We offer a UK-based commentary on the recent “Perspective” published in IJHPM by Thakkar and Sullivan. We are sympathetic to the authors’ call for increased funding for health service and policy research (HSPR). However, we point out that increasing that investment – in any of the three countries they compare: Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom– will ipso facto not necessarily lea...

Required) Organizations continue to manage poor quality data despite being aware of its negative impact on decision making. One effective way of addressing this situation is to inform decision-makers of the quality of the data they are using by providing data quality (DQ) metadata. However, despite its availability, not all decision-makers use DQ metadata. Further, when DQ metadata is included,...

A key feature of the Regional Training Centres (RTCs) is the scope and nature of their engagement with decision-makers. While the RTCs may believe that they have an excellent association with decision-makers, is that belief shared? The authors of this paper draw on the results of a survey of decision-makers undertaken by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) as part of the pr...

Supplier selection decision is an important issue of purchasing management in supply chain management involving multiple objectives; however, it is difficult to solve because objectives are often conflicting in nature. This study integrates multi-choice goal programming (MCGP) and fuzzy approaches as decision aids to help decision makers to choose better suppliers by considering multiple aspira...

The objective of this Thesis is to examine the evaluation of single research and development (R&D) project and the management of R&D project portfolio. A challenge the R&D organizations have faced is that there are more new ideas for R&D projects than the organization has money and resources to implement. At this situation the R&D organization must develop its project portfolio management in or...