the major purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing the design of agriculturaladvisory service network in the west azerbaijan province of iran. the population of thisresearch consisted of consultants who provided services to farmers. by using a cochranformula, 306 respondents were selected. the results showed that consultants faced manyobstacles such as lack of necessary facilit...

Increasingly, companies are drawing on capacities provided by external consultants to design and execute strategic IT initiatives. However, despite evidence of the impact of such services on IT performance, little is still known about the roles external consultants serve in relation to specific strategic IT initiatives and how companies can draw effectively on their services. This paper investi...

BACKGROUND Given the relatively sudden change from learner to teacher-provider that new consultants experience and the likely clinical and managerial challenges this may pose, there is a relative dearth of research into the problems they may have in relation to their new roles, or how supported they feel by senior colleagues acting in a mentoring role. This research sought to determine new cons...

All consultants in general psychiatry appointed between 1 October 1972 and 30 September 1975 were sent a questionnaire asking about their training experience in various aspects of psychiatric practice. The results showed that the standards of training in 13 areas of psychiatry were generally poor, although psychiatrists who had trained at the Maudsley Hospital had generally had better training ...

Authors michail heinmann · visionary officer marco Klein · sCm Consultant ©2011 Camelot management Consultants 3 Preface the challenge of managing a multi-stage supply chain will be familiar to many process industry companies. Implementers of mrP II in the 1980s and early 1990s found that the proposed approaches, whilst possibly sufficient for handling simple supply chains involving a single pl...

BACKGROUND Since 2002, the Nigerian government has deployed consultants to states to provide technical assistance for routine immunization (RI). RI consultants are expected to play a role in supportive supervision of health facility staff, capacity building, advocacy, and monitoring and evaluation. METHODS We conducted a retrospective review of the RI consultant program's strengths and weakne...