Sökning: "Improvement approaches"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 351 avhandlingar innehållade orden Improvement approaches.
6. Communicating performance measures : Supporting continuous improvement in manufacturing companies
Sammanfattning : Manufacturing enterprises are a key driver of economic growth (Eurostat, 2016). Implementing continuous improvement (CI) is commonly used to increase competitiveness (Hyland et al., 2007), but despite the well-known theory of CI, many manufacturing companies fail in implementing it (Bhasin, 2012; Nordin et al., 2012; Tiwari et al. LÄS MER
7. Patient safety and suicide : learning in theory and practice from investigations of suicide as patient harm
Sammanfattning : Suicide is a global public health challenge, around 700 000 people die from suicide every year. A large proportion was in contact with healthcare close in time before death, suggesting healthcare to be an important resource in the work with prevention of suicide. LÄS MER
8. Towards the creation of learning improvement practices : Studies of pedagogical conditions when change is negotiated in contemporary healthcare practices
Sammanfattning : In the early 2010s, competitive market logic was introduced into healthcare systems so as to achieve rapid improvements. This took place as improvement policies began to emphasize the notion of collaboration as a method of ensuring patient safety across organizational boundaries. LÄS MER
9. Production assurance : concept, implementation and improvement
Sammanfattning : The dynamic business environment is characterized by short-term and long- term uncertainties in the business processes, combined with a short-term focus on meeting customers' and share-holders' requirements. Therefore, making correct decisions in a dynamic business environ-ment is a major challenge for production plant engineers and managers all over the world. LÄS MER
10. Controlled fragmentation and contours in rock blasting : theoretical and technical approaches
Sammanfattning : The Swedish mining and construction industries have a large interest in improving blasting technology, in milling concerning rock fragmentation by blasting (especially underground in large diameter hole blasting, > 100 mm) and in construction and mining concerning controlled and safe contours in blasted tunnels. This doctoral thesis deals with these matters and includes a licentiate thesis (published in 1970) and five papers A-E included in the doctoral thesis and published during 1983 to 1992. LÄS MER
