Making data available to citizens is no news for the Governments which aim at improving their current level of performance. The City of Seattle has understood that a transparent approach to conducted activities and obtained results is the leading path towards both a better relationship with the citizens, and a roadmap to performance.
Benchmarking, or learning from best practices, can boost a company’s performance by enabling a learning experience that relies on underlining the best in-class practices and their integration into your own organizational processes. Moreover, benchmarking allows companies to focus on strengths and weaknesses in comparison to those of their main competitors and, as such, it supports them in strengthening their position on the market. Nowadays, benchmarking is one of the most frequently used strategies for improving business performance.
The Department of Public Health from the State of Connecticut, US, aims to ensure “Healthy People in Healthy Connecticut Communities”. Far from remaining just a dream, numerous actions were taken in order to make sure this vision will be reached.
The first step was to develop the State Health Improvement Plan, a clear guide focused on improving health outcomes, by prevention and risk reduction. As part of this plan, 7 health areas of focus were identified
Each February, Gartner releases one of its most important research reports: the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence. Two years ago, the name of this Magic Quadrant was changed, from “Business Intelligence Platforms” to “Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms”, to emphasize the growing attention that organizations pay to having analysis capabilities, without needing to require help from IT or data experts.
By definition, procurement represents the process of obtaining goods and services from preparation and processing of a requisition to the approval of the invoice for payment. As Robert Monczka specifies in the book Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, purchasing is responsible for acquiring all the materials needed by an organization, and it is the function responsible for issuing purchase orders and initiating the flow of materials.