In a recent quality assurance project we learned that nearly half of the handovers we examined were characterized as unsatisfactory by our residents, who provided examples in which their anxiety had been piqued and patient care had been affected. These reports substantiated a growing body of literature on the relationship between the quality of handover and the quality of patient care, so we so...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore if six sigma and lean are new methods, or if they are repackaged versions of previously popular methods – total quality management (TQM) and just-in-time (JIT). Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on a critical comparison of lean with JIT and six sigma with TQM, a study of the measure of the publication frequency – the number of aca...

Faced with international competition, industrial production increasingly requires implementation conditions which, in some cases, lead to seek new techniques for workshop control. This is the case when it is asked to establish Just in Time management in a Job Shop having the characteristics of working with small series. A new approach for the organization of the ‘control’ function in such a con...

Concept maps have been extensively used in education, especially in science teaching. There is strong evidence that their use is associated with increased knowledge transfer and retention across several instructional conditions, settings and methodological features. However, constructing a concept map is complex and difficult for students, especially newbies. Consequently, there is a necessity ...

Davison and Martinsons breathe some fresh air into the ‘Is Theory King’ debate that has enlivened JIT of late (Avison and Malaurent 2014, Markus 2014, Lee 2014, Gregor 2014), by drawing our attention to the important issue of context, and its relationship to theory. They make two major points; first, that often IS researchers treat theories they use in a universalist manner – that is, the conte...

Unlike traditional assembly lines, service-oriented processes require individualized and timely information during the execution of steps or phases. This paper discusses the Multi-layered Analytical Knowledge Organization (MAKO) Just-in-Time Process Model (JITPM), which is a framework and methodology for building service-oriented processes that are interrelated to an organizational knowledge ba...

In order to provide the smooth playback of a distributed multimedia presentation, the object-retrieving engine for the player must fetch each object before its playback time. In this paper, a smart object-retrieving engine is proposed, which adopts a retrieving policy named the just-in-time policy. The policy expects the retrieval process of an object to finish right before the playback time of...

With the introduction of the On Demand Operating Environment (ODOE), traditional capacity planning methodologies are being replaced by just in time resource allocation. This paper examines the application of supply chain mechanisms to dynamically coordinate the available compute capacity/resources with the service capacity/resources requirements. After reaching the ideal condition with a comple...

This study examines how incorporating different electronic feedback devices (i.e., clickers versus web-based polling) may affect specific types of student engagement (i.e., behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement), whether students’ self-efficacy for learning and performance may differ between courses that have integrated clickers and those that use web-based polling, and whether using ...