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.
Creativity: Originality, innovation, and quality of idea.
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Key to the Charter for Quality was the idea that player development would focus on technique rather than results, with youngsters trained by gifted coaches.
While anybody can start a business, the success of that undertaking is going to depend on the quality of your idea, your willingness to work hard at it and the conditions of the local market.
Instead, he reinforced the idea of quality, barely mentioning price, either to staff or to the City.
Kaoru Ishikawa, a professor at Tokyo University who died in 1989, is attributed with much of the development of the idea of quality circles.
The idea of quality in relationships is not new.
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In the process, it attracted well-known and high-quality photographers who liked the idea of having a place for their best shots.
Boeing bought the idea because of the quality of research going on at the university.
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For many years, this simple idea stood for the quality and workmanship that distinguished the Rolls-Royce brand from every other luxury brand of automobile.
The idea is to launch a quality product first with the essential differentiating suite of features.
Entering the high-quality bar market was Todd's idea, but Garvey executed the strategy.
If you have the money, high-quality chest protectors are also a good idea.
Murrell initially had the idea for a higher-quality burger restaurant back in 1986, as a way to keep his family nearby and, perhaps, make a little money on the side.
With that in mind, the video rental company thought it would be a good idea to look at the quality of the ISPs (Internet Service Providers) consumers are using in America.
It's just that photography purists (and just people who expect 8 megapixels to mean 8 megapixels) will scoff at the idea that full-size quality should be sacrified for improvements at lower resolution.
Vahan mentioned before the idea that you better be in quality, more conservative equities.
The idea here is to establish better quality patents and, again, to cut down on excessive litigation.
She had the idea that routine, high-quality video recordings of operations could enable us to figure out why some patients fare better than others.
It was ripped from an AVCHD file to H.264, so there's been some generational quality loss, but you'll get an idea of the colors and the motion.
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The idea is that it gives much better quality shots when you zoom in compared to a normal camera phone, which matters because there is no room for a big zoom lens on a typical mobile.
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We asked each to weigh in with one great idea for reducing costs while still providing high quality care.
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The general idea behind the overhaul is to establish better-quality patents and to reduce the number of patent lawsuits.
The idea is that nano-vibrations would change the quality of the instrument itself based on acoustics, the environment, humidity, or even playing style.
But maybe the idea does have merit and it would somehow increase quality and save money to keep a hospital running at full steam seven days a week rather than five.
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And the idea that foundation status should be a reward for quality and thus a spur to better performance has been binned, because that might lead to some hospitals getting better than others.
Second, unless France embraces the idea of competition, the creed of egalitarianism will drag down quality for everybody.
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The idea that audiences walked into Jurassic Park mostly unaware of its quality is one that resonates in the current age of long-lead review embargoes and spoilers included as marketing tools.
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This will be a really big deal if it works, and small-scale field tests seem promising. (The quality of the video below is lousy, but it gives you the idea.) The most intriguing thing about Square, though, at least so far, is the conceptual leap that Dorsey may have been uniquely qualified to make: Payment transactions are a kind of social interchange.
The idea is that the Premier League is too different in style and quality from other European leagues and lower leagues to take a chance on anyone else.
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