How do China’s LIEs Implement Lean Management

Lean ERP: How ERP Systems and Lean Management Fit Together

Lean Management and ERP-systems are seen as contradicting each other. Lean Management goes for low cost automation, simplicity and high visibility of information flow whereas ERP-systems might become complex and intransparent. This article outlines a research project that combines pros of both. This is called Lean ERP. First results of a study showed that it really is a niche market while a sur...

Delivering effective asthma care--how do we implement asthma guidelines?

Over the last 10 yrs there has been a burgeoning increase in asthma guidelines, initially concerning paediatric asthma [1], and subsequently all aspects of asthma for all ages and for all countries. Some have been produced nationally [2], some internationally [3], some adapted from global strategies and others produced specifically for developing countries. The Global Initiative for Asthma (GIN...

How School Science Lies

School science lies. It lies about Mendelian genetics, the peppered moth, male and female, the motion of a pendulum, the Bohr atom, the fluid model of electricity and many other basic concepts, all due to simplification. Real science relies on domain-specific models and so always lies at some level. Teachers thus need to help students appreciate how science interprets complexity and how to mana...

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How to Implement P.B.L. in Traditional Medical Education

 SUMMARY Problem based learning as an innovation in education specially medical domain has been used since few decades and its positive effect in improving learning outcome bas been proved in several investigations. There are some obstacles that prevent shifting from traditional medical education, toward P.B.L. in medical school, so there has been several efforts managed by educationists searc...