The European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) excellence model has appeared to make in driving ‘new’ measurement practices especially in the use of ‘soft’ measures. Although the EFQM excellence model is so beneficial, its measures are in linguistic-vague forms expressed in linguistic parameters, implying so many doubts. Owning to this vagueness frequently represented in the EFQM Model c...

THIS ISSUE’S COLUMN reports on a presentation and papers from the 23rd International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 17). REFSQ aims to foster the creation of a strong European requirementsengineering community across industry and academia. Feedback and suggestions are welcome. In addition, if you try or adopt any of the practices included ...

this paper reports a survey and case study research outcomes on the application of data envelopment analysis (dea) to the ranking method of european foundation for quality management (efqm) business excellence model in iran’s automotive industry and improving benchmarking process after assessment. following the global trend, the iranian industry leaders have introduced the efqm practice to thei...

This paper reports a survey and case study research outcomes on the application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the ranking method of European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Business Excellence Model in Iran’s Automotive Industry and improving benchmarking process after assessment. Following the global trend, the Iranian industry leaders have introduced the EFQM practice to thei...