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Article: QFD: the low-tech way to collaborate. (Information Technology Update).(Quality Function Deployment)
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- Automotive Design & Production
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Coordinating all the tasks necessary to bring a new vehicle to market isn't child's play. eBusiness vendors have suggested throwing lots of technology at the problem. A decidedly low-tech solution has been around for half of a century. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is starting to look a lot better now that capital budgets have almost totally dried up for eBusiness initiatives.
Children delight in playing the "telephone" party game: The first child in a long line whispers a sentence to the next child. Each child in turn quietly relays the message down to only the next child down the line. At the end the last child publicly announces the message she received ...