Issues By Sandy Dunn, Director, Assetivity Please request permission from the author before copying or distributing this article There are a number of issues facing organisations that are considering maintenance outsourcing as an improvement initiative. Amongst these are the following: To outsource or not outsource strategic decision making Does a competitive outsourcing market exist? How much ...

This work is based on a study of capital goods suppliers to the power generation and distribution, materials handling, and offshore industries. Business processes are project-based and interdependent. They include sales, marketing, tendering, engineering, manufacturing, procurement, assembly, and commissioning. A model is presented which groups these processes into three categories: nonphysical...

Introduction Legal aid in criminal proceedings exists to avoid defendants being presented as victims of an overbearing state, which assumes that “the two sides have access to roughly equivalent resources and expertise” (Young et al, 1996; 5). Recent governments have however focussed on value for money, which ignores political debate about what actually constitutes value in specific circumstance...

Abstract The problem of slow productivity growth in the road construction (and wider construction) industry is well known. present paper suggests a means for efficiency analysis one part this industry, namely surface renewal Sweden, built upon application Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) techniques. novel that it focuses on project level rather than firm or contractor performance and takes pe...