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Improvement Initiatives

Improvement Initiatives

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Discuss - What is it? How is it used? Name 1 organization that uses it.

ISO Ethics Standards

65 delegates from 25 countries meet in 1946 to discuss the future of International Standardization and the first ISO standard (called Recommendations at this time) was published in 1951 — http://www.iso.org/iso/home/about/the_iso_story.htm#2

1951

It is the first ISO standard (called Recommendation at this time), Standard reference temperature for mechanical & industrial length estimations ISO/R 1:1951. It is used for the purpose of ensuring that the results about your products and services meet customers' needs are valid and that the testing was

carried out in an ethical way. TESCO

ISO Security Standards

UK Government's DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) — http://www.27000.org/thepast.htm

2005

It is a management system standard on information security. As businesses become increasingly reliant on information technology, it is used to make a security assessment criterion for IT security features securing the system and minimizing risks within an organization. MICROSOFT

Lean Manufacturing

Henry Ford — http://www.lean.org/whatslean/history.cfm

1913

Lean helps the production of your business outputs as fast as possible, it can be defined as being a process of waste elimination. It is utilized to join less human exertion, less time to improve items, less stock and less space to come to be remarkably receptive to client interest while generating top value items in the most proficient and sensible way possible. TOYOTA

Organizational Transformation

Frederick Taylor — A Brief History of Organization Change - Sage Publications

Late 1800

Organizational transformation is about organizational change which the change heads off to the depths of what a person feels and will influence what individuals feel about the organization, their specialty in the organization and possibly what they expect dear to remember life. Organizational transformation is more than simply adapting the way business is finished. It is about altering the organizational society in one or more ways. DELOITTE

Six Sigma

Bill Smith — http://www.isixsigma.com/new-to-six-sigma/history/history-six-sigma/

1970's

A quality measure that strives for near idealization or near perfection. Six Sigma is a taught, information driven approach and procedure for disposing of deformities (heading in the direction of six standard deviations between the mean and the closest determination restrict) in any methodology - from assembling to transactional and from feature to utility. GENERAL ELECTRIC

Social Media and Quality Management

ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) - http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/history-of-social-media_b30226

1971

The very purpose of social media whether blog, website or virtual gathering is to let people communicate, connects and collaborate. FACEBOOK

Theory of Constraints

Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt — Goldratt's "Theory of Constraints" Thinking Processes: A Systems Methodology linking Soft with Hard

1990

The Theory of Constraints (TOC) applies the circumstances & end results supposing forms utilized within the hard sciences to grasp and enhance all frameworks, at the same time especially, organizations. The procedure a clinician connects with treating a patient is an incredible relationship for demonstrating how TOC prescribes going about taking care of a framework issue. NASA

TRIZ

Genrich Altshuller — http://www.triz4engineers.co.uk/pwpcontrol.php?pwpID=5935

1946

"TRIZ" - "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. It is a global study of creativity that depends on the investigation of the ...