Priorities in preparedness: a strategic approach

Institutionalism in Strategic Structural Plans (A Grounded Theory Approach)

Nowadays, planning is no longer considered merely a scientific and technical career nor agovernment responsibity. It rather functions as a bridge connecting the planners to institutional changes. In otherwords, the planning theory does not develop in a social, economic and political vacuum, but is formulated byindividuals in social situations with the aim of clarifying the enviroment recommendi...

A Genetic-DEA Approach to Reveal Property Rights Priorities

Hospital strategic preparedness planning: the new imperative.

Strategic preparedness planning is an important new imperative for many hospitals. Strategic preparedness planning goes beyond traditional product/market strategic planning by focusing on disaster prevention, containment, and response roles. Hospitals, because of their unique mission, size, complexity, the types of materials they handle, and the types of patients they encounter, are especially ...

Strategic Preparedness: A Critical Requirement to Maximize E-commerce Investments

With all the hype surrounding e-commerce, a growing number of 'brick-and-mortar' companies are rushing to capitalize on the forecasted $7.29 trillion business-to-business (B2B) Internet market. However, in their haste to reap this benet, many companies have skipped forming an e-commerce strategy in favour of rst building their Web site. Evidence of this surfaced in two studies. The Cutter Conso...

NIEHS Priorities: The Process of Strategic Planning

Somatic genetic CDKN2A, TP53, and DNA content abnormalities are common in many human cancers and their precursors, including esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA) and Barrett’s esophagus (BE), conditions for which aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have been proposed as possible chemopreventive agents; however, little is known about the ability of a biomarker panel to pred...