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Improving software process improvement

IEEE Software, 2002
Two dichotomies characterize software process improvement efforts and approaches: disciplined versus creative work and procurer risks versus user satisfaction. Based on these perspectives, the authors introduce six theses to illuminate the problems of pursuing SPI.
R. Conradi, FUGGETTA, ALFONSO
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An Improved Maxnet

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (Cybernetics), 2004
In the proposed model, dynamic inhibitory weights are used to speed up the convergence rate, and a new convergence rule is applied to find all maxima. The hardware implementation of the proposed model is presented in the study, and simulation results indicate that the proposed model converges much faster than the other networks.
Yi C. Chang, Sung-Nien Yu, Chung J. Kuo
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Improving Improvement for Childhood Asthma

JAMA, 2011
THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES DElivers much good high-quality care but also causes unnecessary harm. This harm has many guises— some visible, such as hospital-acquired infections, and others more subtle, such as failure to prescribe indicated treatment or communicate effectively.
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Improving Prescribing, Improving Health

Healthcare Quarterly
Prescription drugs play an essential and growing role in Canada's healthcare system and the health of Canadians. But some drugs are not used correctly (misuse), used too frequently (overuse) or not used nearly enough (underuse), resulting in missed health benefits, harm to individual Canadians and unnecessary costs.
Michael R, Hillmer, John, Housser, Diane E, Watson   +2 more
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Improving Leadership Through Improv

Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGUCCS Annual Conference, 2019
Improvisational theater may seem to be a distant concept from daily meetings, emails and routine tasks, but as we'll “learn through doing” in this session, many connections exist between the two. For example, what do you do when someone gives you a problem that needs an immediate solution?
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Improving Care, Improving Performance, or Just Improving Numbers?

Psychiatric Services, 2008
This Open Forum reviews the literature on computerized systems that purport to either assess or improve clinical care in mental health. There is little empirical support for these claims. These limitations are in keeping with the author's own experience in developing and using such systems.
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Improving Improvement

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2004
Bruce D. Agins, Clemens Steinbock
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Improve Through Improv

2023
This chapter examines improv, or the art of skillfully, spontaneously, and collaboratively building a scene in the present moment. Improv as an art form, and its governing principles will be discussed, as well as the application of this craft to business, education, and medical settings, with special focus on the use of improv in therapeutic practice ...
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Improving the process of improvement

Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 2018
In a rapidly-changing world, society and enterprises alike are dizzy with the speed of change. This necessitates not only speeding the pace of needed change, but improving the process and targets o...
Snyder, Ken, Edgeman, Rick
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Continuous improvement improved

Work Study, 1999
There is no one performance improvement methodology or technique which is universally applicable. Analyses the various approaches to performance improvement that have been used over the last decade within manufacturing industry. Uses the lessons to identify the key components of an approach to continuous improvement that can be tailored to a particular
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