Innovative Quality and Productivity Promotions: Selected Best Practices

In a dynamic global society, the winners are those who can innovate and then promote ideas and best practices particularly in the quest for quality and productivity improvement. For instance, innovations towards strengthening relationships between suppliers and buyers provide a mutually beneficial arrangement that allows both parties to achieve a common goal. The “solar system program” or EBESE , developed by the ECOP Institute for Productivity and Competitiveness provides an innovative means for both big enterprise (BE) buyers and small enterprise (SE) suppliers to assist each other in their common quest for quality and productivity improvement. This methodology is promoted nationwide by the very nature of its innovative implementation mechanism. To go deeper into how “people” can become active participants in innovative programs like the EBESE, simple approaches to making “quality a way of life” (QWL) was introduced as a starting point for promoting the quest for total quality management (TQM). Success in making QWL a company-wide practice provides the avenue for the manager-leaders to build the workplace partnerships council (WP-C). The latter is both a process and structure for sustaining TQM. The EBESE program, QWL and WP-C are selected innovative approaches being promoted to ensure effective and measurable quality changes.

کلیدواژه ها:

quality as a way of life ، total quality management ، ، workplace partnership ، “EBESE” ، solar system approach