Operations Management

Operations Management is about how organisations produce or deliver the goods and services that provide the reason for their existence. Operations can be seen as one of many functions (e.g. marketing, finance, personnel) within the organisation. The operations function can be described as that part of the organisation devoted to the production or delivery of goods and services. This means all o…

Interim Review of the Subsonic Assessment Project MANAGEMENT, SCIENCE, AND GOALS

Exhaust products emitted by the current subsonic-transport fleet may influence tropospheric ozone and clouds, and thus Earth’s climate. Such emissions in the upper troposphere may affect climate at the surface of the Earth by means of many chemical and meteorological processes. Some of these processes are poorly understood, and thus cannot be quantified with much certainty. NASA’s Atmo- …

Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation: Methods and Tools for Poverty and Inequ…

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The Dragon and the Elephant: Understanding the Development of Innovation Capa…

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General Insurance Fundamentals

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Investor Exits, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Firm Growth: Questions for Re…

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Approaches to Reducing the Use of Forced or Child Labor: Summary of a Worksho…

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Principles of Institutional Economics -with Applications to Cooperative Enter…

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THE ECONOMICS OF COMMUNISM

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Structure and Dynamics of Information in Networks

This course is about the interplay between link network structure and information. There are two natural ways in which these can interact: The information can spread by using the edges of the network, or the network itself can be (part of) the information to be analyzed. Naturally, these two views are not mutually exclusive: often, we will want to analyze networks whose function it is to spread…

The Global Risks Report 2016: 11th Edition

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Putting Distribution Back at the Center of Economics: Reflections on Capital …

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For-Profit Enterprise in Health Care

For-Profit Enterprise in Health Care was stimulated by concerns among members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and others that health services—already heavily dependent on monetary transactions through prepayment and insurance—will become excessively commercialized, with growing ownership by stockholders. The issues closely associated with these concerns are examined in depth in this repo…

Family Economics

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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

There’s a lot of excitement about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Optimists claim that Bitcoin will fundamentally alter payments, economics, and even politics around the world. Pessimists claim Bitcoin is inherently broken and will suffer an inevitable and spectacular collapse. Underlying these differing views is significant confusion about what Bitcoin is and how it works. We wrote this book …

A Guide to EPR

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MANAGEMENT INFORMATION FOR THE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY (MIEL) PROGRAMME

The Management Information Systems and Performance Measurement for the Electronic Library project was part-funded by JISC under the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) as a Supporting Study. The contractor, the Centre for Research in Library & Information Management at the University of Central Lancashire, undertook the work as part of its Management Information for the Electronic Library…

Progress in Improving Project Management at the Department of Energy

This report is the second in a series of three annual assessments of project management at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The first annual report assessed progress through mid-2001 (NRC, 2001b), and this report continues the assessment through October 2002. The assessments are being made by the National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Committee for Oversight and Assessment of U.S. Departm…

Berliner Balanced Scorecard: Employee Perspective

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Essentials of Management Information Systems

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I NTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT I N THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY

If any phrase characterizes the hospitality and tourism industry today it would probably be “constantly changing.” Worldwide recessionary conditions, globalization, industry-wide focus on sustainability and corporate responsibility are just some of the forces converging and resulting in widespread change. The result is an industry that requires future leaders in hospitality and tourism …

Approaches to strengthening health information systems

The focus of this book has been on routine health unit-based information systems. Routine health information systems, more than nonroutine methods such as surveys or rapid assessment methods, are the main data source in most countries. Yet they have the infamous reputation for producing a plethora of irrelevant or low-quality data. Therefore, most health managers, as a rule, do not use the…

Project Management

Projects are, more than ever, a fact of life for voluntary organisations. Changing patterns of funding, particularly the impact of the Community Fund, mean that it is becoming ever more common for agencies to develop their work and secure funding by developing specific projects. Funders in their turn are asking for details of how projects will be managed, with some beginning to expect agencies …

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

The business application of Management Information System has expanded significantly over the years. Technology advances have increased both the availability and volume of information for managers and the decision makers for both planning and execution. Decision makers require information to assess and monitor performance at all levels of the organisation. The new role focused on developing bus…

Risk Management Training

The purpose of risk management training is to raise basic awareness of risk management concepts and mechanisms, to enable participants to identify and manage risks in their own units and to strengthen project management through adequate forward planning of potential risks. The half-day training module on risk management introduces the defi nition of risk and the purpose of risk management …

Fraud and Forensic Accounting  In a Digital Environment

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE BANKING SECTOR OF GHANA

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Enterprise Risk Management Framework

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Managements of some companies and other entities have developed processes to identify and manage risk across the enterprise, and many others have begun development or are considering doing so. While considerable information on enterprise risk management is available, including much published literature, no common terminology exists, and there are few if any widely accepted pr…

Creating A Risk Management Plan Management Plan

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The “Phases” of Emergency Management

This paper was prepared for the Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute (ITFI) at the University of Memphis to help advance research, education, and outreach related to intermodal freight transportation. The primary audience for the paper includes IFTI faculty, staff, and students as well as representatives of the public and private organizations that support IFTI. The paper is part of an …