The Purpose of ___ Is to Find Out What Other

question 28

Multiple Choice

The purpose of ___ is to find out what other people and organizations are doing very well, and planning how to incorporate these ideas into one's own operations.

• A) contingency planning
• B) scenario planning
• C) benchmarking
• D) forecasting
• E) participation

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Definitions:

Statistical Process Control

A method of quality control which employs statistical methods to monitor and control a process to ensure that it operates at its full potential.

Special Causes

Special causes, in the context of quality control, refer to unusual, unpredictable factors that cause variations in a process, distinguishing them from common causes.

Common Causes

Factors that consistently contribute to a process's variability; inherent within the process and usually indicative of systemic issues.

Variation

The extent to which data points in a dataset differ from each other and from their average value.