Strengthening and Sustaining of Industry-Academies-Government Partnership through Continuous Process Improvement

Creating and sustaining a Lean culture of continuous process improvement.

Lean is the automobile manufacturing production system of the Toyota Motor Corporation that many businesses have been trying to reproduce for over 30 years.1,2 To desire the benefits of Lean requires direct extrapolation or some parallel of Toyota’s manufacturing-based production methods of efficiency and process improvement to different work environments. This is not as easy as it may seem, es...

Sustaining and strengthening biij

As stated in the first issue, biij as an open access multidisciplinary online journal, “was set up to meet the challenges of biomedical imaging and intervention facing the allied sciences community by providing a new avenue for discussion and exchange of viewpoints.” The Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal (biij) was born on July 16th 2005 during the opening ceremony of the ‘Second Inte...

Strengthening state government through managed care oversight.

NGOs and government partnership for health systems strengthening: A qualitative study presenting viewpoints of government, NGOs and donors in Pakistan

BACKGROUND Health systems are expected to serve the population needs in an effective, efficient and equitable manner. Therefore, the importance of strengthening of public, private and community health systems has been emphasized time and again. In most of the developing countries, certain weaknesses and gaps in the government health systems have been hampering the achievement of improved health...

The BRAIN Initiative: Building, Strengthening, and Sustaining

Successful federal initiatives share a focus on tangible success stories, constant input and guidance from scientists, participation by a wide range of funders, ongoing interest from policy makers, and a broad and effective communications network. By comparing these elements of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative with other initiatives, we look a...