Visual communication in lean organizations

Annotated Bibliography on Lean in Healthcare Organizations

Agile and Lean: Organizations, Products and Development

Agile development methods and their associated practices have become well-accepted within industry, and the success of projects using these methods is higher than traditional methods [1]. However, the optimal environmental parameters that suggest a fit between a project’s requirements and needed outcomes, and the use of agile methods is still a matter requiring further research. This is due to ...

Authority and Communication in Organizations

This paper studies delegation as an alternative to communication. We show that a principal prefers to delegate control to a better informed agent rather than to communicate with this agent as long as the incentive conflict is not too large relative to the principal’s uncertainty about the environment. We further identify cases in which the principal optimally delegates control to an “intermedia...

Corporate Communication in Contemporary Organizations

This chapter describes the historical development of communication within organizations and the emergence of corporate communication. It starts with a brief discussion of the historical development of separate communication disciplines such as marketing communication and public relations, and moves on to explain why organizations have increasingly drawn these disciplines together under the umbr...

Communication and International Organizations

(This paper was originally presented at the 11th Conference of Non-governmental Organizations in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (Genève, July 1969) under another title and in connection with the Agenda Item : The Second Development Decade — Opportunities and Co-operation for NGO Participation) The next ten years, the period of the United Nations Second D...