This paper presents the objective, design, implementation, execution, and evaluation, of a new learning model focusing on the capability to understand and solve new problems and to answer new questions. This model has inherited ideas from Problem Based Learning, Project Organized Curricula, Double-Loop Learning, Reflection-in-Action, Socratic Leadership, Team Learning, and others. The core comp...

  Background: Effective leadership is essential to passing through obstacles facing the health field. The current health care system in Iran has major problems and gaps in the field of effective leadership. The aim of this study was to evaluate hospital managers’ leadership style through self-assessment and to determine the correlation between leadership styles with healthcare executives’ leade...

Technology and change are so closely related that the use of the word innovation seems synonymous with technology in many contexts, including that of higher education. This paper contends that university culture and existing capability constrain such innovation and to a large extent determine the nature and extent of organisational change. In the absence of strong leadership, technologies are s...

We develop a model in which competitive pressure is a catalyst for organizational change. In our model, commitment to a narrow business strategy is valuable because workers need to coordinate their efforts to build a strategy-specific capability. We show that a monopolist may not be able to commit to a focused business strategy. However, introducing competition can make commitment credible, thu...

Facilitating factors Challenging factors A “burning platform” following two Fear of reprisal very tragic adverse events Strong leadership support Strong program and professional autonomy Good quality improvement culture Inconsistent follow-up of ideas and infrastructure and initiatives Well established morbidity and Fragmented risk-reporting mortality review processes systems Clinical informati...

Technology and change are so closely related that the use of the word innovation seems synonymous with technology in many contexts, including that of higher education. This paper contends that university culture and existing capability constrain such innovation and to a large extent determine the nature and extent of organizational change. In the absence of strong leadership, technologies are s...

A revolutionary approach to air defense has been extensively evaluated recently. The approach is a new Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) that allows combat systems to share unfiltered sensor measurements data associated with tracks with rapid timing and precision to enable the battlegroup units to operate as one. The CEC system and the program for Fleet introduction are described. Further...

The economic activities related to food and agriculture are not usually considered as the conventional path to development. These are generally categorized as ‘low-tech’ activities and often considered as a transitional phase towards ‘high-tech’ manufacturing industries. This paper holds that such conventional thinking may no longer be true in certain contexts. It uses the Prebisch-Singer thesi...

There remains a conviction that the torrent of publications and the financial outlay on leadership development will create managers with the skills and characters of perfect leaders, capable of guiding healthcare organisations through the challenges and crises of the 21st century. The focus of much attention continues to be the search for the (illusory) core set of heroic qualities, abilities o...