the central issue in strategy formulation and implementation process, or strategy-making, is the identification of environmental forces and the preparation of a plan of action to deal with them. this necessitates scanning the environment for gathering information. environmental scanning should enable the firm to identify these forces. doing this not only calls for information gathering, but als...

cost-effectiveness data is useful for use in priority setting decisions in order to improve the efficiency of resources used. this paper thereby responds to eckard et al. which addressed the use of cost-effectiveness data in the actual prioritization decisions in the swedish national clinical guidelines for heart diseases. based on a set of experiences on the use of economic evaluation in prior...

The software development process is becoming more complex everyday and thus requires specific tools that facilitate its management. In this article, Zentipede, a tool for managing the software development process in software factories, is presented. This tool simplifies the software process management and provides a lot of statistical data to help measure and improve the quality of developments...

Significant efforts in the past decades to teach evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation has emphasized increasing knowledge of EBP and developing interventions support adoption practice. These have resulted only limited sustained improvements daily use clinical most health professions. Many new with evidence effectiveness are readily adopted each year—indicating openness change is not pro...