Six principles to enhance health workforce flexibility

Six principles to enhance health workforce flexibility

UNLABELLED This paper proposes approaches to break down the boundaries that reduce the ability of the health workforce to respond to population needs, or workforce flexibility. Accessible health services require sufficient numbers and types of skilled workers to meet population needs. However, there are several reasons that the health workforce cannot or does not meet population needs. These pr...

Anticipation to Enhance Flexibility of Workflow Execution

This paper introduces an evolution to classical workflow that allows more flexible execution of processes while retaining its simplicity. On the one hand it allows to describe processes in the same way that they are in design and engineering manuals. On the other hand it allows to control these processes in a way that is close to the way they are actually enacted. This evolution is based on the...

Does flexibility enhance risk tolerance?

The optimal decision under risk depends upon the ability of the decision makers to adapt their actions to the state of nature ex post. We examine two choice problems, one in which agents select their action ex post, and one in which they must commit on their action ex ante. Contrary to the intuition, it is not true in general that agents are more tolerant to risk in the flexible context than in...

Diversifying experiences enhance cognitive flexibility

Software Design Principles to Enhance SDN Architecture

SDN as a network architecture emerged on top of existing technologies and knowledge. Through defining the controller as a software program, SDN made a strong connection between networking and software engineering. Traditionally, network programs were vendor specific and embedded in hardware switches and routers. SDN focuses on isolation between control and forwarding or data planes. However, in...