Aligning quality improvement with strategic goals at ANA Hotel San Francisco
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ANA Hotel in San Francisco, CA, adopted a quality improvement training program in an effort to deliver customer satisfaction and increase profitability. Top-level commitment, involvement of front-line leaders and input from managers and careful dissemination of information about the program were essential to the program's success. Encouraging results were achieved in the areas of cost savings/efficiency, guest satisfaction, creativity, revenue creation, employee satisfaction and safety generation.
Publication Name: National Productivity Review
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0277-8556
Year: 1996
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Designing statistically reliable samples
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Organizations should first conduct an accurate assessment of the system that governs organizational change in order to successfully integrate total quality management in the system. Thus, managers must design statistically reliable samples which would encompass time, budget and logistical constraints. Confidence, margin of error and estimate of proportion are three parameters, each of which has a profound impact on the number of samples needed.
Publication Name: National Productivity Review
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0277-8556
Year: 1993
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