Ahlgren, Riikka Software patterns, organizational learning and software process improvement Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2011, 70 p. (+ included articles) (Jyväskylä Studies of Computing, ISSN 1456-5390; 129) ISBN 978-951-39-4173-4 Finnish summary Diss. Software process improvement is a necessity in any software organization. This thesis approaches software process improvement from an or...

Synopsis. Organizations are too complex to “solve”. Consequently, corporate improvement programs are as likely to be deleterious as beneficial. Evolutionary mechanisms offer an alternative approach to organizational improvement. Organizational policies correspond to biological genes; policy innovation corresponds to genetic mutation; and learning corresponds to genetic recombination. These corr...

Organizations are increasingly implementing process-improvement techniques like Six Sigma, total quality management, lean, and business process re-engineering to improve organizational performance. These techniques are part of a process management system that includes the organizational infrastructure to support the improvement techniques. The knowledge-based view of a firm argues that organiza...

This paper presents solutions and best practices for mitigating challenges and successfully deploying such initiatives. Based on our experience assisting Fortune 1000 clients with large IT organizational performance and process improvement programs, we believe there are 10 key implementation imperatives: 1. Obtain senior leadership commitment to initiating and managing IT organizational perform...

This research examines a subjective Bayesian model's ability to predict organizational change outcomes and sustainability of those outcomes for project teams participating in a multi-organizational improvement collaborative.

Nowadays, the problem of the flexibility in any organization has essential importance and the associated investigation with the organizational efficiency and performance is considered. In real-world situation, the process of decision making is often based on linguistic and mental data, so applying fuzzy logic in modeling at this point of view is convenient. In this paper, a fuzzy approach is ap...