Controlling Quarter

Production Control Quarter (hereinafter, the Quarter) is the first of four lectures of Operations Quadrivium (hereinafter, the Quadrivium):

The Quarter is designed to introduce its learners to enterprise discovery, or, in other words, to concepts related to obtaining data needed to administer the enterprise effort; and
The Quadrivium examines concepts of administering various types of enterprises known as enterprise administration as a whole.

The Quadrivium is the first of seven modules of Septem Artes Administrativi, which is a course designed to introduce its learners to general concepts in business administration, management, and organizational behavior.

Outline

The predecessor lecture is Compliance Research Quarter.

Quality control
Big data. The vast amount of quantifiable information that can be analyzed by highly sophisticated data processing.
Critical incident. A way of evaluating the behaviors that are key in making the difference between executing a job effectively and executing it ineffectively.
Concurrent control. Control that takes place while a work activity is in progress.
Feedback control. Control that takes place after a work activity is done.
Feedforward control. Control that takes place before a work activity is done.
Quality. The ability of a product or service to reliably do what it's supposed to do and to satisfy customer expectations.