QFD methodology implementation: a proposal for small and medium Brazilian companies acting on telecommunications services sector

The Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a Quality tool. The goal of this tool is intended to assist companies in improving the quality of services provided to its customers. This paper presents a model plan for deployment of QFD in a small company acting on telecommunication services sector. The re...

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Autores: Quintairos, Paulo César Ribeiro, Oliveira, Edson Aparecida de Araújo Querido, Duarte, Bruno
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade de Taubaté (UNITAU)
Repositorio:Latin American Journal of Business Management
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs2.lajbm.com.br:article/174
Acceso en línea:https://www.lajbm.com.br/index.php/journal/article/view/174
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Quality
Services
Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
Qualidade
Serviços
Desdobramento da Função Qualidade (QFD)
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Sumario:The Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a Quality tool. The goal of this tool is intended to assist companies in improving the quality of services provided to its customers. This paper presents a model plan for deployment of QFD in a small company acting on telecommunication services sector. The research is a case study, exploratory and descriptive. It is a bibliographic and documentary work, with parts of the report documents the experience of administrative processes in the company. The results show that small and medium service companies in the telecommunications industry can gain advantages by adopting the QFD tool, to establish the quality planned. Furthermore, it is possible to obtain an improvement of the processes and evaluating the client using the tool to measure quality obtained.