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Budget Cuts (budget + cut)
Selected AbstractsNiger: 2010 Budget CutAFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 4 2010Article first published online: 4 JUN 2010 No abstract is available for this article. [source] RECENT AND FUTURE MANAGEMENT CHANGES IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: CONTINUING FOCUS ON RATIONALITY AND EFFICIENCY?FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY & MANAGEMENT, Issue 1 2008Henk J. Ter Bogt Dutch municipalities and provinces have recently introduced many changes relating to management control. This paper explores the role of economic and social rationality in the introduction of reforms, and the nature of possible future reforms. Based on interviews with politicians and professional managers and on documents, the paper examines experiences with recent management changes. In addition, it discusses ,change initiating factors'. Budget cuts and trends seem to be such change initiating factors. However, particularly more demanding citizens, increases in voters' volatility and politicians' uncertainty seemed to initiate changes. The paper speculates that in the near future, too, it could be a rational survival strategy for politicians and managers to focus on initiatives that are intended to enhance performance and efficiency. [source] Surviving IT budget cuts with TERPSJOURNAL OF CORPORATE ACCOUNTING & FINANCE, Issue 5 2009Harry R. Wright Jr. The global economic downturn has forced many companies to reevaluate how they do business, in an aggressive effort to cut costs. Budget cuts are reaching 5 to 10 percent or more,and no part of a company is left untouched. But how can companies slash information technology costs and still maintain the same level of production? Here's one interesting strategy: use trained enterprise resource planning students, or TERPS. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Precarious Success in the HumanitiesGERMAN RESEARCH, Issue 1 2008Hans-Joachim Gehrke Prof. Dr. The DFG's funding initiative has given this discipline a boost , but budget cuts and the principle of exploitation remain a threat [source] Surviving IT budget cuts with TERPSJOURNAL OF CORPORATE ACCOUNTING & FINANCE, Issue 5 2009Harry R. Wright Jr. The global economic downturn has forced many companies to reevaluate how they do business, in an aggressive effort to cut costs. Budget cuts are reaching 5 to 10 percent or more,and no part of a company is left untouched. But how can companies slash information technology costs and still maintain the same level of production? Here's one interesting strategy: use trained enterprise resource planning students, or TERPS. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Designing meteorological networks for Switzerland according to user requirementsMETEOROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS, Issue 4 2003Thomas Frei With growing international collaboration (e.g. the European Composite Observing System programme ,EUCOS), changing demands of data users, technical progress with new measuring systems and national budget cuts, the design of meteorological networks has become increasingly important. By analysing future user requirements and taking into account cost-benefit considerations, MeteoSwiss has elaborated a network configuration for ground-based and upper air stations. It is evident that for ground-based stations no separate networks should be distinguished ,instead, the needs of climatological modellers and forecasters should all be integrated into one network. The future upper air network will be complemented with additional windprofilers, a mini radar and additional radar information supplied by neighbouring countries. Copyright © 2003 Royal Meteorological Society. [source] A case study in organizational change: Evaluation in Cooperative ExtensionNEW DIRECTIONS FOR EVALUATION, Issue 120 2008Roger A. Rennekamp This chapter examines how factors both internal and external to Cooperative Extension have influenced its commitment and capability to assess the quality and impact of its programs. The authors begin by documenting how the nature of Extension programming has changed dramatically in response to societal needs over the course of the organization's history. Because Extension's culture places great value on service to people, early attempts to measure organizational performance focused on the number of individuals reached and the quality of the interaction with those individuals. Over time, Extension educators began to turn their attention to program outcomes. But it wasn't until Extension was threatened with significant budget cuts that the organization responded with systemwide efforts to document the results of its programming. The authors conclude that so long as Extension educators consider program evaluation an obligation to be met rather than an opportunity to learn and grow, optimum levels of commitment and capability cannot be achieved. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Let them fly or light them up: matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH),APMIS, Issue 11-12 2004BIRGITTA SCHWEICKERT This review focuses on clinical bacteriology and by and large does not cover the detection of fungi, viruses or parasites. It discusses two completely different but complementary approaches that may either supplement or replace classic culture-based bacteriology. The latter view may appear provocative in the light of the actual market penetration of molecular genetic testing in clinical bacteriology. Despite its elegance, high specificity and sensitivity, molecular genetic diagnostics has not yet reached the majority of clinical laboratories. The reasons for this are manifold: Many microbiologists and medical technologists are more familiar with classical microbiological methods than with molecular biology techniques. Culture-based methods still represent the work horse of everyday routine. The number of available FDA-approved molecular genetic tests is limited and external quality control is still under development. Finally, it appears difficult to incorporate genetic testing in the routine laboratory setting due to the limited number of samples received or the lack of appropriate resources. However, financial and time constraints, particularly in hospitals as a consequence of budget cuts and reduced length of stay, lead to a demand for significantly shorter turnaround times that cannot be met by culture-dependent diagnosis. As a consequence, smaller laboratories that do not have the technical and personal equipment required for molecular genetic amplification techniques may adopt alternative methods such as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) that combines easy-to-perform molecular hybridization with microscopy, a technique familiar to every microbiologist. FISH is hence one of the technologies presented here. For large hospital or reference laboratories with a high sample volume requiring massive parallel high-throughput testing we discuss matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF) of nucleic acids, a technology that has evolved from the post-genome sequencing era, for high-throughput sequence variation analysis (1, 2). [source] Planning without guidance: Canadian defence policy and planning, 1993,2004CANADIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION/ADMINISTRATION PUBLIQUE DU CANADA, Issue 3 2010Robert Michael Hartfiel The Forces' operational tempo increased significantly even as the defence budget was cut by a quarter. Defence issues were perceived to have very little profile in Ottawa, and military officers felt their concerns were not being heard. Despite rapid changes in the global security environment, dramatic budget cuts, and frequent deployments, the government failed to update its policy guidance to reflect these new challenges. However, the Canadian Forces gradually learned to survive in the absence of political guidance. Defence planners initiated a number of reforms aimed at anticipating future missions, preserving combat capabilities, and winning more resources. Drawing on a series of interviews with senior military officers and civilian officials at the Department of National Defence and a reading of the relevant literature on Canadian defence policy and strategic planning, the author examines the process of adaptation, focusing particular attention on the adoption of capabilities-based planning for resource allocation and mitigating risk. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of these developments for civil,military relations in Canada and presents a case for institutional reform. Sommaire : La décennie qui s'est déroulée entre la publication du Livre blanc sur la défense de 1994 du Canada et son Énoncé de politique internationale de 2005 a été une période de crise au sein des Forces canadiennes. Leur rythme opérationnel s'est accru considérablement alors même que le budget de la Défense était réduit d'un quart. Les questions relatives à la Défense étaient considérées comme ayant peu d'importance à Ottawa, et les dirigeants militaires avaient l'impression qu'on n'écoutait pas leurs préoccupations. Outre les changements rapides intervenus au niveau de la sécurité internationale, les réductions budgétaires drastiques et les redéploiements fréquents, le gouvernement a omis de mettre à jour ses lignes directrices politiques pour refléter ces nouveaux défis. Cependant, les Forces canadiennes ont appris progressivement à survivre en l'absence de lignes directrices politiques. Les planificateurs de la Défense ont lancé un certain nombre de réformes visant à prévoir les missions futures, à préserver les capacités de combat et à obtenir plus de ressources. En s'appuyant sur une série d'entrevues avec de hauts dirigeants militaires, des dirigeants civils du ministère de la Défense nationale et sur une lecture de documents pertinents concernant la politique de défense et la planification stratégique canadienne, l'auteur étudie le processus d'adaptation, en portant une attention particulière à l'adoption de la planification fondée sur les capacités d'affectation des ressources et de la réduction des risques. L'article se termine par une discussion sur les implications de ces faits nouveaux concernant les relations civilo-militaires au Canada et présente un cas pour le bien-fondé d'une réforme institutionnelle. [source] | ||||||||||