To protect people against sleep disturbances and to enhance general quality of life, the World Health Organization (Berglund et al. 2000) recommend a maximum sound level of 30 dB (LAeq, 22-06) indoor for continuous background noise with individual noise events not exceeding 45 dB(A). Those recommendations have been adopted and implemented in the Brussels Capital area with a noise management pla...

using the effective management tools that are relevant tothe organization’s needs for excellence has become so important for thecompanies to improve their performances and then increase customersatisfaction and gain market shares. quality function deployment is anefficient and powerful tool in design, development, and planning of products.the main function of quality function deployment is conv...

OVERVIEW. Open innovation (OI) has become a mainstream organizational process. Firms are establishing OI groups, allocating budgets, and measuring results. In this article, we identify twelve “good practices” associated with high quality open innovation efforts. In our experience, these practices are key inputs to the fi rm’s OI system, leading to high quality results when effectively executed....

The introduction of quality, risk, safety, health and environmental management philosophies has significantly changed industry's view of company organization and controlling processes. Quality, risk, safety, health and environmental programs and systems, such as ISO 9000, ISO 14000, process safety, and risk management are impacting the way industry will meet the challenges of safety and environ...

OBJECTIVE Long-term evaluation of a quality assurance programme (after an assessment in 1993). DESIGN Review of medical records. SETTING Emergency area of an orthopaedic, trauma, and plastic surgery unit in a French teaching hospital (Besancon). SUBJECTS 1187 consecutive ambulatory patients' records, from July 1995. MAIN MEASURES Occurrence of near adverse events (at risk events causing...

Purpose – On the metaphoric level, much as been written about complex adaptive systems (CAS) for implementing total quality management (TQM) and organizational learning (OL) in turbulent or unpredictable environments. The aim of this paper is to add practical insights on how a specific CAS-technique called genetic algorithms (GA) can be used for designing quality management systems for keeping ...