Operational Excellence

Running head: OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Operational excellence
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1OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Question: 1
Deming’s 14 points of management are, creating constancy of purpose, initiating new
philosophy, ceasing dependence on inspection, ending the lowest tender contract, continually
seeking out problems, initiation of institute training on the job, institute supervision, diving out
fear, breaking down barriers, eliminating exhortations, elimination of targets, permitting pride of
workmanship, initiation of institute education and transformation in everyone’s job. All the
elements are focused on enhancing the organizational effectiveness and productivity along with
initiating the process for continuous improvement in the organization in the long term (Kaynak
& Rogers, 2013). This should also be noted that effective and proper implementation of the 14
points of management will help the business organizations in transforming their workplace
trends and practices. In addition, the effectiveness of the organizational values and system will
be further enriched with more profound knowledge in the long term. Hence, it can be concluded
that these 14 points will help in enhancement of the entire process of management.
Question: 2
In case of the separate production process of the standards and specials, the JIT
implementation will be different. This is due to the reason that it will be easier to be
implemented in the standard products as simpler production process is involved. While on the
other hand, the JIT implementation of the specials will be complex as quality factors are focused
here. Quality factors are not uniform, which is demanded in the case of JIT production (Faccio,
2014). In the case of JIT implementation, both the production lines will require added
infrastructure. This is due to the reason that with the existing production line, they are requiring