Charting Your Course
Charting Your Course

Author: John G. Conyers

Publisher: Asq Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9780873896078

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Charting Your Course is the story of 2003 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winner Community Consolidated School District 15 of Palatine, Illinois. the book shares the story of the school districtes journey toward continuous improvement as they followed the Baldrige Award Criteria. the authors share both the good and the bad results encountered along the way, allowing the reader to learn from his experiences. the book will help other schools answer the many questions that will inevitably come up as they begin to follow the Baldrige criteria, and will help them avoid making some of the same mistakes. PRAISE FOR CHARTING YOUR COURSEA case study of the only school district in the state of Illinois to earn the top quality award from the Lincoln Foundation for Business Excellence. Charting Your Course is must reading for superintendents and principals who are serious about achieving organizational excellence. In this straightforward account of a school district seriously embracing the Malcolm Baldrige criteria, the authors detail what worked and what went awry, and offer concrete suggestions on avoiding some of their mistakes. - Dr. Paul D. Houston, Executive Director American Association of School Administrators.

Charting a Course into the Digital Era
Charting a Course into the Digital Era

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1994-02-01

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 0309051398

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A number of trends and forces are converging to require change in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) nautical charting mission. The most salient among these are changes in customer requirements, with a growing demand for customized and digital nautical information products; a changing customer base that encompasses uses of nautical charts in conjunction with coastal management, regulation, and development activities; and advances in technologies both for acquiring survey data and for structuring, displaying, analyzing, and disseminating nautical information. This volume assesses the needs of users of nautical information; reviews existing and emerging technologies; and examines major issues associated with information acquisition, chart preparation, and dissemination. The book addresses user requirements for improved nautical chart products, as well as technical and programmatic issues relating to the need for and provision of nautical information.

A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation
A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation

Author: Carolyn Kousky

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2021-05-20

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1642831395

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Tens of millions of Americans are at risk from sea level rise, increased tidal flooding, and intensifying storms. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation identifies a bold new research and policy agenda and provides implementable options for coastal communities responding to these threats. In this book, coastal adaptation experts present a range of climate adaptation policies that could protect coastal communities against increasing risk, including concrete financing recommendations. Coastal adaptation will not be easy, but it is achievable using varied approaches. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation will inspire innovative and cross-disciplinary thinking about coastal policy at the state and local level while providing actionable, realistic policy and planning options for adaptation professionals and policymakers.