THE ABILITY OF LARGE HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS to respond to the rapidly changing landscape in which they operate is in many ways dependent upon the leadership knowledge and capabilities of those heading up the transformation. Although the central direction and core vision for health system transformation is typically concentrated in a relatively tight circle of a few individuals, it is the broader a...

The ever increasing obligations of regulatory compliance are presenting a new breed of challenges for organizations across several industry sectors. Aligning control objectives that stem from regulations and legislation, with business objectives devised for improved business performance, is a foremost challenge. The organizational as well as IT structures for the two classes of objectives are o...

Marketing is under increased pressure to demonstrate its economic value to the firm. The challenge is exacerbated by the fact that marketing uses attitudinal (e.g. brand awareness), behavioral (e.g. brand loyalty) and financial (e.g. sales revenue) performance metrics, which, unfortunately, do not correlate highly with each other. Thus marketing initiatives could be viewed as successful by one ...

Risk management is activity undertaken in an organization to identify and manage threats to achieving organizational objectives. In 2004, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations published its Enterprise Risk Management – Integrated Framework as a structured approach to risk management. Using three pillars of procurement risk management -procurement planning, solicitation and award, and contra...

The understanding of the organizational constraints and working practices within projects is a requirement in developing information systems for use in an organization. Our purpose is to improve particularly the understanding of cooperative work in organizations. Two objectives are considered: (a) taking into account the three main dimensions of a cooperative work: Collaboration, Coordination a...

The effectiveness of community organizations depends on the existence of pillars of good governance like, participation, accountability, transparency, predictability and rule of law. Effective participation of members in their organizations ensures the vigilance, which is essential to create sense of responsibility among the board and the personnel. This paper therefore, aims at assessing the g...

BACKGROUND Among cancers that affect both men and women, colorectal cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death in Michigan. The American Cancer Society estimates 4,730 new cases and 1,700 deaths due to colorectal cancer in Michigan for 2013. Screening can detect colorectal cancer earlier, when treatment is more successful. COMMUNITY CONTEXT The Michigan Department of Communit...

In today’s fast-paced and rapidly changing business environment, companies has deeply modified their strategies to integrate technology into the business planning process. Technologies are now everywhere in the firm’s value chain. Thus, it is necessary for firms to adapt their strategic process as technology is pervasively important as part of business function. This implies the need to study a...

In Sub-Saharan Africa private voluntary health care providers are mostly Church-related or social not for profit organizations. They provide between 40% and 60% of health care services. In the context of Health Care Reforms, the World Bank and others have (re)discovered these non governmental providers. The World Bank document 'Better Health for Africa', promotes prominent roles for them in the...

The natural selection and the evolutionary optimization of complex shapes in nature are closely related to their functions. Mechanostabilization of shape of biological structure via morphogenesis has several beautiful examples. With the help of simple mechanics-based modeling and experiments, we show an important causality between natural shape selection as evolutionary outcome and the mechanos...