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Monday, March 23, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
THE FAR SIDE
By GARY LARSON
Accountant street gangs
Jim Patti, left, and his brother Charlie have owned and operated Patti Shoe Service since 1955.
Shoes
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They estimated that the equipment would cost $50,000 to replace. And the shoes keep shopping.
And the outlet tap changing.
Charlie pulled the heel cap from a black leather boot, exposing a hollow plastic heel. "How am I going to fix this?" he asked. "You have to be creative to fix it."
Creative they are, and they attract a loyal following of customers. One woman, in her 70s, came in Thursday to pick up cowboy
boots for her son. She said that she had taken shoes to their father's store in Kansas City during the '30s.
"Our customers die on us. Our customers grow old with us," Jim said.
The brothers keep working on shoes, taking Wednesday afternoons off so Charlie can golf and Jim can scult.
Jim compared their workmanhip and success to the recent trend toward fast shoe repair in shopping malls.
"There's fast food, and then there's quality dining," he said.
Managers to discuss the competitive edge
By PEGGY O'BRIEN
Staff writer
U. S. companies are not measuring up to foreign competitors because of low productivity and poor quality, several KU business professors said.
After a year of planning, the School of Business is presenting its first seminar to teach current managers the same principles that business professors teach masters of business administration degree candidates.
"The issue is, 'Can I improve?' " Karney said.
"Total Quality Commitment: Enhancing Your Company's Competitive Position," is the seminar, which is April 6-10
Seminar faculty are Dennis F. Karney and Steven Hiller, both associate professors of business. Lawrence A. Sherr, professor of business administration and Chancellor's Club teaching professor, will be the guest lecturer.
Karney said that by offering the seminar to current managers, he and the other presenters were trying to bring the concepts of improved quality and increased productivity into the general operation of any firm.
He said companies should not be satisfied with thinking their product
or service was the best. They need to find out how they can be better.
Hillner said, "We need to try to recapture some of the market from the Japanese and other strong international competitors."
The principles that Karney, Sherr and Hillier will be teaching at the conference come from W. Edwards Deming, a U.S. statistician, college professor and consultant. Deming has a list of 14 management obligations that would accomplish his two objectives of quality output at low costs.
Karney said that higher quality in production led to lower costs and, then, lower profitability.
Deming developed his theories while working for the U.S. Bureau of the Census in 1940. American industrial leaders never used Deming's ideas. In 1950, he was invited to speak in Japan where his theories now are widely used.
The Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers presents the Deming award on national television each year. The award goes to the Japanese company that has significantly improved its product quality.
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