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Given the increasing importance of human capital in our knowledge-based economy, the business community can gain useful skills, including creativity, while meeting social responsibilities through alliances with arts-oriented nonprofit organizations. [...]

You can't successfully implement a balanced scorecard (BSC) in an organization that doesn't have a well-aligned management system. Alignment links a business's corporate mission, values, vision, and strategy with its [...]

The Balanced Scorecard (BSC), first proposed by Robert Kaplan and David Norton, has emerged as an important strategic management system. The BSC offers organizations an alternative performance measurement system to [...]

The need to gain a competitive edge in a changing global marketplace necessitates the employment of quality training programs which only educators can supply. However, traditional educators seem reluctant to face up to the challenges posed by global developments. A Baldrige Award survey was conducted among recipients of the award in 1994. Survey results indicate four key challenges confronting educators in the US. These include the need for an increased awareness of quality training topics, the reassessment of curriculum, exploration of benchmarking opportunities and proper training.

Bathrooms can present many physical challenges for all family members, but especially for people with disabilities and older adults who have impaired balance and mobility. For good health and well-being [...]

What we all want most in life is the ability to maintain our individual independence, especially performing everyday-living tasks and activities in our homes. New homes can be built and [...]

Back in the early 1950s, after I left the hospital and headed home, I suddenly found myself living in a world filled with major obstacles and challenges I was not [...]

A colleague of mine at Old Dominion University (Martha Walker, associate professor of physical therapy) has written one of the most eloquent letters about alternative medicine that I have seen. [...]