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Operational Considerations (operational + consideration)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	50%

Selected Abstracts

Corporate real estate: Is treasury ready?

JOURNAL OF CORPORATE ACCOUNTING & FINANCE, Issue 1 2005
Oren Rosen
Corporate real estate is becoming an emerging priorityfor treasury departments. That's because real estate,traditionally an operational consideration-,is becoming a strategic issue. Treasury must play more of an active role in decision making here. But are treasury departments ready and equipped to deal with these new demands? And where is the strategic opportunity? © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

Positioning the learning asset portfolio as a key component in an organization's enterprise risk management strategy

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT, Issue 6 2009
Peter J. McAliney
This article presents a process for valuing a portfolio of learning assets used by line executives across industries to value traditional business assets. Embedded within the context of enterprise risk management, this strategic asset allocation process is presented step by step, providing readers the operational considerations to implement this program within their organization to enhance performance improvement. At the individual initiative level, readers will recognize elements used in developing retrospective return on investments (ROIs) for learning programs. [source]

Down that Wrong Road: Discretion in Decisions to Detain Asylum Seekers Arriving at UK Ports

THE HOWARD JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, Issue 3 2003
Leanne Weber
The discretionary power to detain asylum seekers on arrival in the UK has been described by one human rights organisation as ,extraordinary and largely unrestrained' (Amnesty International 1996). Although decisions made by immigration officers can lead to long periods in prison or in prison-like conditions, these actions are considered to be administrative and are therefore not subject to the legal constraints that apply to criminal justice agencies. This article traces the many sources of discretion in the use of Immigration Act detention, using an analytical framework developed by Schneider (1992). Discretion is found to originate from the vague and permissive nature of detention guidelines (rule-failure discretion), the priority given to operational considerations at ports (rule-binding discretion) and the failure to resolve conflicts between policy objectives (rule-compromise discretion). [source]

REDUCING TIME TO URGENT SURGERY BY TRANSPORTING RESOURCES TO THE TRAUMA PATIENT

ANZ JOURNAL OF SURGERY, Issue 4 2007
Morgan P. McMonagle
Background: Time to definitive trauma care directly influences patient survival. Patient transport (retrieval) services are essential for the transportation of remotely located trauma patients to a major trauma centre. Trauma surgical expertise can potentially be combined with the usual retrieval response (surgically supported response) and delivered to the patient before patient transportation. We identified the frequency and circumstances of such surgically supported retrievals. Methods: Retrospective review of trauma patients transported by the NRMA CareFlight, New South Wales Medical Retrieval Service, Australia, from 1999 to 2003, identifying patients who had a surgically supported retrieval response and an urgent surgical procedure carried out before patient transportation to an major trauma centre. Results: Seven hundred and forty-nine trauma interhospital patient transfers were identified of which 511 (68%) were categorized as urgent and 64% of which were rural based. Three (0.4%) patients had a surgically supported retrieval response and had an urgent surgical procedure carried out before patient transportation. All patients benefited from that early surgical intervention. Conclusion: A surgically supported retrieval response allows for the more timely delivery of urgent surgical care. Patients can potentially benefit from such a response. There are, however, important operational considerations in providing a surgically supported retrieval response. [source]