Dynamic benchmarking methodology for quality function deployment

Benchmarking

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-43

  Raharjo, Hendry ^a   Chai, Kah Hin ^b   Brombacher, Aarnout C ^c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process; Benchmarking; Competitors; Quality function deployment; SWOT analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950523185     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635771011022307     Document Type: Article

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