An attempt is made to review the quality improvement efforts in the software industry. Six sigma implementation efforts in the industry is analyzed and studied. In this paper a detailed analysis is carried about the impact of development environment. Process selection and process maturity also plays important role in the software development environment. In this paper software quality models ar...

63 MetaStar began its latest contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in February. In addition to continuing its work with practitioners in the inpatient and outpatient settings, MetaStar also will undertake improvement projects with Wisconsin nursing homes and home health agencies over the next three years. CMS has chosen the topics and settings for the new contract bas...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has become the most strategic tool for an organization to employ. A leading ERP solution is SAP®. It has been employed by organizations to enable them to collaborate on different projects and to integrate all aspects of operations. Just as organizations have adopted ERP solutions, they employed quality initiatives that are designed to help organizations ma...

OBJECTIVE To determine (i) the cost issues which Saudi health care managers perceive to influence overall quality improvement initiatives, and (ii) the relationship between health care managers' satisfaction with such initiatives and their perceptions regarding the influence of different cost issues on the overall quality improvement initiatives. DESIGN Data were collected through a self-admi...

Data quality management initiatives could both help to prevent the occurrence of data defects and repair their effect. While such initiatives can reduce overall costs, they also cause costs for their development and implementation. Therefore, the overall aim is not to improve data quality by any means, but to ensure cost-efficiency. The paper proposes a meta-model for simulating data quality ma...