• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.189-197
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• 2014

Purpose: To reinforce the product competitiveness of Korean small and medium-sized business in the world market. Methods: By clarifying the definition of a masterpiece, developing global masterpiece quality index(MQI) equipped with checklists, surveying several companies and customers, and analyzing the results of the survey via the MQ zone diagram. Results: The results of the survey show the gap between Korean small and medium-sized business and global masterpiece companies in terms of MQI. From this analysis, in order for the surveyed Korean companies to be the world-class ones, the managerial aspects to be improved could be clearly pointed out through the measurement indices. Conclusion: This research would provide Korean small and medium-sized companies, which wish to get on the global masterpiece level, with an objective guideline.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.141-150
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to motivate small/medium business challenged masterpiece development and to develop masterpiece strategic system. Methods: Each checklists are developed based on WC300 (World Class 300) and MQI (Masterpiece Quality Index). Correlation between the evaluation items about MQI and WC300 is analyzed. MQI is derived associated with main improvement areas of WC300 through IPA (Importance Performance Analysis). Compliance and ranking are analyzed through HOQ (House Of Quality) using masterpiece quality main factor and limiting factor. Strategy establishment base is secured through improvement derivation and correlation analysis between MQI and GQM 4.0(Global Quality Management 4.0). Results: Detail strategy is derived considering work condition about small/medium business's three kinds of industries (machine, electric and electronic). Conclusion: It is necessary to determine the potential capacity of the current domestic small/medium businesses. Small/medium businesses should be given the opportunity to self identify and manage their strengths and improvement.