Download or read book Design for Profitability written by Salah Ahmed Mohamed Elmoselhy and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the success of products significantly depends on the quality of product performance, inadequate management of the product design process can lead to improper performance of products that can result in significant long-term business losses. Design for Profitability: Guidelines to Cost Effectively Manage the Development Process of Complex Products presents a design guideline for complex product design and development that enables you to cost-effectively improve the technical performance of your products and consequently improve your competitiveness in the marketplace as well as improve profitability. The book helps you improve the competitiveness of your organization in the market and eventually improve profitability. It presents a mobile robots design guideline based on an empirical study of the mobile robots design process. This is an unprecedented guideline based on the empirical investigation of the internal aspects of the design process of complex products for cost-effectively enhancing the competitiveness in the market. The book also presents a hybrid lean-agile design paradigm for mobile robots. In addition, it points out key approaches and risks to manage the product development process efficiently. In designing complex products and integrated systems, industrial designers face a dilemma of cost-effectively striking a balance between product development time and product performance attributes. This book shows how and when value is added in product design and development through identifying statistically the most and least correlated design activities and strategies to product performance attributes. Introducing a new paradigm in the field of engineering design, the book gives you key approaches to efficiently manage the product development process.
Download or read book Product Quality Market Share and Profitability written by Lutz Hildebrandt and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Linking Quality to Profits written by John Hawley Atkinson and published by ASQ Quality Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives directions for companies making quality improvement an element of financial performance, and discusses tools and methods linking quality and the bottom line in companies such as Xerox Corp., Heinz Co., and Westinghouse Electric Corp. Covers strategic quality planning, quality-based cost management, cost-driver analysis, and project selection,
Download or read book Senior Management and Quality written by Fin Rooney and published by Quality Press. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Not just another quality tools book. I wish all senior managers would read this...Anyone who is interested in how quality is embedded in all aspects of business should get this book." Holly Hickman Director, Customer Quality, Constellium In this original and practical book, Fin Rooney strips back the myths surrounding quality. He goes back to original principles in deciding what quality means, and then proceeds to show how it can have a positive influence on all departments. He suggests that every department should have quality objectives in order to generate a quality culture. This book will change how you look at quality. You will see how you can use it to drive improvement, cost savings, and better profitability in your organization. It will look at using quality not just as a tool for making good products or delivering a good service, but as a strategic weapon in the marketplace. Full of helpful questions and thought-provoking ideas, Senior Management and Quality will ensure you have interesting conversations with senior managers and how they view quality. For senior managers, it gives a framework for devising a coordinated quality strategy, involving every department in quality, and showing how an embedded quality strategy can create virtuous circles of improvement. Among many features, this book: Explains how we can turn our quality departments and staff into a strategic, value-adding serviceGives a neater definition of quality that can be applied to any department in any organizationShows the relationships between quality and suppliers, customers, and internal departmentsAddresses the issues that can arise with the department that is the most important one in determining product quality: R & DReassesses our view of company and quality objectivesReviews the role of quality personnel, and how we can use them as internal consultantsInvestigates how quality can influence training and change managementTakes a fresh look at objectives and metrics, and the problems and contradictions with some of the common ones in useLooks at some of the deficiencies with Six Sigma With over 30 years in quality, Fin Rooney has put together the results of that experience in the real business world and come up with a practical approach to using quality as a way to improve your organizations performance in all areas.
Download or read book The Impact of Product Quality on Profits written by B. Ornstein and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Profitability and Product Quality written by Nancy L Rose and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the connection between profitability and product quality in the airline industry, and how it affects safety performance. Nancy L. Rose, a professor at the Sloan School of Management, provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic determinants of airline safety performance. Using extensive data, she demonstrates that there is a positive relationship between airline profitability and safety performance. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the airline industry or safety management. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Profitability and Product Quality written by Nancy L Rose and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the connection between profitability and product quality in the airline industry, and how it affects safety performance. Nancy L. Rose, a professor at the Sloan School of Management, provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic determinants of airline safety performance. Using extensive data, she demonstrates that there is a positive relationship between airline profitability and safety performance. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the airline industry or safety management. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Impact of Product Quality on the Performance of a Manufacturing Company written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product quality -- Total quality management -- Profitability company performance and customer satisfaction.
Download or read book Profitability and Product Quality written by Nancy L. Rose and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Profitability and Product Quality: Economic Determinants of Airline Safety Performance Despite an extensive theoretical literature on product quality choice, there have been few empirical tests of the determinants of firms' quality decisions. This study uses data on the airline industry to investigate financial influences on product safety. Data on 35 large scheduled passenger airlines over the 1957 through 1986 period are used to estimate the effect of profitability and other aspects of financial health on accident and incident rates, controlling for operating characteristics that may exert independent effects on safety levels. The results from a broad range of statistical specifications suggest that lower profitability is correlated with higher acci dent and incident rates, particularly for smaller carriers in the sample. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Service Profit Chain written by James L. Heskett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-04-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking book, world-renowned Harvard Business School service firm experts James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr. and Leonard A. Schlesinger reveal that leading companies stay on top by managing the service profit chain. Why are a select few service firms better at what they do -- year in and year out -- than their competitors? For most senior managers, the profusion of anecdotal "service excellence" books fails to address this key question. Based on five years of painstaking research, the authors show how managers at American Express, Southwest Airlines, Banc One, Waste Management, USAA, MBNA, Intuit, British Airways, Taco Bell, Fairfield Inns, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, and the Merry Maids subsidiary of ServiceMaster employ a quantifiable set of relationships that directly links profit and growth to not only customer loyalty and satisfaction, but to employee loyalty, satisfaction, and productivity. The strongest relationships the authors discovered are those between (1) profit and customer loyalty; (2) employee loyalty and customer loyalty; and (3) employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction. Moreover, these relationships are mutually reinforcing; that is, satisfied customers contribute to employee satisfaction and vice versa. Here, finally, is the foundation for a powerful strategic service vision, a model on which any manager can build more focused operations and marketing capabilities. For example, the authors demonstrate how, in Banc One's operating divisions, a direct relationship between customer loyalty measured by the "depth" of a relationship, the number of banking services a customer utilizes, and profitability led the bank to encourage existing customers to further extend the bank services they use. Taco Bell has found that their stores in the top quadrant of customer satisfaction ratings outperform their other stores on all measures. At American Express Travel Services, offices that ticket quickly and accurately are more profitable than those which don't. With hundreds of examples like these, the authors show how to manage the customer-employee "satisfaction mirror" and the customer value equation to achieve a "customer's eye view" of goods and services. They describe how companies in any service industry can (1) measure service profit chain relationships across operating units; (2) communicate the resulting self-appraisal; (3) develop a "balanced scorecard" of performance; (4) develop a recognitions and rewards system tied to established measures; (5) communicate results company-wide; (6) develop an internal "best practice" information exchange; and (7) improve overall service profit chain performance. What difference can service profit chain management make? A lot. Between 1986 and 1995, the common stock prices of the companies studied by the authors increased 147%, nearly twice as fast as the price of the stocks of their closest competitors. The proven success and high-yielding results from these high-achieving companies will make The Service Profit Chain required reading for senior, division, and business unit managers in all service companies, as well as for students of service management.
Download or read book Profitability and the Great Recession written by Ascension Mejorado and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-1980s, investors in the US increasingly directed capital towards the financial sector at the expense of non-financial sectors, lured by the perception of higher profits. This flow of capital inflated asset prices, creating the stock market and housing bubbles which burst when the imbalance between stagnant incomes and rising debts triggered the banking meltdown. Profitability and the Great Recession analyses these trends in profitability and capital accumulation, which the authors identify as the root cause of the financial crisis, in the context of the US and other major OECD countries. Drawing on insights from Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx, the authors interpret the relationship between capital accumulation and profitability trends through the conceptual lens of classical political economy. The book provides extensive empirical evidence of declining rates of US non-financial corporate accumulations from the mid-1960s and profitability trends in that sector falling from post-war highs. In contrast to this, it is shown that there was a vigorous rise of profitability in the financial sector from a 1982 trough to the early part of the twenty-first century, which led to the bloating of that sector. The authors conclude that the long-term falling accumulation trend in the non-financial corporate sector, highlighted by the bankruptcy of major automobile corporations, stands out as the underlying force that transformed the financial crisis into a fully-fledged Great Recession. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in the areas of economics, political economy, business and finance.
Download or read book Product Quality General Promotion and Profitability written by Gregory S. Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Maintenance Management Framework written by Adolfo Crespo Márquez and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-10 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Maintenance Management Framework” describes and reviews the concept, process and framework of modern maintenance management of complex systems; concentrating specifically on modern modelling tools (deterministic and empirical) for maintenance planning and scheduling. It will be bought by engineers and professionals involved in maintenance management, maintenance engineering, operations management, quality, etc. as well as graduate students and researchers in this field.
Download or read book Process Discipline written by Carole L. Bennett and published by Productivity Press. This book was released on 1998-11-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Process Discipline examines in detail all key process discipline components and shows you how to achieve near-perfect consistency of product through a rigorous, uncompromised focus on process knowledge, standardization, and control of change. From deploying "empowerment" in a control environment to handling the management issues of implementation, Edelson and Bennett provide the guidelines you need to create a successful process discipline system. A case study illustrates the concepts, rationale, and implementing guidelines for process discipline approach to process control. Contents Preface CHAPTER 1: The Goal of Near-Perfect Consistency CHAPTER 2: Process Discipline Fundamentals: Overview and Documentation CHAPTER 3: Process Discipline Fundamentals: Training Systems Orientation CHAPTER 4: Process Discipline Fundamentals: Audits CHAPTER 5: Process Discipline Fundamentals: Control of Change CHAPTER 6: Process Discipine Fundamentals: Experimenting on the Manufacturing Process CHAPTER 7: The Role of Computers and Information Technology CHAPTER 8: Management Issues CHAPTER 9: Associated Technology Systems CHAPTER 10: Cultural Issues CHAPTER 11: Successful Implementation GLOSSARY INDEX
Download or read book The Art of Profitability written by Adrian Slywotzky and published by Business Plus. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinarily new business slant on how companies can generate greater profits in 23 compact lessons with ongoing tutorials between two fictitious individuals. In the past, companies taught their employees about quality. In today's unstable economy, employers must stress the importance of profitability. Now with scores of examples from the global marketplace, the bestselling coauthor of The Profit Zone and Profit Patterns takes you to a higher level in the art of business. Each of the twenty-three chapters in this concise, challenging book presents a different, powerful business model...and a provocative dialogue between an extraordinary teacher called David Zhao and his young protégé. Revealed are the invisible but significant governing principles that allow businesses to survive and prosper in any economic climate. By participating in each session with the exuberant, challenging master, you too will learn how your company and your competitors generate profit...what approach best applies to your profit-making strategy...what specific actions your organization can take in the next ninety days to improve its bottom line...and more.
Download or read book Profitability and Product Quality written by Nancy L. Rose and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book Identifying Factors Relating to Predicting Profitability of Product Lines for Industrial Distributors written by Michael Eugene Workman and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
