Basic features essential to an effective advisory service in farm management

In Search of Effective Simulation-Based Intervention in Farm Management

In the era of Operations Research/Management Science that preceded the DSS, models were used by experts primarily to identify optimum actions for manager clients “to substitute formal analysis for intuitive judgments” (Hutton, 1965). In the 1970’s, after thirty years of clients ignoring this normative approach, the DSS was heralded as a way to use models differently (Keen, 1987) as a tool in de...

Extreme Programming Agile Project Management Advisory Service White Paper

Employment Medical Advisory Service.

The mastectomy advisory service.

At education .meetings, many questions were asked about the management of women who had a mastectomy performed. It was obvious that little or no information had been given to these women about prostheses, clothes, etc., nor had any psychological support been offered in dealing with husband and family. As nearly five hundred women undergo mastectomy each year in the province, it was obvious that...

Effective IT service management - to ITIL and beyond

Page 1 of 3 Depending upon industry sector, IT Service Management (ITSM) costs account for between 65%-80% of all IT expenditure. That’s currently the equivalent of almost $300 billion per year worldwide (which is more than the GDP of Norway). Almost more than three quarters of every IT budget is spent keeping the application lights burning and the wheels of the IT machine turning. Most of this...