Sökning: "Operations Management"
Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 408 avhandlingar innehållade orden Operations Management.
21. The Heterogeneity of Behavior in Operations Processes : Empirical Evidence
Sammanfattning : Behavioral science research has established that observed human behavior may deviate considerably from model suggestions. In addition to the realization that there is no such thing as standardized human behavior, there are also substantial differences in how people deviate from the model: Different individuals make dissimilar decisions in the same situation when using the same information. LÄS MER
22. Managing management innovations: Contextual complexity and the pursuit of improvements in healthcare
Sammanfattning : In a context characterised by complexity and conflicting demands, healthcare managers at a meso-level struggle to pursue improvements in the quality and efficiency of care operations. An influential approach on how to pursue improvements is quality management (QM). LÄS MER
23. Transportation asset management : Quality related accounting, measurements and use in road management processes
Sammanfattning : Today there are shortcomings in monitoring, control, analyses, learning and reporting of the results of activities and operations in the road management processes. There are also shortcomings in transparency and verifiability, in knowledge of road management’s costs and life cycle costs, of the road capital’s standard and condition and in measures of quality deficiency costs, productivity and maintenance backlog. LÄS MER
24. A process model for work-flow management in construction
Sammanfattning : This thesis describes a novel approach for management of work-flow in construction, based on the combination of location-based scheduling and modelling with 4D CAD. Construction planners need to carefully design a process that ensures a continuous and reliable flow of resources through different locations in a project. LÄS MER
25. In the Wake of the General Hospital : Focus and Scale in Healthcare Operations
Sammanfattning : This thesis tackles the changing landscape of healthcare delivery, with an increasingly fragmented set of healthcare providers and where speciality hospitals increasingly replace or complement traditional general hospitals. There is a need for guidance to policymakers and healthcare providers, on how different set-ups of healthcare delivery facilities, in terms of the scale and the focus of each facility, impacts performance. LÄS MER