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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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Improve by improving software process improvers

International Journal of Business Information Systems, 2006
With business environments constantly changing, organisations and individuals must execute and learn in parallel to ensure they can solve today's problems and plan for tomorrow's. This action research explores how action learning can improve Software Process Improvement (SPI) success by 'improving the improvers'.
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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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Improving iterative improvement

Proceedings of the 1971 26th annual conference on -, 1971
This paper describes a scheme for iteratively improving the decomposition of a given matrix A into the product of two matrices B and C. Although B and C may be completely general matrices, the scheme is most practically applicable in the LU and QR decompositions of a matrix.
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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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Improve IT, Improve Healthcare

Computer, 2017
While not a magical solution to healthcare problems, improving IT will improve quality and reduce preventable errors that cause patient harm.
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Improving self-improvement?

Research Papers in Education, 2000
This paper asks the question ‘Is school self-improvement improving or is it something that has been tried and tested and has failed?’. In an attempt to answer this question, particular attention is paid to some of the international research literature on school self-review and evaluation, two commonly used self-improvement strategies.
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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.
John Housser, Diane E. Watson, Michael P. Hillmer   +2 more
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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 School Improvement Plans

The Elementary School Journal, 1987
Based partly on experience in large urban districts, the authors conclude that effective elementary schools with achievement higher than schools with comparable student enrollment are unusually successful in identifying and responding to strategic instructional issues.
Robert E. Leibert, Daniel U. Levine
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