Innovation Telephone Seminars

Effective Quality Control and Quality Assurance ... materials. Energy savings are driving a good bit of this innovation. Second, delivery of these complex buildings is during an era of increasingly tight fees for architects/engineers and competitive pricing for contractors. Both the design and the construction community are challenged to deliver a quality product for their clients and still maintain some reasonable profit. Presented by two  more...

Best Practices in Performance-Based Service Procurement ...tions for unsatisfactory efforts. It creates competition, innovation and efficiency, as well as improved customer and bottom line satisfaction. The buying organization actually gets what it pays for and suppliers are required to perform to standards. If not, they should be made to re-perform at supplier expense. This teleconference is designed for purchasing managers, material managers,  more...

Product Development Metrics for Manufacturers: Measuring Your Productivity ...e professionals resist measurement citing that it reduces innovation and invention. R D and product development measurement practices have not changed significantly over the past 30 years, while other business functions have undergone transformations. Globalization, business alliances and the need for improved organic innovation to gain strategic advantage are driving significant changes in  more...

Health Information Exchange: The Impact of the Stimulus Code ...nature of the current way that we exchange data restricts innovation for improved quality and improved population health. Yet, the health care industry is slowly being transformed and health care institutions are merging and acquiring other care institutions. Medical records directors, health information directors, coders, business managers, office managers, nurses, hospital administrators,  more...

Maximizing Innovation and Design Process Credits for LEED. Certification ... practices, including both system technologies and design innovations, which may qualify under the Innovation and Design Process section. The IDP section and qualifications policy has been reworked under the 2009 revisions to the LEED® program. n nThe information in this teleconference is important to anyone involved with major green building projects and is useful for building professionals  more...