Regular use of business practices, by industry and enterprise size

Percentage of enterprises that regularly used specific business practices, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period. Business practices include product development and control management practices—concurrent engineering (simultaneous design), cross-functional design teams, electronic work order management, and distribution resource planning; quality management practices—continuous improvement (including total quality management [TQM]), business certification or certification renewals, and quality management system (QMS); and other business practices—competitive technological intelligence (CTI) or benchmarking, sustainable development strategy or environmental stewardship plan (ESP), product data management (PDM), and life cycle management (LCM).