The measures that are examined also should include those that relate to patient outcomes in the 10, 15, or even 20 highest-volume conditions in a hospital’s population. Including such measures in the quality committee’s analysis focuses the organization and its resources on the most common complications and readmissions, especially those that drive financial performance. Keep in mind that clini...

The report from Yin et al. in this issue of The Oncologist is an important reminder of the utility of neoadjuvant cisplatinbased chemotherapy for invasive, clinically nonmetastatic bladder cancer [1]. In their updated analysis, these investigators suggest that the hazard ratio from this treatment strategy has improved to 0.87, from approximately 0.93; the analysis now includesmore than 3,000 ca...

Medical emergency teams (METs) are common features of adult and pediatric hospitals and have been accepted as beneficial by many in health care, including regulatory agencies. In pediatrics, the value (quality outcome / cost) derived from operating METs is not known. Bonafide et al report the first significant effort in children to address MET value by detailing costs, in their large children’s...

This paper outlines reasons for project failures and ties them to value proposition failures. It defines a value proposition as including both the proposed project deliverable values as well as the implementation processes that will assure value is delivered. It shows that an effective value proposition is not so much about the technology being proposed as it is about the problem and value perc...

In a competitive global market, organizations are striving to retain the best talent by providing sustainable employer value proposition (EVP); ‘value proposition’ employees perceive or expect from their employer. Although EVP is conceptually appealing, there has been little systematic effort to empirically examine the dimensions of EVP. Information technology companies are adopting strategies ...

The sustainability of last-mile (LM) freight delivery is crucial to add value the stakeholders in distribution chain. However, its achievement often hindered by a poor consideration their needs both literature and practice. goal this paper address point view local retailers exploring about innovative LM services identifying sustainable propositions (VP). A survey was submitted operating limited...

Considering the immense potential of sustainable business models in tackling broader challenge corporate sustainability, this paper integrates literature streams on sustainability practices and organizational to analyze performance implications a firm's value proposition. Based analysis large panel dataset across different industries, consistent with proposed theory, proposition has been found ...

Numerous problems with product quality and time-to-market launches can be traced back to how the product lifecycle process is managed within the organisation. This article provides insight into how an integrated value proposition design framework shifts product lifecycle management from a product-centric view to a customer-centric view, through the use of good engineering practices as found in ...

Agile Development Methods have received much attention since their inception, being regarded as an alternative to plan-based, phased methodologies, which are guided by a waterfall process model. These practices have evolved and developed over time, culminating in 2001 with the Agile Manifesto. Since that time, preferred methodologies, implementations, and best practices have continued to evolve...