Implementation Of Management Tools Research Articles

Tools for the implementation of proactive maintenance in urban sewer systems by the use of flooding reliability and entropy of information concepts

The existing urban sewer databases in cities of developing countries present deficiencies in the records of the physical characteristics of the pipes, which limits their use as support for the implementation of management tools for said infrastructure. The objective of this work consisted in proposing and using in 13 sub-basins belonging to the El Salitre basin of Bogotá, comprising an area of ​​4515 Ha, with a total of 12,842 pluvial and combined pipes, decision trees and information entropy to identify pipes with demands for network maintenance activities such as cleaning, rehabilitation, replacement, etc., based on estimated flood reliability (for 2337 pipes whose physical characteristics were accurately recorded). The classificatory model presented an average predictive capacity of 62%. The pipes were classified using 28 rules, according to the reliability values, identifying 3383 pipes (26% of the total) with a high prioritization of proactive maintenance.

Implementation of Management Tools for Boosting Entrepreneurial Behavior

Consultants can help businesses to implement management tools to better distribute wealth based on efforts made by people and taking into account their aspirations. Management tools that convey an implicit ideology should emerge if one wants to understand the real sources of efficiency. The development of the negotiating capacity of people can be a form of innovation in the development of intrapreneurial capitalism.

Between structuration and translation: an approach of ICT appropriation

PurposeAppropriation of information communication technology (ICT) drags tools and actors into a sociotechnical process. ICT, practices, and organizations are strongly modified. Only an interplay approach can reveal the complexity of relations between technology and work practices. The paper aims to focus on this.Design/methodology/approachFrom the structurational model of technologies and Actor Network Theory, the author's approach of ICT appropriation in organizations is based on structuration and translation dynamics.FindingsCombining these two dynamics, the paper sheds light on the appropriation paths. Through an implementation of management tool in the teaching world for one year, it focuses on the emergence of appropriation dynamics of pedagogic software by the teachers. This approach shows that actors and ICT changed around compromises in the network.Originality/valueThe contribution of this paper is in the coupling of the structuration and translation dynamics of appropriation to identify the appropriation paths.

Management Tools for Medicaid and State Childrenʼs Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)

Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program need analytic tools to manage their programs. Drawing upon extensive discussions with experts in states, this article describes the state of the art in tool use, making several observations: (1) Several states have linked Medicaid/State Children's Health Insurance Program administrative data to other data (eg, birth and death records) to measure access to care. (2) Several states use managed care encounter data to set payment rates. (3) The analysis of pharmacy claims data appears widespread. The article also describes "lessons learned" regarding building capacity and improving data to support the implementation of management tools.

Le management de la qualité : un instrument de reglementation europeenne « par le bas »

To cope with the requirements of accession, EU countries were (and some of them still are) seeking to achieve the standards of reliable and efficient public administration. The European Commission doesn’t provide a specific model for the organisation and functioning of public administrations. In management literature those models for the organisation and functioning of public administrations are presented. Quality management models, nowadays, have evoluted into frameworks for organisational management. With the construction of the European Common Assessment Framework (CAF), a self-evaluation tool was designed for the public sector. This tool presents the principles for a well performing organisation. With the spread and use of this model all over Europe in recent years, the principles of a well performing public sector organisation also become widespread. In this article we look at the convergence (discursive, decisional, practice and results) across the EU in the use and implementation of management tools, i.c. the use of quality models, arguing the principles of quality management, as principles of decent governance, are spread across the European Union and form a kind of ‘bottom-up European regulation’, coping with the fact no formal criteria or legislation concerning administrative reform are existing for candidate countries.

Management of E-Learning Environments: some Issues and Research Clues

The increasing importance of distance learning has encouraged the emergence of Internet-based education services. This area of activity imposes new challenges for the participants, and experience shows that management of the dynamics of activities is a key factor for the success of Internet-based educational actions. This article reports some results achieved on a project aimed at studying management of e-learning environments and, based on the approach and results from that research project, presents and discusses the role of workflow tools and metadata definitions in the future implementation of management tools.