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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Buyers will focus more and more on product and property management quality.
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Question for the day: When you invest in stocks, do you go strictly by the numbers, or do you also consider management quality?
"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.
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 Joseph Juran, one of the two American post-war germinators of the quality idea (the other was W. Edwards Deming), considered that quality circles were pretty useless if the company's management was not trained in the more general principles of total quality management.
National contributions to Argo include building, deploying, and operating floats, data management and quality control, and communications.
The tackled areas have been project and change management, quality, and lean administration.
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.
They concern management practices that at some point emerge and become popular, such as the old Total Quality Management, ISO9000 system or SixSigma.
In January 2010 the company earned ISO 9001:2008 certification of its quality management processes.
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The report's findings mean that the District Council will have to designate a formal Air Quality Management Area.
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Mr. SAM ATWOOD (Media Manager, Coast Air Quality Management District): And that is a very conservative calculation, actually.
Air-quality management with measures to reduce emissions from aircraft, vehicles, auxiliary power units (APUs) and ground power units (GPU).
The junction of Lower Guildford Road, Highclere Road and High Street, Knaphill has been declared an air quality management area.
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There are still many sectors where Japanese firms are world leaders, based primarily on superior engineering, materials, manufacturing and quality management.
In the 1990s, ISO9000 (a quality management system) spread through many industries.
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Among its sourcing safeguards, the company prequalifies and continually monitors its overseas factories to ensure that quality management systems are in place.
Total Quality Management (TQM, ) Continuous Improvement (CI, ) and Six Sigma programs all have been glorified by companies hoping to improve product or service quality.
The high quality management is likely to give SanDisk a competitive edge as it fights to maintain its large presence in the flash industry.
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When onsite quality management was not provided, Boeing had to jump in anyway, dispatching hundreds of engineers to try and solve supplier-level problems delaying production.
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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.
The journey might begin to look a lot like Hoshin-Kanri planning, which is a planning approach originating from the Total Quality Management movement.
Four years ago, Cotswold District Council made an Air Quality Management Area Order because the NO2 levels at the Air Balloon roundabout exceeded the recommended thresholds.
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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They include water supply and sewerage, including abstraction and impounding of water, resources management, water quality, the water industry, water charges, safety of reservoirs and so on.
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.
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.
They have vision, deep product pipelines, quality management.
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