The second annual ‘‘Manufacturing Technology Conference: Toward a Common Agenda,’’ was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on April 18–20, 1995. The Conference helped define and refine the major elements of a national manufacturing agenda. Such an agenda involves consensus among government, industry, academia, and workforce organizations. This y...

Organizations face many potential issues but their capacity to attend to them is constrained. Formal and informal agendas, the aggregate sets of issues to which decision makers allocate attention and effort, help prioritize among multiple concerns. Such agendas evolve over time, with issues expanding or decreasing in scope and prominence. We analyzed interviews, observations, and archival data ...

Agenda item 11.3: Engagement with Non-State Actors: A draft decision [2] calls for further consultations at the WHO Regional Committee Meetings in 2014, and Member states are invited to submit “specific” follow-up questions to the Secretariat. The WHO secretariat is requested to provide an account of these “further consultations” and a proposed way forward to the 136th WHO Executive Board in Ja...

Sullivan et al. make a compelling argument that a "coalition of the willing" must seize the nettle and create a national agenda and the capacity for quality leadership in Canadian healthcare. While there is reason to believe that Canada could benefit from such an agenda, there is also evidence that, if done incorrectly, such an agenda could be expensive and counterproductive. To increase the li...

We investigate priority setting and the global health agenda by analysing the control of diarrhoeal diseases (CDD). CDD was one of the 'twin engines' of the 1980s' child survival movement, but now has a low priority on the global health agenda, even though diarrhoeal diseases still claim around 1.5 million children annually. In this article, we develop a framework and four indicators of priorit...

This paper uses Spillane’s (2001) theory and Gronn’s (2000) concerted efforts approach to examine distributed leadership in a low-carbon city agenda. The main purpose of the paper is to find empirical evidence of a relationship between distributed leadership and the achievement of the agenda. Eight constructs emerged that informed our understanding of distributed leadership dimensions within th...

In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in the value construct among both practitioners and marketing researchers. The purpose of this article is to introduce the reader to the different articles included in this special issue of Industrial Marketing Management on Customer Value in Business Markets. The issue takes a look at value from three different perspectives: value creati...

There are two overall goals for this project. We propose a process of discovery for the purpose of identifying and defining a research and development agenda for combustion visualization. The discovery process will involve close collaboration with the Combustion program at NERSC/ LBNL, and will dovetail with the effort proposed in a related FY99 LDRD (Bell, Brown and Colella). With such an agen...

The relevance and continuing existence of industrial relations, as a field of academic study, is facing a number of challenges, particularly in English-speaking countries, as union membership declines, collective bargaining coverage shrinks and the number of strikes wanes each year. yet issues of employment and workplace relations remain significant to economic prosperity and social harmony, pa...

This paper presents the results of converting a standard Greham/Harrison/Ruzzo (GHR) parser for a unification grammar into an agenda-driven parsing system. The agenda is controlled by statistical measures of grammar-rule likelihood obtained from a training set. The techniques in the agenda parser lead to substantial reductions in chart size and parse time, and can be applied to any chart-based ...