>> <<City>>, <<State>> <<Date>> CHAPTER 15 CRITICAL THINKING ASSIGNMENT The core concept of Total Quality Management is the effective management supported by fact. Many organizations do not follow these concepts and management is known to make intuitive and judgmental decisions without the use of facts, based on their knowledge or experience. The concept of TQM is based on the fact that every decision made to solve a problem is based on data and analysis. ...

Procedures for Managing Service Quality of TravelBurma App

The assessment of the service quality of TravelBurma App is critical for the business in order to find out and manage the quality that is being delivered to the customers against their expectations. TravelBurma App will use a comprehensive set of Service Quality Management procedures that will provide details about the overall superiority and quality of the services perceived by the customers. The fundamental service quality dimensions for TravelBurma App will be Reliability, Responsiveness, Assurance, Convenience, and Tangibility (which will involve facilities, accommodation, equipment, vehicle, and appearance). The service quality of the application would be measured and assured through ...

Discussion Assignment

Discussion Assignment I and II: The Total Quality Approach

Assignment I The question I: Why Look at Processes Continuously? Quality can be defined in a variety of ways and this definition depends upon the company´s culture and strategy as well as customers´ definition of quality. Ultimately, the objective is to meet and exceed customers´ expectations. Importantly, the companies cannot focus on fast gains and wins, if they aim at delivering this excellence to their target market. To achieve quality and ensure the sustainability of this strategy, organizations should take the long-term and forward-looking approach to management of its ...

Introduction

Management accounting (MA) involves collection and dissemination of accounting information for purposes of decision making. Over the recent past, management accounting has experienced significant changes, an aspect that is explained by different scholars (Sven, 2007, p. 336). The topic has attracted different concerns from various stakeholders, linking recent changes to globalization and changes experienced in the organizational settings. The concept of MA is understood to have significant impacts on organizational management as it is used in making strategic decisions (Arroyo, 2015, p. 287). This paper evaluates various theories explaining factors influencing change in management accounting. To achieve study objective, ...

BYOD also commonly referred to as bring your own device refers to a policy where organizations allow employees to use their personally devices to access company information and applications. Keyes refers to the policy as a psycho-technical phenomenon in an attempt to understand the practical application of the concept psychologically. It help elaborate and analyze the social and economic problems that might be caused by BYOD policy (Keyes, 2013). Calling the idea a psycho-technical phenomenon help people understand the implication the policy can have on any organization. Psychological analysis of the policy is important as IT departments are being ...

Summary

A quality management system is a set of policies that involve processing and procedures for execution and planning in the primary business area of an organization. The quality management system refers to the entire system in the business sense. A quality management system integrates the many processes that occur within the organization and thus purposes to give an approach of processes that is needed for the execution of the project. A process based quality management system makes it easy for the organization to identify, improve and control the processes that eventually lead to the improvement of performance in business. ...

Introduction

BMW Group is one of the most successful automotive companies in the world and is a considered a brand leader in the premium market segment in the United States. Despite competitive pressures within the market segments and among the low and mid-priced automotive, BMW’s vehicle volume sales continued to increase by 5.2% in 2015, thanks to the normalization of the global economy. Its revenues also increased by 14.6% and reached $92.2 billion while its net income reached $6.4 billion, a 10% increased from the previous year (BMW Group, 2016). As per location, Germany accounted for 42.6% of the ...

REPORT

Report

The research aims at analyzing PMIBoK5 to identify the topic coverage for P3M, entailing the areas concerned with P3M, and to identify the influences in PMIBoK5 affecting the approaches as well as the methodologies of P3 Management in the diverse project environments.

Deliverables

Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge (PMIBoK) entails a term describing the totality of knowledge within project management as a profession. The areas of coverage concerned with the P3 management include the project scope management, project quality management, project cost management, project risk management, project stakeholder management, project procurement (Haimes 2015, p. 41).

Related Scope Factors to P3 Management

Project scope management. ...

Introduction

The case examines the project for construction of a Business School for the University of Exeter, which was completed on time and within the forecasted budget by 2011. The objectives of the University involved (1) delivering a world-class research and teaching facilities to the University, (2) satisfying the needs and expectations of the student during and after construction, (3) enhance the School's position in the international educational arena. The objectives of the project team, however, included a variety of more complex elements. The core goal of the project was to deliver the facility according to the University’s project, ...

Investing In Saudi Arabia Market

Investing in Saudi Arabia market Introduction The Saudi Arabia economy has for long been driven by the performance of the oil market. The entire economy has also been primarily managed by the government leaving little room for the private sector. The existence of many government bureaucracies has also in the past hindered the development of the private sector. The strict Islamic culture has also been a challenge for the operation of the business from the open economies. The period 2003 to 2013 marked one of the largest oil booms in the history of the country. The oil prices in ...

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Guidelines for Effective Decisions Making the organization more stable requires improving the processes that will permanently address operational problems. Changes will be enterprise wide and it is costly for an organization to do this frequently. Decisions have to be made on what changes to make and management should take note of the best practices on effective decision making. Relevant stakeholders should be identified and engaged to get their support to the eventual decisions. Their contribution in ideas and insights will also be invaluable. The more time that the stakeholders can be made to invest, the more ...

Abstract

There are limited or no effective interventions for recurrence of coronary heart diseases among the patients who smoke. Smoking cessation interventions has been suggested to have little benefit; however, there is little evidence on its cost- effectiveness and efficacy of such programs for cardiac inpatients. This study describes the efficacy and cost- effectiveness of intensive smoking cessation methods for cardiac patients admitted in the hospital cardiac unit. The experimental design assesses the efficacy and cost- effectiveness of the intervention that includes face- to- face counselling in combination with the nicotine replacement therapy using 8 cardiac wards of hospitals in ...

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A medication wallet card is a card that indicates a patient's medication names, doses and it’s easily kept in a patient’s wallet for easy retrieval and referral. A wallet card is very beneficial to a patient particularly in regards to creating awareness of the current patient's ailments, which will help improve the patient’s quality of life considerably and also lead to revenue generation by the clinic. Depression is an infringement to the normal way of life of an individual and does disrupt it in a major way. An amount in excess of $210 Billion has been ...

Introduction

In the modern age of corporation, businesses tend to expand their operational reach through a penetration in newer markets. The penetration requires effective teamwork and deployment of limited resources in order to achieve the long-term objectives. The corporate objectives are achieved through an execution of multiple and temporary activities called projects. These projects are different in nature, size, and resource allocation. An effective and timely completion of these plan-oriented activities requires a systematic framework, prominently known as “Project Management”. The Project Management is based on nine key elements that define purpose, approaches, requirements, and execution of the discipline. This ...

Introduction

The John Hopkins hospital is a premier teaching and research-based institute base in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It was founded in 1889 by John Hopkins. It is one of the leading hospitals in the US known for its strong scientific and innovative background in multi-special therapeutic areas (Pronovost, et al. 2013). It specializes in neurosurgery, cardiology, endocrinology, and paediatrics. It is one of the only institutes in the US to have a full-fledge medical college that houses students from 30+ countries. The quality of care and management at John Hopkins is of the highest standards are recognised globally. Quality Measures ...

The Impact of Quality Management Orientation on Maintenance Performance: A Critique

Introduction The orientation or the set of values and norms of a business with regards to its customers, processes, and quality is a relevant factor that heavily influences the ability of a business to prevail in a competitive scenario. Likewise, this paper will discuss and critique a study that look at the relationship between maintenance performance and the quality management orientation.

Analysis

The objective of the study by Maletic, D., Maletic, M., and Gomiscek (2014) was to examine the relationship between the maintenance performance and the quality management orientation and strengthen the literature regarding this matter. Through this examination, a ...

Concern for quality clinical and healthcare services has risen over the past few years. People want value for their money. They want to be treated courteously, they want to use the best equipment their reimbursements can afford them and above all they want to be guaranteed of their health. However, as the healthcare industry is shifting to adopt more tech-savvy methods of delivering its services, who will be responsible for overseeing the level of quality of health services? Should hospitals and other healthcare facilities have separate quality control department or should the efforts of quality control be integrated into ...

Introduction

Total Quality Management practitioners believe in aligning mega trends with available opportunities in their surroundings. These companies are focused on research and analytics for the long term; at least a considerable time in advance. In the case of some companies, it could be some lesser years. This is where these companies have a competitive advantage. The companies which follow the TQM guidelines have their own quality definition of growth. Any kind of economic transformation would mean a step towards growth for them. Research-based data shows that the revenue of companies that have good TQM practices can be increased up ...

Inventory management anchors the link between organizations and their primary stakeholders. A personal experience at a Credit Union in two weeks revealed just how much the organization undergoes to come up with outstanding inventory blueprints. Branch to branch interconnectivity, integration of the value chain and cost analyses are some of the activities notable in the blueprint. This summery analyzes the Credit Union’s inventory blueprint through a spectrum of seven key points discussed as:

Roles of the Management

The Credit Union considers the role played by management in its endeavors at the center of the success of the organization. Superficially, it is the ...

How my chosen organization compete within its business area

Toyota is a leading manufacturer of automobile in the global setting, a position that has been earned through overcoming various hurdles over the past decades. One of the primary attributes that have contributed to the company's success is its focus on effective quality management (Toussaint, 2016). Moreover, the company's success is associated with a strict management system, which is based on the different principles of operations management as will be explained in the study. By embracing the above techniques, the company has experienced tremendous growth over the recent past. Therefore, the above study seeks to account for the significance ...

Undefeated is an inspiring movie about the football team of Manassas High School in North Memphis, Tennessee and how a special coach was able to turn their poor performance around through his transformational leadership. As a volunteer coach, Bill Courtney gave so much of himself to the team because he believed they could do much better. Not only did he build up their skills and changed their attitude for the better, but more importantly, he built their self-esteem, discipline, commitment, and character. The film takes the viewers to a journey of change in the characters from nonchalant boys who ...

Productivity and quality are some of the most important concepts in every organisation. For an organisation to be successful, it should be able to produce high quality goods and services at the lowest cost possible. Both quality and productivity have the potential to raise the level of a given organisation to international standards. Several factors are associated with both quality and productivity. It is essential for the organisation to employ certain tools that would enable it to produce high quality goods with the potential of fetching high prices with low production costs. The tools used for measuring quality as ...

For an organization to perform as envisioned, it should ensure that quality management is practiced all through from management, to the staff, and even the subordinates. In doing so, it should focus on several key areas as discussed in this paper. Quality management is a broad scope, ranging from its purpose, how different stakeholders define quality, accrediting bodies, and information resources. This paper looks keenly into quality improvement, focusing on the health care sector. Furthermore, it highlights the role it plays, gives details on various accrediting bodies involved in quality improvement and various peripheral resources that deliver quality information. ...

Quality control - is one of the main functions in the quality control process. The value of monitoring is that it allows to detect errors in time, to correct them quickly with minimal losses. Actually, Quality control is carried out by comparing planned quality indicator with actual quality indicator. Quality control lies in checking the quality by detecting deviations from the planned values. In the case of such a deviation it is necessary to find the cause of its appearance, and after adjusting the process to verify again a compliance of adjusted quality indicators with planned quality indicators. Frequent ...

Revised Documents

Work Breakdown Structure of Wedding The project of wedding include three main activities like invitations, food and bridal. The factors of invitations will include the activities, such as creating of guest list, printing of invitations, mailing of invitations, and waiting for RSVPs. On the other hand, food include the activities like finding of caterer, finalization of menu and catering the wedding. In addition, bridal activities include shopping of bridal’s dress and shoes, choosing the banquet, and tailoring and fitting. Work breakdown structure of the wedding provides an overview of the activities of the project that are needed to ...

Problem Presentation

RealTechy Inc. has been experiencing growth in its sales following the increased demand for its products in the market. Over the years, the corporation has had the best products in the market. Its products have held a reputation for being of high quality as opposed to the others in the market. Besides, the firm is renowned for offering quality services to the clients regarding the delivery of products as well as customer complaint handling. Products’ quality and excelling customer service have translated to the continued growth of the firm. Currently, the company is facing the challenge of balancing quality ...

Executive Summary

Organizational change is the best approach for Wengart to take if it is to eliminate customers’ complaints and create a motivated workplace environment. In spite of the fact that its leaders seem to disapprove the ability of TQM model to create desired changes, it is imperative that all managers understand that one of the essential qualities of leaders is the ability to transform theoretical knowledge into practice through critical thinking. Kotter’s eight stage change model, in this case, improves the ability of every stakeholder to act accordingly since the model provides clear guidelines on how Wengart could develop ...

The idea of giving patients questionnaires when they leave the hospital is good since will be a satisfaction survey that would help the Memorial Hospital to get feedback from patients on where they feel the hospital is doing well and the areas for improvement. Additionally, it is necessary for the hospital to rely on audit reviews conducted regularly since they determine the areas that have weaknesses and the reasons for the shortcomings. Audits enable the hospital to identify the performance of all the services it provides including the rate of hospital re-admissions, number of deaths and complaints from patients, ...

The Decision Support Systems (DSS) are very fundamental for supporting Quality Management Systems (QMS) in Higher Educations Institutions (HEIs). DSS are effective in various fields like automotive, finance, business, military, etc. and are being applied in the education sector for improvement of the quality of services. For DSS to support Quality Management Systems, there is the need to formulate a classic Decision Support Systems that entails organised leadership for better results. Any systems developed to measure and evaluate the success in HIEs is expected to put into consideration various factors. These include success rate, quality of produced papers, the ...

Introduction

Safety Management System is a tool of management for the oversight of safety by an organization that is carried out following an approach that is both organized and orderly. Additionally, the Safety Management System approach represents a formal, top-down approach that is adopted by businesses and organizations for the management of safety risks. It includes an approach that is systematic regarding the management of security and considers the necessary structures of the organization, accountabilities, policies as well as procedures. According to Russel (2016), the notion that the implementation of a Safety Management System is complicated, time-consuming, and expensive is ...

Innovative Change Proposal

Innovative Change Proposal

It is undeniable that complaints are intrinsic aspects in every working environment in an organization (MetricStream Inc, 2016). In healthcare services, however, complaints are highly critical and always require an immediate resolution. Apparently, the number of patient complaints in our health care quality department continues to rise, and no amicable mechanisms are implemented to resolve this issue. This proposal aims to develop an effective patient resolution policy that will help address this critical concern.

Solution/Benefits: Recommendations

Ideally, the patient resolution policy will promote fast capture and categorization of patient complaints. Also, it will create an efficient system that ...

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Introduction / Background

The purpose of this document is to provide all management levels within the Airline Company with the basic outline of the philosophy, policies, procedures and practices. This document is the General SOP which provides a high-level overview of the operational regulations and HR practices for the United States and Canada. It and does not have as an aim to explain the tactical level of operations of ...

Nowadays one can observe the increased competition in almost all industries and spheres of life. The products have become much more sophisticated, but still there are a lot of people that are dissatisfied with the poor or insufficient quality of the products. The companies that can invest additional resources into the improvement of the products may eventually receive a strong competitive advantage, because they will successfully satisfy the customers’ needs. Some companies go further and make the customer satisfaction the top priority and for them improvement of the quality standards in one of the main business objectives. In order ...

Introduction

The firm randomly sampled 30 customers that visited the restaurant between 1st match 2016 to 28th march the same year. The overall is further divided into three strata with each having a total of ten respondent based on whether the customer purchased alcohol beverage, non-alcoholic beverage or food. The decision is taken since the paper aims at understanding its ability to retain customers based on satisfaction and probability of return measures in each business line. In addition, the firm is interested in understanding satisfaction level associated with the support facilities such as the washroom, interior design, sink cleanliness and ...

iTech has implemented a quality management system meeting the requirements of ISO 9001:2008. The purpose is to define the standard operating procedures (SOP) for the requirements of the iTech quality management system.

Scope

This document determines about the standard operating procedures for all the processes of iTech’s quality management systems that are inclusive of production and non-production processes. The document presents and determines the interaction and sequences of these processes. It describes the purpose and activity of each process and the corresponding input and output conditions. All the applicable sections of ISO 9001:2008 are identified per each of the ...

Abstract

The automotive industry is one of the industries that has been characterized by intense rivalry. Companies invest a lot of resources to come up with innovative solutions that give them an edge over their rivals. Customer satisfaction is the main target for every company since evidence suggest that increased customer satisfaction contributes to enhanced customer loyalty. One of the areas of focus has been quality control. Quality control in the automotive industry has been improving over time. Besides increasing customer satisfaction, quality controls have been employed in the automotive industry to achieve other goals such as cutting costs, meeting ...

Introduction

Quality management (TQM) refers to an integrated approach developed to improve the quality at every level of the organization. It is a systematic quality improvement tool to achieve the purpose of performance improvement in terms of quality, productivity, customer satisfaction and profitability. It focuses on the continuous process improvement in the organizations to offer high customer value and meet needs of the customer. Four main factors are linked to the TQM strategy, such as customer satisfaction, employee involvement, managerial leadership and process improvement and control. The organizations that give preference to quality are needed to identify customers, their needs ...

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO), 2010 noted that recent research has identified several psychosocial and biologic risk factors for postpartum depression (PPD). Early recognition is one of the major challenges with this overwhelming mood disorder. The main focus of this project is to provide easy access to educational materials to aid in the screening, assessment, and treatment of women who experience depression during pregnancy or the postpartum period. PPD was amended by The American Psychiatric Association, in the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), to peripartum depression and specifies that the onset of mood disturbance can ...

This study explains the relationship between quality management system and goals and objectives of the University. It was examined, that there is a certain practical impact from applying quality management tools in achieving goals and objectives in Universities. As a result of research, right chosen and properly developed model for strategic quality management in University facilitates the improvement of educational processes and achievement of a set strategy, however it is a practical issue of identifying system that is the most appropriate and the most effective. Technology, communication and virtue will be elaborated over in order to present a model ...

Abstract

Total quality management is an approach steeped in scientific management. It involves an attempt to cut down on defects and meet what consumers require of a firm. TQM is based on the formulation of a system to monitor and control affairs and set and meet quality targets through a generalist framework. This is done through several approaches and systems including Six Sigma, Toyota Production System and ISO-9001. This paper focuses on ISO-9001. It is an accreditation system that is utilized by registering with a global monitoring system that is applied over an extended period of usually 6 months. ISO-9001 ...

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Functioning of the Hotel 3 Functioning of the Bank 7 The Approaches of Both Organizations 9 Limitations of Both Organizations 9 III. Conclusions and Recommendations 12

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Introduction This paper is devoted to the two service companies, which operate in the United Kingdom. The first one is a hotel in London. Its name is Ramada London Finchley. It is one of the eponymous hotel chain Ramada. The hotel is located near the Alexandra Palace and East Finchley subway station. This hotel belongs to the three-star hotels and provides a wide range of hotel services to the customers. Another service company ...

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I was privileged to interview the Nurse Manager in the facility that I am currently undertaking my practicum with the intentions of having a better understanding of the working of the organization. She informed that the overall goal for the operation of the facility is that at the end of it all, the levels of patient satisfaction will be high, job satisfaction on the side of care will be improved while the reputation of the facility is targeted at remaining high on the eyes of the clientele.

The specific objectives and goals of the organization, however, are as follows;

• To have a process that is targeted at approving and revising both ...

Introduction

In the current business world where firms are striving to achieve a better brand recognition and market competitiveness, the concept of supply chain management is of considerable significance. According to Jones and Riley; “Supply chain management is defined as an integrative approach dealing with the planning and control of the materials flow as well as information from suppliers to end-users” (Piotrowicz & Cuthbertson, 2015, p.226). An efficient supply chain management can benefit organisations to reduce lead time and to achieve an uninterrupted flow of production processes. Today, it is a challenging task for business houses to maintain an efficient supply ...

In the contemporary business practices, quality management methods and tools are widely used to enhance the productivity and quality of the organizational processes, operations, products, and services. Quality management is a comprehensive framework that works parallel to the organization involving all units, stakeholders, departments, and operations, enabling it to grow consistently. Quality assurance and quality controls are the two major complement of a quality management system that comes with quality planning and quality improvement. This paper elucidates the significance of quality assurance and quality control in the modern business arena. Considering the example of Air Mauritius, the paper elucidates ...

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Quality of data is considered to be high in case its nature and structure fits for its presupposed usage in making decisions, performing different operations and planning future activities. Data can also be treated as of high-quality in case it adequately represents the real-world processes to which it is linked. Data quality also means that data storage corresponds to the principles of data consistency, validity, timeliness, accuracy and completeness. Following these principles allows to use the data in appropriate way (Redman 56). There are numerous advantages of high-quality data management. A major widely recognized benefit of improving ...

Introduction

The supply chain management and logistics have been an essential part of all the economies and business entities. The two go hand-in-hand. In essence, the application of E-business in logistics plays a significant role in the integration of supply chain management. In other words, the successful integration of supply chain management greatly relies on E-logistics. For this reason, the present paper centers on E-logistics in supply chain management. In particular, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the findings from a starter article and two major articles about E-logistics and supply chain management. The paper first summarizes these ...

There are several quality management certification institutions in the world. The most famous of these institutions is the International Organization for Standards. The ISO 9000: a global benchmark for quality management is a collection of standards that are generally useful in quality management in organizations. It’s maintained by the International Standards for Organization while the administration is done by accreditation and certification bodies. These standards are updated with time. Amongst the ISO family, there are many standards dealing with several aspects of business (http://www.iso.org/iso/survey2008.pdf). Some of the most common are the ISO 22000:2005 (Food Safety in Supply Chains) and the ...

Quality assurance and product perfection is what every organization is aiming to achieve to attract and maintain customers for long in the business industry. To achieve these objectives proper planning and concentration by top management should be established to enhance effectiveness and efficiency of every individual. The success of any business is because of combined efforts among different departments and the commitment of every employee in the organization.

As a manager in my organization aiming to produce the best products and services, the first thing is to ensure quality of the workers, all must be professional in their fields so ...

Abstract

This article presents a discussion on the importance of management information systems in Bistro Cuisine, a restaurant operating in the city of Nairobi, Kenya. It will explain the role of information systems in the managerial function of planning, staffing, directing, and monitoring functions of management. It will describe management information system as a system of processes that provide information necessary to manage an organization effectively.

Modern technology has further made the result to management information systems in management imperative because of the changing environmental and circumstances. Finally, the article will make recommendations to public and private institutions on the importance of running ...