Proposta de um modelo de benchmarking para a unidade de negócios da Petrobrás na Bacia de Campos

Propõe um modelo de Benchmarking para uma Unidade de Negócios da Petrobrás baseado em uma ampla pesquisa bibliográfica sobre o tema e com ênfase na prevenção de falhas que normalmente comprometem a eficácia das iniciativas de benchmarking. O modelo aborda desde as etapas iniciais de preparação da empresa pela alta administração, passando pela identificação e pnonzação das oportunidades de benchmarking, pela constituição e treinamento da equipe de benchmarking, pelo benchmarking interno e pelo autoconhecimento dos seus próprios processos, pela investigação e descoberta das melhores práticas onde quer que estejam, pela aprovação e implantação dos projetos de melhoria, pela atualização sistemática dos referenciais de desempenho, chegando até a avaliação das ações de melhoria implantadas e do próprio processo de benchmarking.

Benchmarking the plan of action of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Latin America and the Caribbean (version 3.0)

Includes bibliography

Benchmarking nos processos de gestão de qualidade entre dois serviços de hemmoterapia

Pós-graduação em Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (Biotecnologia Médica) - FMB

Benchmarking sustainable urban mobility: The case of Curitiba, Brazil

Transportation planning is currently being confronted with a broader planning view, which is given by the concept of mobility. The Index of Sustainable Urban Mobility (I_SUM) is among the tools developed for supporting this new concept implementation. It is a tool to assess the current mobility conditions of any city, which can also be applied for policy formulation. This study focus on the application of I_SUM in the city of Curitiba, Brazil. Considering that the city is known worldwide as a reference of successful urban and transportation planning, the index application must confirm it. An additional objective of the study was to evaluate the index itself, or the subjacent assessment method and reference values. A global I_SUM value of 0.747 confirmed that the city has indeed very positive characteristics regarding sustainable mobility policies. However, some deficiencies were also detected, particularly with respect to non-motorized transport modes. The application has also served to show that a few I_SUM indicators were not able to capture some of the positive aspects of the city, what may suggest the need of changes in their formulation. Finally, the index application in parts of the city suggests that the city provides fair and equitable mobility conditions to all citizens throughout the city. This is certainly a good attribute for becoming a benchmark of sustainable mobility, even if it is not yet the ideal model. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Analisi e Benchmarking del Sistema HIVE

E' stata effettuata l'analisi del sistema HIVE su piattaforma Hadoop (installato su un cluster) e sfruttando il benchmark TPC-H ne sono stati valutati i tempi di esecuzione delle query modificando la size del database e il formato di memorizzazione dei file: si è utilizzato il formato standard (AVRO) di tipo sequenziale e il formato PARQUET che memorizza i dati per colonna invece che per riga.

Benchmarking in the SWISSspine registry: results of 52 Dynardi lumbar total disc replacements compared with the data pool of 431 other lumbar disc prostheses

The SWISSspine registry is the first mandatory registry of its kind in the history of Swiss orthopaedics and it follows the principle of "coverage with evidence development". Its goal is the generation of evidence for a decision by the Swiss federal office of health about reimbursement of the concerned technologies and treatments by the basic health insurance of Switzerland. Recently, developed and clinically implemented, the Dynardi total disc arthroplasty (TDA) accounted for 10% of the implanted lumbar TDAs in the registry. We compared the outcomes of patients treated with Dynardi to those of the recipients of the other TDAs in the registry. Between March 2005 and October 2009, 483 patients with single-level TDA were documented in the registry. The 52 patients with a single Dynardi lumbar disc prosthesis implanted by two surgeons (CE and OS) were compared to the 431 patients who received one of the other prostheses. Data were collected in a prospective, observational multicenter mode. Surgery, implant, 3-month, 1-year, and 2-year follow-up forms as well as comorbidity, NASS and EQ-5D questionnaires were collected. For statistical analyses, the Wilcoxon signed-rank test and chi-square test were used. Multivariate regression analyses were also performed. Significant and clinically relevant reduction of low back pain and leg pain as well as improvement in quality of life was seen in both groups (P < 0.001 postop vs. preop). There were no inter-group differences regarding postoperative pain levels, intraoperative and follow-up complications or revision procedures with a new hospitalization. However, significantly more Dynardi patients achieved a minimum clinically relevant low back pain alleviation of 18 VAS points and a quality of life improvement of 0.25 EQ-5D points. The patients with Dynardi prosthesis showed a similar outcome to patients receiving the other TDAs in terms of postoperative low back and leg pain, complications, and revision procedures. A higher likelihood for achieving a minimum clinically relevant improvement of low back pain and quality of life in Dynardi patients was observed. This difference might be due to the large number of surgeons using other TDAs compared to only two surgeons using the Dynardi TDA, with corresponding variations in patient selection, patient-physician interaction and other factors, which cannot be assessed in a registry study.