The competitive nature of business and society means that the protection of information, and governance of the information security function, is increasingly important. This paper introduces the notion of a governance framework for information security for health providers. It refines the idea of an IT Balanced Scorecard into a scorecard process for use in governing information security for pri...

BACKGROUND Teamwork promotes enhanced outcomes in various business sectors but can be hampered when there are organizational "silos." This study describes an intervention that fostered teamwork among 4 separate respiratory therapy (RT) departments within a single hospital. METHODS An initial retreat of leaders of the 4 RT groups indicated a common goal of developing a scorecard by which RT ou...

To provide valuable support for successful decision-making, managers need a balanced set of financial and nonfinancial measures that represent different requirements, strategic goals, strategies, resources, and capabilities and the causal relationships between these domains. The balanced scorecard is such a measurement system. As an open system the balanced scorecard facilitates the considerati...

The role of IT departments in organizations has changed considerably in recent years. This is mainly due to the need to develop competitive advantages to a business to remain a market leadership. Systems, being part of this technology, have become the core of many critical business processes, and this in turn has fostered the growth of systems development companies. However, in order for client...

The concept of the Balanced Scorecard has been widely implemented in various business fields, both goods and services, so that by studying this reader can understand meaning, purpose, benefits, factors are key to successful implementation Scorecard. purpose study is implement at SMK NEGERI 6 Garut. This research method uses a qualitative approach with library methods, books, articles, journals,...

The current balanced scorecard literature suggests that a link should exist between lagging and leading measurements of non-financial performance perspectives and financial performance measures. This work designed a dynamic integrated model for examining the influence of strategic links on the Taiwanese high-tech industry, and to examine the relationships among the strategic perspectives of the...

The adoption of the Balanced Scorecard philosophy of measure, monitor and manage by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) has resulted in SickKids' staff understanding, appreciating and ultimately being able to accept the enhanced transparency and accountability around performance, at both the system and hospital levels. The leadership of the organization observed these differences after in...

this paper focus on the impact on the performance of health workers at village and township levels in the provision of a government stipulated package of basic public health service, which adopted the performance-related contracts mode.the concept of balanced scorecard was adopted and developed to gather the 11 evaluation indicators distributed in four quadrants. these were implemented using on...

This Appendix contains an overview of debt collection technologies in the U.S. and its recent evolution. In the first section we summarize how debt is collected in the U.S. Section 2 focuses on collection technology and its recent evolution. The last section describes the data sources used in the analysis. 1 Overview of the Debt Collection Process in the US We briefly describe the debt collecti...

Student loans and credit card loans represent important components of young households’ portfolios in the United States. While default rates on credit card debt are at historically low levels, default rates on student loans have increased significantly in recent years. There are important institutional differences between bankruptcy arrangements and default consequences in the two markets, whic...