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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QUESTION Running late for his exciting evening law class‚ Sam desperately seeks out a car park in the CBD of Melbourne‚ state of Victoria Australia. He spots the car park operated by Citipark Ltd. Sam drives up a ramp which has raised concrete barriers on either side. As it is rush hour‚ there are a few cars in front of him and soon some more line up behind him. Sam stopped his car at the barrier entrance of the car park which had a mechanical arm preventing cars moving into the parking
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HotOrNot was sold for $20 million‚ how do we justify the price of this acquisition? In order for this acquisition to make logical sense‚ we would have to find out whether the benefits outweigh the costs. It is clear that in HotOrNot case‚ the costs were minimal as there were bandwidth costs in the beginning‚ and this cost would decline and close to zero as time went by. therefore we shall focus on benefit for now. To begin with‚ it is understandable that the sources
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Contents : Abstract : Introduction : History : Concepts : Branches of AI : Artificial Intelligence in fiction : Problems o 7.1 Deduction‚ reasoning‚ problem solving o 7.2 Knowledge representation o 7.3 Planning o 7.4 Learning o 7.5 Motion & manipulation o 7.6 Perception o 7.7 Social intelligence o 7.8 Creativity o 7.9 General intelligence VIII : Tools o 8.1 Search & optimization o 8.2 Logic o 8.3 Probabilistic methods for uncertain reasoning
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has now decided to cash out‚ forcing Natureview to increase sales revenue to $20 million by 2002 in order to position itself at the most attractive value level for acquisition or to attract other venture capitalists’ investment. Although its old business model was successful‚ the pressure now required the company to make a decision between whether to stay in natural foods channel or to enter selected supermarkets. Previously marketed through the natural foods channel‚ Natureview has developed
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An Assignment of Business Ethics & Corporate Governance CASE STUDIES Module I BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY December 3‚ 2009‚ marked the 25th anniversary of the world’s worst ever industrial disaster - the gas leak that occurred at Union Carbide India Ltd’s (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh‚ India). The tragedy that instantly killed more than 3‚000 people and left thousands injured and affected for life‚ occurred when water entered Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) storage tank No. 610
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Stantec Incorporated was a sole proprietorship founded in 1954 in a 250 square foot office in Edmonton by Dr. Don Stanley. It was initially named D.R. Stanley and Associates. In 1955‚ Stanley hired a railway engineer named Herb Roblin and a former chief bridge engineer named Louis Grimble. The company was renamed to Stanley‚ Grimble and Robin Ltd. In 1983‚ Stanley appointed Ron Triffo as president and COO‚ while Stanley retained his role as CEO and chair. The company formed an urban development company
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Marketing intelligence (MI) is the everyday information relevant to a company’s markets‚ gathered and analyzed specifically for the purpose of accurate and confident decision-making in determining market opportunity‚ market penetration strategy‚ and market development metricsMarketing intelligence determines the intelligence needed‚ collects it by searching environment and delivers it to marketing managers who need it. Steps to be taken by a Company to improve its Marketing Intelligence (1) Train
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Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns Ulric Neisser (Chair) Gwyneth Boodoo Thomas J. Bouchard‚ Jr. A. Wade Boykin Nathan Brody Stephen J. Ceci Diane E Halpern John C. Loehlin Robert Perloff Robert J. Sternberg Susana Urbina In the fall of 1994‚ the publication of Herrnstein and Murray ’s book The Bell Curve sparked a new round of debate about the meaning of intelligence test scores and the nature of intelligence. The debate was characterized by strong assertions as well as by strong
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Unit/Module: BUSM1011 Educator: xxx Assessment Name: Academic Essay Assessment Number: 1 Term & Year: Term 1 2014 Word Count: 1983 DECLARATION I declare that this assessment is my own work‚ based on my own personal research/study. I also declare that this assessment‚ nor parts of it‚ has not been previously submitted for any other unit/module or course‚ and that I have not copied in part or whole or otherwise plagiarised the work of another student and/or persons. I have read
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