Organizations, in order to be globally successful, must be viewed as portfolio of:

A customer service manager at a retail clothing store has collected numerous customer complaints from the forms they fill out on merchandise returns

To analyze trends or patterns in these returns, she has organized these complaints into a small number of sources or factors. This is most closely related to the ________ tool of TQM. A) quality loss function B) cause-and-effect diagram C) scatter diagram D) histogram E) process control chart

Competition between suppliers pushes

A) prices lower B) supply higher C) consumers to buy less D) prices higher