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....purposes, and a cumbersome procedure using multiple tables. To address these issues, an analysis was performed on the relevant quality practices and methodologies used in the Japanese manufacturing industry, such as Total Quality Management (TQM) based on the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen [Imai 86] This led to the identification of tools methods available for addressing the shortcomings of the initial QF design , one of which was Quality Function Deployment (QFD) The strategic focus of QFD required the identification, from the business requirements, of the most important items to ....

IMAI M., Kaizen: the key to Japan's competitive success, McGraw Hill, 1986, ISBN 007 -554332-X

....Space Agency) standards. The final goal is to produce an assessment methodology to guide and support European software companies in improving their maturity and capability. ffl Another important contribution to process improvement is the Japanese strategy for quality enhancement, called Kaizen [16]. Kaizen means continuous improvement. It is the basis of the Japanese approach to industrial production and is applied in a large variety of development activities. Kaizen is certainly an important factor also in Japanese software processes [9] The Kaizen approach is based on few, very simple ....

M. Imai, Kaizen - The Key to Japan's Competitive Success, McGraw-Hill, 1986.

.... of it across the country in all fields, show us the way into the Age of Continual Improvement involving everyone, the kaizen of our Japanese peers, where the Deming prize for quality is still a sought after award, permitting only companies so rewarded to compete for the Japanese Quality Award [7]. Deming virtually turned American around in its attitude on production quality. Advice in his germinal contribution to videos such as, If Japan can Why can t we and others began to be heeded by US auto makers. Dr. Deming transformed the static US style of management in his book Out of the ....

....position. He wanted to adapt his leadership style to one of conciliation, appreciating the importance of bringing adversarial parties together to make real change happen instead of polarizing people and choosing up sides, which often results in paralysis of government programs and not progress [7]. CULTURE As Millennium 3 approaches, innovative working solutions to our complex personal, national and global problems require more than ever the combining of both the material and spiritual dimensions to bridge the newly awakened consensual reality. The current Gothic perspective says that ....

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Imai, M., Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success, Random House, New York, 1986.

....from the ashes and radiated from the pedestals of champions: Indefinite SPI Models: Indefinite SPI models are not solutions at all. Indefinite approaches offer tools to novices in a vain attempt to aid in the invention of new solutions. Examples of indefinite SPI models include, Kaizen [15], ISO 9000 [16] the Experience Factory [17] the Goal Question Metric (GQM) paradigm [18] Total Quality Management (TQM) 19] the CMM [2] and Business Process Reengineering [20] Lowell Jay Arthur gives an excellent exposition of the fallacy and ineffectiveness of indefinite approaches [21] ....

Imai, M., "Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success," McGraw Hill, 1989.

....how such a repository can be designed and implemented in order to meet the specific requirements of the domain. The main requirements are to integrate each owner of IT based process knowledge within the company, and to support the whole life cycle of continuous business improvement [Deming 1986; Imai 1989]. These two requirements lead to further possibilities for research. OMS Design: The Main Functions for Managing IT Expertise To meet the above mentioned requirements the following OMS functions will be developed: Documentation The critical success factors of an OMS, as is the case for ....

Imai, M. (1989) Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success, McGraw-Hill, Berlin.

....management tools. Their information exchange was cooperatively designed and implemented using ConceptBase as information trader. The goal of the WibQuS project was to discover and enact information flow between half a dozen of quality management methods covering the so called quality cycle [Ima86,Pfei93]. Practically any department of an enterprise is directly or indirectly involved in quality management. The following list of tools developed in WibQuS gives an impression on the diversity of tasks. Dacapo: an extension of the quality function deployment method [Aka90] supports the engineer to ....

Imai, M. (1986). Kaizen - The Key to Japan's Competitive Success. MacGraw-Hill, New York, 1986.

....is being limited by largely non technical factors [Basili91] Much of this work has its origins in the management and organisation behaviour research area, and its practical application in fields such as manufacturing. Concepts such as statistical process control [Deming86] continuous improvement [Imai86], and their associated techniques such as Pareto analysis and control charts have all been successfully applied to software development. The need to evaluate an organisations process capability has lead to approaches such as the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) by the Software Engineering Institute ....

M. Imai, "Kaizen - The Key to Japan's Competitive Success," McGraw-Hill, 1986.

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