Background and Objectives: Balanced Scorecard is an increasingly popular tool for performance evaluation. Healthcare organizations have broadly adopted this method for implementing their strategic plans. There is, however, increasing concerns on barriers to balanced scorecard implementation. Built on the fundamental impacts of organizational culture on hospital performance, this study explored ...

Scaling the size of parallel systems while maintaining the system performance is an important problem. A default scaling approach by using larger networks to interconnect more processors works only up to a limited extent and the derived conngurations using this approach are not cost-eeective. Recent advents in VLSI and packaging technologies now ooer multiple processors on a single multi-chip m...

Scaling the size of parallel systems while maintaining the system performance is an important problem. A default scaling approach by using larger networks to interconnect more processors works only up to a limited extent and the derived conngurations using this approach are not cost-eeective. Recent advents in VLSI and packaging technologies now ooer multiple processors on a single multi-chip m...

ZGAJNAR, J. and S. KAVCIC, 2008. Optimization of bulls fattening ration applying mathematical deterministic programming approach. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 14: 76-86 The more specialized beef farms demand the more precise management to achieve economically justified outcome. Undergoing CAP reform and market liberalisation are just some of numerous factors that are going to have significant impact e...

Balanced scorecard has proven to be a functional tool for large companies, however, smalland medium-sized enterprises (SME) have experienced it too complicated for their purposes. The aim of this research is to analyse the potential of simplifying balanced scorecard in order to acknowledge the practical realities of SMEs. The results of this study indicate that the viewpoints covered by balance...

In [Tal94], Talagrand showed a generalization of the celebrated KKL theorem. In this work, we prove that the converse of this generalization also holds. Namely, for any sequence of numbers 0 < a1, a2, . . . , an ≤ 1 such that ∑n j=1 aj/(1 − log aj) ≥ C for some constant C > 0, it is possible to find a roughly balanced Boolean function f such that Infj [f ] < aj for every 1 ≤ j ≤ n.

Introduction: Continuous performance assessment and improvement are critical to the survival of all organizations. An assessment tool the health care industry has started to use is the Balanced Scorecard (BSC). The authors present their BSC, a multidimensional framework linking their department’s values and goals with day-to-day activities. The BSC measures performance along multiple dimensions...

This article studies the performance of unpaced serial production lines that are subject to breakdown and are imbalanced in terms of both of their processing time means (MTs) and buffer storage capacities (BCs). Simulation results show that the best pattern in terms of throughput is a balanced line With respect to average buffer level; the best configuration is a monotone decreasing MT order, t...