... of productivity improvement. Considers the forces which support productivity and quality as strategic weapons, including key organizational initiatives and processes. Presents tables which compare the past, present and future states of quality, productivity and manufacturing strategies. Concludes...

... significant performance improvements man. between 1987 and 1990. These included an average increase in profitability of 27% - only one in 20 of the respondents reported losses, compared to one in seven in 1988. To make the jump onto this new evolutionary scale would require an effective manufacturing strategy...

...Christopher Voss Examines quality strategies within the manufacturing strategy. Discusses how the difference and the relationship between order winning criteria and order qualifying criteria is crucial to the understanding of the role of quality in the manufacturing strategy. Asserts...