Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Industries - Service

Increasing costs and higher utilization of resources make the role of process improvement more important than ever in the health care industry. Management Engineering: A Guide to Best Practices for Industrial Engineering in Health Care provides an overview of the practice of industrial engineering (management engineering) in the health care industry.

Explaining how to maximize the unique skills of management engineers in a health care setting, the book provides guidance on tried and true techniques that can be implemented easily in most organizations. Filled with tools...

Business paradigm shifts are rare. However, the shift to a services-dominant economy and to services-dominant value creation genuinely merits the designation. Almost 80% of GDP in developed economies is attributable to services, and some economists regard products as merely the physical embodiment of service delivery.This is a must-read for anyone trained in traditional process improvement or business architecture. In surprisingly clear language this book lays out the essentials of service thinking, and how the service paradigm transforms the way in which organizations innovate on behalf...

Nicht allein fur Experten des Bank- und Versicherungswesens wurde dieses Lexikon unter der Federfuhrung des bekannten Autors erarbeitet: Es bietet jedermann zuverlassige Information auf diesem sich rasch entwickelnden Gebiet. In der Neuauflage durch vollige Neubearbeitung noch geschliffener und praziser.

Virginia Mason Medical Center (VMMC) was one of the first health care organizations to implement Lean and its methodologies. Other organizations have followed VMMC's lead, but this world class organization still leads in the utilization of innovative Lean tools.

Accelerating Health Care Transformation with Lean and Innovation: The Virginia Mason Experience describes how VMMC has systematically integrated innovative structures, methods, and cultural practices into its implementation of Lean. Describing how your organization can create a strategy and build a culture of innovation...

This book provides an overview of the challenges in electronic health records (EHR) design and implementation along with an introduction to the best practices that have been identified over the past several years. The book examines concerns surrounding EHR use and proposes eight examples of proper EHR use. It discusses the complex strategic planning that accompanies the systemic organizational changes associated with EHR programs and highlights key lessons learned regarding health information including technology errors and risk management concerns.

Im 21. Jahrhundert sind weite Teile der Gesellschaft gepragt von Schlagwortern wie New und Social Economy, Social Web, Crowd Sourcing, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, Google], Pinterest und Co. Die Relevanz einzelner Unternehmen und Unternehmer ruckt in den Hintergrund des Agierens im Internet und dafur nimmt die soziale Komponente der Kommunikation und des vernetzten Denkens in und mit diversen Communities einen wesentlich bedeutenderen Stellenwert ein. Der Erkenntnisgegenstand des Buches fokussiert sich auf die Frage, wie unterschiedliche Personen und Unternehmen mit den Moglichkeiten und...