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1.In your opinion, which is easiest to manage?quality, time, productivity, or capacity? Why?

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1.In your opinion, which is easiest to manage?quality, time, productivity, or capacity? Why?

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1 .In your opinion, which is easiest to manage?quality, time, productivity, or capacity? Why?

"Quality" is continually evolving. Comprehensive quality management process will help this process in rolling out a world class products and services to delight the customers. As quality is becoming more and more critical, adopting best business practices with respect to quality, has become necessary for organizations to work not only as per the standards and benchmarks set in the industry but create new standards.

Productivity is a ratio of outputs divided by inputs. Productivity will of very much importance. It will help in improving the effectiveness of organization. It will help in doing the right things, this will also help in attaining the goals of the organization. The companies use all the below mentioned statistical and managerial concepts. They all are very useful tools and used time and again by the organizations for improving productivity:
Pareto, cause and effect, check sheet, histogram, scatter diagram, run and control charts, ...

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