A comparison of five modern improvement approaches

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 363-378

  van der Wiele, Ton ^a   van Iwaarden, Jos ^b   Dale, Barrie G ^c   Williams, Roger ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business Process Reengineering (BPR); Lean; Six Sigma; Total Productive Maintenance (TPM); Total Quality Management (TQM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 49249107337     PISSN: 17466474     EISSN: 17466482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijpqm.2006.009092     Document Type: Article

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