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Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
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Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

by Bernard Marr
September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
6h 44m
English
FT Publishing International
Content preview from Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

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Rework level

Strategic perspective

Operational processes and supply chain perspective

Key performance question this indicator helps to answer

How effectively are we driving waste out of our processes?

Why is this indicator important?

Much of today’s obsession with the search for effective KPIs can be traced back to the emergence of Total Quality Management (TQM) in the 1980s, when manufacturers such as Xerox realised that Japanese competitors could sell goods at a lower price than it cost the manufacturers to make them. Investigations uncovered that this was largely the consequence of Japanese companies successfully applying the principles of TQM.

A key principle religiously applied was that quality should be built into the process ...

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ISBN: 9780273750116