Delivery Effectiveness
Delivery Effectiveness

Author: Carl M. Manello

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2021-04-08

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1665704802

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According to the Standish Group, a third of conceptualized projects are cancelled before they start and more than 50 percent of projects will exceed their budgets by more than 100 percent. Hordes of statistics and reams of data are available that reflect the poor performance of organizations in meeting the goals of their initiatives. There are better ways to deliver. Carl M. Manello, a veteran business executive and consultant, provides a blueprint to bolster project management in this book. Learn how to: • keep projects on track, from start to finish; • make an impactful difference with minor changes in thinking; • focus like a laser on what is needed most; • deliver more value from projects. Many organizations rely on armies of certified project managers who can quote textbooks, but they fail to put their knowledge into action. That’s why this book is so important as it presents an opportunity to use well known—but not well used—principles, practices, and methods to manage projects. To get better results than the project management profession has been able to produce since the middle of the last century, we must try something different. Delivery Effectiveness provides a simple approach to get better results.

Delivery Effectiveness
Delivery Effectiveness

Author: Carl M Manello

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-08

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781665704793

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According to the Standish Group, a third of conceptualized projects are cancelled before they start and more than 50 percent of projects will exceed their budgets by more than 100 percent. Hordes of statistics and reams of data are available that reflect the poor performance of organizations in meeting the goals of their initiatives. There are better ways to deliver. Carl M. Manello, a veteran business executive and consultant, provides a blueprint to bolster project management in this book. Learn how to: - keep projects on track, from start to finish; - make an impactful difference with minor changes in thinking; - focus like a laser on what is needed most; - deliver more value from projects. Many organizations rely on armies of certified project managers who can quote textbooks, but they fail to put their knowledge into action. That's why this book is so important as it presents an opportunity to use well known-but not well used-principles, practices, and methods to manage projects. To get better results than the project management profession has been able to produce since the middle of the last century, we must try something different. Delivery Effectiveness provides a simple approach to get better results.

Relative Effectiveness of Alternative Microfinance-driven Poverty Alleviation Programs in Bangladesh
Relative Effectiveness of Alternative Microfinance-driven Poverty Alleviation Programs in Bangladesh

Author: Dr. Tamgid Ahmed Chowdhury

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-06-26

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1443862924

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In general, the effectiveness of microfinance-driven poverty-alleviation programs run by Government Organizations (GOs) and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in developing countries, such as Bangladesh, is assessed by repayment rates, the number of beneficiaries, the area coverage, the amount of loans disbursed, the cost of operations, profitability, and the financial sustainability of the projects. This study argues that these methods are quite restrictive since none of them reflect the perceptions of poor people concerning the effectiveness of such projects. Development agencies such as GOs and NGOs have never been compared on the basis of service delivery effectiveness (a process-based comparison); nor have they ever been compared on the basis of their relative contribution to raising the living standards of the poor (an outcome-based comparison). Both types of comparison are crucial to poverty reduction. The main reason behind the absence of such comparisons is the unavailability of the appropriate parameters that could be used for such analysis. For the process-based comparison, this study develops and validates a two-dimensional multi-item service delivery effectiveness scale through construct, convergent, discriminant and nomological validity. The scale captures different aspects of effectiveness in the delivery of services. These aspects are termed the ‘credibility dimension’ and the ‘focus towards beneficiaries dimension’ of service delivery in poverty-alleviation programs. For the output-based comparison, this study also develops and validates a ‘multidimensional poverty model’ to compare the effectiveness of GOs and NGOs in contributing to the economic, social, political, and cultural elements in the lives of the poor. The methodology is based on 930 samples collected from 12 districts and 107 randomly chosen villages in Bangladesh during September–December 2009.

The Healthcare Imperative
The Healthcare Imperative

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2011-01-17

Total Pages: 852

ISBN-13: 0309144337

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The United States has the highest per capita spending on health care of any industrialized nation but continually lags behind other nations in health care outcomes including life expectancy and infant mortality. National health expenditures are projected to exceed $2.5 trillion in 2009. Given healthcare's direct impact on the economy, there is a critical need to control health care spending. According to The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes, the costs of health care have strained the federal budget, and negatively affected state governments, the private sector and individuals. Healthcare expenditures have restricted the ability of state and local governments to fund other priorities and have contributed to slowing growth in wages and jobs in the private sector. Moreover, the number of uninsured has risen from 45.7 million in 2007 to 46.3 million in 2008. The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes identifies a number of factors driving expenditure growth including scientific uncertainty, perverse economic and practice incentives, system fragmentation, lack of patient involvement, and under-investment in population health. Experts discussed key levers for catalyzing transformation of the delivery system. A few included streamlined health insurance regulation, administrative simplification and clarification and quality and consistency in treatment. The book is an excellent guide for policymakers at all levels of government, as well as private sector healthcare workers.

EBOOK: Evaluating Social Work Effectiveness
EBOOK: Evaluating Social Work Effectiveness

Author: Juliet Cheetham

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 1992-10-16

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0335231071

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Social work has an impact on large numbers of citizens through its services for children and families, elderly people, those with mental or physical health problems and offenders. It also provokes much criticism; its effectiveness is questioned and there are increasing demands for this to be demonstrated. This text discusses how this task may be tackled and explores possibilities for evaluative research in contexts which are often not considered feasible for such enquiry. Paying particular attention to the diverse and complex functions of social work, the book reviews the implications for choosing and adapting research methodologies, emphasizes the importance of identifying the process of social work as well as its outcomes and distinguishes between the identification of effectiveness and its evaluation. It also describes the various means of dissemination which are necessary if research is to influence policy and practice. The book, which gives many examples of research in action, draws on evaluative research in Britain and the US and also on the experience of the Social Work Research Centre. It has been written for researchers, managers, practitioners and students with responsibilities to undertake or to understand the systematic evaluation of social work.

Development Effectiveness
Development Effectiveness

Author: Ernst & Young LLP

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1994-03-31

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780471589549

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Explains how companies can productively use development effectiveness, an offshoot of total quality management, to ease problems regarding changing technologies in the information services organization by providing tools for change while still creating high-performance IS organizations. Contains proven implementation steps for planning and managing IT transitional processes along with the instruments relevant to measure the IS organization's current position, readiness for and ability to change.

Public Procurement and Aid Effectiveness
Public Procurement and Aid Effectiveness

Author: Annamaria La Chimia

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-08-08

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1509922458

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This edited collection fills a significant gap in the literature by gathering contributions from the most prominent academics and practitioners of aid and procurement. It explores the economic, political and legal relationship between procurement and aid effectiveness in developing countries, and takes stock of current debates in the field. More specifically, the contributions analyse the failures and successes of current initiatives to foster effectiveness and streamline the aid procurement process, and address current themes emerging in the literature related to development, procurement and aid success. A pivotal and timely publication, Public Procurement and Aid Effectiveness will be of interest to a varied and multicultural international audience and a wide range of actors working on aid effectiveness, development, procurement and good governance initiatives in both donor and beneficiary countries.