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- Quality in U. S. Manufacturing Industries: An Empirical Study
- Quality management practices are determined in this research study from previous research, in-depth interviews, multiple case-study analysis, and an empirically based survey. Quality management practices that contribute to higher levels of quality are important for consumers and for business performance. Making matters more difficult is that quality management practices of...
- White papers 2002-07-01
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- Trends in Laboratory Quality Management
- The article highlights the trends in Laboratory Quality Management. Healthcare organizations have caught the bug for new management trends. It's probably the inevitable result of healthcare becoming a business and adopting modern business techniques - marketing and advertising, quality assurance. Quality assurance is a more recent management practice that began...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Between Evidence - Based Practice and Total Quality Management: The Implementation of Cost-Effective Care
- There are an increasing number of studies showing that patients often do not receive necessary care or receive care that is not needed, inefficient or even damaging. There is no lack of ideas and approaches on how to improve practice. In the last decades we have seen the rise of...
- White papers 2000-08-23
- Ethics Quality Management
- This paper illustrates the possibilities of institutionalizing ethical decision-making in industrial enterprises. The concept of ethics quality management tries to open a path between theory and practice by defining the ethical responsibility of the parties involved in the development and application of new technologies. Analogies between total quality management strategies...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Enabling Quality Management: How Strategic Context Is Needed To Drive Effective Application
- This paper discusses how performance management methods can efficiently provide this linkage and so enable improved application of Quality Management tools. The paper concludes that while Performance Management and Quality Management are both essential elements of the modern organization. To fully realize their potential benefits, the aims of these tools...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Total Quality Management: Is It a Fad, Fashion, or Fit?
- This paper examines the fad, fashion, and fit theory using the case of total quality management TQM. The examination has been undertaken using a range of research studies, commencing in the late 1980s. Three stages have been identified in the evolution by which a fad can become a fit with...
- White papers 2000-04-01
- An Introduction Into Quality Assurance and Total Quality Management With Reference to Library and Information Institutions
- At the beginning of 1990's, library and information science communities were more and more convinced of the necessity of meeting primarily the needs of users when deciding about managing library and information systems. It became clear that every library, being not able to meet all the user requirements, has to...
- White papers 2003-01-02
- The Strategic Dynamics of Total Quality Management: A Grounded Theory Research Study
- The aim of this article is to describe the development of total quality management TQM models using a grounded theory research methodology where a key part of the methodology is a longitudinal study. The models seek to capture the development of quality within organizations over time and thus to contribute...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- The Cult of Six Sigma |BTalk Australia
- (24min 37) Six Sigma is a business improvement pioneered by Motorola, embraced by General Electric and now used by many large corporations throughout the world. Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Alan Skinner, a six sigma "black belt" from the Faculty of Business at the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Physician Organization and Care Management in California: From Cottage to Kaiser
- Data from a survey of practicing physicians in California's thirteen largest urban counties were used to ascertain differences in care management processes, financial incentives for quality, and practice pressures by type of practice setting. Physicians in the Permanente medical groups have adopted and value quality-oriented, system-level care management tools to...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Meetings on current good manufacturing practice regs.(Noted In The Federal Register)
- MEETINGS ON CURRENT GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE REGS: FDA will hold three public meetings to solicit comments, data and scientific information about the current state of quality management techniques, quality systems approaches and voluntary industry MEETINGS ON CURRENT GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE REGS: FDA will hold three...
- Research articles 2004-07-05
- Managing Cost Of Quality: Insight Into Industry Practice
- This paper reports on the study of the quality costing practices at four large successful multinational companies. All four companies use systematic quality initiatives; however, a formal Cost of Quality CoQ methodology was only employed at one of them. This is in agreement with the literature findings arguing that a...
- White papers 2006-03-30
- Stormwater runoff management: are real water quality problems being addressed by current structural best management practices?
- The water quality problem in the waters of San Francisco Bay requires an effective and appropriate best management practice BMP that considers the causes of the pollution and level of toxicity. The problem, which was primarily caused by stormwater discharges, can be solved by controlling the entry of pollutants to...
- Research articles 1995-01-01
- Putting Quality in Project Risk Management: Understanding Variation
- Project managers should use the tools of quality management to improve prediction and control of project schedule and cost. This paper hypothesizes the poor performance of the project management system. Lack of understanding common cause and special cause variation underlies the problem, leading to management mistakes that degrade performance of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- LighthouseMD Achieves SureScripts® Certification for Electronic Prescribing; Certification Will Improve the Efficiency, Safety and Overall Quality of the Prescribing Process for LighthouseMD's Physician Practice Customers
- PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- LighthouseMD, a leading provider of revenue cycle management, practice management and clinical workflow solutions to medical groups, today announced that it has completed the SureScripts certification process that will allow LighthouseMD physician practice users to electronically transmit prescriptions to thousands of pharmacies. SureScripts, the nation's largest...
- Research articles 2006-09-19
- Comparative Analysis Between Manufacturing And Construction Enterprises On The Use Of Formalized Quality Management Systems
- This paper seeks to discover the current state-of-practice for quality initiatives in both the manufacturing and construction industries in the Midwestern United States. It provides a brief literature review of the current state-of-practice in both manufacturing and construction, and presents a statistical comparison of the two industries using a survey...
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Land Management at the Major Watershed--Agroecoregion Intersection.(Statistical Data Included)
- ABSTRACT: The watershed natural resources management framework is prevalent today because land use in watersheds is presumed to he reflected in receiving stream water quality. However, landscape characteristics affecting soil erosion and water quality (e.g., precipitation, geomorphology, slope, soil internal drainage, cropping system) often vary...
- Research articles 2001-01-01
- The 2005 Oversight Systems Financial Executive Report on Risk Management
- Like six sigma in the 1990s and total quality management in the 1980s, risk management now buzzes through corporate America as the latest initiative for better business management - and for good reason. This survey of financial executives provides a report card on risk management today. In summary, the emerging...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Keys To Project Success - Using Audits And Reviews As A Best Project Management Practice
- In recent years, many companies are putting increased emphasis on project management techniques as a result of lessons learned on past project performance. After experiencing project delays, overruns, missed quality goals, communication barriers, "Scope creep", and a general perception of projects being out of control, these companies are scrambling to...
- White papers 2006-07-04
- REMM: The Riparian Ecosystem Management Model.
- ABSTRACT: Riparian buffer zones are effective in mitigating nonpoint source pollution and have been recommended as a best management practice BMP. The Riparian Ecosystem Management Model REMM has been developed for researchers and natural resource agencies as a modeling tool that can help quantify the water...
- Research articles 2000-01-01
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