Creating impact resonance through a culture of Holistic Discoverability

Creating a Virtual Culture through e-Collaboration

This paper reviews the literature in relation to virtual organisations and eCollaboration. From this, the authors develop two instruments to measure the espoused readiness of the organisation to collaborate virtually and the actual preparedness to operate virtually. These instruments are validated in an eCollaboration environment to measure the extent of alignment of virtual values and virtual ...

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Creating a Culture of Patient Safety through Innovative Hospital Design

When SynergyHealth, St. Joseph’s Hospital of West Bend, Wisconsin, decided to relocate and build an 82-bed acute care facility, we recognized the opportunity to design a hospital that focused on patient safety. Hospital leaders believed if a facility design process was “engineered properly,” it would enhance patient safety and create a patient safe culture; however, we found little information ...

Creating a Culture of Violence

Zusammenfassung: Der Autor beschreibt auf anhand statistischer Zugänge die Gewaltentwicklung in Südafrika von den 70er Jahren bis heute: Unter dem Apartheid-Regime äußerte sich Gewalt als vertikale bzw. strukturelle gegenüber den Bürgern, dehnte sich zunehmend jedoch auch horizontal innerhalb der Kommunen aus und erreichte ihren Höhepunkt in den 90er Jahren zur Zeit der Demokratiebewegung. Grün...

Creating a Software Engineering Culture

Rarely in history has a field of endeavor evolved as rapidly as software development is right now. The struggle to stay abreast of new technology, deal with accumulated development backlogs, and cope with people issues has become a treadmill race, as software groups work as hard as they can just to stay in place. The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and hordes of gurus exhort us to improve ...