Over the past decade, shifts in subsidized and affordable housing policy have led to a greater role for market dynamics and individual choice on the part of program participants and their new neighbors, and a greater awareness of the importance of neighborhood on family outcomes. Given these trends, there is an opportunity for innovative prescriptive planning models to assist in the design of p...

This study was an analysis of the effect of strategic planning on procurement of medicals in Uganda's regional referral hospitals (RRH's). Medicals were defined as essential medicines, medical devices and medical equipment. The Ministry of Health (MOH) has been carrying out strategic planning for the last 15 years via the Health Sector Strategic Plans. Their assumption was that strategic planni...

We present twelve propositions constituting a contribution to a contingency view of time in organizations and synthesize apparently opposite perspectives of time. To articulate them, we relate the ‘planning’, ‘action’ and ‘improvisation’ strategic orientations to the ‘dependent’, ‘independent’ and ‘interdependent’ perspectives of the environment. Then, we relate these strategic orientations rel...

2 3 " If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. "-Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) " The only certainty is that everything is uncertain. "-Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) A riddle about decisions under uncertainty A minister of transport had to choose between two major railway designs, both of which had a v...

Analysts predict impending shortages in the health care workforce, yet wages for healthcare workers already account for over half of U.S. health expenditures. It is thus increasinglyimportant to adequately plan to meet health workforce demand at reasonable cost. Using infinitelinear programming methodology, we propose an infinite-horizon model for health workforceplanning in...

Defining a brand is not something that is generally left to chance. A brand is a construct and not a living and breathing organism, as some would have us believe, and as much of the language employed in branding, including some of the terminology in this book, suggests. Brands are created, stimulated and applied by people working in organizations seeking to create worthwhile experiences for the...

"~| ong-term care providers arc often L I reluctant to get involved in strategic planning because they tear that errors faa««ffi in such plans could lead to die facility's ruin. However, strategic planning experts at the recent annual mee t ing of the American Association of Homes for the Aging urged longterm care providers to aggressively pursue such plans for their facilities. To begin establ...

Dynamic Strategic Planning is an effective method for the development of rational policies for the intelligent, effective development of technology or large-scale engineering projects. It is: • Dynamic in that it explicitly recognizes the risk and uncertainties necessarily associated with any forecast about the future performance and acceptance of any technology, and thus the need to build flex...