Total Quality Management and Just-in-Time Purchasing

VDiscussion and Implications of Findings

The barnyard rooster Chanticleer had a theory. He crowed every morning, putting forth all his energy, flapped his wings. The sun came up. The connexion [sic] was clear: His crowing caused the sun to come up. There was no question about his importance.

There came a snag. He forgot one morning to crow. The sun came up anyhow. Crestfallen, he saw his theory in need of revision.

Without his theory, he would have had nothing to revise, nothing to learn.

Deming, 1993, p. 105

The results of the hypotheses—proposed in Chapter II, restated in Chapter III, and analyzed in Chapter IV—are discussed. Interpretations of these findings are offered. In the next section, validity of findings are assessed in four parts: ...