Search results for "Planning and Control"

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Enhancing performance management and sustainable organizational growth through system-dynamics modelling

2012

Organizational growth and performance management provide two important research topics for both enterprises and public sector organizations. Improving performance levels, or at least keeping them stable over time, is a hot topic not only for business executives and entrepreneurs, but also for managers and policy makers in public and non-profit institutions. How best to design Planning & Control (P&C) systems to support organizational performance management and assessment in a sustainability perspective? This paper illustrates the need for a methodological framework that would link system dynamics to P&C systems so as to support decision-makers in managing organizational performance, as well…

Balanced scorecardKnowledge managementPerformance managementbusiness.industryPublic sectorSystem dynamicSustainable growthBalanced scorecardOrganizational performanceSystem dynamicsPerformance managementConceptual frameworkSettore SECS-P/07 - Economia AziendaleSustainabilityPlanning and control systemSustainable growth ratebusiness
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Performance Management in the Public Sector

2018

Performance management is a management style aimed at setting goals and ensuring that such targets are achieved through a planning and control cycle. It embodies a set of activities, tools, and mechanisms intended to measuring and evaluating results to continuously improve performance.

FinancePerformance managementbusiness.industryResults managementPublic sectorPlanning and control systembusiness
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L’inclusione vista dagli alunni: costruzione e validazione del questionario per rilevare la qualità inclusiva della scuola

2018

Molti studi nazionali e internazionali si sono concentrati sulla valutazione e sulla promozione della qualità inclusiva della scuola. Si tratta di un argomento complesso, che ha stimolato un ampio dibattito e una varietà di contributi che mettono in luce la necessità di uno strumento in grado di misurare la qualità inclusiva delle nostre scuole, per determinare l’evidenza empirica riguardo a questo tema. L’articolo presenta i risultati di una sperimentazione finalizzata alla redazione di un questionario per la rilevazione della qualità inclusiva del sistema scolastico percepita dagli alunni. Il questionario si pone come uno strumento di valutazione e autovalutazione che permette la misurazi…

Many national and international studies have concentrated on the evaluation and promotion of the inclusive qualities of schools. It is a complex issue which has led to wide debate and a variety of contributions which in turn highlight the need for a tool capable of measuring the inclusive quality of our schools in order to determine the empirical evidence regarding this topic. This article presents the results of an experiment in drafting a questionnaire in order to measure the inclusive quality of the school system perceived by its pupils. The questionnaire is intended as an evaluation and selfevaluation tool that enables the inclusive quality generated by the context to be measured as it is perceived by pupils. At the same time the tool allows reflection processes amongst teachers to be promoted so that they can implement educational activities which contribute to the planning and control of inclusive teaching practices. This contribution puts forward an original tool for measuring the inclusive quality of the school system perceived by pupils attending primary school in several Sicilian towns. It was administered in its definitive version to a sample of 1652 children. The psychometric properties of the tool and the significance it can hold in the areas of planning in research and of educational design are presented in this paper.Settore M-PED/03 - Didattica E Pedagogia Speciale
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Project duration evaluated using affine arithmetic

2016

A civil engineering work can be performed by organizing the available resources (manpower, equipment and materials) in many different ways. Each different configuration results in a realization time and a cost that a building company has to bear. To produce reliable duration forecasts and money savings, it is essential to take into account all the uncertainties involved in the project operations. Generally, since it is impractical to process numerous uncertain variables - also undefined from a statistical point of view -, traditional probabilistic methods involve application difficulties for complex environments such as construction sites. To properly handle this issue, the authors propose …

Mathematical optimizationConstruction Operationbusiness.industryComputer scienceSchedulingProbabilistic logic020101 civil engineering02 engineering and technologyInterval (mathematics)010501 environmental sciencesGeotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology01 natural sciences0201 civil engineeringScheduling (computing)Interval arithmeticVariable (computer science)Project managementSettore ICAR/04 - Strade Ferrovie Ed AeroportiPlanning and ControlDuration (project management)Project managementbusinessAffine arithmetic0105 earth and related environmental sciencesCivil and Structural Engineering
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Combing System Dynamics Modeling and Performance Management Systems to Frame the One Stop Shop Service: a Case Study Based on Palermo's Municipality

The Italian public sector is characterized by a great number of stakeholders, both public and private. That’s the reason why, in the past, dealing with public issues meant to face different actors and administrations, to solve the several number of bureaucratic requirements. In particular, the field of new business activities was very complex. This area was characterized by huge fragmentations among the public bodies involved. In fact, if an entrepreneur wanted to open a new business, it was necessary to deal with different subjects to obtain the mandatory permits, license and authorizations. Accomplishing all the steps, without any support from the public sector, implied an increase of cos…

Settore SECS-P/07 - Economia AziendaleOne Stop Shop Performance Management System Dynamics Planning and Control Modeling Organization
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The contribution of "spontaneous" health care networks to improving outcomes: Opportunities and challenges from the perspective of planning and contr…

2019

The article aims to explore how Planning Control systems may support network-oriented policy-making in the health care sector. This work examines the case of ISMETT (Mediterranean Institute for high specialized transplants and therapies), a Sicilian hospital established in 1998 to provide high specialized and complex transplants and therapies. ISMETT pertains to several networks and it has a long-time experience in establishing and governing such inter-organizational relationships. The analysis of the case illustrates how health care networks may contribute to improve health and generate social and economic outcomes for the community.

health-care networks out- come performance management plan- ning and control systems ISMETTPerformance managementHealth-care networkISMETTPlanning and control systemOutcome
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“Toward a full decentralization of public regional healthcare systems: an exploratory system dynamic approach to evaluate some socio-economic healthc…

2012

The Italian Healthcare Service, originally managed by the central Government, has been gradually adjusted toward a decentralized model, with ample devolution of legislative, organizational and financial competencies to the regions, now responsible for the creation of an institutional framework where efficiency, efficacy and accountability have to inform the actions of the healthcare operators. In Sicily for decades those principles seem not to have received practical implementation, as the healthcare system has been chronically marked by unsatisfying social and economic performances. Due to the recent financial disequilibria, the central Government pushed the regional one to reform the enti…

healthcare performance financial disequilibrium recovery plan planning and control processes causal loop diagram.
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ENABLING LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGIES THROUGH DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE. A CASE-STUDY OF …

2021

Lo scopo principale di questa ricerca è quello di inquadrare le possibili relazioni causali fra corruzione negli approvvigionamenti pubblici e performance delle amministrazioni locali. A tal fine, viene adottato un disegno di ricerca che integra dinamicamente metodi quantitativi e qualitativi in ogni fase del processo di studio. Gli approcci Dynamic Performance Management (DPM) e Governance (DPG), supportati da interviste approfondite non-strutturate, modellazioni formali e simulazioni quantitative, sono qui adottati per analizzare un caso di studio rappresentativo di un piccolo comune italiano in cui si sono verificati alcuni episodi di corruzione nelle attività di approvvigionamento nei p…

new public managementcorruption measurementcorruptionDynamic Performance Managementcontent analysicollaborative governancethematic analysicorruption causeaxial codingopen codingSettore SECS-P/07 - Economia Aziendalelocal governmentSystem Dynamiccorruption theorycommunity outcomerisk performance drivercollective action theoryprincipal-agent theorycorruption models of analysipatronagepublic administrationplanning and control systempublic procurementfinancial distrenew public governance.small municipalitieDynamic Performance Governance
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