Business Engineering and Service Design with Applications for Health Care Institutions

Business Engineering and Service Design with Applications for Health Care Institutions
Author: Oscar Barros
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2013-10-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1606496271

Business Engineering attempts to provide tools, as other engineering disciplines have, for the design of businesses. This implies that enterprises should be formally designed and that their architectures, including processes, people organization, information systems, IT infrastructure and interactions with customers and suppliers should be considered in a systemic way in such design. This Enterprise Design is not a onetime effort, but, in the dynamic environment we face, organizations have to have the capability to continuously evaluate opportunities to improve their designs. Our approach includes the integrated design of a business, its service configuration (architecture) and capacity planning, the resource management processes and the operating processes. Such an approach is based on general patterns that define service design options and analytical methods that make possible resource optimization to meet demand. This is complemented with technology that allows process execution with BPMN tools and web services over SOA. In summary we integrate the design of a business with analytics and supporting IT tools in giving a sound basis for Business Engineering Our proposal has been extensively tested and improved based on the experience with hundreds of projects in all types of service industries performed at the Master in Business Engineering of the University of Chile. Several of such cases, which have had impressive economics results, are summarized in the text. In particular, we have worked on hospital services, where research and development projects that have been performed in five public hospitals will originate general solutions, summarized in the book, which will eventually be implemented in over a hundred facilities.

Service Design with Applications to Health Care Institutions

Service Design with Applications to Health Care Institutions
Author: Oscar Barros
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2016-12-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1631575716

This book is a sequel to Business Engineering and Service Design, published by this editorial, which provides the foundations of Business Engineering; it is dedicated to health care, presenting our view of the foundations for the design of institutions that provide such service, general architectures for making designs operative, and many real cases that show how to do formal design and the benefits to be obtained.

Business Engineering and Service Design, Second Edition, Volume I

Business Engineering and Service Design, Second Edition, Volume I
Author: Oscar Barros
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1631575694

This book provides the foundations of BE, reviews the disciplines integrated within its methodology, and presents plentiful evidence of its power by giving detailed application cases, including impressive results in private and public situations.

Service Design and Delivery

Service Design and Delivery
Author: Toshiaki Kurokawa
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2015-08-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1606497855

This book explains the design thinking approach both for designing new services and delivering the services. This approach itself can be applied to areas other than pure services, because it contains the innovative and intrinsic ingredients that can be applied to any human activity. The book will cover topics such as mindset and preparation for service design as well as prototyping and testing the service design. Introduction on design thinking is discussed and design thinking toolkits are provided - a useful tool for the reader to implement. Both IDEO's Design Thinking for Educators Toolkit and Innovation Leadership Board's Playbook for Strategic Foresight and Innovation are discussed in detail.

Profiting From Services and Solutions

Profiting From Services and Solutions
Author: Valarie A. Zeithaml
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2014-08-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1606497499

Designed for executives of companies that manufacture or sell products and students in an MBA program, this book outlines the challenges of launching a service and solutions business within a product-oriented organization. You might view services and solutions as a means to financial growth, reduced revenue volatility, greater differentiation from the competition, increased share of customer budget, and improved customer satisfaction, loyalty, and lock-in; but the authors visualize the transition from products sold to services rendered and identify the challenges that leaders will face during the transformation. Inside, the authors provide a framework—the service infusion continuum—to describe the different types of services and solutions that a product-rich company can offer beyond warranties, call centers, and websites that support customers in their use of products.

All Services, All the Time

All Services, All the Time
Author: Doug McDavid
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2015-09-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1631572776

This book takes the position that organizations, such as businesses and government agencies, form a special class of living system. As such, they come into being, live through lifecycle stages, and can experience organizational health and various forms of organizational illness along the way. If the latter is frequent or extended, such organizations often die an untimely death. A services perspective can go a long way to combat this outcome and assist in maintaining organizational health. Allowing this perspective to permeate, an organization induces a consideration of its genuine value and leads to a greater understanding of the breadth of stakeholders who are the beneficiaries of it.

Service and Service Systems

Service and Service Systems
Author: Steve Baron
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2013-12-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1606495771

This text is designed for use in a course in an applied international corporate finance for managers and executives. Instead of the encyclopedic approach, the text focuses on the two main issues of interest to managers who deal with overseas operations. The first main issue is how uncertain foreign exchange (FX) rate changes affect a firm's ongoing cash flows and equity value, and what can be done about that risk. The second main issue is the estimation of the cost of capital for international operations and the evaluation of overseas investment proposals. Numerous examples of real world companies are used.

People, Processes, Services, and Things

People, Processes, Services, and Things
Author: Hazim Dahir
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2015-07-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 163157101X

This book guides the reader through the technological advances, business needs, and societal shifts that drive the Internet of Everything (IoE). IoE offers many benefits to industries and organizations that embrace it, but there are real adoption and success barriers to address and overcome. In many cases, services are the solution because they drive IoE application and impact. The business and technical services need to deliver IoE and realize the promised benefits. Discussions include assisting candidate IoE customers to assess and rank priority gaps in business process insight, strategies to connected things, and ways to wrangle and transform data streams of new things into actionable information. Knowledge of leading practices, organizational values, and sensitivities are keys to successful IoE transformations.

How Can Digital Technologies Improve Public Services and Governance?

How Can Digital Technologies Improve Public Services and Governance?
Author: Nagy K. Hanna
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2017-04-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1631578146

This book considers the opportunities and challenges of harnessing digital technologies for improved public services and governance. It focuses on the challenges of applying digital technologies in developing countries, where dramatic results can be realized. It addresses questions like these: How can digital technologies help enhance transparency, accountability, and participation to improve service design and delivery? Where are the opportunities to enhance key areas of governance and public service delivery? What are the promising practices to strengthen supply and mobilize demand for good governance and service delivery? What are the emerging lessons from recent experience? The author explains with real cases how ICT can be deployed to improve public sector efficiency and accountability for resource management; improve access and quality of public services for citizens; enhance transparency and reduce costs of government-business transactions, support entrepreneurship, attract private investment, and reduce the burden of regulation; and enhance the effectiveness of political oversight and policy institutions. This book details the importance of understanding the social, political, and institutional contexts and the policies that might scale up ICT for governance and public service improvement.

Obtaining Value from Big Data for Service Delivery

Obtaining Value from Big Data for Service Delivery
Author: Stephen H. Kaisler
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2015-12-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1631572237

Big data is an emerging phenomenon that has enormous implications and impacts upon business strategy, profitability, and process improvements. All service systems generate big data these days, especially human-centered service systems. It has been characterized as the collection, analysis and use of data characterized by the five Vs: volume, velocity, variety, veracity, and value (of data). This booklet will help middle, senior, and executive managers to understand what big data is; how to recognize, collect, process, and analyze it; how to store and manage it; how to obtain useful information from it; and how to assess its contribution to operational, tactical, and strategic decision-making in service-oriented organizations.