Bridging a gap

Bridging a gap

There has been a quiet revolution in UK medical charities over the past two decades. Increasing competition for donations, adoption of new roles relative to the state and private sectors, and the requirement for more accountability have all played their part in the movement away from a total reliance on volunteers to a greater use of professional expertise — not only in media relations and fund...

Bridging the Gap Bridging the Educational Research-Teaching Practice Gap

The first paper [1] in this two-part miniseries on conceptual understanding discussed expert and novice conceptual knowledge, the multifaceted nature of conceptual understanding, and the cognitive skills essential for constructing it. This second article presents examples of instruments for the assessment and development of five facets of conceptual understanding that require competence in the ...

notes on bridging the generation gap

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Bridging the Risk Gap

It is well understood that new product development (NPD) projects are risky endeavors ( Cerpa and Verner 2009 ; Smith 1999 ; Nelson 2007 ) and that the management of risk is a vital task for managers in these types of projects. A plethora of canonical risk management standards has emerged (see, for instance, Project Management Institute 2013 ), and these are promoted as being self-evidently cor...

Tendon—bridging the gap