Presently, there is a growing demand from the healthcare community to leverage upon and transform the vast quantities of healthcare data into value-added, 'decision-quality' knowledge, vis-à-vis, strategic knowledge services oriented towards healthcare management and planning. To meet this end, we present a Strategic Knowledge Services Info-structure that leverages on existing healthcare knowle...

purpose – the purpose of this paper is to present a study of knowledge management understanding and usage in small and medium knowledge-intensive enterprises. design/methodology/approach – the study has taken an interpretative approach, using two knowledge-intensive south isfahan (iran) companies as case studies, both of which are characterized by the need to process and use knowledge on a dail...

The present study reports the first comprehensive on freshwater macroinvertebrates and its habitat preferences in Bilah River, largest riverin Northern Sumatra. riverside is characterized by presence of anthropogenic industrial activities which may alter macroinvertebrate assemblage biodiversity. Five months investigation 10 sampling stations from December 2016 to October 2017 was conducted bas...

As manufacturing firms increasingly realize that supplier performance is crucial to their establishing and maintaining competitive advantage, supplier development has been a subject of considerable research in supply chain management. We develop and test a path model to explore how supplier development practices affect buyer–supplier performance from the buying firm’s perspective in the context...

This paper addresses the economic and strategic position of animal health in the dairy operations and the way that animal health care should be properly designed. Examples of biosecurity plans and quality risk management are further elaborated. Disease risk identification and disease risk management as primary preventive issues are pivotal in modern animal health care on both the small and larg...

This paper presents a reference model for the process of management of quality and improvement based on a conceptual framework for managing the process of systematically deriving improvement actions from customer expectations and strategic decisions through business processes, and prioritising actions that will most contribute to achievement strategic objectives. After some introductory theoret...