Consolidation Services: The British Library Experience

Working with the British Library - the ’zetoc’ experience

A market research report commissioned by the British Library was used as the basis of a detailed list of requirements for the provision of digital services to the UK Higher and Further Education sector. The services stemming from these requirements centred, in the first instance, on the British Library’s Electronic Table of

British experience with operations research in the health services.

OPERATIONS research and its companion activities, management science and systems research, have found wide use in many governmental and industrial organizations. The objective of these activities is the application of the scientific method to the study of the complex operations carried out by these organizations and, ultimately, through such studies, to provide the administrators and executives...

Health services market testing--the experience of the community services review team in British Forces Germany.

During 1993-1995 the health services in British Forces Germany were subjected to a market testing process by which the primary, community and acute health services for the British Servicemen and women, their families and attached civilian staff, a population of 70,000, were put out to competitive tender with the then current provider, the Defence Medical Services, as one tenderer for the contra...

Working with the British Library and DataCite

Inflation Targeting : The British Experience

This lecture describes the United Kingdom’s experience with inflation targeting. It provides an historical perspective to the introduction of inflation targeting, discusses the concept of inflation targets, and compares an inflation targeting regime with money supply and exchange rate targeting regimes. It is noteworthy that inflation targeting is based on the assumption that low inflation is t...