Total quality management — is it another fad?

Is Knowledge Management Just Another Fad?

Knowledge management (KM) is of growing interest in today’s business and academics. The increase in the number of books, articles, and conferences reflects that practitioners and academics alike are trying to improve theories and concepts proposed in the field in order to support KM programs better. On the other hand, there are voices criticizing current practices of KM and calling knowledge ma...

Mindful medical practice: just another fad?

A thoughtful colleague pointed out that over the past 50 years we have experimented with many different ways to humanize medicine. Recently, a few of our attempts have included explicitly promoting empathy,1 inculcating cultural competence,2 and offering courses on narrative medicine.3 This is not to say that any of these approaches have failed, but we are still searching—and recent evidence su...

Writing qualitative article: It is time to quality improvement

Précis: This debate article highlights some questions from critics of qualitative research. Planning for proper design, philosophical background, researcher as a research instrument in the study, trustworthiness and application of findings are main debates in this field. One of the issues that have been received little attention is report of qualitative inquiry. A qualified report can an...

Total Quality Management

Quality Management and It

Achieving the design and construction of high-quality facilities that meet owner and endusers requirements is one of the triad of project objectives, the others being time and cost. Despite efforts by both practitioners and researchers, producing superior quality construction products on a consistent basis continues to be a challenge faced by all in the construction industry. Provided in this p...