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Item 1: Quality and Productivity

1.1 Concept of Quality

Quality Definitions

• Quality means doing things right the first time.
• To obtain products that meet a particular specification.
• Customer satisfaction.

According to Joseph M. Juran, quality is fitness for use. Philip B. Crosby defines quality as adherence to clearly established requirements, necessitating the company to gather customer specifications.

The Japanese expert Genichi Taguchi defines quality based on the minimum loss a product causes to society after being sent to its destination. The author introduces the economic term, contrary to the belief of some predecessors that quality was expensive.

For Feigenbaum, Deming, and Juran, quality is a set of effective efforts by different groups or...

Planning Objectives

• Objectives: Financial, efficiency, position, CSR, share value, markets
• Policies: Low price, quality, promotion, ethical, usefulness
• Processes: Specific action, staff evaluation, quality control, cost control, purchasing, stock inventory
• Rules: Define response, safety, sick leave, punctuality
• Budget: Cash flow, income, expenses (not always in euros)

Brand Equity

• Core: What is the customer really buying?
• Actual: Characteristics, features, quality level, name, packaging
• Augmented: Additional services

Evaluation of Brand Equity

• Cost approach
• Market approach
• Income approach

Managing Brand Equity

• Leadership: Be a dominant force
• Stability: Ability to survive
• Market: Growth prospects, volatility
• Geographic spread
• Trend: Ability to remain relevant
• Support
• Protection:

The General Accounting Plan

The General Accounting Plan is mandatory for all companies that must keep records in any legal or corporate form. The conceptual framework consists of the fundamentals, principles, and basic concepts that inspire the entire plan.

Components of the Conceptual Framework

It is possible to distinguish seven parts within the conceptual framework:

• Annual accounts
• Information requirements for annual accounts
• Social principles
• Elements of the annual accounts
• Registration or recognition criteria
• Accounting standards generally accepted

Annual Accounts for SMEs

The annual accounts for SMEs include:

• Balance sheet
• Profit and loss account
• Statement of changes in equity
• Memoria (Notes to the financial statements)

These financial statements report...

Quality Management Systems

Traceability

Traceability is the ability to trace the history, application, and location of what is under consideration. It serves to:

• Find where a product is.
• Identify the materials used in the manufacture of a product.
• Demonstrate the performance of planned inspections and tests.
• Find the causes of nonconformities.

Compulsory Procedures

Document Control

A documented procedure defining the controls needed to approve, revise, and update documentation when necessary. Documents must be legible and readily identifiable, ensure that changes are identified, and prevent the use of obsolete documents.

Control Records

A documented procedure defining the controls required to identify, store, protect, retrieve, retain, and dispose of...

Gross Cost

Gross Cost is calculated as: Number of Insertions × Rate.

Sources of Information for Brand Communication

To plan effective brand communication, it's essential to understand the consumer, available communication channels, and the consumer's relationship with various media. Key sources provide information on:

• Audiences/Hearings: TNS, EGM, OJD, Nielsen NetRatings, Geomex
• Investments: Infoadex, Maple Media
• Visibility: IMOP, IOPE
• Attitudes: AIMC Marks

TNS (Kantar TNS)

TNS is responsible for measuring television audiences through the use of audiometric tests. A key challenge with audiometric tests is the difference between analog channels (one frequency = one channel) and digital channels (one frequency = many channels). The data collected by...

Chapter IV: The Right to Education, Culture, Sports, and Leisure

Article 53: Rights of Children and Adolescents

Children and adolescents have the right to education, aimed at the full development of their person, preparation for the exercise of citizenship, and qualification for work, ensuring them:

• I - Equal conditions for access and retention;
• II - The right to be respected by their educators;
• III - The right to contest assessment criteria, with the ability to appeal to higher school authorities;
• IV - The right to organize and participate in student entities;
• V - Access to free public schools near their residence.

Sole Paragraph: Parents or guardians have the right to be aware of the educational process and participate in the definition of educational...

Business Concept

A business is an integrated system that combines capital, labor, and knowledge as factors of production and management. It is devoted to industrial, commercial, or service-based activities. The provision of resources is an organization that captures, manages, and transforms them into goods and services sold at a price. Business survival depends on the ability to sell. Companies provide goods and services to society thanks to their capacity for management and economic development.

Enterprise Resources

Tangible Resources

• Human Resources: These are the most important, as without human activity, the company would be impossible.
• Material Resources: Buildings and facilities provide a place for work. Machinery and computers are the tools

Accident Modes

Shock

Shock: Vehicle in contact with the track fixture. Simple accident.

Overturning

Overturning: Simple accident. The tires are no longer in contact with the track.

V. Bell

V. Bell: Vehicle rotated on its transverse axis.

V. Barrel

V. Barrel: Vehicle turned on its longitudinal axis.

Output via

Output via: The vehicle moves out of the way by circulating. Accident can be simple or complex.

Collisions

Collisions: Complex accidents involving contact between more than one moving traffic unit.

Front Collision

Front:

• Approximate central longitudinal axes coincide.
• Eccentric axes parallel but not identical.
• Angular longitudinal axes form an angle less than 90 degrees.

Onslaught Collision

Onslaught: At least one party in contact is the side of a vehicle....

Typical Steps of Planning

1. Situation Analysis

Limitations of time and resources.

Collect, interpret, and summarize information.

Past, present, future...

Internal strengths.

External environmental influences.

2. Goals and Alternative Plans

Goals:

Purpose(s) that the administrator wants to achieve; must be realistic, challenging, and attainable.

Plans:

Actions or means that administrators use to achieve the goals of the organization.

Alternative Plans:

Used when the main plans, for any reason, are stopped; alike are used to achieve the same goal.

3. Evaluation of Goals and Plans

Assess strengths, weaknesses, and potential effects.

Rank

Remove

4. Selection of Goals and Plans

Plans and goals more appropriate and feasible.

Steps: alternative generation, evaluation,...

Defining Competitive Positioning

Competitive position charting: By charting your competitive position, you can show how well your solution fulfills a customer's need in a visual way and, at the same time, make a comparison of this against how your competitors do it.

• Direct competition: Companies doing very similar things to your own.
• Indirect competition: Companies selling different products or services but fulfilling the same need or solving the same problem.

Visual Tools for Market Analysis

• Value Curves: Create a value curve by plotting the alternative offers in relation to the identified dimensions of value (those most prioritized by your persona).
• The Petal Diagram: A diagram that considers that we may be creating a new market or operating within