HALAL TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT TOWARDS QUALITY PERFORMANCE. A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

A Conceptual Framework for Smart Hospital towards Industry 4.0

Background: The fourth industrial revolution consists of combining network devices with cloud computing methods and analyzing large data and artificial intelligence, which makes it possible to call such an infrastructure smart. In a Smart Hospital, all things and devices are designed to be connected and integrated, thus achieving better patient care, increasing efficiency and reducing time wast...

Total quality index: a benchmarking tool for total quality management

The total quality index (TQI) proposed in this study is an information technology-supported benchmarking tool that helps managers assess a total quality management program by enabling the cost-effective measurement of key organizational processes. TQI utilizes the analytic hierarchy process and the Delphi technique to measure ideal and actual quality management along eight critical factors synt...

Towards Implementing Total Data Quality Management in a Data Warehouse

Poor quality of data in a warehouse adversely impacts the usability of the warehouse and managing data quality in a warehouse is very important. In this article we describe a framework for managing data quality in a data warehouse. This framework is of interest to both academics and practitioners as it offers an intuitive approach for not just managing data quality in a data warehouse but also ...

Total Quality Management: A Framework for Pollution Prevention

Towards a Total Quality Framework for the Evaluation and Improvement of Emergency Plans Management

The evaluation of the quality of emergency plans is an unresolved issue. While most research efforts have focused on the definition and improvement of planning methods and the associated tools, a reference framework allowing the assessment of emergency plans is still missing. In this paper, we report our initial work towards the definition of a quality framework for emergency plan management. T...