There are still many sectors where Japanese firms are world leaders, based primarily on superior engineering, materials, manufacturing and quality management.
The Toyota and Boeing stories underscore starkly contrasted approaches to outsourcing, supply chain management, and the quality management needed in a marketplace where public fears fester each time a serious product risk is traced to a foreign source.
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Even then, professional, regulatory and internal quality and risk management policies generally require second partner reviews and other supervision of even the work of partner level licensed professionals.
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To support these global goals, in recent years the UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC) Scotland Committee has focused on water treatment and sanitation, water quality and water management in International Development.
This study, published in Personnel Psychology, compares two groups of activities that aim to increase company productivity: those related to human resources, such as training and teamwork, and those related to operational management, such as just-in-time production and total-quality management.
"We look for high cash, low debt, and screen for management quality and efficiency, " Callahan says, adding that he considers direct meetings with companies' executive spinmeisters a waste of time.
National contributions to Argo include building, deploying, and operating floats, data management and quality control, and communications.
The registration process asks each company to submit information in several categories: basic company profile, general information on number of employees, products and services, financial information on annual revenues, their ability to support electronic business transactions, any quality and environmental management certifications, details on their ethical dealings and social responsibility, information on data security, information on diversity policies, and on their use of independent contractors.
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The ETF tracks a NYSE Arca index that selects stocks based on price and earnings momentum, earnings quality, management and value, says Ed McRedmond, senior vice president of institutional and portfolio strategies at Invesco PowerShares, the fund's sponsor.
And in the last decade it seems that quality ownership and management have helped foster and grow success both on and off the ice, according to Victor de Bonis, the Canucks Chief Operating Officer.
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This is a form of heightened scrutiny, though informal and less severe than some other options, and looks at a bank's capital and risk management, loan quality and liquidity.
Once they factor in rising shipping and transportation costs, the addition of increased quality control and the management of unreliable fulfillment dates, they may find that they're not actually saving any money.
A. I mentioned above that customers are increasingly paying attention to product quality and property management.
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Buyers will focus more and more on product and property management quality.
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Yet the real reason for fading fads is not that executives have built into their everyday activities such now-familiar ideas as core competences and total-quality management.
Quality of corporate governance including risk committee and audit committee effectiveness and quality of disclosures by management to those board committees.
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With the committee basing most of its policies on measurable key performance indexes, which look into sales, profits and service quality, Day says management by majority vote and effective delegation at Wowprime makes his life much easier.
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International donors and lenders continue to be concerned about the quality of fiscal management and Gambia's debt burden.
Audit Integrity looks beyond the raw data that companies report in their income statements and balance sheets to more than 100 factors that help it assess the true quality of accounting and management practices.
Just as businesses carefully monitor employees and other service providers to ensure quality control, accountability and brand management, they also need to have mechanisms in place that allow them to track and control the strategies and progress of their SEO providers.
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The tackled areas have been project and change management, quality, and lean administration.
Steve, in short, leaves the company in the best shape in its history: it has immense amounts of cash, killer products, high quality management and devoted customers.
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The former boss of Coca-Cola's Mexican operation, whose 58th birthday fell on election day, talks of infusing government with total quality management and tracking it with performance indicators.
In developing the thematic area, UNESCO is a leader in the areas of: transboundary surface and groundwater, water quality, integrated water resource management and climate change adaptation and water.
However, I think I have pretty good radar for management quality and if you trust my past calls, then read on.
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No children were deemed at "immediate risk" but the report said failings in case recording, quality of practice and management oversight led to "some children being inadequately protected".
Huang Shengming, secretary-general of the China National Food Industry Association, says that Chinese people associate foreign brands with quality, and that foreign management practices have sharpened up local companies.
He had earned his CBE by 1989, long before he was snapped up by a flagging BT keen to tap his "international experience, his dedication to quality management, and his in-depth knowledge of the computing services industry".
The conference will also help to support and enhance the various projects developed by UNESCO in South-East Europe to promote quality museum management, intercultural dialogue and sustainable development.
Rather than undertaking a major push, firms seem content to re-use previous technology investments while trying to improve the timeliness and quality of the data and improving the integration with other risk management tools.
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