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	Focused Improvement Systems A development of TQM and Kaizen
		The aim of this document is to outline how a Focused Improvement System should be implemented at all levels of an organisation, to support the mission and objectives of the organisation.
		A Focused Improvement system should be unique to the organisation or business unit being measured, reflecting critical success factors and business processes.
		The Focused Improvement system will be a major stimulus for improvement provided that challenging but realistic targets are set, action is taken on the information provided and employees are motivated to improve.
	www.smthacker.co.uk /focused_improvement_system.htm (4078 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Focused improvement
		Focused improvement in theory of constraints is the ensemble of activities aimed at elevating the performance of any system, especially a business system, with respect to its goal by eliminating its constraints one by one and by not working on non-constraints.
		The method to achieve focused improvement is the use of the five thinking processes.
		Most of the popular performance improvement methods, such as TQM or reengineering, are not focused improvement methods, i.e.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Focused-improvement (258 words)

	Software Dioxide: Focused Improvement (Site not responding. Last check: )
		King provides a template for an improvement project which can be used to justify a project, build consensus on basic project parameters, set expectations on schedule and cost, provide tracking baselines, and list project goals and measurements.
		Improvement projects have no direct product to sell, but there is still a real, measurable benefit such as a decrease in rework costs or an increase in productivity.
		Debra explains how her team first focused on providing a standardized way to install software as installation was taking her team a lot of time.
	www.softwaredioxide.com /Channels/ConView.asp?id=7026 (879 words)

	NCATE - public - Accreditation Decisions after the First Visit
		In instances in which the Unit Accreditation Board requests a focused visit, the visit must be scheduled by the institution and must take place within two years of the date of the provisional or conditional decision.
		The focused institutional report is similar to a regular institutional report in that it contains an overview of the institution and a description of the unit’s conceptual framework.
		At least three BOE members are assigned to a team for a focused visit, with the size of the team dependent on the number of standards to be examined, the previously unmet standard(s), and the size and complexity of the unit.
	www.ncate.org /public/guidelinesFocusedVisit.asp?ch=115 (791 words)

	Academic Quality Improvement Program - AQIP Home
		The Academic Quality Improvement Program stands ready to help AQIP colleges and universities gain the attention and recognition they deserve for their commitment to continuous quality improvement.
		Lean is fashionable, both in manufacturing and service enterprises, and so more and more organizations are focusing on their value chains, making sure every activity they perform contributes to the value their stakeholders derive from their produces or services.
		AQIP has long focused attention on both the design of key institutional processes and the measurement of their performance as ways of improving value.
	www.aqip.org (608 words)

	Focused improvement - Definition, explanation
		Focused on genetic improvement, sustainable management and resource protection conducts pertaining to...
		as a place where full concentration can be focused on the improvement of coaching and performance in a wide range...
		Neighborhood council is focused on commercial revitalization of South Robertson Boulevard and the improvement of safety and the quality of life within...
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/f/fo/focused_improvement.php (500 words)

	Online Quality Resource Guide by John Hunter
		Curious Cat Management Improvement Connections offers a topical directory of management improvement related sites: Deming, lean manufacturing, design of experiments, health care, six sigma, SPC and more.
		Institute for Healthcare Improvement - Donald M. Berwick, President and CEO.
		Sustained Continuous Improvement for Better Schools by Ivan Webb, Australia.
	deming.eng.clemson.edu /onlineq.html (752 words)

	Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Introduction to Trigger Tools for Identifying Adverse Events
		This tool can be used to collect data on that type of harm only and is helpful when working on improvements to medication systems.
		In both cases, data on medication harm can be collected from the same medical records that are used for the IHI Global Trigger Tool harm measure (i.e., there is no need to obtain a second set of records).
		Intensive review using a subset of triggers can be very helpful, such as anticoagulant-related harm in medications, and may be used for very focused improvement efforts.
	www.ihi.org /IHI/Topics/PatientSafety/SafetyGeneral/Tools/IntrotoTriggerToolsforIdentifyingAEs.htm (974 words)

	Wisconsin Continuous Improvement Focused Monitoring System
		As the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Amendments of 1997 placed greater emphasis on results for children with disabilities, the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) has been refocusing its monitoring of States to place a greater emphasis on performance and lessen the emphasis on process.
		Wisconsin is now developing a Continuous Improvement and Focused Monitoring System (CIFMS) that incorporates the most effective elements of continuous improvement and focused monitoring as described by OSEP.
		The purpose of this new system is to achieve positive results for children with disabilities in Wisconsin while ensuring continued procedural compliance with state and federal laws and regulations.
	www.dpi.state.wi.us /sped/cifms.html (312 words)

	FranklinCovey > Solutions for your Business > The Empowered Learning Model: A Process for Unbeatable Performance ...
		Real performance improvement requires that we spend the appropriate amount of time and energy in each stage of the process.
		When people are brought together in a focused environment, new levels of knowledge and energy emerge that could not have been created otherwise.
		The Perform stage focuses on the return to the work environment and the effective implementation of knowledge and skills.
	www.franklincovey.com /forbusiness/facilitator/elm/section1/4.html (711 words)

	CIMRO - FOCUSED QUALITY STUDIES
		CIMRO conducts focused quality studies as part of our commitment to continuous quality improvement.
		A focused quality study requires a clearly defined study question, specific indicators to be monitored and evaluated, standards against which to compare data and a method for analyzing results.
		Improvement in adherence to clinical guidelines has been realized in all follow-up results.
	www.cimro.com /focused.htm (102 words)

	Clear Focus Strategic Planning
		Unlike most improvement efforts, the Theory of Constraints (TOC) provides organizations with common sense solutions and methodologies that enable the parts of an organization to synchronize themselves around achieving the greatest benefit for the organization as a whole; to clearly focus on global performance, rather than local performance.
		Just as a physician diagnosing the disease causing many of a patient's symptoms, the facilitator and your organization's key players use cause and effect to identify and reach consensus on the core problem causing many of the symptoms existing throughout your organization.
		An experienced TOC practitioner from Focused Performance is prepared to present either a half- or one-day "First Focus" introduction to your organization's key players and decision makers.
	focusedperformance.com /clearfocus.html (1313 words)

	Customer Focused Process Improvement - Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Too often process improvement books and articles focus on techniques, not on the fundamental process of achieving competitive advantage by satisfying customers at lower cost.
		Process improvement is prevention-oriented: you change the way you operate to keep failure and waste from happening.
		Improvement comes through many small but cumulatively powerful steps rather than through large, highly visible changes.
	wso.williams.edu:8000 /~dredmond/lochridge/cfpi_chapter1.htm (1741 words)

	Accountability: leading for learning (Site not responding. Last check: )
		is a framework for district improvement planning developed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE), in collaboration with school districts and professional educational associations that participated in the design and pilot phases of this planning process.
		Improvement Targets for the Planning Cycle — A summary of the 2005-06 improvement targets already predefined for every district in the state.
		An effective district improvement plan ought to be an outcome of discussion and reflection among all stakeholders including the community.
	www.pde.state.pa.us /pas/cwp/view.asp?a=3&q=106508&pasNav=\|6354\|&pasNav=\|6336\| (1039 words)

	Making the Tactical Case for Process Improvement
		Process improvement is a long-term strategic investment, and it is often hard to justify to managers whose principal focus is short term.
		We start on the assumption that you are in an organization where the management is focused on tactical issues and where nobody, at least nobody at a senior level, is willing to look beyond the current month or quarter.
		In picking improvement efforts, concentrate on activities that are low cost, can be implemented by one or two projects, will produce immediate measurable results, and will attract strong project support.
	www.sei.cmu.edu /news-at-sei/columns/watts_new/2000/spring/watts-spring00.htm (2518 words)

	Dealing with speed loss Journal for Quality and Participation, The - Find Articles
		This method is called "focused" because it focuses on a particular type of loss.
		Also, it is intensively focused activity that a TPM team may set aside for an entire day or week.
		It is "improvement" because it goes beyond maintenance of basic operating conditions to directly improve the equipment performance or capability.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3616/is_199905/ai_n8829748 (901 words)

	TCMG - Focused Improvements
		Focused improvement projects can be straight forward or extremely complex.
		Type I focused improvement projects can be executed within an individual department without the assistance, sharing of information, or modification of another department’s processes.
		Type II focused improvement projects require the input, collaboration, and cooperation among two or more departments.
	www.tcmg.net /focusedimp.htm (224 words)

	CRC Press Online
		Focused Quality: Managing for Results is a book about using quality improvement as a means to enhance bottom line results.
		Focused Quality: Managing for Results not only shows you how to do an assessment but also how to apply the results to improve the bottom line.
		This valuable new book provides quality improvement teams, and their leaders, with a comprehensive set of tools and techniques to solve problems and improve processes in their organizations.
	www.crcpress.com /shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=SL5182&parent_id=797&pc= (438 words)

	ASAP>Accreditation
		Provisional accreditation status, if the school meets the requirements for accreditation and the school is placed in the academic watch (priority) category of school improvement and performance, with review conducted at least annually after the state board's determination of provisional accreditation.
		If a school is accorded provisional accreditation status or probation accreditation status for failure to comply with legal standards, the state board and department notes that the status was accorded for a reason other than school performance.
		If the accreditation status of a nonpublic school is revoked, the school may not seek accreditation until the school year in which the school normally would have been reviewed had the school been accorded full accreditation status rather than probationary accreditation status.
	ideanet.doe.state.in.us /asap/accreditation2.html (969 words)

	Quality Digest Magazine
		Similarly, in the case of Six Sigma, performance improvement implies financial improvement that can be adversely affected by many factors unrelated to the methodology.
		Organizations need to have a better understanding of their strengths, a better-defined improvement initiative, direct measurements to drive improvement, effective methods of communicating improvement and an effective plan for continuous improvement.
		Focusing on improvement will create a more exciting environment, and lead to employee engagement and a forward-moving, growing organization.
	www.qualitydigest.com /currentmag/articles/04_article.shtml (1973 words)

	Process Improvement
		The improvement methodology was tied to the strategic plan so that the most critical processes could be identified and improved.
		Participants learn a systematic methodology for making improvements, practice the method on key business issues, and achieve success within the 8-12 weeks of the course.
		Our Jumpstart Improvement Training has 12 modular training manuals that may be ordered individually at $15 each or as a set for $150.
	www.rx-business.com /nf_process.shtml (451 words)

	American Association of School Administrators - Publications - The School Administrator - Organizational Health
		Based on what they learned from the organizational health instrument data and focused on district and school goals, a committee of teachers, working with the principal, developed action plans for improvement that were implemented through the remainder of the year.
		Each school developed its own goals for improvement based on the results of the inventory at the school level as well as the overall district goals.
		A key factor to our success is that we have the data to support improvement goals and we have a structured way to address issues rather than leaving them to fester.
	www.aasa.org /publications/saarticledetail.cfm?mnitemnumber=&tnitemnumber=1995&itemnumber=2916&unitemnumber=&pf=1&snitemnumber=950 (1304 words)

	Continuous Improvement
		Total quality management is the commitment of an organization to the management philosophy which defines and aligns its vision, values, systems and mission and focuses them on delivering to the customer products and services which meet or exceed expectations.
		This is achieved through a never-ending process of continuous improvement which is customer focused, management controlled and employee supported.
		It is designed to establish commitment and assist senior management in determining what quality improvement objectives should be focused on.
	www.sos-houston.com /continuous_improvement.htm (437 words)

	Making improvement happen
		This section will outline the general principles of improvement and what making improvement happen is all about, including the common hazards to avoid.
		Think of improvement as a journey, where you have to develop a clear view of your destination and a route-map to guide you along the way.
		Improvement happens at different levels – corporate, service and personal – and often at the same time.
	www.improvementnetwork.gov.uk /imp/core/page.do?pageId=10044 (583 words)

	Washington State Pharmacist Quality Improvement Project (PQIP)
		PQIP(PowerPoint presentation) is a statewide, pharmacist-led quality improvement project focused on improving care for patients with cardiovascular conditions.
		Improvement was seen in most indicators (aspirin and beta blocker use), however the most significant gains were realized in those with lower baseline adherence rates (ACE-inhibitor and lipid-lowering agent prescribing and smoking cessation interventions).
		Other benefits included education and enhanced awareness of pharmacists around quality improvement tools and techniques as well as the creation of a network for future pharmacist-led quality improvement projects.
	www.ashp.org /2015/ss/PQIP.cfm (198 words)

	ISPI - Results Focused Organization 2006 Fall Symposium
		Internationally recognized experts in the fields of performance improvement, management, and culture change lead the sessions and make themselves available for further conversation with participants throughout the three days.
		Attendance is a must for anyone in the fields of performance improvement, quality initiatives, business process improvement, strategic HR applications, training, organizational effectiveness, and marketplace performance.
		An ISPI Clinic is a brief instructional session on a specific topic in which a performance improvement expert provides practical information, instruction, and advice for improving techniques and solving problems.
	www.ispi.org /Fall2006/op/default.htm (412 words)

	S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine for Treatment of Depression, Osteoarthritis, and Liver Disease: Summary of Evidence ...
		Of these 102 studies, 47 focused on depression, 14 focused on osteoarthritis, and 41 focused on liver disease (all conditions).
		Compared to placebo, treatment with SAMe was associated with an improvement of approximately 6 points in the score of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression measured at 3 weeks (95 percent CI [2.2, 9.0]).
		This degree of improvement is statistically as well as clinically significant and is equivalent to a partial response to treatment.
	www.ahrq.gov /clinic/epcsums/samesum.htm (1641 words)

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