Applying best available techniques and best environmental practices to preserve ecosystem services

Applying a general best practices identification framework to environmental health.

Edi tor ’s Note : NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In this column, EHSB and guest authors from across CDC will hig...

Applying Benchmarking to Learn from Best Practices

Assessments are a proven and widely used method to measure one’s software process strengths and weaknesses. This helps determine where to start software process improvement programs. However, an assessment uses information internal to an organisation, but does not compare its processes to a competitor’s. Benchmarking is a way to compare one’s practices with other organisations. These types of c...

Best Available Techniques Reference Document

Standardization of Processes Applying CMMI Best Practices

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a set of practices that can be applied in companies in order to improve processes. The goal of this work was to understand the barriers in implementing CMMI and improve processes following the model. The study was conducted in a company in the North of Portugal, following three steps: (1) diagnosing the company (2) opinion gathering through questi...

Applying Best Supply Chain Practices to Humanitarian Relief

With the growth in length and breadth of extended supply chains, more companies are employing risk management techniques and resilience planning to deal with burgeoning and costly supply chain disruptions. As companies can learn from humanitarian groups, so can humanitarian groups learn from industry how to respond, recover, and prepare for these disruptive events. This paper looks at industry ...