Download or read book Creating Customer driven Quality written by Akhilesh N. Singh and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Creating a Customer centered Culture written by Robin L. Lawton and published by ASQ Quality Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating a Customer-Centered Culture shows you how to successfully apply existing traditional management tools to knowledge and service work. it teaches you to think like customers so you can implement an organizational culture transformation on your way to total quality management in a jargon-free, step-by-step way.

Download or read book Delighting Customers written by P. Donovan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our two organizations, Northern Telecom Europe Limited and Oracle Corporation UK Limited, share a number of things in common. Both are striving to become world class in markets where technology is moving fast and market change is moving even faster. Both are responding urgently to the challenge of meeting the current requirements - and anticipating the future needs - of customers at the international, national and local level. We both recognize that customer and employee satisfaction now rank with market share as measures for business success. We accept that there are clear links between delighted customers and profitability, customer loyalty and long-term survival. We are committed to achieving excellence, both as business partners and as employers. There is already strong co-operation between the growing number of professionals in this field as they work together and exchange experiences for benchmarking and best practice studies. In this spirit of collaboration, we have encouraged Peter Donovan and Timothy Samler to share some of our early experiences with our customer-driven programmes and to stimulate further debate. Their book provides a wealth of guidance for any organization that has set its sights on delighting its customers and becoming customer-driven. The ten step approach to delighting customers breaks new ground and offers a blueprint for others to follow. It exemplifies the practical approach that is taken throughout the book.

Download or read book Customer Driven Operations Management Aligning Business Processes and Quality Tools to Create Operational Effectiveness in Your Company written by Christopher K. Ahoy and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global economy is witnessing previously unseen levels of competitiveness, forcing business leaders to contend with unprecedented challenges. No longer can companies seize and hold a customer base by operating adequately. In order to enjoy a competitive advantage, an organization must operate at exemplary levels of performance in every facet of business and maintain that degree of excellence indefinitely. This is achieved through careful alignment of operational systems and the use of innovative process management initiatives. “Unless an organization is uniquely qualified to deal with its customers by understanding its own strengths and weakness,” writes internationally renowned operational management expert Christopher K. Ahoy, “it will be unable to understand what is required to move from the current paradigm of doing business.” In Customer-Driven Operations Management, Ahoy distills the most current business theories and practices that will help you weed out and eliminate operational inefficiencies and put in place the necessary metrics for providing products and services better, cheaper, and faster than ever. Ahoy walks you through the steps of creating a world-class organization, which include Mapping your company's processes to target weak points Realigning management systems from functional to process-focused Setting benchmarks throughout the process to help quantify levels of success Establish a system of knowledge management for the seamless alignment of teams and departments Improving process management using Lean, Six Sigma, and other methodologies Create a sound strategic planning initiative to eliminate future surprises With diagrams and figures to highlight salient points, Customer-Driven Operations Management clarifies and simplifies the otherwise daunting task of enacting major changes in your company's operations systems.

Download or read book Superior Customer Value written by Art Weinstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superior Customer Value is a state-of-the-art guide to designing, implementing and evaluating a customer value strategy in service, technology and information-based organizations. A customer-centric culture provides focus and direction for an organization, driving and enhancing market performance. By benchmarking the best companies in the world, Weinstein shows students and marketers what it really means to create exceptional value for customers in the Now Economy. Learn how to transform companies by competing via the 5-S framework – speed, service, selection, solutions and sociability. Other valuable tools such as the Customer Value Funnel, Service-Quality-Image-Price (SQIP) framework, SERVQUAL, and the Customer Value/Retention Model frame the reader’s thinking on how to improve marketing operations to create customer-centered organizations. This edition features a stronger emphasis on marketing thinking, planning and strategy, as well as new material on the Now Economy, millennials, customer obsession, business models, segmentation and personalized marketing, customer experience management and customer journey mapping, value pricing, customer engagement, relationship marketing and technology, marketing metrics and customer loyalty and retention. Built on a solid research basis, this practical and action-oriented book will give students and managers an edge in improving their marketing operations to create superior customer experiences.

Download or read book Customer Driven Project Management written by Bruce T. Barkley and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2001-07-03 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation.

Download or read book Customer and Market driven Quality Management written by Johnson Aimie Edosomwan and published by WCB/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides practical guidelines and techniques that illustrate how to successfully create and manage customer-driven organizations. This unique look at TQM covers a wide range of quality topics and tools and includes case studies and over 150 working exercises to help readers understand and implement the book's quality-building principles. Edosomwan helps companies adopt the characteristics of market leaders to increase profits, prevent errors and effectively manage costs incurred from quality improvement processes, and more.

Download or read book Step by Step QFD written by John Terninko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wouldn't it be great if you could design a product with the customer in mind - right from the very start? Well, now there's a way: Quality Function Development, or QFD, translates the needs of the consumer directly into the design and development of new products and services. By focusing on customer needs and incorporating them into every phase of the manufacturing process, it eliminates waste and improves customer satisfaction. And that means increased sales, greater profits, and a bigger share of the market.Step-by-Step QFD is a practical, hands-on guide to implementing QFD at any organization. Written by an expert in the field, it shoes how the intensive study of consumer needs can be used to help you dramatically outperform the competition. In fact, the strategies outlined in this book have already met with great success at a number of corporations both within and outside of the United States. This workbook includes a case study of QFD in action, 34 helpful workshops, and an analysis of the synergy between QFD, TRIZ, and Taguchi. So whether you're a QFD trainer, project manager, design engineer, or manufacturer, Step-by-Step QFD will show you how to let one voice drive your entire design process - the customer's!

Download or read book Customer Driven Operations Management Aligning Business Processes and Quality Tools to Create Operational Effectiveness in Your Company written by Christopher K. Ahoy and published by Mcgraw-hill. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global economy is witnessing previously unseen levels of competitiveness, forcing business leaders to contend with unprecedented challenges. No longer can companies seize and hold a customer base by operating adequately. In order to enjoy a competitive advantage, an organization must operate at exemplary levels of performance in every facet of business and maintain that degree of excellence indefinitely. This is achieved through careful alignment of operational systems and the use of innovative process management initiatives. “Unless an organization is uniquely qualified to deal with its customers by understanding its own strengths and weakness,” writes internationally renowned operational management expert Christopher K. Ahoy, “it will be unable to understand what is required to move from the current paradigm of doing business.” In Customer-Driven Operations Management, Ahoy distills the most current business theories and practices that will help you weed out and eliminate operational inefficiencies and put in place the necessary metrics for providing products and services better, cheaper, and faster than ever. Ahoy walks you through the steps of creating a world-class organization, which include Mapping your company's processes to target weak points Realigning management systems from functional to process-focused Setting benchmarks throughout the process to help quantify levels of success Establish a system of knowledge management for the seamless alignment of teams and departments Improving process management using Lean, Six Sigma, and other methodologies Create a sound strategic planning initiative to eliminate future surprises With diagrams and figures to highlight salient points, Customer-Driven Operations Management clarifies and simplifies the otherwise daunting task of enacting major changes in your company's operations systems.

Download or read book Lean Solutions written by James P. Womack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As consumers, we have a greater selection of higher quality goods & services to choose from, yet our experience of obtaining & using these items is more frustrating than ever. At the same time, companies find themselves with declining customer loyalty & greater challenges in fulfilling orders. This text offers solutions to these problems.

Download or read book Creating a Customer Driven Quality Organization written by Mitchell A. Tarr and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Customer Driven Playbook written by Travis Lowdermilk and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the wide acceptance of Lean approaches and customer-development strategies, many product teams still have difficulty putting these principles into meaningful action. That’s where The Customer-Driven Playbook comes in. This practical guide provides a complete end-to-end process that will help you understand customers, identify their problems, conceptualize new ideas, and create fantastic products they’ll love. To build successful products, you need to continually test your assumptions about your customers and the products you build. This book shows team leads, researchers, designers, and managers how to use the Hypothesis Progression Framework (HPF) to formulate, experiment with, and make sense of critical customer and product assumptions at every stage. With helpful tips, real-world examples, and complete guides, you’ll quickly learn how to turn Lean theory into action. Collect and formulate your assumptions into hypotheses that can be tested to unlock meaningful insights Conduct experiments to create a continual cadence of learning Derive patterns and meaning from the feedback you’ve collected from customers Improve your confidence when making strategic business and product decisions Track the progression of your assumptions, hypotheses, early ideas, concepts, and product features with step-by-step playbooks Improve customer satisfaction by creating a consistent feedback loop

Download or read book Customer driven Strategy written by Thomas F. Wallace and published by Oliver Wight Limited Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Customer Driven Strategy Thomas F. Wallace Strategic Planning, in many companies, consists of annual treks to resorts for two days of planning and one day of golf. These strategy "retreats" often produce impressive, bound plans, which tend to collect dust on the bookshelves of managers throughout the company. The net impact on the business is obviously nil. Despite this annual performance gap, developing a dynamic operating strategy is essential to the survival and success of every enterprise. It's also critical for companies to develop a viable strategy by creating customer-driven plans, focused on consistently delivering value to the customer in every aspect of a company's operation. Customer-Driven Strategy takes you beyond the traditional approaches to planning and strategy implementation. It brings the reality of delivering value to your customers into the essential aspects of your business. It helps you to create, implement, and manage a flexible, dynamic plan that's committed to your customer. Tom Wallace shows how to develop this customer-driven perspective by implementing a holistic, fully integrated strategic approach in the following areas: Initiating a customer-driven planning process Leveraging continuous-improvement initiatives Developing innovative approaches in high performance work teams Creating a learning environment that fosters constant innovation Maximizing the market impact of new products Using planning and control systems to their greatest potential Sustaining new partnerships with suppliers for competitive advantage Developing accurate, effective performance measures Implementing customer-driven strategies for the maximum benefit of the business-and your customers Packed with practical advice and guidelines, Customer-Driven Strategy gives you the proven tools and techniques to realize significant improvements in your company's operations-today. In addition, you can learn how Hewlett Packard, Steelcase, Tellabs, and other companies dramatically improved their performance through customer-focused strategic planning.

Download or read book Managing Customer Value written by Bradley Gale and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even today with quality improvement the battle cry of American industry, the quality programs in most companies are limited to "conformance to technical standards," according to quality expert Bradley Gale. While some have ventured a step farther to measure customer satisfaction, few of them, Gale demonstrates, have attempted to track market-perceived "quality" -- how buyers select among competing suppliers, why orders are won or lost, and which competitors are succeeding in which market segments. Using cases including Milliken & Company; AT&T, United Van Lines, and Gillette, Gale shows how leading-edge companies have gone beyond the minimal achievements of conformance quality and customer satisfaction to focus on the third, higher stage, "market-perceived quality versus competitors" and aspire to an emerging fourth stage, "true strategic management." Drawing on his extensive research at AT&T, Johnson & Johnson, Parke-Davis, and other world-class companies, Gale provides new metrics for market-perceived quality that are straightforward and easy to interpret. His set of seven integrative tools for customer value analysis makes up the heart of the "war room wall" to help guide business-unit teams in their effort to outperform competitors in satisfying customers. The great value of these tools is that they are derived from a future-oriented strategic navigation system that tracks competitive information and market-perceived quality. Learning to master this system accelerates customer satisfaction from a slogan to a science and leads ultimately to true strategic management -- the fourth stage of Total Quality Management. The processes described in this book provide an insider's perspective on the criteria of the Baldrige Award. Bradley Gale's insights and innovative methods for defining, measuring, and improving market-perceived quality will create an entirely new thrust for the worldwide quality movement.

Download or read book Customer Oriented Software Quality Assurance written by Frank P. Ginac and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1998 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive, practical "how to" guide to customer-focused software quality assurance, for organizations of all sizes and types. Readers will learn how to design a quality assurance program that builds on customers' expectations. The book also explores the role of ISO 9000 and SEI CMM appraisals in customer-focused quality assurance.

Download or read book Summary The Customer Driven Company written by BusinessNews Publishing, and published by Primento. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The must-read summary of Richard C. Whiteley's book: "The Customer Driven Company: Moving from Talk to Action". This complete summary of the ideas from Richard C. Whiteley's book "The Customer Driven Company" shows that customer satisfaction is the key to a long-term, successful business. In his book, the author explains the seven fundamentals of a customer driven business. Successful companies will create a consumer vision, treat their feedback seriously and learn from others who deal with customers well. They will create a culture where every employee is interested in customer satisfaction and eliminate any procedure that hampers consumer’s gratification. Good businesses will not only say they care about their customers, they will show it. This summary is a must-read for any leader who wants to start focusing on customers and reaping the rewards. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand key concepts • Expand your knowledge To learn more, read "The Customer Driven Company" and discover the key to success in today's competitive economy.

Download or read book Customer Oriented Quality Management in the Automotive Industry written by Marit Breitfeld and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2005-02-28 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: In times of severe competition, it is of crucial importance to create a competitive advantage to differentiate from the competitors and to sustain the business of the company. This thesis intends to show that a customer-focused quality management is one way to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Quality controls along the whole value chain -before, during and after production- leads to failure free products, which save costs on the one hand and have thus a positive influence on the company s revenue. On the other hand failure free products that meet the customers expectations lead to satisfied customers who build up a brand loyalty and conduct retention sales, which have a positive influence on the company s sales, market share as well as the overall image. Furthermore, this thesis points out that it is important to listen to the voice of the customers and get an insight in the customer s needs and wants. To fulfil or even exceed their expectations leads to customer satisfaction, which is a key to success in today s business world. In addition, the customer demands in regard of quality are growing continuously and new technologies are appearing on the markets on a regular basis. Therefore the producers are forced to keep to the latest technology developments and to get hold on the changing customer needs. But even without this external pressure, quality improvement is justified from a cost point of view. The applicability of a customer-oriented quality management is shown in the practical part of this thesis, when the quality of the Saab models is analyzed from the customer s perspective. Due to the arguments, outlined in this thesis, it can be summarized that a quality management with a focus on the needs of the customers in should become a core strategy of any company producing and selling products in order to create customer satisfaction and sustain the business. This thesis deals with the field of quality management in the context of customer satisfaction. To show the practical applicability of quality management, this thesis is looking at how quality management is conducted in the automotive industry, as we compare the Initial Quality Study (IQS) from the market research institute J. D. Power with a survey that was internally conducted at the Saab Automobile AB. Today s business environment creates a growing need for quality management. Tougher competition leads to the demand for cost savings and higher [...]