The purpose of this paper is to apply a fuzzy quality function deployment (QFD) approach to prioritize knowledge management (KM) solutions for an international port in Taiwan. First, the paper examines house of quality (HOQ) matrices to facilitate handling of the ‘what’ (i.e., KM requirements) and ‘how’ (KM solutions) aspects of the QFD problem, and proposes procedures for the use of a fuzzy QF...

Quality is an indispensible requirement in the health field, and its pursuit is necessary in order to meet demands by a population that is aware of its rights, as part of the essence of good work relations, and to decrease technological costs. Quality thus involves all parties to the process (users and professionals), and is no longer merely an attribute of the health service. This study aimed ...

Software-Produkte entsprechen häufig nicht den Erwartungen der Kunden. Die Japaner haben v. a. in der Automobilindustrie mit Hilfe des sogenannten Simultaneous Engineering infolge der hierdurch verbesserten Kundenorientierung bedeutende Marktvorteile erlangt. Beim Simultaneous Engineering werden, ausgehend von den Kundenwünschen, über eine interdisziplinäre Gemeinschaftsarbeit im Unternehmen Pr...

Merging sustainable development with the business, and taking goals into account from its three dimensions (i.e., economic, environmental and social) which are derived from customer and stakeholder requirements have been a potential source of competitive differentiation for firms. Academic and corporate interest in sustainable supply chain (SSC) management has also risen considerably in recent ...

The main goals of this research are to determine customers’ requirements from hotels based on TripAdvisor and the technical capabilities fulfill requirements. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) used in is method customer review TripAdvisor. An output LDA as input Voice Customer (VOC) quality function deployment (QFD). A hotel selected be a case study for implementing integration QFD. Questionnai...

Quality function deployment (QFD) has been widely used in many fields; it is one of the structured approaches that are used to translate customer needs into specific quality development. However, in the traditional QFD approach, each element’s interdependence and customer requirements (CRs) for green supply are not usually treated systematically. The important function of green product lifecycl...

The critical product planning phase, early in the product development cycle, requires a design tool to set engineering priorities, capable of selecting the preferred design concept and setting target levels of engineering performance to guide the later product development stages, while considering the needs of both the consumer and producer. The Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method was deve...

Quality function deployment (QFD) can provide a means of translating customer requirements (CRs) into engineering characteristics (ECs) for each stage of product development and production. The main objective of QFD-based product planning is to determine the target levels of ECs for a new product or service. QFD is a breakthrough tool which can effectively reduce the gap between CRs and a new p...