Search PubMed⌕ Search
Home/Archive/PubMed

PubMed · 10178549

Structured problem solving for materiel managers.

Q B Samelson
View original source ↗Export metadata ↓

Abstract

A structured approach to problem solving and solution documentation is one of the keys to continuous improvement. Without it, it is quite possible to solve the wrong problem, to solve the right problem in the wrong way, or (maybe worst of all) to solve the same problem over and over again. Companies that have figured out how to solve the right problems in the right way, once and for all, will ultimately move forward much faster than their competitors.

Explore related subjects

Guidelines as TopicHumansInstitutional Management TeamsMaterials Management, HospitalOrganizational InnovationProblem SolvingTotal Quality ManagementUnited StatesJournal Article

Keep this discovery

Explore connections, maps & timelines

BibTeXRIS

Q B Samelson. 1998. Structured problem solving for materiel managers.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10178549/

Cite the original work for its findings. Save a collection to share your selection of sources.

KEEP EXPLORING

Related citations

PubMed1999

[Influenza season 1998/99; composition of vaccine for 1999/2000].

The first indication of influenza activity in the Netherlands in the 1998/'99 season was the isolation of an influenza B virus in week 47 of 1998. In subsequent weeks influenza activity slowly increased, reaching a peak in week 6 of 1999. After a gradual decline for three weeks a second peak was reached in week 8 of 1999. The first wave of influenza activity was primarily caused by influenza B viruses, whereas during the second wave predominantly influenza A viruses of the A/H3N2 subtype were isolated. The antigenic properties of the influenza A viruses resembled those of the viruses isolated in the previous season and the vaccine strain A/Sydney/5/97. The influenza B viruses did not completely match with B/Harbin/7/94 which is most commonly used for vaccine production. The vaccine, however, did provide good protection against the epidemic strains of influenza. This season influenza A/H1N1 viruses did not play a significant part and only a small number of viruses of this subtype were isolated at the end of the season. For the influenza season 1999/2000 it is recommended by the World Health Organization that the vaccines contain the following (or similar) virus strains: A/Sydney/5/97 (H3N2), A/Beijing/262/95 (H1N1) and B/Beijing/184/93.

Guidelines as Topic↗