The Russian University Excellence Initiative: Is It Really Excellence that Is Promoted?

Persistence is the Twin Sister of Excellence

Consider 2011 as the culminating year for the decade of clinical trials seeking to alter immunemediated destruction of b-cells in type 1 diabetes. Emphasizing this past decade is not meant to diminish earlier studies (1), or the seminal trial in 1984 demonstrating the effects of cyclosporine on preservation of b-cell function (2); indeed it was the sobering results from the latter study (i.e., ...

Statistical significance: is it really that significant?

Towards IT Service Management Excellence

A transition from a product or technology oriented software company to a service-oriented company with a systematic IT service management is a major change that causes headache for many quality managers. Unfortunately often, this change is seen as a massive tool project but customers and staff are forgotten during the change. In this study, we aim at creating a service management framework that...

Organizational Excellence and University Intellectual Property Management Offices : Without Competition , Is it Necessary to Pursue Excellence , and if Yes , then How ?

Competition among businesses has perhaps the greatest influence on how businesses operate—in fact, competition is arguably the core incentive for a business organization’s pursuit of excellence, as well as its corresponding practices used to motivate employees. Therefore, it’s peculiar that university intellectual property offices (UIPOs) perform revenue-generating functions found in the compet...

Integration: is it the key to effective implementation of the EFQM Excellence Model?

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the integration issues that are important to consider when attempting to implement the European Foundation for Quality Management’s (EFQM’s) Excellence Model in UK universities. The aim of this paper is to explore the role that integration plays in effecting this implementation and to see how, in practice, integration might be achieved. Design/m...