BACKGROUND A model of quality management called Strategic Collaborative Quality Management (SCQM) model was developed based on the quality management literature review, the findings of a survey on quality management assessment in healthcare organisations, semi-structured interviews with healthcare stakeholders, and a Delphi study on healthcare quality management experts. The purpose of this stu...

nowadays knowledge is a strategic and valuable resource as well as a property for any organization. without proper management and use of this valuable resource, providing good quality products and services is difficult and sometimes impossible. on the other hand, implementing knowledge management without appropriate structure is not possible. organizations should adopt structures that allow the...

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is an essential component of an organisation’s strategic procedures, which requires attention of several factors to envisage a range of long-term outcomes to support strategic project portfolio decisions. To evaluate overall efficiency at the portfolio level, it is essential to identify the functionality of specific projects as well as to aggregate those findi...

introduction: awareness of outlook, objectives, benefits and impact of telemedicine technology that can promote services quality, reduce costs, increase access to specialized and subspecialty services. therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the telemedicine strategic planning from the managers and expert’s perspective in the hea...

Based on the description of value chain analysis, which is a strategic management tool attributed to Michel Porter, the paper aims to demonstrate that quality management applies this method, under specific forms. The paper's specific objectives are: to redefine the functions of value chain analysis in the context of quality management; to clarify the significance and the possibilities of measur...

SharePoint Portal Server is a Microsoft portal product that enables a customised corporate intranet to be created that has a high level of functionality with applications in knowledge management and collaboration. The University of Southern Queensland has identified SharePoint Portal technology as a powerful tool for a range of applications, including in strategic ma...

In the context of economic instability and uncertainty, when more and more companies struggle with financial difficulties to keep in business, it becomes more obvious of the necessity of a sound strategic planning and an efficient management system. Thai is why I believe that a decision support system that could provide early warning signals of financial distress to a company a few years before...

Passage time densities are useful performance measurements in stochastic systems. With them the modeller can extract probabilistic quality-of-service guarantees such as: the probability that the time taken for a network header packet to travel across a heterogeneous network is less than 10ms must be at least 0.95. In this paper, we show how new tools can extract passage time densities and distr...

Korea is one of a few countries that have achieved significant economic growth in the recent two decades. The early agricultural economy in 1940s and 1950s had gradually changed due to the government-driven economic development plans started in 1960s. The early emphasis was made on both modernization of the agricultural industry and the promotion of the heavy and chemical industry. After seeing...

The abductive reasoning model has been discussed in the context of business strategy. However, this model seems unrealistic for applications in the real business world considering the unpredictable, competitive business environment. This study improves the model by formulating an experimental case study through a web-based workplace for generating product ideas. We discuss the possible embodime...