Semiconductor manufacturing represents a challenging industrial environments, where products require more than several hundred operations, each representing the technical state-of-the-art. Products vary greatly in volume, design and required production processes and, additionally, product portfolios technologies change rapidly. Thus, technologically restricted rapid development, stringent quali...

background: nowadays hospitals have to cope with global changes. they are thus forced to be equipped with learning and learning hospitals. this research was performed to design a model for establishing learning organization in iranian public hospitals. methods: this qualitative, comparative, cross-sectional study was conducted in 2009-2010. first, available models of learning organization in ge...

Purpose This study aims to reflect on quality, sustainability and resilience as emerging organisational priorities within total quality management (TQM) excellence. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a conceptual approach based reflection theoretical studies the philosophical foundations of excellence, cornerstones for Bearing in mind that sustainable excellence rests upon combination s...

A recent study identified 7 domains of clinical excellence on the basis of interviews with "clinically excellent" physicians at academic institutions in the United States: (1) communication and interpersonal skills, (2) professionalism and humanism, (3) diagnostic acumen, (4) skillful negotiation of the health care system, (5) knowledge, (6) taking a scholarly approach to clinical practice, and...

EXCELLENCE: Worthy goal or dangerous desire? Is excellence a destination or a journey or an attitude? In a world and a society where the expectation is for achievement, success and winning, what should be a Lutheran school’s approach to pursuing excellence? Is excellence about achieving and surpassing standards? Or is it about the process of teaching and learning to the best of one’s ability? O...

As a mature and productive discipline, public health needs three things. The first two requirements of public health excellence are familiar to us. First, we need access to the public health field so that we can, from experience, identify the problems that need to be resolved, and we need to maintain our access to the field so that we can gather our data. Second, we need skills in appropriate r...