in today’s competitive business environment, the design and management of supply chainnetwork is one of the most important challenges that managers encounter. the supply chain network shouldbe designed for satisfying of customer demands as well as minizing the total system costs. this paper presentsa multi-period multi-stage supply chain network design problem under demand uncertainty. the prob...

The strategic management was introduced in French hospitals in the late 80s, in a context of inefficiency and the need to control healthcare expenditure. This concept has inspired a series of government reforms, the organization and dynamics of hospitals and the mode of regulating the French health system, assuming a real change of professional culture. The changes in the economic context and i...

Information Quality (IQ) is a problem associated with severe financial and outcome related impacts in the health care sector, and with growing acceptance of evidence-based decision support systems in the industry, it is becoming a key area of both strategic and operational management in the area. However, Nursing Information Systems (NIS) are often under-used and inhibited by poor IQ. This case...

To address widespread deficiencies in the quality of health care, the authors argue that health care organizations need to be able to make a "business case" for improving quality--a compelling rationale for financial investment in quality improvement programs. The authors' framework for such a business case is organized around three broad areas: direct financial considerations, strategic consid...

Recent global economic meltdown has opened many avenues of discussion and leaving various questions with its affects. One of them is fate of quality management and its necessity during and after the economic recession. It is established fact that management commitment is one of the most critical success factors to achieve best possible results of quality management implementation. So quality of...

Introduction As described in the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Five Year Strategic Plan for 2009-2013, one of the five CIHR strategic research priorities is to provide the evidence necessary to support a high quality, accessible and sustainable health care system. The CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR) is the champion for research in this domain and ha...

abstract today, competitive strategies have got accepted as one of the most important means of manager to compete in markets. in the strategic management process, development of the strategic quantitative objectives based merely on the experts’ ideas.in this research, after reviewing the bsc,swot, judo strategy model and blue ocean strategy model, the concepts are applied to increase quality of...