Over the last decade, software product line engineering (SPLE) has emerged as one of the most promising software development paradigms for increasing productivity in IT-related industries.
ISO 9001:2000 for Small Business Management: Implementing Process-Approach Quality Management demonstrates how a process-approach quality management system performs in the real work environment.
A versatile manual that can be used to stimulate product innovation, benchmarking analysis, and engineering design, this book goes beyond theory to provide relevant advanced methods and techniques that readers can apply in their work for both short- and long-term results.
Quality Management System Handbook for Product Development Companies describes a systematic approach for quality management and continuous improvement via a formal management system.
Using clear, approachable examples, Universal and Accessible Design for Products, Services, and Processes defines and differentiates accessible versus universal design, and explores their relationship in a broad societal and global context.
Researchers and professionals in all walks of life need to use the many tools offered by the statistical world, but often do not have the necessary experience in both concept and application.
This book not only presents the overall development of quality function deployment (QFD) and what it has been used for to date but a new product support orientation by which it can be employed.
The definitive guide to implementing Baldrige Criteria in any organization-from the team that has worked with 18 Malcolm Baldrige Award winnersFor organizations in both the public and private sectors, the coveted Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is the gold standard to which all leaders aspire.
The definitive guide to product management-updated for a more digital, more global, more competitive business landscapeThe digital age is here to stay.
Global Production is the first book to provide a fully comprehensive overview of the complicated issues facing multinational companies and their global sourcing strategies.
Most people accept the importance of project management as a means of realizing value, enabling change and distinguishing your organization from its competitors.
Most people accept the importance of project management as a means of realizing value, enabling change and distinguishing your organization from its competitors.
A practical and realistic guide for both external and internal service providers in an aviation context to implementing an effective way to control the service quality as perceived by their customers, Delivering Excellent Service Quality in Aviation is essential for those service providers that are not yet systematically managing their service quality.
A practical and realistic guide for both external and internal service providers in an aviation context to implementing an effective way to control the service quality as perceived by their customers, Delivering Excellent Service Quality in Aviation is essential for those service providers that are not yet systematically managing their service quality.
Product and service designers place increasing emphasis on the colour, form and appearance of what their organization offers and the language with which they describe it.
Product and service designers place increasing emphasis on the colour, form and appearance of what their organization offers and the language with which they describe it.
Quality costs help to show the importance of quality-related activities to management; they demonstrate the cost of non-quality to an organization; they track the causes and effects of the problem, enabling the working out of solutions using quality improvement teams, and then monitoring progress.
Quality costs help to show the importance of quality-related activities to management; they demonstrate the cost of non-quality to an organization; they track the causes and effects of the problem, enabling the working out of solutions using quality improvement teams, and then monitoring progress.
This book comprehensively explores all of the underlying issues and elements which, together, constitute one of the most successful quality and management programmes upon which companies such as Motorola and GE base their success - Six Sigma.
This book comprehensively explores all of the underlying issues and elements which, together, constitute one of the most successful quality and management programmes upon which companies such as Motorola and GE base their success - Six Sigma.
In the business world, especially in manufacturing or quality management, the term Six Sigma usually refers to a set of tools and methodologies developed by Motorola to improve processes by eliminating defects.
In the business world, especially in manufacturing or quality management, the term Six Sigma usually refers to a set of tools and methodologies developed by Motorola to improve processes by eliminating defects.
Three unassailable facts will strike you as soon as you start to read The Future of Innovation: One: innovation is the new mantra; whether you're involved in teaching art and design, new product development for a blue chip consumer brand or responsible for providing public services to citizens; Two: understanding innovation requires multiple perspectives; from culture and mindset, social and commercial context, new ways of working as much as new products or services; Three: innovation is a journey; drawing on insights from around the globe is essential to accelerate our progress.
Three unassailable facts will strike you as soon as you start to read The Future of Innovation: One: innovation is the new mantra; whether you're involved in teaching art and design, new product development for a blue chip consumer brand or responsible for providing public services to citizens; Two: understanding innovation requires multiple perspectives; from culture and mindset, social and commercial context, new ways of working as much as new products or services; Three: innovation is a journey; drawing on insights from around the globe is essential to accelerate our progress.
Best Practice in Inventory Management 3E offers a simple, entirely jargon-free and yet comprehensive introduction to key aspects of inventory management.
Best Practice in Inventory Management 3E offers a simple, entirely jargon-free and yet comprehensive introduction to key aspects of inventory management.
This title was first published in 2001: Product and particularly customer profitability are black holes in most managers' understanding of their business.
This title was first published in 2001: Product and particularly customer profitability are black holes in most managers' understanding of their business.
