Effectiveness By The Numbers
Effectiveness By The Numbers

Author: William R. Hoyt

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 142672246X

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Accurately counting the right things can profoundly impact ministry effectiveness. Knowing “the story in the stats” can inform decisions and lead to the things that produce the results most pleasing to God. Gathering and studying the right numbers can help a church wisely invest its resources of time, effort, people, money, and facilities. Effectiveness by the Numbers will help ensure that your church is measuring the right things for the right reasons. Counting what counts enables a church to fulfill its mission--making mature followers of Jesus Christ. Jesus and his disciples counted. They knew how many he fed with the five loaves and fishes. When a crowd gathered they often knew and recorded the number of men, women and children present for the event. The early church counted. They knew that on the day of Pentecost about 3,000 were added to their number. The book of Acts reports that “many believed,” “people were added,” and “many of the Corinthians who heard him believed and were baptized.” If Jesus counted and the early church kept track of numbers, it is not unreasonable to expect churches today to use metrics to increase their effectiveness in doing God’s work on earth. Chapter One: The Fear of Numbers Chapter Two: If You Could Count Only One Thing Chapter Three: How Many and How Often Chapter Four: How Many Stick? Chapter Five: How Many Serve? Chapter Six: Who's New? Chapter Seven: Growing by Staying Small Chapter Eight: What's More Important than Dollars? Chapter Nine: What Product Are You Producing Anyway? About the author: William R. Hoyt During his 38 years of ministry, Dr. Bill Hoyt has served as Pastor, Seminary Professor, Executive Minister of the Southwest Baptist Conference and a consultant to churches, denominations and other not-for-profit corporations. By virtue of his varied background, Dr. Hoyt has been privileged to observe countless churches from many different vantage points. Dr. Hoyt is the President of NexStep Coaching and Consulting, an organization committed to enhancing the effectiveness of Christian leaders and organizations through executive coaching and consulting for organizational development. Dr. Hoyt is also President of UniReach International, a non-profit organization that engages in humanitarian work in Vietnam. Dr. Hoyt and his wife Gwyn have been married for 40 years. They have two sons and daughters-in-law, a granddaughter and three grandsons.

A Mind for Numbers
A Mind for Numbers

Author: Barbara A. Oakley

Publisher: TarcherPerigee

Published: 2014-07-31

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 039916524X

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Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. In her book, she offers you the tools needed to get a better grasp of that intimidating but inescapable field.

Regulatory Effectiveness
Regulatory Effectiveness

Author: Jon Stern

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published:

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13:

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"The authors review a number of studies on the effectiveness of utility regulatory agency and governance arrangements for the electricity industry, particularly for developing countries. They discuss governance criteria and their measurement, both legal frameworks and surveys of regulatory practice. They also discuss the results from econometric studies of effectiveness for regulatory agencies in the electricity and telecommunications industries and compare these with the results from econometric studies of independent central banks and their governance. The authors conclude with a discussion of policy implications and of priorities for information collection to improve understanding of these issues. "--World Bank web site.

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.

Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine
Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine

Author: Marthe R. Gold

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1996-07-18

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0199880425

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A unique, in-depth discussion of the uses and conduct of cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) as decision-making aids in the health and medical fields, this volume is the product of over two years of comprehensive research and deliberation by a multi-disciplinary panel of economists, ethicists, psychometricians, and clinicians. Exploring cost-effectiveness in the context of societal decision-making for resource allocation purposes, this volume proposes that analysts include a "reference-case" analysis in all CEAs designed to inform resource allocation and puts forth the most explicit set of guidelines (together with their rationale) ever defined on the conduct of CEAs. Important theoretical and practical issues encountered in measuring costs and effectiveness, evaluating outcomes, discounting, and dealing with uncertainty are examined in separate chapters. Additional chapters on framing and reporting of CEAs elucidate the purpose of the analysis and the effective communication of its findings. Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine differs from the available literature in several key aspects. Most importantly, it represents a consensus on standard methods--a feature integral to a CEA, whose principal goal is to permit comparisons of the costs and health outcomes of alternative ways of improving health. The detailed level at which the discussion is offered is another major distinction of this book, since guidelines in journal literature and in CEA-related books tend to be rather general--to the extent that the analyst is left with little guidance on specific matters. The focused overview of the theoretical background underlying areas of controversy and of methodological alternatives, and, finally, the accessible writing style make this volume a top choice on the reading lists of analysts in medicine and public health who wish to improve practice and comparability of CEAs. The book will also appeal to decision-makers in government, managed care, and industry who wish to consider the uses and limitations of CEAs.

Military Effectiveness
Military Effectiveness

Author: Allan R. Millett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-09-06

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0521425891

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Examines questions raised by the performance of the military institutions of France, Germany, Russia, the US, Great Britain, Japan and Italy between 1914 and 1945.

Teachers Matter: Connecting Work, Lives And Effectiveness
Teachers Matter: Connecting Work, Lives And Effectiveness

Author: Day, Christopher

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2007-03-01

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0335220045

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Based on a DfES funded study of 300 teachers in 100 primary and secondary schools in England, the authors identify different patterns of influence and effect between groups of teachers, which provide powerful evidence of the complexities of teachers' work, lives, identity and commitment, in relation to their sense of agency, well-being, resilience and pupil attitudes and attainment. This, in turn, provides a clear message for teachers, teachers' associations, school leaders and policy makers internationally, in understanding and supporting the need to build and sustain school and classroom effectiveness.

Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine
Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine

Author: Marthe R. Gold

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1996-07-18

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9780195108248

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Cost-effectiveness in health and medicine presents a consensus of experts on appropriate methods for standardizing the conduct of CEAs for use in policy arenas. Standardization is of particular importance for CEA, because it allows comparisons of the costs and health outcomes of alternative methods of improving health, such as public health programs and medical technologies. The book provides a detailed discussion of the theoretical background underlying areas of controversy, and uses theory to guide explicit recommendations for study conduct.