Quality of Enterprise Management During Ramp-Up Preparation and Launch: Concept and Evaluation Method

Current economic conditions are forcing market players to bring new products to consumers rapidly, maintaining the high quality and providing the reasonable price. The concept of ramp-up management is designed to meet this request. The implementation of this concept in practice, in particular for Russian industrial enterprises, causes certain challenges. Correspondingly the quality of enterprise management becomes a factor that appreciably influences the ramp-up execution. In this regard, the study designed to develop the theoretical provision and methodological approach towards the assessment of the management quality is viewed as relevant to the practical needs of enterprises during the ramp-up and technological re-equipment. In the present article we propose a conceptual approach to assess the quality of enterprise management on the basis of value chain methodology which is relevant to the conditions of ramp-up preparation and implementation. By the “quality of management” notion in the study it is proposed to understand the totality of objectively existing properties and characteristics of enterprise management system which adequately reflects all aspects of its activities and contributes to the efficiency of enterprises development and competitiveness.