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View article: Starting continuous improvement; creating a common understanding of stroke care delivery in a general hospital
Starting continuous improvement; creating a common understanding of stroke care delivery in a general hospital Open
Background Continuous improvement is based on fostering practitioners’ suggestions to modify their own work processes This improvement strategy is widely applied in healthcare but difficult to maintain. The cross-disciplinary nature of man…
View article: Creating a common understanding of organizational problems across disciplines in hospitals – a case study of stroke care delivery
Creating a common understanding of organizational problems across disciplines in hospitals – a case study of stroke care delivery Open
Background: Research has revealed that a lack of coordination between specialist units reduces the quality of care and leads to a waste of resources. Improved cooperation is necessary to ensure better care delivery, but not easy to achieve…
View article: Automated infection risks assessments (AIRa) for decision-making using a blockchain-based alert system: A case study in a representative building
Automated infection risks assessments (AIRa) for decision-making using a blockchain-based alert system: A case study in a representative building Open
Indoor air quality (IAQ) is an important parameter in protecting the occupants of an indoor environment. Previous studies have shown that an indoor environment with poor ventilation increases airborne virus transmission. Existing research …
View article: Towards a shared vision in innovation projects: Understanding actor involvement as a preventative approach against defensive routines for innovation capability
Towards a shared vision in innovation projects: Understanding actor involvement as a preventative approach against defensive routines for innovation capability Open
This paper is based on the understanding that industrial product innovation projects often emphasize speed and economic accounts of the process without sufficiently considering the human mechanisms that drives the innovation process forwar…
View article: Design for excellence to explore complex product service systems: A case study
Design for excellence to explore complex product service systems: A case study Open
Complexity in new product development is claimed to continuously increase, causing challenges that require new and cross-disciplinary solutions. There are at least three major forces causing upheaval in the way we are designing, engineerin…
View article: Reducing Alert Fatigue by Sharing Low-Level Alerts With Patients and Enhancing Collaborative Decision Making Using Blockchain Technology: Scoping Review and Proposed Framework (MedAlert)
Reducing Alert Fatigue by Sharing Low-Level Alerts With Patients and Enhancing Collaborative Decision Making Using Blockchain Technology: Scoping Review and Proposed Framework (MedAlert) Open
Background Clinical decision support (CDS) is a tool that helps clinicians in decision making by generating clinical alerts to supplement their previous knowledge and experience. However, CDS generates a high volume of irrelevant alerts, r…
View article: The insufficiency of Lean Tradition – Lean meets Kodak Moments
The insufficiency of Lean Tradition – Lean meets Kodak Moments Open
Little attention in the Lean literature has focused on disruptive events and change. However, there is emerging an awareness of the insufficiencies built into this line of thinking and the way it is conducted in practice. The purpose of th…
View article: Blockchain-Enabled Information Sharing Within a Supply Chain: A Systematic Literature Review
Blockchain-Enabled Information Sharing Within a Supply Chain: A Systematic Literature Review Open
A supply chain consists of many stakeholders such as suppliers, carriers and customers. It is often complex due to the rapid development of economic globalization and the intense competition pressure in the market which resulted in informa…
View article: Studying Design Thinking as a Forthcoming Source to Innovation Speed
Studying Design Thinking as a Forthcoming Source to Innovation Speed Open
With complex technology-intense industries follows an ever-increasing need for rapid innovation processes. Yet, innovation speed and the time from idea to product realization can vary and be unpredictable. Design Thinking (DT) is suggested…
View article: Learning factories as laboratories for socio-technical experiments
Learning factories as laboratories for socio-technical experiments Open
Production systems might be viewed as complex socio-technical systems. A central part of socio-technical systems theory, is that improvements demands joint optimization of both the technological and the social parts of the system. Current …
View article: Social mechanisms of performance systems
Social mechanisms of performance systems Open
Production systems have continuously evolved since early attempts to standardise parts, processes and work modes to enhance mass production. This was further refined by the Japanese automotive industry, which has been the global benchmark …
View article: Mechanisms for Manufacturing Systems
Mechanisms for Manufacturing Systems Open
Production systems have continuously evolved since early attempts to standardise parts, processes and work modes to enhance mass production. This was further refined by the Japanese automotive industry, which has been the global benchmark …
View article: Roller Skis Assembly Line Learning Factory – Development and Learning Outcomes
Roller Skis Assembly Line Learning Factory – Development and Learning Outcomes Open
This paper describes the process of creating a learning factory based on an assembly line of roller skis used in order to enhance students’ practical and theoretical knowledge on topics of kaizen, waste types, efficiency, push/pull product…
View article: The Pivoting Problem of Lean
The Pivoting Problem of Lean Open
Modern organizations try to tap into the employees' knowledge, engagement and motivation by introducing informal organization and easily understood tools. These efforts are thought to help the continuous improvement efforts and make the pr…