Setting new goals

Defining a mission statement and setting goals.

When I began my career in dentistry twenty-five years ago, the "fee-for-service" practice was by far the most common approach for delivery of care. Time was not taken to define individuality and purpose, and outside factors such as insurance did not attempt to dictate the direction we took toward a treatment plan. Marketing was not mentioned and practice management as we know it was just beginn...

Setting Estate Development Vision and Goals

The Local Governance Technical Notes series is a publication of the Governance and Local Democracy (GOLD) Project made possible through support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the terms of the GOLD Project Contract No. 492-0471-C-00-5089-00. The series provides information on key processes and tools in local government management, service delivery, citize...

Setting Higher Goals : Rights and Development

DURING THE PAST DECADE, A RIGHTS-BASED approach (RBA) to development has proliferated and blurred the distinction between human rights advocacy and development work. As Ellen Dorsey wrote in her October 2008 Monday Developments article, RBA is attractive because it shifts “the tenor of the discourse from charity to entitlement” and elevates development goals to “recognized standards and princip...

Do Teams Achieve Usability Goals? Evaluating Goal Achievement with Usability Goals Setting Tool

Do teams achieve important usability goals most of the time? Further, is goal achievement uniform or are practitioners more mindful of some goals than others? This paper presents an empirical study on usability goal achievement in industry projects. We used Usability Goal setting Tool (UGT), a recommender system that helps teams set, prioritize, and evaluate usability goals. The practitioner cr...

Chronic hepatitis B--new goals, new treatment.