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Six-sigma methodology provides real and concrete results in healthcare systems by mitigating and eliminating variations in critical processes. However, using Six-sigma alone in complex environments can lead to unproductive and inefficient work due to a misunderstanding of the process interactions. Combination of both business process modeling and six-sigma helps achieve a highly reliable, customer-oriented...
This paper examines factors that influence knowledge sharing and the role of knowledge sharing in Total Quality Management (TQM). Knowledge is recognized as a key element in production processes that enhances the capacity of companies to be more responsive to customers' requirements. Prior works on knowledge sharing have focused on the service industry. This paper is one of the rare attempts to highlight...
Fuelled by increased interest among organizations to team up with their customers, technologies for supporting open innovation are emerging. In this paper, we explore how current technologies are designed to support open innovation, in order to envision future developments and research challenges. A sample of 51 systems has been classified. Surprisingly, we found that most technologies for open innovation...
Firm IT capability is influenced by many factors and the relationship between IT capability and organization structure in the network environment has attracted much attention. Based on resource-based view (RBV), this paper constructs the relevant hypotheses about the relationship between organization structure and IT capability, the relationship between organization structure and dimensions of IT...
Methods based on the relative team theory and logical analysis, the paper supposed the theoretical model of the team leadership effectiveness questionnaire. Date was collected from 237 students who had the experience of student organization, The team leadership effectiveness questionnaire was composed of perceived leadership effectiveness, leadership satisfaction, and task achievement by means of...
Performance evaluation is a necessary and beneficial process, which provides useful feedback to employees about job effectiveness and career guidance. The key employees with higher organizational performance characteristics are often entitled ldquotalentrdquo for their key networking status in creating the organizational intelligent capital values during the intellectual era. This paper intend to...
This research paper tries to add trust and Guanxi into the western frame of supplier selection to explain the mechanism of supplier search in China. On the basis of this analysis we make a number of recommendations for improvement of firmpsilas order getting capabilities in China.
Innovation, as an important corporate strategy, is the key activity that contributes to building core competitive advantage. During the process, the organizational learning decides the level of company's gaining innovative knowledge. This paper, based on learning theory and knowledge management theory, explores the relationship between knowledge's transfer, organizational learning and the organizational...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze a series of factors that affects innovation and demonstrate that innovation are positively related to performance during business process integration and re-engineering based on e-commerce. According to prior research, the paper develops a number of testable hypotheses. It examines how trust, coordination, process innovation influence improvements in performance...
This paper is an application of failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) to the educational operations. The process of managing the practical training for students in one of the bachelor-degree program was chosen as the case study. Ultimately, the attempt of this research was to improve the process efficiency and reduce the failures of the particular process. Only top-five ranked failures were considered...
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