This study asserted that quality improvement (QI) requires the coexistence of two cultural values of innovation and attention to detail and proposed that their coexistence depends on the implementation of multiple QI practices. A longitudinal QI intervention, with five phases, consisting of...

Eilon and Christofides (E & C), in their paper on "The Loading Problem" [Eilon, S., N. Christofides. 1971. The loading problem. Management Sci. 17(5, January) 259-268.], suggest a solution using a heuristic algorithm. In this note we would like to present a simpler heuristic algorithm which is...