No Money for Needed Changes

Most companies operate in a similar fashion. Product lines are expected to last a certain amount of time. Depreciation becomes a factor. 

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No money for needed changes Management must support... 

Money is always an obstacle. No matter how much money you make and spend, there never seems to be enough of it. Not having the money for needed changes is probably a real obstacle for the CEO. No support from the board of directors is probably something that a CEO needs to be concerned about. Watchful eyes of board members are usually on budgets and purse strings. 

To understand the need for standards, the easiest method is to envision a world without them. In that world, riders change trains at every national border or even city border because different railroad track widths require different railroad cars and engines. Crossing the border is difficult if you are not from one of the two countries because there is not standard format for identification. Manufacturers make dozens or hundreds of versions of each product because of different electrical or mechanical requirements and must charge for the differences and for huge inventories. Credit cards can only be used for a single chain of stores and banks charge a lot of money to process them. And there is no telephone service across borders. The Internet is both... 

One fact that you need to remember is that if a response falls in the lower portion of the Likert scale it is going to be very hard to move that cns-tomer past the middle. For some reason the customer s expectations have not been met. A detailed investigation of this customer will need to be done to try to nnderstand and identify the expectation that was missed and then develop a process that will meet or preferably exceed this expectatioa This can be a long and tedions process because mai of the customers that fall in this range may feel that no matter what changes are made, they will never be satisfied. Then the qnestion becomes how much time and money is the supplier willing to spend to wotk with this customer. 

Contemporary arrangements for integration in the UK include (and are probably still dominated by) the movement of individuals or re-placement However, there is now an increased awareness of the need for major structural change in orderto free up the resources to enable real inclusion. The result has been the introduction of a range of innovative and essentially experimental schemes wherein the skills and resources of the once-existing special school are delivered in the mainstream. Here, money follows children and there is no dilution of resource provision as children move from special school to mainstream school. The research reported in this book examines one of these projects. 

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