1 The central idea in benchmarking isto study and imitate the best practices of the best businesses in your particular industry to the exclusion of business that are not in your industry.

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2 Real-time control is distinguished from concurrent control because it deals with present rather than the future or past.

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3 Control is another term for authority.

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4 A control chart is used to plot statistical variations in repetitive processes to monitor actual vs desired quality measurements.

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5 Whether or not a business needs to be customer-centered depends the type of product and frequency of services to a customer.

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6 Under the Deming Management Philosophy, employees are considered to be customers.

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7 Executive reality checks refer to performance evaluations conducted by top-level managers on lower-level managers.

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8 To test the quality and validity of objectives and standard requires the implementation of feed-back controls.

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9 Feed-forward control helps managers brief the next team to perform subsequent phases of a multiphase project.

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10 A flow chart is a detailed organization chart.

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11 A bar chart indicating deviation from a standard bell curve is a Histogram.

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12 A process audit and a management audit are descriptions of an internal audit.

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13 Managers manage internal customers.

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14 Kaizen is Japanese for "continuous improvement."

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15 There are eight Basic TQM tools.

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