Capability Maturity Model

Martha Nussbaum develops a theory based on capabilities to achieve a life full of dignity in Women and cultural universals. The capabilities she selects are meant to direct politics away from being used for survival and move it to achieve full human function where each individual flourish. She states “We want to describe a life in which the dignity of human being is not violated by hunger or fear or absence of opportunity.” (women and cultural universals, page 40). Because of the traditions set…

Discriminating factor analysis (DFA) modeling 5. Improve Phase: a. None 6. Control Phase: a. Case suggests the use of the following in this phase: i. Soft independent modeling class analogy (SIMCA) for good/bad discrimination ii. Partial least square (PLS) models iii. Statistical process charts (SPC) for monitoring process over time For this criterion, because there was no project or goals, the use of important and standard Six Sigma tools and statistical analysis was not warranted. As such,…

Deutsche Allgemeinversicherung (DAV) is using statistical process controls (SPC) due to DAV Kundendienstgruppe (DAKG) having issues with data entry of policyholder’s applications lack of quality and technical issues. One area of customer service that required improvement overall at DAV was the ability to process information and data without mistakes, as well as retrieving it in a timely fashion. In order to do this, DAKG started measuring quality by using Statistical Process Control (SPC), which…

Amgis, a flavors and food additives company has a sudden surge in production due to increase in sales and transfer of production from an affiliate. The company requires additional labor to cope with the sudden increase in production. However, strict labor laws have limited the company to hire permanent employees, and overtime employees and forced them to engage temporary labor to keep the process flowing. The company then had to make arrangements with a third party labor provider and the…

Nussbaum states, “such an approach had better begin close to the ground, looking at life stories, and the human meaning of policy changes for real people” (Nussbaum 2011, 14). The capabilities approach demands one central question according to Nussbaum, “what is each person able to do and be?” (Nussbaum 2011, 18). The capabilities approach was coined jointly by Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize winning economist and philosopher Martha S. Nussbaum. It is both an empirical assessment and also a normative…

Activities (IMA’s) and organizational activities. To satisfy the increase in demand for aircrafts the Goldratt Institute formulated a new organizational style, the Velocity approach which is a combination of speed and direction applied to a business model. It is based on the concepts of Theory of Constraints (TOC) – the system architecture, Strategic Design Activate Improve Sustain (SDAIC) – the deployment framework and Theory of Constraints Lean Six Sigma (TOCLSS) – the focused improvement…

address her situation. Beyond economic measures of well being, there are actual capabilities of people we have to think about. Martha Nussbaum(2011) calls such capabilities as Capability Approach to Human Development. Amartya Sen was the first who pioneered this wheel chaired example and now Nussbaum has applied this approach to issue of justice for poor, disabled and animals(Lamey,2001).According to Nussbaum(2011), Capability approach is a set of human entitlements, similar to human rights, as…

Introduction Despite such advances, challenges remain to ensure patient safety, reduce expenses and streamline workflow. The average operating room runs at only 68% capacity, according to a recent study from the Healthcare Financial Association (HFMA) and the Heath Care Advisory Board. It indicated that improvements targeting even one procedure per day per operating room (OR) suite could translate to an additional $4 million to $7 million in annual revenue for the average-sized organization.…

Fig. 1.1 Time line of lean six sigma 1.2 Literature Review: A lot of existing literature review articles are accessible on the standalone ways of lean methodology and Six Sigma methodology, however accessibility in the coordinated structure is in rare supply. Still a few endeavors have been made by the researchers in the past to arrange and recreate the current situation of LSS. Assarlind et al.[8]studied about the literature analysis of multi faceted view on LSS application. . They also…

Analysis of the used policies and practises To analyse the recruitment and selection process of this organisation, a comparison with available literature must be made. By doing so the differences in the policies of the Bibliotheek Arnhem and the best practises from within the literature will surface – or not if there are none –. After these potential differences are pointed out, a recommendation is given on how to improve these factors. To start off, some of the really strong points of the…