BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING AT THE HOSPITALS: A CASE STUDY AT SINGAPORE HOSPITAL Arun Kumar and Linet Ozdamar School of Mechanical & Production Engineering Nanyang Technological University 50 Nanyang Avenue‚ SINGAPORE-639798 Email: makumar@ntu.edu.sg KEYWORDS Business process reengineering‚ Healthcare. ABSTRACT As health care costs increase‚ there is a need for healthcare service providers to look for ways to contain costs and to achieve a higher efficiency at their operating facilities without
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A production concept is the oldest of the concepts in business. Business concerned itself primarily with production‚ manufacturing‚ and efficiency issues. It holds that consumers will prefer products that are widely available and inexpensive. Managers focusing on this concept concentrate on achieving high production efficiency‚ low costs‚ and mass distribution. They assume that consumers are primarily interested in product availability and low prices. This orientation makes sense in developing countries
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WHAT IS HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING (HIP)? People are active‚ dynamic systems capable of great flexibility in the ways they choose to handle and transform information. From the HIP perspective‚ the human mind is understood as a system that processes incoming information from the environment. HIP is an abstraction of the set of processes involved in several aspects of human behavior including problem solving and decision making in both everyday and professional environments. This system can
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CASE STUDY : Multinational Outsourcing and CSR. Inditex: The worldwide outsourcing garment industry and social community development in Morocco “Intermón claims that pressures on foreign clothing suppliers are smothering employees. […] In Morocco‚ where Cortefiel‚ Inditex (Zara)‚ Mango and Induyco (El Corte Inglés) manufacture their products‚ a Tangier based textile factory sold a pair of slacks to large Spanish retailers for 3.3 euros three years ago; today‚ the same item sells for 2 euros
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Transaction Processing Systems Definition: A Transaction Processing System (TPS) is a type of information system that collects‚ stores‚ modifies and retrieves the data transactions of an enterprise. A transaction is any event that passes the ACID test in which data is generated or modified before storage in an information system Features of Transaction Processing Systems The success of commercial enterprises depends on the reliable processing of transactions to ensure that customer
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Financial Accounts The Assignment Liam O’Brady owns a business selling musical instruments. The following trial balance has been extracted from the books of account at 31 October 2012. Dr Cr £ £ Bank balance 19281 Capital balance as at 1 November 2011 61489 Carriage inwards 480 Carriage outwards 2110 Discounts 664 811 Drawings 28650 Fixtures and fittings – at cost 62200 Fixtures and fitting – provision for depreciation
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McDonald’s in it business operations for the three functions:-1) development of the workman and the scientific education2) the method of performing every job3) and the system of rewardingSo that they can meet the goals 7. TRAINING The scientific training is also one considered to be one of the important principles in the scientific management. The company also has the strong tradition and belief that the training have known for their values as the bottom line for their business. There is also
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Sending jobs to lower wage countries‚ known as offshore outsourcing‚ is becoming a more popular practice amongst U.S. companies seeking for ways to cut back on operating costs. The idea of outsourcing has become highly emotional because of two dramatically different effects: it leads to layoffs and dislocations for thousands of workers‚ although most economists say it will strengthen the U.S. economy. Well-educated workers overseas are willing to work for one-tenth of the wages paid to Americans
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What makes a good team leader – P3 In this task I am going to talk you about what makes a good leader. This is because in order to succeed every team must have a good team leader. Each leader might have a different way of working depending on the type of job they have. A team leader is a role that is needed in any team for it to become successful and meet its main aims and objectives‚ this is because they are very reliable‚ confident and provide the team with knowledge and delegate effectively
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transaction data is an important middle management activity in any business process. Transaction processing is often the core of most major activities in organizations and the systems that collect this data often support other systems that might be decision support‚ management information or executive information. Transaction processing is supported by programs that are called transaction processing systems. 1 . Transaction Processing System is an organized collection of people‚ procedures‚ databases
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