PLACING QUALITY MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES INTO THE FUTURE CONTEXT: WHAT'S NEW? WHERE NEXT?

Authors

  • Syaiful Rizal Hamid
  • Boon Cheong Chew
  • Muhammad-Azfar Abdullah
  • Zulkifli Hanafi

Keywords:

Future Context, Future Business Trends, Web 2.0, Quality Management

Abstract

This research is about to predict of social movement and business trends in the future, as well as outlining on how current Quality Management principles will affected by this trends. In order to achieve this, the research focuses on two issues, namely; an overview of how today's, global issues and social trends (i.e. social networks) will continue into the future and a discussion of how current Quality Management principles will be affected by these trends. In addition, the researchers have expanded the view of business trends to include the predicted future business trends, which the researcher has categorised as ‘future context'. Consequently, sixteen drivers are established as future context review. Further, the potential impact of the corresponding future context on the corresponding current Quality Management principles are being map in the matrix. In which five Quality Management principles are tested in this study. Additionally, this research reveals the transition dynamic of future context, which reflects the predicted movement of future changes that may impact on the current Quality Management principles as they are today.

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Author Biographies

  • Syaiful Rizal Hamid
    Faculty of Technology Management & Technopreneurship,
    University Technical Malaysia Malacca,
    Hang Tuah Jaya, 76100 Durian Tunggal, Melaka
  • Boon Cheong Chew
    Faculty of Technology Management & Technopreneurship,
    University Technical Malaysia Malacca,
    Hang Tuah Jaya, 76100 Durian Tunggal, Melaka
  • Muhammad-Azfar Abdullah
    Faculty of Technology Management & Technopreneurship,
    University Technical Malaysia Malacca,
    Hang Tuah Jaya, 76100 Durian Tunggal, Melaka
  • Zulkifli Hanafi
    Faculty of Technology Management & Technopreneurship,
    University Technical Malaysia Malacca,
    Hang Tuah Jaya, 76100 Durian Tunggal, Melaka

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Published

14-12-2014

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How to Cite

Hamid, S. R., Chew, B. C., Abdullah, M.-A., & Hanafi, Z. (2014). PLACING QUALITY MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES INTO THE FUTURE CONTEXT: WHAT’S NEW? WHERE NEXT?. Journal of Technology Management and Business, 1(2). https://penerbit.uthm.edu.my/ojs/index.php/jtmb/article/view/984

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