Additionally, the company can utilize its substantial bargaining power with its suppliers, reducing the impact of industry-wide input cost increases and sustaining profit margins.

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Only by actively soliciting input from wide-ranging sources can we develop alternative solutions that have higher value.

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We are using that input to shape an ongoing government -wide assessment of how the United States government supports nonprofits through capacity building and technical assistance, with the intent to streamline efforts and make them more impactful for the needs of local organizations.

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He said that Deming was more focused on the statistical analysis of quality whereas he, Juran, was more concerned about the human input, teaching people how to introduce what he called CWQM (company-wide quality management).

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