Information sharing in organization has been considered as an important approach in increasing organizational efficiency, performance and decision making. With the present and advances in information and communication technology, sharing information and exchanging of data across organizations has become more feasible in organization. However, information sharing has been a complex task over the...

Six Sigma is practiced by some service industries to indicate the effectiveness of DMAIC in improving the quality in this type of business. The application of Six Sigma along with other quality initiatives including Kaizen, TQM, ISO 9001 and Supply Chain Management in a food distribution SME needs to be studied thoroughly. The results of a questionnaire suggest that many of food distribution SM...

s for Keynotes A Practitioner's View of the Really Big Data Quality Research Issues 12 What Does the Next Generation of Business Models Mean for Information Quality? 35 Cloud Computing and Data Quality Services 43 Employing ISO9001 to Improve Water Information Quality in New South Wales 58 Data Quality in Shell: Building IQ Knowledge and Skills 88 A Journey Towards Enhanced Data Quality in Heal...

“Towards Software Excellence” (TSE) is a web-based process assessment facility established by the UK’s National Computing Centre (NCC). TSE provides software developers with a simple and easy-to-use means of self-assessing the capability of their development processes. They can understand the “good practice” expected by TSE, compare their processes against TSE’s process model, identify their "s...

introductionorganizations try to have a safe and healthy work environment without any pollution and damages. healthsafety environment (hse) system is a tool for improving health, safety, and environmental conditions in allindustrial and non-industrial development programs. the system uses all human and financial resources toprovide people with a safe environment without any risk (farshad et al....

Since the 1980s there has been an explosion in the use of formalized methodologies for increasing quality and efficiency. Methods outlined by philosophies such as Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma, Lean, and ISO 9001 have yielded great returns in the manufacturing environment. These techniques have proven successful in reducing costs, increasing production, and improving quality in both...

The use and implementation of public open street Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) surveillance systems in Central Business Districts (CBDs) in South Africa solely for the purpose of crime control (reducing street crime) or crime prevention (deterrence) has in South Africa been a relatively new intervention within the broader context of crime prevention programmes. One of the drawbacks to its im...