Demming's Fourteen Points
Demming’s formulation of his Fourteen Points is seen by many as the management equivalent of the “10 Commandments”. Like many quality driven approaches, the fourteen points take a holistic view of an organization, how it works, and its relationships with its stakeholders.
Point 1: Create constancy of purpose towards improvement of product and service, wth the aim to become competitive, to stay in business and to provide jobs.
Constancy revolves around the customer. Success depends on how well a company evalutes its processes, products and markets in order to understand future requirements. This requires a commitment to
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Instead, minmize total cost. Move toward a single supplier for any one item, based on a relationship of long term loyalty and trust.
Price means nothing without a measure of the quality being delivered. When thinking about quality, the idea of buyng from the lowest bidder gets abandoned.
Point 5: Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service to improve quality and productivity, then thus constatnly decreasing costs.
The concept of quality should be built in at the design stage of the product. Each product should be viewed as “one of a kind” and there is only
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one chance of success.
Point 6: Institute training on the job.
Too often workers learn their skill from other workers who do not have adaquate training. It is useful to train as many workers as possible to detract from costly mistakes.
Point 7: Institute leadership. The aim of supervision should be to help people and machines to do a better job.
Managers should be trainers, not policemen. Since management plays a key role in quality, reviews should include discussion on problems and potential solutions.
Point 8: Drive out fear so that eveyone may work effectively
The key principle of supervision is for the worker to be able to carry out their job role as effectively as possible. Enhancing their understanding of their own practise.
Second, always make sure there is an alternative source. As I mentioned before, this is much easier with single source procurement (but not sole source), since other similar suppliers could be able to supply similar products with more or less that same quality as the previous suppliers.
Given the highly competitive nature of today’s markets we as a company must provide high quality products to survive. Quality itself has become a major competitive factor and in many ways is a contributing factor in success or failure. The intent of this memo is to identify, explain and evaluate the three types of cost associated with quality.
Today’s consumers are constantly trying to judge the quality of products. But what is quality? How and by whom is quality determined? Some would say the designer creates specifications, which in turn dictate the quality of a product. That quality is also based on the acceptable value of a part within a whole product.
Customers expect safe and strong products, sold to an affordable and suitable selling price, otherwise they will refuse to buy it. The aim of big companies is to fulfil and exceed customers’ expectations and offer them quality products.
That relates directly to winning a larger market share. The short-term goal for the company should be to cut coasts and improve the human resource department functions. Which can be done through the above stated suggestions of the improvement of the business.
17. Reducing the variations in our product or services is an important key to perceived quality TRUE
Supervision strives to make the unit a good learning situation. It should be a teaching-learning process.
Good performance review techniques and methods come in a variety of forms ranging from the use of management coaches to the establishment and distribution of written evaluations. Evaluations should include all direct reports from those employees who work within the department; from beginning to end, the process of using a questionnaire benefits gloriously to a manager and their employees. Discovering what employees genuinely think of a manager’s work and leadership abilities proves crucial as it becomes an essential step in maintaining strengths and improving weaknesses. The use of a hired management coach can help during the performance reviews immensely; as their job is to aide in the facilitation of meetings, coaches can assist in assuring that the review
To begin with, Chapter two covers three important aspects of the business world which are competitiveness, strategy, and also productivity. These particular aspects are very important for any company to succeed in the world of business. With that being stated, any type of firm such as a manufacturer or a service provider, they must employ these three aspects because they play an important role in growing revenues. For an organization to even be considered successful, they must have a competitive advantage which leads to a strategy that will meet the company’s goals, while having the knowledge-ability to help produce the goods and services in a cost effective manner. Also, it is known that most organizations have a single state called the Mission Statement. The mission statement basically summarizes these three aspects of a company. One question that the Mission Statement should address is, “What level of business are we in?” This mission statement is categorized as the absolute basis for the organizational goals.
Our company should make sure that manufacturers deliver products with the highest design specification, in order to be order-winner quality conformance, by delivering products with no defects (Hill and Hill, 2012). Furthermore, improvements in quality lead to a decrease in cost for the company. According to (Evans, 1997) higher quality products lead to a decrease in costs for the company through higher productivity: ‘improvements in quality leads to lower cost because of less re-work, fewer mistakes, fewer delays and snags’ (Evans 1997, P.55).
Juran’s definition of quality focuses 100% of the customer’s satisfaction of the product. He stresses a balance between product features and products free from deficiencies and believes a quality product is free from deficiencies (Suarez, 1992, p.4). In order to achieve this
Implementation of excellent quality comes with a cost. The company must decide if it is really worth compromising the quality for revenue. If the quality costs exceeds the expected revenue of the company then the company must abandon implementing quality control mechanism. If otherwise, the quality would contribute to the product value and hence the revenue.
Quality is never an accident it is always the results of high intention, sincere efforts, intelligent directions and skillful execution, it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
E. Continued focus on improving efficiency and effectiveness in the organisation, from procurement, to supply chain to customer service delivery.