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  2. Scientific management - Wikipedia

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    Thus it was followed by a profusion of successors in applied science, including time and motion study, the Efficiency Movement (which was a broader cultural echo of scientific management's impact on business managers specifically), Fordism, operations management, operations research, industrial engineering, management science, manufacturing ...

  3. Continual improvement process - Wikipedia

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    The plan–do–check–act cycle is an example of a continual improvement process. The PDCA (plan, do, check, act) or (plan, do, check, adjust) cycle supports continuous improvement and kaizen. It provides a process for improvement which can be used since the early design (planning) stage of any process, system, product or service.

  4. Seven basic tools of quality - Wikipedia

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    The Project Management Institute references the seven basic tools in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge as an example of a set of general tools useful for planning or controlling project quality. [9] The seven basic tools stand in contrast to more advanced statistical methods such as survey sampling, acceptance sampling ...

  5. Research design - Wikipedia

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    A research design typically outlines the theories and models underlying a project; the research question(s) of a project; a strategy for gathering data and information; and a strategy for producing answers from the data. [1] A strong research design yields valid answers to research questions while weak designs yield unreliable, imprecise or ...

  6. W. Edwards Deming - Wikipedia

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    Improvement of product testing in the workplace and in research centers Greater sales through side [global] markets Deming is best known in the United States for his 14 Points ( Out of the Crisis , by W. Edwards Deming, preface) and his system of thought he called the "System of Profound Knowledge".

  7. Quality management - Wikipedia

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    Quality Improvement can be distinguished from Quality Control in that Quality Improvement is the purposeful change of a process to improve the reliability of achieving an outcome. Quality Control is the ongoing effort to maintain the integrity of a process to maintain the reliability of achieving an outcome.

  8. Analytic and enumerative statistical studies - Wikipedia

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    In other words, an enumerative study is a statistical study in which the focus is on judgment of results, and an analytic study is one in which the focus is on improvement of the process or system which created the results being evaluated and which will continue creating results in the future. A statistical study can be enumerative or analytic ...

  9. Design science (methodology) - Wikipedia

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    Design science research (DSR) is a research paradigm focusing on the development and validation of prescriptive knowledge in information science. Herbert Simon distinguished the natural sciences, concerned with explaining how things are, from design sciences which are concerned with how things ought to be, [1] that is, with devising artifacts to attain goals.