Results of survey of stakeholders regarding knowledge of and attitudes towards feed intake, efficiency and genetic improvement concepts" (2016).

BACKGROUND Because organizational culture is increasingly understood as fundamental to achieving high performance in hospital and other healthcare settings, the ability to measure this nuanced concept empirically has gained importance. Aside from measures of patient safety culture, no measure of organizational culture has been widely endorsed in the medical literature, limiting replication of p...

nowadays, with increasing service industries, service marketing and service quality have become an important challenge to organizations. the attempts of organizations in this situation are witnesses to this matter. in the past years, the organizations tried to reach service quality appropriation and satisfaction of self-external customers by concepts and approaches of external marketing. one of...

Process improvement has become an imperative for businesses seeking competitive advantage. However, firms often experience difficulties in both gaining acceptance for improvement programs and sustaining them, particularly in product development. We describe a theory to explain the initiation and sustainability of process improvement teams in product development. The theory integrates the struct...

The management and improvement of business processes is an evergreen topic of organizational design. With many techniques and tools for process modeling, execution, and improvement being available, research pays progressively more attention to the organizational impact of business process management (BPM) and the development of BPM capabilities. Despite knowledge about the capabilities required...

Very little published evidence exists about the impact of the Capability Maturity Modelsm (CMM) or CMM-based appraisals on subsequent software process improvement and organizational performance. A few credible case studies do exist, but it is uncertain how widely their results apply. We present evidence here from a much broader cross section of software organizations. Our results suggest that p...

BACKGROUND The Organizational Process Improvement Intervention (OPII), conducted by the NIDA-funded Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies consortium of nine research centers, examined an organizational intervention to improve the processes used in correctional settings to assess substance abusing offenders, develop case plans, transfer this information to community-based treatment agenc...