A free-trade area is the region encompassing a trade bloc whose member countries have signed a free-trade agreement (FTA). Such agreements involve cooperation between at least two countries to reduce trade barriers â import quotas and tariffs â and to increase trade of goods and services with each other.
The team can use interviews or written surveys to identify target values to use as goals for improving the product or service produced by the process. Identifying a problem associated with the process helps define the process improvement objective.
Continuous improvement is both the medium and outcome of quality assurance; serve accountability and accreditation requirements; enhance the reputation of the faculty/department/school/university, and meet external demands for demonstrating quality, quality assurance and quality enhancement.