using the effective management tools that are relevant tothe organization’s needs for excellence has become so important for thecompanies to improve their performances and then increase customersatisfaction and gain market shares. quality function deployment is anefficient and powerful tool in design, development, and planning of products.the main function of quality function deployment is conv...

House Of Quality (HOQ) is one of the matrices of an iterative process called Quality Function Deployment (QFD). it is the nerve center that drives the entire QFD process. The House of Quality Matrix is the most recognized and widely used tool for new product design. It translates customer requirements, based on marketing research and benchmarking data, into an appropriate number of engineering ...

Most existing house price index construction methods are developed mainly based on transaction data from the secondary housing market, and are not necessarily suitable for the nascent housing markets where a predominant portion of housing transactions are new units. Using the booming market in China as an example, we evaluate and compare the performances of three most common house price measure...