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Using Conceptual Change to Improve Lean Implementation Quality

Creator:

Mirdad, Waleed K.

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Change initiatives have a 70 percent failure rate, but effective change is necessary if a company is to remain competitive. Current organizational change research around lean process improvement links unsatisfactory implementation results to organizational behaviors, but does not assess how individual cognitive characteristics affect successful lean implementation. Although a range...

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Dissertation

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Chinweike I. Eseonu Change initiatives have a 70 percent failure rate, but effective change is
Investigation of the hospital consumer assessment of healthcare providers and systems survey and its impact on hospital performance

Creator:

Worley, June M.

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In 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began requiring many hospitals in the United States to randomly survey patients who had stayed at least one night in the hospital. The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey provides hospitals with valuable performance measurement data built...

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Dissertation

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. Doolen Chinweike Eseonu
A study of the application of lean practices to new product development processes

Creator:

Choothian, Woraruthai

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The application of lean to new product development (NPD) processes has been claimed to generate positive impact on NPD performance. There are very few empirical studies, however, on how organizations should apply lean practices or on the exact nature of the impact of lean on NPD performance. To further understand...

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Dissertation

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: ______________________________________________________ Toni L. Doolen Chinweike I. Eseonu The application of lean to new