This paper discusses a mathematical framework that addresses an improvement planning program for the organization level. A proposed model based on the concept of total productivity is presented to determine the best programs among those productivities' improvement programs. Once the input data are prepared, the expected improvement by implementing different improvement techniques can be establi...

Software process improvement is the key issue of the software development technology at present, especially for small Organizations. According to small organizations' characteristic, the paper introduces the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), Personal Software Process (PSP) and Team Software Process (TSP), and shows the supplementary relationship among them and software process impro...

For software process improvement – SPI – there are few small organizations using models that guide the management and deployment of their improvement initiatives. This is largely because a lot of these models do not consider the special characteristics of small businesses, nor the appropriate strategies for deploying an SPI initiative in this type of organization. It should also benoted that th...

It's impossible to discuss a piece of Vic's work without relating it to the other pieces. Everything fits together within an overall strategy of applying the empirical scientific method to the challenge of continuously improving an organization's software processes and products. The Goal-Question-Metric approach recognizes that "improvement" requires metrics, but that every organization has its...

Chemiluminescent immunoassay (CLIA) has been applied in different fields, including environmental monitoring, clinical diagnosis, food safety and pharmaceutical analysis, as a promising approach for selective, sensitive, rapid and simple analysis. It is often necessary to detect a large number of complicated or low-abundance samples. However, traditional methods need great consumption of time, ...

Pig breeders have successfully selected for higher litter size, reduced backfat and improved growth rate (Hermesch, 2006). These outcomes imply that modern sows have higher nutrient demands in comparison to sows of 20 years ago. For example, genetic improvement of litter size has been 0.10 to 0.20 piglets per year in maternal lines. This implies that sows need to eat 50 to 100 grams more feed p...

people always notice to other’s ideas and judgments about themselves. personnel also use different tactics of impression management in different situations, to reach their purposes in organization. one of the personnel's purposes is the improvement of the organization performance. performance measurement of an organization is the process of quantifying the efficiency and effectiveness of i...

This thesis focuses on the creation of a high-performance service operations organization. As organizations increasingly compete on service quality, increased attention has been given to measuring, tracking, and improving customer satisfaction. This thesis 1) provides a novel framework for service quality improvement and 2) explores concepts in game theory, relational contracts, and incentive m...

Literature [Gra97] claims that up to 70% of software process improvement initiatives fail to achieve their intended goals. No single organization is likely to have the range of experience necessary to identify these critical factors. We need to examine abroad sample of projects undergoing SPI in order to determine characteristics that successful SPI efforts have in common, characteristics that ...

in this study, the role of information technology in increasing the productivity of fars regional electric company has been reviewed.so, five roles of information technology have been selected and managers and expert’s perspective has been measured about them. for this purpose, a questionnaire has been prepared about productivity and information technology. the samples consists of 140 managers ...