Offshoring: What Can Go Wrong?

Consumers or Citizens? Whose Voice Will Healthwatch Represent and Will It Matter?; Comment on “Challenges Facing Healthwatch, a New Consumer Champion in England”

Efforts to achieve effective and meaningful patient and public involvement (PPI) in healthcare have existed for nearly a century, albeit with limited success. This brief commentary discusses a recent paper by Carter and Martin exploring the “Challenges Facing Healthwatch, a New Consumer Champion in England,” and places these challenges in the context of the broader struggle to give a voice to h...

Active Learning with SVM for Land Cover Classification - What Can Go Wrong?

Training machine learning algorithms for land cover classification is labour intensive. Applying active learning strategies tries to alleviate this, but can lead to unexpected results. We demonstrate what can go wrong when uncertainty sampling with an SVM is applied to real world remote sensing data. Possible causes and solutions are suggested.

Managing Offshoring of Complex Products Strategy and Capabilities

Offshoring is a hot topic in the industrial and academic community over the last few years, evolving from a focus on manufacturing to product development and R&D. Offshoring refers to the process of sourcing and coordinating tasks across national borders and can include both in-house and outsourced activities performed by a supplier. There is a lot of research guiding the decision of what, wher...

Risk analysis: assessment, management and communication.

Import risk analysis is now a well-established discipline which aims to assist Veterinary Services to answer the following questions: 'What can go wrong?', 'How likely is it to go wrong?', 'What would be the consequences of it going wrong?' and 'What can be done to reduce either the likelihood or the consequences of it going wrong?'. Risk communication is that part of the overall process which,...

Radiation sterilization failures what can go wrong?