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Deming Cooperative Puzzle

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3. If you control an industry's standards, you _______ that industry.
9. Voluntary standards may avoid government __________.
10. No one company has ______ knowledge to give the consumer the best deal.
11. Difficulties of definition and conflicting results of tests come to the fore when some government agency must _______ construct a standard.

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1. A government regulation, to be enforced, must have ___________ meaning.
2. Problems of interchangeability and compatibility are most _________ in standardization.
4. Updating international standards is a ____ process that can sometimes constitute a brake on innovation.
5. No government planner knows enough to write the _________ for the rest of a country's industry.
6. A Voluntary standard can be prepared by mutual _________.
7. The American National Standards Institute provides machinery by which those convened _______ a standard.
8. The ____ from separate efforts of companies is incalculable.

(if you get stuck, see Chapter Ten of Out of the Crisis)
The Deming Cooperative Puzzle





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