Background. The failure of initiatives to adequately plan and deliver benefits is a perceived problem in the healthcare sector. Problems of strategy formation and successful innovation are widely discussed in the literature. The concept of benefits realisation offers a possible key to better planning, but before this can be achieved strategic innovation is necessary to integrate the benefits re...

The paper presents the findings from a survey of information technology planning in the Chinese language newspaper industry in Hong Kong. The research attempted to apply well known Western models of strategy, corporate structure, corporate culture and states of growth to this industry. It was found that the categorisation in these models did not always apply to the companies surveyed and where ...

In Canada, the nursing shortage is all encompassing, and nurse leaders are needed from the bedside to the boardroom. Healthcare organizations and the nursing profession lag behind the corporate sector in development of strategic leadership succession planning. Contemporary nurse leaders will require all the knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencies their predecessors can provide. Effective ...

Linear fractional programming problems are useful tools in producti on planning, financial and corporate planning, health care and hospital planning and as such have attracted considerable research interest. The paper presents a new approach for solving a fractional linear programming problem in which the objective function is a linear fractional function, while the constraint functions are in ...