Process Management - CPA Business Environment and Concepts (BEC)

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Which of the following methods would be most effective for a company that wants to reduce its rate of defective products?

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Six Sigma is a quality improvement program that uses metrics to evaluate the achievement of goals. Improving current processes for reducing defective products is a big component.

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Unlike business process reengineering, business process management:

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Business process management seeks incremental change by tweaking the existing process and design.

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Which of the following is not a disadvantage of outsourcing?

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Non core functions to one business become critical for companies providing outsourcing services thereby reducing risk exposure in the event an issue arises.

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Performance of quality assurance occurs in which of the following processes?

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Quality assurance takes place in the implementation process after the standard of quality has been defined.

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Organizations with one-piece flow manufacturing environments that are experiencing bottlenecks in production are most likely to develop strategies associated with:

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The theory of constraints says that organizations are impeded from achieving objectives by the existence of one or more constraints.

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Of the following, which is not a key component of IT used in modern business?

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Among other systems, the following are critical for modern IT infrastructure.

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