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Record W2082750675 · doi:10.1108/13683040310466681

Musings on integrated management systems

2003· article· en· W2082750675 on OpenAlexaff
Stanislav Karapetrović

Bibliographic record

VenueMeasuring Business Excellence · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicQuality and Management Systems
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceProcess managementExcellenceQuality (philosophy)Set (abstract data type)Quality management systemMeaning (existential)Management systemEngineering managementRisk analysis (engineering)Knowledge managementQuality managementBusinessOperations managementEngineering

Abstract

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Because of the avalanche of management system standards for business functions ranging from quality and environment to corporate social responsibility, integration of management systems that these standards describe has become a popular topic of research and practice. This paper provides a summary of the most important issues regarding integrated management systems (IMS), including the main problem, the reasons behind it, the differing routes toward a solution, and the meaning of the solution itself. The overwhelming need for a solution points in the direction of a methodology for the integration of internal management systems, not an integrated standard. This paper illustrates one such methodology, and applies it to provide a foundation for and guide the construction of an IMS. Finally, it is argued that the future of IMS rests with the extension of its minimalistic requirements towards a set of comprehensive criteria able to steer the delivery of excellence to all stakeholders.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.043

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0040.019
Scholarly communication0.0090.014
Open science0.0010.008
Research integrity0.0040.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.047
GPT teacher head0.209
Teacher spread0.162 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2003
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