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Purpose of this study is to benchmark the lean thinking practices and performance measures adopted in a case hospital by comparing it with a with-in benchmarking partner and best-in class benchmarking partner hospital which has been known for pioneering in lean implementation. Multiple case study approach and Xerox benchmarking model is being deployed to achieve the purpose of the study. A case hospital...
The use of content management systems (CMS) has radically changed the way that web sites are deployed. The plethora of such systems however, makes the decision-making process a challenging task since there is no available classification for CMS. Our study attempts to identify distinctive characteristics of CMS in order to classify them in performance categories. The analysis of our study incorporates...
In this presentation we introduce the ISBSG data repositories and discuss, using some real-life examples, how organizations and project managers can truly benefit from the use of ISBSG data.
Benchmarking is a powerful tool to provide organizations performance. Since the past several years German hospitals are facing several reforms to lower their costs and raise their performance; especially logistics services e.g. patient transport or catering logistics are appropriate and necessary to improve. The German research project BELOUGA develops a new Benchmarking approach for logistics services...
Performance measurement and benchmarking methods like the balanced scorecard face the challenges to measure the idiosyncratic nature of the back-office of public organizations. The goal of this paper is to develop measurement perspectives that take into account public sector characteristics and specific organizational and technical challenges that need to be tackled. We do this by extending the BSC...
This study summarizes results of a study of Technical Debt across 745 business applications comprising 365 million lines of code collected from 160 companies in 10 industry segments. These applications were submitted to a static analysis that evaluates quality within and across application layers that may be coded in different languages. The analysis consists of evaluating the application against...
The growing complexity and diversity of embedded systems — combined with continuing demands for higher performance and lower power consumption — place increasing pressure on embedded platforms designers. To address these problems, the Embedded Reconfigurable Architectures project (ERA), investigates innovations in both hardware and tools to create next-generation embedded systems. Leveraging adaptive...
As one of the most challenging and costly processes, the software testing provides strong support for the high quality software. The popular process improvement models do not adequately address testing application issues, nor has the knowledge management (KM) implementation in testing been well defined. The plan-do-check-action (PDCA)-based testing improvement framework is proposed to address these...
To shorten the product development cycle, reduce costs and improve design quality, a product development process improvement approach based on benchmarking was put forward. According to the working principle of benchmarking, the improvement objective of development process was systematically analyzed and the corresponding key effecting factor system was established. The improvement steps were illustrated...
The compensation for construction enterprise knowledge gap is an important guarantee for the enterprise to make rapid and stable development. This paper defines the connotation of knowledge gap in construction enterprises from the knowledge supplies and demands point of view, and analyzes the causes of construction enterprise knowledge gaps and their remedy forces in China. Based on this, the paper,...
Medical equipment is one of the major infrastructure components of hospitals. Their peak performance is critical to the quality of healthcare services. Clinical engineering (CE) services in Sudanese hospitals have been recently existed therefore this paper aims to evaluate the clinical engineering (CE) departments in Sudanese hospitals. Firstly a robust assessment system has been prepared under the...
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