Strategic thinking, not planning, the key to success
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Companies are being encouraged to focus on strategic thinking rather than strategic planning. Strategic thinking is a dynamic process that continually evaluates missions, strategies and operations in view of customer requirements and market focus. Strategic performance measures that balance cost, quality and time can be used to ensure that strategic planning guides organizational behavior.
Publication Name: Quality
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0360-9936
Year: 1996
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NGM hopes to provide a model for success
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The National Science Foundation and the manufacturing industry have developed the Next Generation Manufacturing (NGM) project to create an NGM enterprise model and develop recommendations for migration strategies. An ideal NGM firm is expected to be customer-oriented since its equipment, human resources and global market concerns are all geared towards the satisfaction of customer needs.
Publication Name: Quality
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0360-9936
Year: 1996
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From conflict to collaboration
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The strong relationships between customer and supplier, which is a key to an organization's success, are discussed. The relationship evaluation method helps in determining the strength of the customer-supplier relation.
Publication Name: Quality Progress
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0033-524X
Year: 2004
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