Active systems are characterized by a steadily increasing degree of structural integration of electronic components into mechanical structures. To enable a systematic development process supporting continuous improvement the so-called W-model as a new process model for the development of active system is proposed. The W-model takes into account the mutual crossdomain dependencies in adaptronic ...

 Integrated into the overall system of care and includes a continuum of step-up and stepdown services within the same provider organization.  Offers a comprehensive and ecological model of multi-model treatment interventions into an integrated whole, designed to meet the individual needs of a child and the child’s family.  Commitment to national standards of excellence, a continuous commitme...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the feasibility of a model for continuous quality improvement in small scale general practice and the improvement projects that practices ran after the introduction of continuous quality improvement. DESIGN A descriptive study. SETTING Twenty general practices in the Netherlands tested the model in an intervention period of 18 months. INTERVENTION A model for contin...

The number of failed software process assessment and improvement programs far outnumber the successes and the improvement rates appear to remain low, because as Garvin (1993) suggests, “continuous improvement programs require a commitment to learning”. This study investigates the relationship between a software process assessment and improvement model and organisational learning, and examines w...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) developed an integrated Capability Maturity Model (CMM), known as the FAA-iCMM, that integrates the Systems Engineering CMM, the Software Acquisition CMM and the CMM for Software. The FAA-iCMM was released in 1997 and is the first major integrated CMM in existence. Since 1997, it has been successfully guiding the systematic improvement of FAA-wide proce...

In the current volatile and demanding business environment, managers are so eager to demonstrate that their organizations are excellent which can mainly be achieved through continuous performance improvement. The most applicable and suitable tools that by the assessment of organizations shows how successful they are in the organizational excellence path is European Foundation for Quality Manage...

Development and usage of proper frameworks for implementation, evaluation and continuous improvement of spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) is currently an important research topic. A wide range of methods are being researched. In this respect, methods and techniques on performance measurement and evaluation techniques from business management literature are not yet considered. Some techniques ...

Continuous evaluation of performance and outcomes leading to improvement is currently the focus of continuous quality improvement (CQI) programmes in ambulatory surgery. This can be implemented by developing clinical indicators and acceptable thresholds that are relevant to daily practice, easy to measure and can be used to initiate the analytic process. Collection of data without the ability t...

This study examines data mining as an extension of system design to support continuous process improvement. This paper identifies how dynamic technological activities of synthesis, analysis, and evaluation can highlight complex relationships within integrated information systems through existing patterns of associated organizational data. The identification of data patterns and subsequent human...