Key Operational and Implementation Issues
Potential key challenges for effective establishment of the business
Starting a business is a big achievement for many entrepreneurs, but maintaining one is the larger challenge. There exist many standard challenges that face every business including hiring the right people, building a brand etc. Other common challenges include Client Dependence, Money Management, Balancing Quality & Growth and the Bottom Line. Diversifying the client base is vital to growing a business, but it can be difficult, especially when the present client pays well and on time. Having enough cash to cover the bills is a must for any business. Money management becomes even more important when cash starts flowing into the business. Whether a service or a product, at some point a business must sacrifice in order to scale up. An important step in overcoming a challenge is knowing the size of that challenge (Beattie, 2015).
Quality Systems
Research studies have revealed that revealed that the major Quality Systems challenge is found in `Buy-in From All Levels of the Organization’ The other difficult challenges include ‘Process for Managing Change Not In Place’ and ‘Poor Project Management Skills’. There are many other challenges identified in the research that are facing organizations when implementing quality initiatives such as:
• Lack of Creativity and Innovation in Decision-Making
• Managing a Decentralized Quality Workforce
• Analysis or Reengineering of
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For Andrei Octavian PARASCHIVESCU and Florin Mihai CAPRIOARA, organizations that desire to implement a strategic quality management approach should consider both the strategic dimension of quality and the management strategy (2014, p 19). In fact, both writers stipulate ”Quality Management” aims to advance quality to meet patron’s requirements by controlling processes (Paraschivescu & Caprioara, 2014, p 21). Likewise, their ideas confirm that the production approach demands a strict input from workers. In doing so, quality improvement teams can measure and spot
As a new manager of an organization, I would first take a look at the organization’s entire infrastructure, and then evaluate the total quality management system that was implemented into that organization’s configuration. I would then implement my own infrastructure such as the Pareto run chart or subsequent cascading charts. I would create a quality development team that’s dedicated to instituting quality upgrades (a quality council). The quality council would have subcommittees that would be in control of managing and communicating total quality developments throughout the organization; reassuring duties such as project development teams, quality development managers, a quality training program, and planning development training (Goetsch
Senior leadership must determine and direct the level of quality that is acceptable within the organization. Leadership should prioritize areas of quality and use data based on benchmarks from other facilities. (Dlugacz, 2006). In addition the author states there are some important areas that must be monitored for quality. Compliance must be followed by leaders and all
The purpose of this paper is to propose on outline for evaluating the quality improvement initiative and financial implications, along with giving a description of specific metrics. A recommendation will be discussed as to how the organization can represent the data related to the quality improvement issue for ongoing monitoring. Also, there will be an explanation of how the organization can create an integrated view of performance that links finance and quality.
The purpose of this project was to gain experience in quality improvement by working with an organization to identify a business problem, analyze the causes, develop an improvement plan, implement changes, and to verify the effectiveness of the solutions. For this project we had to keep scope in mind. This project had to follow certain criteria, such as: that it is a manageable project with a local organization, it can be completed within the time frame of the course, it has a direct impact on external customers, it is relatively simple, and that it is not something that is currently undergoing major changes.
In order to change the quality of an organization, leaders must first identify the need for improvement by indications of poor performance. Juran’s trilogy includes three managerial processes that will help leader succeed in improving quality to include quality planning, quality control, and quality improvement. The best aspect of Juran’s trilogy is that it outlines everything that a leader should consider before, during, and after implementation of a quality improvement project. Another important factor in successfully improving quality is leader presence, governance, and oversight. Juran believed that leader involvement was paramount as it relates to quality improvement and total quality improvement begins at the top of the organization and trickles down (Saurez,
Project Quality Management| -Cost Benefit Analysis -Cost of Quality -Control Charts -Benchmarking -Design of Experiments -Statistical Sampling -Flowcharting -Proprietary quality manage- ment methodologies -Additional quality planning tools (Brainstorming, Affinity Diagrams, Nominal Group Technique)| -Cost benefit: Looking at how much your quality activities will cost. -Benchmarking: means using the results of quality planning on other projects to set goals for your own. -Design of experiments: is the list of all the kinds of tests you are going to run on your product. -Total Quality Management (TQM): Everyone in the company is responsible for quality and is able to make a difference -Continuous Improvement (Kaizen): constant process improvement in the form of small changes -Just-In-Time(JIT) -ISO 9000: Companies document what they do and they do what they document
The business problem with the company had a company focus on customers with large investment, they manages money for pensions, governments, and other entities worldwide. They also manage money for wealthy individuals and engage in private equity investments. This business plan keeps them focus on few profitable customers but bring them a negative result of low brand reorganization. This business strategy works for a long time and bring them abundant profit, but it face challenge now since competition constantly increasing and profit margin is under pressure.
To achieve total quality, organizations must be willing to explore all areas within the business for improvement. It is important to analyze data to determine the best course of action for a solution to the problem. Making decisions without data could create new problems or make the existing ones worse. Total quality tools are available for management to enhance decision making, monitor performance, predict future problems, manage quality initiatives, and solve problems.
Yasin and Alavi (1999) conducted a quantitative study to determine if Total Quality Management (TQM) can produce quality improvement
The President Ralph Larsen has realized that Wengart has some major problems with the quality however he is focusing on the profitability instead of the longevity of the company. He needs to have the team focus on improving the quality problem or the company’s profits will continue to decrease. Larsen in the effort to improve the quality has decided to seek out help from an OD practitioner who suggests to Ralph to implement Top Quality Management (TQM). Larsen feels that this should be easy to implement and hands it off to Kent Kelly the Vice President. He feels that the TQM program was a matter of common sense (Brown, 2011, p. 365).
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This paper intends to define operations management and analyze an ethics decision made by operations managers in the workplace or in a known organization.