Business Process Improvements

So this is it. I finally went through one of the deadliest weekends of my college life. Imagine: having your Econ 100.2 third exam, and having the BA 180.1 report at the same weekend? That's surely a hard thing to manage. But luckily, Paeng, Cindy, Meredith and I were able to get through with this weekend. We successfully finished reporting! But then, even though the reporting was done, our topic, Business Process Improvements, had made a great impact in my life. Even though I'm not yet a manager of a company (maybe in the future, I'll have my own. :D), having a time to learn all of these concepts regarding the different strategies made me think about how to run a company.

These business process improvements have made a great impact in the course of a business. I believe that without these strategies, businesses might run from everyone's perspective, destroying a certain united perspective. Imagine if a business was run by different people, all of them working alone and through their own perspectives. The business would surely go into nothing, since there are a lot of concepts being viewed in the whole process. Whether it is TQM (Total Quality Management), Six Sigma, ISO, or the BPR (Business Process Re-engineering), what matters most is the relationship existing among the managers, employees, and the customers. These business process improvements won't be possible without these established relationships among them.

"QUALITY IS A MUST". This is what I think, forms the foundation of having a stabilized and established business strategy.

But, I never realized if having all strategies working in a business still be possible, since every strategy implemented will surely have different bases for their implementation. For example, TQM focuses on employer-employee relationship, Six Sigma focuses on processes, ISO focuses on quality standards, and BPR focuses on revising these strategies in accordance with adjustments. One thing is for sure: every strategy implemented in a business will surely bring success if cooperation among the factors is observed.

-Agbayani, James Edward C.-

(Sir! Would it be possible for strategies like TQM, ISO, SIx Sigma, and BPR to be implemented at the same time? Thank you Sir!)