This. aport describes the case studies approach applied at a number of Siemens software development organizations to observe the impact of software process improvement methods. In addition, the report provides guidance to software development organizations that want to improve their processes. A set of organization performance measures are defined to help an organization observe its software pr...

Implementing the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) framework in an organization can prove costly and daunting to an organization seeking to implement this framework for the first time. Complaints from organizations attempting this rigorous improvement program address the large overhead, implementation risks and lack of quantitative value compared to their present processes. However, ...

Human capital is considered as a strategic resource among the main resources of any organization and an important factor in producing and presenting services to the society. Improving the productivity of human capital is the main cause of the improvement of productivity in organizations. Management of human capital development, focuses on the quantitative models and technics to test the product...

Software COPQ is one of the most important performance measures in Six Sigma or any key improvement effort. However, in practice, many software development organizations are having difficulty in estimating their valid software COPQ. Thus, in this paper, we investigate the methods, COnstructive QUALity MOdel (COQUALMO) and Defect Amplification Model (DAM) that are commonly used as the quality es...

Enzymes are one of the most important biomolecules which has a wide range of applications in industrial as well as biomedical field. They are important due to their many useful properties. Their development, to a great extent, has been possible due to the availability of microbial sources. Microorganisms are of much attention because they can be produced economically and are amenable to genetic...

The history and origins of proficiency testing of clinical laboratories are reviewed. Since the introduction of proficiency testing in the late 1940s, dramatic improvement in laboratory performance has been demonstrated. Nonetheless, the poor performance found two decades earlier was summoned to support the passage of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1967 (CLIA '67).

Today, the long-term health of any organization depends on their commitment to continuous improvement. Prior research has focused mainly on the effect of continuous improvement practices on performance. In contrast, this research collected data through a survey administered across multiple industries throughout the U.S. and identified the continuous improvement techniques (i.e., lean and qualit...

organizational performance improvement is the concept of measuring the output of an organization, then modifying the process or procedure to increase the output, increase efficiency, or increase the effectiveness of the process or procedure. in this paper, a methodology is presented for applying simultaneous the efqm excellence model and the balanced scorecard in organizational performance impr...

This study deals with wage inequality in organization and shows the relationship between ICT and wage in organization. To do so, we incorporate ICT’s factors in organization into our model. ICT’s factors are efficiencies of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Computer Assisted Design/Computer Assisted Manufacturing (CAD/CAM), and NETWORK. The improvement of ICT’s factors decrease the learning c...