Six Sigma vs. Total Quality Management Six Sigma Six Sigma is a tool used by businesses and organizations to improve their abilities in undertaking diverse business processes (Salah & Rahim, 2019). Through Six Sigma tools, a company can effectively reduce defects by decreasing variation in the processes. In the process, companies can easily attain high employee motivation, which in turn improves their performance. Six Sigma process control ensures quality processes and hence quality products and services. The tools are used to control operations with perceptions t.hat an improvement in the process can be reflected in the outputs. Six Sigma employs the use of several tools to improve business processes. The Six Sigma involves five steps to which its practitioners emphasize strict adherence. These are Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC). Through these steps, organizations can solve defects in products that seem to have no specified solution. Organizations may have Six Sigma practitioners, acting to implement the steps. These people will first define the specific production process that exhibits defects. They will them measure performance for the associated process to…
Comedians and Gun Control Gun control is one of the most controversial issues in the United States today (Rawson 380). Due to numerous shootings and massacres all around the country, gun control activists, as well as comedians, are speaking out against possession of weapons. Comedians such as Trevor Noah, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jim Jefferies have assumed the role of activists in seeking gun control by expressing their views on the topic through media. Constantly reminding the audience of the massacres that have occurred and giving their opinions on the issue. Comedians use media networks to spread awareness of gun violence and promote gun control. Trevor Noah from The Daily Show consistently does segments on gun violence. Using humour, Trevor criticized Neil deGrasse Tyson’s tweet regarding the El Paso and Dayton shootings (Trevor). In this situation, Trevor was using comedy to condemn the insensitivity of Neil deGrasse Tyson; especially after such a malicious attack. According to Neil deGrasse Tyson’s tweet “Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.” It meant that intentional attacks are comparable to accidental occurrences like…
COVID-19 pandemic and aviation industry The greatest effect of the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt in Europe, Asia, North America, and the Middle East, respectively. The trend of impact is increasing gradually across the globe. The estimates of the Italian scheduled international air travel compared to the baseline plan shows a decrease in 36-42 million travelers. Also, there would be a total loss of 4.3-5.1 billion dollars in total revenues. For example, in February 2020, a decline of 8% was experienced in the number of passengers. In March 2020, the volume of passengers reduced by 33% across the globe. However, the impact of COVID-19 on international flights was measured based on baseline reports, quick recovery, and prolonged infection. Most of the Carriers across the globe are undertaking the three paths. However, the outcome of the impact will depend on the degree of the outbreak, the economic status, support from the government, and measures taken to contain the virus. IATA analyses both the international and domestic markets while ICAO analyses only the international traffic market. Due to the severity of the…
BUSINESS PROCESSES BaaS is indeed recognized as the business system as a platform that is perceived to be a form of procurement of business operations that would have cloud services system models that would help mitigate labor costs. It helps to build transparency and minimize the expense of the process. As project management as a service, the attackers will be able to have access to the database that will be stored in the cloud, where the attack could occur to the devices from any place or computer by unauthorized people. Because there is insufficient data monitoring and auditing, thus, tracking should have access to personal information for identifying and then preventing fraudulent activity for any investigative that is much more complicated for a third-party SaaS program (Viriyasitavat, 2019). There is very little security protection, and there is also growing flow on the periphery of the network every day that passes. Business process management is an approach that seeks to make the operation of an organization more productive, effective, and adaptable to new technologies. This type of workflow helps enterprises to…
Project Risk Management Template Journaling helps collect and synthesize ideas from multiple sources as a vital resource for study. Quote Comment Due Date: Month Day, Year Keywords: Quote “Quoting a peer-reviewed source.” (Author; Year; page #) Each session of the class will have prescribed reading and opportunity for researching peer- reviewed articles. Each session will be marked by the due date in the first row of that session; subsequent sessions will continue to build upon the same journal. Keywords help to tag/code the quote for later reference. Keywords will likely be re-used when related information is discovered. When quoting the work, ensure a citation is placed at the end with a page number. This provides a means to go back to the source if needed quickly. Later, when authoring a paper, it will be more accessible to synthesis the information from multiple sources by finding the related keywords within the journal. This also adds strength to any arguments. As for comments, expand your thoughts based on the quote as it relates to personal lived experiences, analogies, events, correlations with…
acceptability of patty burger with the use of Saba banana from the Philippines Bananas are among the world’s most vital food crops widely cultivated in diverse tropical countries. Among the many banana producing country, the Philippines is renowned for producing different banana species. The food crop is applied in numerous food industries to provide nutritious products. Similarly, the enormous products serve as sources of raw materials for enterprises through the recycling of agricultural wastes. Burger remains a dominant food consumed by a couple of people. As for patty burgers, the patties infused with Saba banana blossoms to produce the delicious product. Numerous studies depict the effectiveness of banana blossoms in the preparation of burgers. It is specifically essential innovation by business enterprises as it takes care of vegetarian burger lovers. Therefore, the paper seeks to explore the acceptability of patty burger with the use of Saba banana from the Philippines. In a study by Popa, patty burgers of banana blossoms were processed to assess the chemical composition, sensory characteristics as well as its effects when consumed[1]. The study aimed at…
Manufacturing drugs- The necessity of disclosing information on drug packages In the drug manufacturing industry, biotechnology companies are supposed to engage in research and applications while developing new drugs. FDA also proposed that certain kinds of information should be publicly disposed and people possess the right to know what they are consuming. It comes under public health policy as well. In matters of health, there is added responsibility for the drug manufacturing industry because approximately 97 billion is invested in the US biotechnology sector. The need for disclosing information to the public As a drug maker, it is essential to gain the approval of the FDA because newly prepared drugs that might have side effects need to meet the legal requirements. As observed in the case of fertility drugs such as Serophene and Pergonal, previous approval was not taken, and later medical researchers of Stanford University found the risk of ovarian cancer associated with the usage of such drugs. By that time, a lot of women would have consumed Serophene and Pergonal and became a victim without any knowledge or…
Aggressive Sales Quotas or Unfair Business Practice The ethical dilemma of Peter Peter was new in the advertising sector while he was given the position of customer service representative within the serving area of San Francisco. During his service period, he identified that people who are associated with most small businesses spend massive money on the advertisement packaged, which were not quite required as per their operations. Moreover, Peter also noticed that these businesses are spending on expensive packages of advertisements associated with internet services despite having minimum knowledge of the activities of the internet. This made Peter restrict his services as he was unable to fulfill the provided target of selling advertising to a possible extent after he found out that the market of San Francisco was saturated. However, he was constantly pressured from his home office to meet his target. At this point in time, Peter faced an ethical dilemma, as on one side, he was unable to sell services, and on the other side, he received constant pressure (Van Auken, 2016). The only way Peter had to…
Role of ethical decision-making in business- a Case study of Peter Allen Specific dilemmas of Peter As a customer service representative working in the advertisement industry, Peter has faced a considerable dilemma. His main job duties include selling advertisement packages at a high rate to the small businesses. However, he showed the signs of an ethical individual and was rather defensive of the idea that meeting sales target is the sole purpose of an individual in his position. He was aware that the saturated state of the San Francisco market is going to affect the business outcomes. He was also aware that small business firms used to spend thousands of dollars on meaningless advertisements as they were hopeful about the internet boom of 1999. Nevertheless, he wanted to guide the business owners so that they can make the right decisions rather than getting trapped and making huge investments. Despite the constant pressure of meeting the sales targets, Peter acted otherwise. Although, in the beginning, stages, he was rather confused as he was completely new to the industry. Rising competition within…
Ethical dilemma in business and value of moral decision-making Ethical dilemma faced by Peter Peter was working in the advertising industry where the money is the only factor that matters at the end of the day. On the one hand, Peter, as a customer service representative, is supposed to focus on advertising sales. However, he was shocked after knowing that the customers waste money on advertising packages that are not even worthy of consideration. Peter’s boss has already set a sales quota for him; however, he claimed that achieving that quota within the saturated San Francisco market can be a challenge. As a person, he faced obligated towards his customers and wanted them to direct in the right direction. His customers mainly include small business owners, and they cannot afford to spend much on advertising. Despite that, the customers were willing to spend money as they assumed that it would bear results. He constantly pressurized from his senior to meet the sales target. However, he and his team did not have the capacity to choose the type of small businesses…