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Nobody has the fortune to know exactly what future will bring. Countless attempts are made to foresee the future, but the number of different opinions is enormous. Some common characteristics could be drawn by looking at the most popular predictions. The 1992 U.S. Manufacturing Futures Survey (Kim and Miller, 1993) revealed the following anticipation’s among the managers regarding changes in business environment:
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- Performance Requirement
- Common Understanding
- Performance Planning
- Quality Function Deployment
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Bredrup, H., Bredrup, R. (1995). Benchmarking as Performance Reference in a Performance Management Model. In: Rolstadås, A. (eds) Benchmarking — Theory and Practice. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34847-6_38
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