BACKGROUND In healthcare today, decisions are made in the face of serious resource constraints. Healthcare managers are struggling to provide high quality care, manage resources effectively, and meet changing patient needs. Healthcare managers who are constantly making difficult resource decisions desire a way to improve their priority setting processes. Despite the wealth of existing priority ...

Chief information managers (CIOs) lead IT organizations in a changing and uncertain competitive environment. IT managers deal with external environmental changes, changing internal customer needs, and rapid technology changes. Studies suggest that to manage change and prepare for uncertainty, IT leaders should create an organization that is more flexible. The authors propose in this conceptual ...

Survival and success in present turbulent times increasingly depends on competitiveness. Competitiveness comes through an integrated effort across different functions and deployment of advanced manufacturing technologies. Advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) plays a major role in quality and flexibility improvements in manufacturing organizations. The automated “factory of the future” is see...

In the developed countries, many organizations are regarded a...

Against the backdrop of over two hundred thousand people dead or missing and millions of people homeless after China’s massive earthquake and Myanmar devastating cyclone, forecasts estimate that natural and manmade disasters are likely to increase five-fold both in number and impact over the next 50 years. Hence, the need for disaster relief provided by humanitarian organizations during disaste...

today, the shortage of information about the different sections of organization is not the main challenges of managers and organizations. but, the ways to handle the huge amount of generated information for solving different problems of organization and decision making are main difficulties. information technology (it) can provide effective tools that help organizations to address such problem....

The purpose of this research to prioritize the factors affecting administrative corruption in government organizations using analytic network process until the arrival of prioritized dimensions to Quality Function Deployment model, provide appropriate strategies for solving this basic organizational problem.This study is a descriptive survey research and located into the category of applied res...