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This book is a sequel to Business Engineering and Service Design, published by this editorial, which provides the foundations of Business Engineering; it is dedicated to health care, presenting our view of the foundations for the design of institutions that provide such service, general architectures for making designs operative, and many real cases that show how to do formal design and the benefits to be obtained.
About the author
Oscar Barros (PhD, U. of Wisconsin) is full professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the U. of Chile. He created the first group of OR in Chile and the first master in the discipline. He also developed the discipline of IS, including a master on the subject. He is now dedicated to the development of an original methodology for the design of businesses and services, including the creation of the novel and recognized master in business engineering. He also directs an applied research program applying the ideas of BE in health services, which has produced significant impacts on productivity and quality of service. He has written 12 books, with more than 100,000 copies sold, on OR, IS, IT, BP, and BE. He has also published widely in scientific journals.
