Knowledge-Driven Profit Improvement: Implementing Assessment Feedback Using Pdkaction Theory

ISBN-13: 9781138464506 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 386 str.

Monte Lee Matthews

Opis

Presents a logical way of thinking about organizational knowledge and competition that centers on discipline, integration and focus. This book suggests that it is possible for companies to move beyond informational chaos to create focused opportunities. It outlines 12 steps that show you how to make your company into a world-class organization.

Recenzje

"Knowledge Driven Profit Improvement is a welcome addition to the improvement toolkit of business practitioners."-David Walden,
Executive Director Center for Quality of Management (retired Senior Vice President, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.; Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Business; co-author A New American TQM; retired Executive Director, CQM; Editor, Journal of the Center for Quality of Management ).

"The Plan-Do-Knowledge-Act model creates a new paradigm that is effective and efficient in building knowledge and adding value to both company and individual. It provides the guidance, discipline and focus to move your organization toward its true competitive potential."-Bob Barbour, Director and Chief Executive, Northern Ireland Quality Center

"Matthews' knowledge-based improvement plan offers a proactive, common sense approach to leverage the new insights gleaned from the assessment itself..."-William C. Phillips, Former Senior Director, Quality, United Way of America

"The President's Quality Award Program winners used the Knowledge to Plan, Do and Act. The results were impressive!"-Barbara Smith, Manager, The President's Quality Award Program, United States Office of Personnel Management


"The only way for our organizations to improve is to deploy feedback into actions - appropriate actions which move our business into the competitive future...the difference between mediocre and excellent organizations is the ability to analyze and integrate knowledge into action."-Marie B. Williams, Executive Director, Tennessee Quality Award


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Spis treści

Preface -- The Author -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Logic and Philosophy behind the PDKA Model -- 2 Turning Knowledge into a Corporate Asset -- 3 The Importance of Bottom-Line Results -- 4 Using PDKA to Implement Assessment Opportunities -- 5 How World-Class Companies Demonstrate the Principles of the PDKA Process -- 6 How Three Quality Award Programs Implement Principles of PDKA—The President of the United States Quality Award, the United Way’s Excellence in Service Quality Award, and the Northern Ireland Quality Award -- 7 How Three World-Class Private Manufacturing Companies Implement Principles of PDKA—Milliken Denmark, Pal’s Sudden Service, and Ulster Carpet Mills -- 8 How Two World-Class Private Service Companies Implement Principles of PDKA—BI Performance Services and British Telecom Northern Ireland -- 9 How Two World-Class Service Organizations Implement Principles of PDKA—Royal Mail and the United Way of Middle Tennessee -- 10 How Three World-Class Government Service Organizations Implement Principles of PDKA—Federal Supply Service Northeast and Caribbean Region, Tennessee Valley Authority’s Fossil & Hydro Power, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Kennedy Space Center -- 11 How Two World-Class Military Service Organizations Implement Principles of PDKA—Red River Army Depot and U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal -- References -- Index.

O autorze

Matthews, Monte Lee