Quality Management Models and Frameworks

  • EFQM Model: The objective of this model is to achieve results in relation to customer satisfaction, the organization’s own members, and, more generally, by having a positive impact on society. The way to achieve this goal is to maintain leadership in achieving quality, formulate strategies and policies, and design customer-oriented business processes, all based on adequate management of both material and human resources.
  • Benefit: It becomes a very useful tool to set up a process to make periodic
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Information Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Roles, Responsibilities, and Audits

  • Information Security

  • Confidentiality

  • Integrity

  • Availability

  • Tasks to be Completed

    • Definition and Maintenance of Security Policies/Strategies

    • Implementing and Ensuring Compliance to Policies and Procedures

    • Enforce Security Effectively

    • Well-Defined Technical Guidelines and Controls

    • Assurance (Audits and Regular Risk Assessment)

  • Security is Everyone’s Business

  • Management Support

    • Organizational Solutions
    • Financing
    • Education and Training Provided
  • Security Professionals

    • Implement Security Tasks
  • All Employees

    • Are Aware
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Understanding the Importance of Testing

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Secrets of Successful Project Management: 20 Tips and Process Integration

Secrets of Successful Project Management

20 Tips for Project Success

  1. Define Project Success Criteria: At the beginning of the project, ensure all stakeholders share a common understanding of what defines success.
  2. Identify Project Drivers, Constraints, and Degrees of Freedom: Balance functionality, staffing, budget, schedule, and quality objectives. Define each dimension as a constraint, driver, or degree of freedom.
  3. Define Product Release Criteria: Determine the criteria for product release early on,
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Water Classification, Safety, and Quality Assessment

1. Classification of Water by Use and Origin

Hygienic Perspective

Origin:

  • Rain (atmospheric) water
  • Surface water (running, flowing, stagnant)
  • Ocean water
  • Underground water – formed from atmospheric or surface water

Rain Water:

  • Source of all freshwater in the world
  • May be collected directly from roofs and other prepared collection systems and stored in cisterns for later use
  • Quality is reasonable but it may be contaminated by gases and particles (e.g., SO2 or NO2) that are washed out of the atmosphere or
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Evaluating and Developing Theories in Information Systems

Volume 13, Issue 1, pp. 1-30, January 2012

Evaluating and Developing Theories in the Information Systems Discipline

* Cynthia Beath was the accepting senior editor. This article was submitted on 3rd March 2011 and went through two revisions.

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Evaluating and Developing Theories in the Information Systems Discipline

Journal of the Association for Information Systems Vol. 13 Issue 1 pp. 1-30 January 2012

Nothing is as practical as a good theory (Lewin, 1945, p. 129).

1. Introduction

For many researchers,

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