This pocket guide, a supplement to "The Family Planning Manager," provides suggestions for building an effective, supportive board of directors. Among the topics covered are defining the board's terms of office, board committees, criteria for selecting board members and the board leader, dealing with key family planning issues, and ethical concerns. Also included is a sample chart for keeping...

For Today's Logistics Manager, It's a Jungle out There! Customer-mandated programs with a wide variety of names (JIT, Quick Response, Vendor Managed Inventory, etc.) all share common requirements such as compliance labeling and shrinking order-cycle times. Internal demands to reduce inventory levels coupled with an ever-increasing number of stock keeping units (SKUs) makes the job even more dif...

In this paper, we introduce a new component of the EMU Speech Database Management System [1, 2] to improve the team workflow of handling production data (both acoustic and physiological) in phonetics and the speech sciences. It is named emuDB Manager, and it facilitates the coordination of team efforts, possibly distributed over several nations, by introducing automatic revision control (based ...

Copyright © 2017 CA. All rights reserved. Mainframe application development is evolving from the traditional waterfall process to the agile process. To transition to agile, development teams need a source code management tool that helps them manage concurrent development activities, while keeping the main development branch in a buildable state. CA Endevor® Software Change Manager (CA Endevor S...

CoSM (Comet Structure Manager) is a tool for the maintenance of data warehouse structures based on the temporal data warehouse model COMET. Current data warehouse systems do not care for changes in dimension data. CoSM allows keeping track of modifications made in the dimension-structure of multidimensional cubes stored in an OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) system. CoSM can download dimens...

This paper proposes a theory of the impact of product-market competition on managerial decision-making autonomy based on managers’ concern about keeping their incumbency rents (that competition puts at risk), and on the idea that changes in market conditions a¤ect the congruence between the interests of the di¤erent hierarchical levels. The main focus of my analysis is on how changes in market ...

This paper reports on an in-depth case study of a large and strategic IT development project facing business user disengagement and potential system rejection. Somewhat belatedly senior management recognised the threat and appointed a new project manager with a brief to rescue the project whilst keeping to the original implementation deadline. Much to almost everyone's surprise the new project ...

In this paper, we propose an implementation scheme of source routing function, one of the characteristics, in applying PNNI protocol to ATM switching system. The proposed substance is a PNNI routing software structure design and source routing algorithm. The software structure guarantee maximal independence among blocks by keeping a function manager, composing a handling block separately, worki...

New approaches in health care, such as e.g. Integrated Delivery Systems, affect the role and tasks of medical suppliers. More and more, medical suppliers are incorporated into the process of guiding patients to medical specialists and hospitals and thus managing the course of disease. In this context, the role of medical gatekeepers and case managers may provide opportunities for undesirable be...

Bottleneck appears in a serial supply chain if the minimum production rate at all stages is smaller than the demand rate. Operation manager must focus on keeping the bottleneck stage fully utilized and forcing the other stages to produce in synch with the bottleneck. This study applies the lot size division method, the recursive tightening method, and the drum-buffer-rope strategy. A pull and r...