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Performance dashboards
\"Tips, techniques, and trends on harnessing dashboard technology to optimize business performance In Performance Dashboards, Second Edition, author Wayne Eckerson explains what dashboards are, where they can be used, and why they are important to measuring and managing performance. As Director of Research for The Data Warehousing Institute, a worldwide association of business intelligence professionals, Eckerson interviewed dozens of organizations that have built various types of performance dashboards in different industries and lines of business. Their practical insights explore how you can effectively turbo-charge performance-management initiatives with dashboard technology. Includes all-new case studies, industry research, news chapters on \"Architecting Performance Dashboards\" and \"Launching and Managing the Project\" and updated information on designing KPIs, designing dashboard displays, integrating dashboards, and types of dashboards. Provides a solid foundation for understanding performance dashboards, business intelligence, and performance management. Addresses the next generation of performance dashboards, such as Mashboards and Visual Discovery tools, and including new techniques for designing dashboards and developing key performance indicators. Offers guidance on how to incorporate predictive analytics, what-if modeling, collaboration, and advanced visualization techniques. This updated book, which is 75% rewritten, provides a foundation for understanding performance dashboards, business intelligence, and performance management to optimize performance and accelerate results.\"--
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Juran's quality essentials : for leaders
\"Dr. Juran's life work on quality--boiled down to a concise guide to creating a strong, successful, globally competitive enterprise Dr. Joseph Juran was a true visionary in the field of quality, and his words continue to inspire. One of his main mantras was \"Take care of the quality, and the rest will take care of itself.\" This work is devoted to just that--taking care of the quality. In it, the Juran Institute team presents the leadership values, beliefs, and actions of top companies, and identifies the strategies that have resulted in measurable success. Juran's Quality Essentials offers succinct, field-tested methods applicable to any industry, from service to manufacturing, and includes realistic timetables of implementation. This unique resource describes three universal quality management methods: 1. designing innovative products and services; 2. creating breakthroughs in current performance; and 3. assuring repeatable and compliant processes. Reveals how to align quality goals and methods to a company's strategic plan Provides a transformation model and roadmap Demonstrates how executive leadership is the key to a company's quality revolution--and how to make quality happen. Filled with insider tips for staying adaptable and using a benchmark to sustain performance Shows how to apply planning, control, and improvement to quality leadership for competitive advantage \"-- Provided by publisher.
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How can we recognize continuous quality improvement?
Objective. Continuous quality improvement (CQI) methods are foundational approaches to improving healthcare delivery. Publications using the term CQI, however, are methodologically heterogeneous, and labels other than CQI are used to signify relevant approaches. Standards for identifying the use of CQI based on its key methodological features could enable more effective learning across quality improvement (QI) efforts. The objective was to identify essential methodological features for recognizing CQI. Design. Previous work with a 12-member international expert panel identified reliably abstracted CQI methodological features. We tested which features met rigorous a priori standards as essential features of CQI using a three-phase online modified-Delphi process. Setting. Primarily United States and Canada. Participants. 119 QI experts randomly assigned into four on-line panels. Intervention(s). Participants rated CQI features and discussed their answers using online, anonymous and asynchronous discussion boards. We analyzed ratings quantitatively and discussion threads qualitatively. Main outcome measure(s). Panel consensus on definitional CQI features. Results. Seventy-nine (66%) panelists completed the process. Thirty-three completers self-identified as QI researchers, 18 as QI practitioners and 28 as both equally. The features 'systematic data guided activities,' 'designing with local conditions in mind' and 'iterative development and testing' met a priori standards as essential CQI features. Qualitative analyses showed cross-cutting themes focused on differences between QI and CQI. Conclusions. We found consensus among a broad group of CQI researchers and practitioners on three features as essential for identifying QI work more specifically as 'CQI.' All three features are needed as a minimum standard for recognizing CQI methods.
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