Profiles in Performance
Profiles in Performance

Author: Howard Dresner

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-10-09

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0470570113

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Too many organizations invest in performance management and business intelligence projects, without first establishing the needed conditions to ensure success. But the organizations that lay the groundwork for effective change first reap the benefits. In Profiles in Performance: Business Intelligence Journeys and the Road Map for Change, Howard Dresner (author of The Performance Management Revolution) worked with several extraordinary organizations to understand their thriving "performance-directed culture." In doing so, he developed a unique maturity model-which served as both a filter to select candidates and as a lens to examine accomplishments. Interviews with people from all sides of the organization: business users, finance, senior management and the IT department Provides a complete picture of their progress from inception to current state The models, analyses and real world accounts from these cases will be an invaluable resource to any organization hoping to improve or initiate their own performance-directed culture.

Origin and Performance of Democracy Profiles
Origin and Performance of Democracy Profiles

Author: Oliver Schlenkrich

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 3658348801

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This study has two central research questions: Do democracy profiles affect policy performance? And what causes democracy profiles? Oliver Schlenkrich conceptualizes and measures different democracy profiles (e.g., libertarian-majoritarian or egalitarian-majoritarian democracies) based on trade-offs between the central democracy dimensions of political freedom, political equality, and political and legal control. In addition, the study conceptually and empirically develops a typology of political performance. Regarding the first research question, the empirical analyses of about 80 democracies from 1974 to 2017 indicate that there is not an overall better performing democracy profile. Thereby, the democracy profiles do not have an immediate effect, instead their effects require a longer period of time to manifest. With respect to the second research question, the empirical findings show that several structural and cultural factors are relevant (e.g., British heritage or a competitive culture). This work is mainly based on Bayesian statistics to cope with the complexity of the data and models. About the authorOliver Schlenkrich works currently on the DFG research project ‘Causes of Transformation and Democracy Profiles: Empirical Findings of the Democracy Matrix’ located at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany. His research interests concern democracy, political culture, political participation, quality of statehood, and quantitative methods.

Profiles for Performance
Profiles for Performance

Author: Jack H. Fooks

Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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Not only did Westinghouse win the first annual Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award in 1988, its Productivity and Quality Center (PQC) also trained such other Baldrige winners as Motorola, Xerox, Texas Instruments, Eastman-Kodak, and Milliken. Now, a key member of the PQC shares the never-before-published techniques that have saved Westinghouse and its quality trainees millions of dollars. Written in a direct, how-to style, this book focuses on cost-time management, showing readers how to look at the overall goals of the organization and pinpoint ways to reduce the time and cost of getting things done. Quality engineers and managers will learn to map all business transactions as a series of costs over time, to measure the effectiveness of their programs, and to prove their results to top management. Case studies from Westinghouse and its trainees illustrate the many principles discussed.

Effects of Radial and Circumferential Inlet Velocity Profile Distortions on Performance of a Short-length Double-annular Ram-induction Combustor
Effects of Radial and Circumferential Inlet Velocity Profile Distortions on Performance of a Short-length Double-annular Ram-induction Combustor

Author: Donald F. Schultz

Publisher:

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13:

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Inlet air velocity profile tests were conducted on a full-scale short-length 102-centimeter-diameter annual combustor designed for advanced gas turbine engine applications. The inlet profiles studied include radial distortions that were center peaked, and tip peaked, as well as a circumferential distortion which was center peaked for one-third of the circumference and flat for the other two-thirds. An increase in combustor pressure loss was the most significant effect of the radial air velocity distortions. With the circumferential distortion, exit temperature pattern factor doubled when compared to a flat velocity profile.

Notational Analysis of Sport
Notational Analysis of Sport

Author: Mike Hughes

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780415290043

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This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.