In 2002, Kaiser Permanente (KP) launched its Women’s Health Center of Excellence in Culturally Competent Care in the KP Northern California Region’s Greater Southern Alameda Area (GSAA) Service Area, which includes the KP Fremont and Hayward Medical Centers. The KP National Diversity Program Offices’ Institute for Culturally Competent Care made this designation of excellence possible. The Insti...

This paper discusses the implementation of quality management systems and business excellence models in the textile companies of Pakistan. The literature indicates that Pakistani companies are falling far behind in comparison to their international competitors in the dimensions of competitiveness like timely delivery, consistency, reliability, innovation and quality. However, higher level of ad...

One of the excellence enablers is KM. In order to evaluate the KM processes, a comprehensive model is required, which should be able to capture all aspects of KM. One of such models is KMAT . This research exploits system dynamics in order to measure the effects of KM on business excellence with a combination of KMAT and EFQM 3 .Relationships between KM and EFQM are analyzed and demonstrated by...

By leveraging product-centric connected ecosystems, manufacturers can create new and more effective business models, advance operational excellence, and design and develop better products and services that align with customer needs and preferences.

OBJECTIVES To identify factors associated with preceptor excellence as rated by student pharmacists and to assess the correlation of excellent ratings with years as pharmacist, specialty certification, and faculty appointment status. METHODS A retrospective analysis of student pharmacist evaluations of preceptors from May 2009 to May 2012 was completed to determine factors associated with pre...

the main aim of this study is to recognize and prioritize the effective factors of a sme’s excellence. the research population consists of experts or activists in ceramic and tile industry selected via purposeful conjecture based on judgmental sampling .the required data of this study were collected by two methods of library studies and survey studies.  in order to identify strengths and weakne...

In this paper, we present Shelah’s theory of excellence concluding with his categoricity theorem for the class of atomic models of a countable first order theory, under the assumption that there exists a large full model. This allows us to do the entire work within ZFC and without any assumption on the number of models of size א1, in contrast to Shelah’s original treatment.