Search results for "Business excellence"
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How selection of collaborating partners impact on the green performance of global businesses? An empirical study of green sustainability
2020
In recent days, both collaboration and sustainability have become an integral part of many global supply chains to achieve business excellence. Although previous literature and actual practices confirmed the successful implementation of sustainability practices through supply chain collaborations, it is not clear how collaborating partners can support financial and environmental performance, and hence strengthen the partnership performance in the global supply chains. To address this practice-based research question, we test the theoretical underpinning of suppliers and logistics partners in relation to required skills selection. We capture the depth of interdependencies in collaborations f…
TQM self-assessment evolves and promotes strategic learning at Ericsson España S.A.
2003
Self-assessment is a comprehensive, systematic, and regular review of an organization's activities and results in reference to a business excellence model. This process allows the organization to clearly discern its strengths and deficiencies, launch improvement plans, and monitor their progress. When organizations repeatedly carry out this cycle of evaluation and action taking, they can achieve genuine and sustained improvement. Many firms have found self-assessment to be an important tool for fostering continuous improvement, one of the fundamental principles of total quality management (TQM). Indeed, self-assessment has been employed by the winners of the most important quality awards—th…
The strategy formation process in the EFQM Excellence Model: a critical review and new perspectives
2011
The adoption of an integrative strategy formation process becomes a way of developing a strategic capability that contributes to generating positive results and sustainable competitive advantages. In today's environments, many companies are also using the EFQM Excellence Model (EEM) to try to develop such a strategic capability. This paper presents an exhaustive review of the literature on the strategic process debate and on the strategic capability of the EEM. As a result, we offer to practitioners a conceptual framework which shows the EEM as a useful driver to facilitate the development of an integrative strategy formation process, and we propose a set of dimensions and variables (the le…
The European Business excellence model and its improvement
2020
Nowadays the practice of self-assessment is the strategy recommended by the EFQM Excellence Model for organizations aiming for improvement on organizational performance. Rigorous self-assessment helps large, small and medium companies work more efficiently, and it is a comprehensive, systematic and regular exercise for the evaluation of companies’ activities and results. Today’s customers have higher requirements than ever before. Therefore, in order to be competitive in the twenty first century, organizations need to improve continuously, meet the standards of excellence in quality and performance. One of the ways to achieve excellence is the use of Business Excellence Models. The aim of t…
A COMPARISON OF BUSINESS EXCELLENCE MODELS
2019
Nowadays, there is a rising trend of implementing different Business Excellence frameworks also known as Quality Models for the improvement of organizational business performance. Models or Quality Award Model are used to recognize the best practice in the different areas. Many countries of the world adapt these models as their quality improvement tools for business assessment in comparison with the competitors. The research is focused on the review of the major Business Excellence Models such as Deming Prize, European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) and Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) and their influence. The research is primarily based on theoretical approach that…