A critical review of the research literature on Six Sigma, Lean and StuderGroup's Hardwiring Excellence in the United States: the need to demonstrate and …

JR Vest, LD Gamm - Implementation Science, 2009 - Springer
Background US healthcare organizations are confronted with numerous and varied
transformational strategies promising improvements along all dimensions of quality and …

Lean six sigma in health operations: challenges and opportunities—'Nirvana for operational efficiency in hospitals in a resource limited settings'

D Yaduvanshi, A Sharma - Journal of Health Management, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The hospitals over the last few years have been facing major issues and challenges; the
patients aspire world-class health care quality delivery while state and health insurance …

Evidence‐based management: from theory to practice in health care

K Walshe, TG Rundall - The Milbank Quarterly, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The rise of evidence‐based clinical practice in health care has caused some people to start
questioning how health care managers and policymakers make decisions, and what role …

Clearing a path through the management fashion jungle: Some preliminary trailblazing

PP Carson, PA Lanier, KD Carson… - … of Management Journal, 2000 - journals.aom.org
Sixteen management fashions that emerged over the past five decades were identified and
evaluated on eight criteria, including radicalness, broadness, and fear induction. The …

E-government: a special case of ICT-enabled business process change

HJ Scholl - 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The literature on business process reengineering (BPR) has evolved into a strand of
literature which studies organizational change (OC), and more specifically, business …

Insights into the process dynamics of innovation implementation: the case of public hospitals in Germany

EP Piening - Public Management Review, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
In order to meet the needs of their multiple stakeholders, public sector organizations are
increasingly asked to improve the efficiency and quality of their services. With this respect …

Real time object tracking based on dynamic feature grouping with background subtraction

ZW Kim - 2008 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Object detection and tracking has various application areas including intelligent
transportation systems. We introduce an object detection and tracking approach that …

Performance analysis of a focused hospital unit: The case of an integrated trauma center

NL Hyer, U Wemmerlöv, JA Morris Jr - Journal of Operations Management, 2009 - Elsevier
The concept of focus [Skinner, W., 1974. The focused factory. Harvard Business Review 52
(3), 113–121], notably operationalized in manufacturing entities like cells and focused …

Business process re-engineering application in healthcare in a relation to health information systems

S Khodambashi - Procedia Technology, 2013 - Elsevier
Technology application such as health information system in health care affects health care
delivery including its clinical process. Health information system is used extensively in …

Interconnect tuning strategies for high-performance ICs

AB Kahng, S Muddu, E Sarto… - … Design, Automation and …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interconnect tuning is an increasingly critical degree of freedom in the physical design of
high-performance VLSI systems. By interconnect tuning, we refer to the selection of line …