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  • 1.  Strategy and TQM

    Posted 01-02-2000 12:34
    Four questions, professor;

    1) How will those not involved in operations have enough domain knowledge
    to perfom the hard, cumbersome analyses without involving the knowledge in
    the operating theater?

    2) The obverse question is, if the non-operations types are that well
    informed why were not they involved in improving operations in the first
    place?

    3) How will you motivate those "operations types" to implement the strategy
    to closure? Or are you just interested in producing the document?

    On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 William Acar wrote RE: Pre-Christmas postings re TQM
    > However, my point is that IF you really expect a firm's strategy to
    >reflect some hard analysis of future scenarios, competitor moves, and the
    >firm's countermoves, you have to involve primarily the people whose job
    >entails gathering the requisite information AND performing the cumbersome
    >attendant analyses, not those who'll be penalized if they produce fewer
    >widgets per pay period -- Interweaving the organization should not come at
    >the expense of the people who get the fewest perks....

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