Leveraging diversity to successfully influence business operations is a business imperative for many healthcare organizations as they look to leadership to help manage a new era of culturally competent, patient-centered care that reduces health and healthcare disparities. This article presents the foundation for a business case in leadership diversity within healthcare organizations and describ...

Background: Business process management systems (BPM) can automate all processes in an organization. These systems provide the possibility of identifying, modeling, deploying, implementing, function managing, integrating with other information systems, monitoring and improving an organization's business processes in a standard form. As far as the authors know, no related resear...

The purpose of this study was to identify potential opportunities for improving member participation in community-based coalitions. We hypothesized that opportunities for influence and process competence would each foster higher levels of individual member participation. We tested these hypotheses in a sample of 818 members within 79 youth-oriented coalitions. Opportunities for influence were m...

Digitizing the core processes of healthcare delivery is looked at as a solution to control the escalating costs without compromising quality or patient outcomes. However, to date the business value of such IT solutions remains elusive, especially in view of the high failure rate of many solutions coupled with the high user resistance. The uniqueness of the healthcare industry makes measuring th...

1. Introduction With the recent advance in information technologies, such as the Internet, organisations face, at different levels, several types of challenges. At the external level, organisations have to remain competitive, when offering services to their customers and satisfying these customers' needs. At the internal level, organisations have to be able to react quickly and efficiently to t...

of Viral Hepatitis, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention; William L. Atkinson, MD, MPH, medical epidemiologist, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Linda A. Moyer, RN, consultant to the Immunization Action Coalition, for reviewing and updating the following questions and answers. Healthcare workers...

E-Business requires cooperation and open standard-based information/knowledge exchange between all the participants of global business information environment (e-Business environment) in real-time. As a result a new scientific direction of knowledge logistics has emerged. The paper describes a developed KSNet-approach addressing the knowledge logistics problem. An ontology-driven methodology fo...

Collaborative logistics is becoming more important in today’s industry. This is driven by increased environmental concerns, improved efficiency through collaborative planning supporting resources sharing and new business models implementation. This paper explores collaborative logistics and reports on business applications within the forest products industry in Sweden and Canada. It first descr...

Human users form coalitions to solve complex tasks and earn rewards. Examples of such coalition formation can be found in the military, education, and business domains. Multiagent coalition formation techniques cannot be readily used to form human coalitions due to the unique aspects of the human coalition formation problem, e.g., uncertainty in human user behavior and changes in human user beh...