1. Management and Leadership Flashcards

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What are the 5 stages of Benchmarking

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  1. Evaluate
  2. Measure
  3. Study
  4. Implement
  5. Measure
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What does S.W.O.T. stand for?

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Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

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What does PERT (charts) stand for and what does they do?

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Program Evaluation and Review Technique

Reduces time and costs

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4
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What are Gantt Charts used for?

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Time required for each part of a project

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5
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What is the Critical Path Method?

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Longest Timeline for project complete

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What are the 5 elements of Quality Information System?

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  1. Inputs - online systems and batch systems
  2. Data Analysis - processing
  3. Offline Analysis - testing
  4. Output - reports
  5. Audit
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What are the Quality Management Principles?

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Customer Focus
Leadership
Involvement of People
Process Approach
System Approach to Management
Continual Improvement
Factual Approach to Decision Making
Mutually Beneficial Supplier Relationships
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Name tools for team-based decision making?

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Brainstorming
Nominal Group Technique
Force-Field Analysis
Multi-Voting
Conflict Resolution
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What is Quality Function Deployment

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Customer vs Product.

Bossert - “House of Quality”

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10
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4 Quality Eras by Garvin

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  1. Inspection
  2. Statistical Control
  3. Quality Assurance
  4. Strategic Management
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What is Lean?

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Removal of waste

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12
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What is Six Sigma?

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99.9997% error free business initiative

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13
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What is the Theory of Constraints?

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The weakest link

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Statistical Process Control (SPC) - Name 2 people associated with it

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  1. Walter Shrewhart

2. W. Edwards Deming

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15
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Which methods are associated with Walter Shrewhart?

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Control Charts

After-the-fact inspection

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16
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Which method is associated with W. Edwards Deming?

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Design and Production

17
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What are Top Managements Responsibilities (4)?

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  1. Q9001:2000
  2. Objectives
  3. Goals
  4. Initiatives
18
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Name 3 parts of Information Systems?

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  1. Operations Support
  2. Strategic Analysis
  3. Day-to-day Decision Making
19
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Define Desired Quality (Kano)

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What the customer experiences as the result of products having additional features and benefits that add value

20
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Name 3 Benchmarking Levels (Westcott)

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  1. Functional
  2. Competitive
  3. Generic
21
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What is the first step of effective organizational change? (Kotter)

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  1. Establish a sense of urgency
22
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Who used SPC in the US War Department?

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W. Edwards Deming