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The quality connection

Recently I wrote about quality rankings for automotive manufacturers and the perception of these rankings in the market. While the marketing teams at these companies must shoulder the burden to convince consumers about their products’ quality, there is a very real connection between product quality and configuration management.
In many industries where products have grown over [...]

The typical tail graph

In a previous post, I discussed two types of sales history: raw and collapsed. The collapsed sales history can be displayed in a table or spreadsheet, with a special column for volume. If this table is sorted on decreasing volume, then the most popular configurations (popcons) will be at the top. The graph with the [...]