Nowadays due to the crisis, some government measures are aimed at reducing healthcare spending, affecting in some level or another the quality offered. Process management is said to be a useful tool for reducing healthcare costs by improving management without any additional economic investment. That is doing more with the same resources and without reducing the quality offered. In this study a…
Allocating and managing resources has always been an important cornerstone of institutional leadership. Institutional resources include financial, physical and human components. Even in the best of times, it is a challenge to do this effectively. In times of diminished and shrinking resources, the difficulties of distributing these precious commodities across the institution in the most equi…
These guidelines address the growing need of management development and governance programmes that are broad-based and involve a number of actors and institutions that work together in common systems (for example, judicial, financial, information, electoral, planning, decentralised systems). Other thematic areas can adapt and utilise these guidelines as well. In fact, development practitio…
With great speed and relatively little public awareness, a significant change has occurred in the way some decisions are made about a patient's medical care. Decisions that were once the exclusive province of the doctor and patient now may be examined in advance by an external reviewer—someone accountable to an employer, insurer, health maintenance organization (HMO), or other entity responsi…
Globalization of markets, the extremely fast pace of technology, especially in communications technology, increasingly fierce competition between credit institutions to provide the most competitive products and services to customers led to an acceleration of activities in the banking system internationally. The cooperative banks have undergone extensive reforms since 2006, pursuing their re…
The challenges that complicate strategic management in emerging industries, like the renewable energy industry, motivate this dissertation. In particular, difficulties stemming from the industrial context, from environmental uncertainty, and from manager-stakeholder interactions are discussed. The most prominent environmental hurdles are thereby to be found in the areas of regulation, technolog…
Financial risk management is a huge field with diverse and evolving components, as evidenced by both its historical development (e.g. Diebold, 2012 ) and current best practice (e.g. Stulz, 2002 ). One such component—probably the key component—is risk measurement , in particular the measurement of financial asset-return volatilities and correlations (henceforth “volatilities”). Cruci…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of firm size on enterprise risk management for the listed firms in Kenya. Effectiveness of enterprise risk management is measured by financial performance of the listed firms. A descriptive research design was used. Theoretically, ERM adds value to an organization, however there is disagreement among scholars on whether ERM add value to a…
The purpose of this Guideline is to facilitate implementation of requirements contained in the Strategic Management Specification with regard to the development and implementation of key performance indicators. This Guideline explains how to develop and use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for records management. It is based on a number of methodologies for developing KPIs in general whic…
The purpose of this Guideline is to facilitate implementation of requirements contained in the Strategic Management Specification with regard to the development and implementation of key performance indicators. This Guideline explains how to develop and use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for records management. It is based on a number of methodologies for developing KPIs in general which we…
Most oil and gas companies do not like to consider themselves “energy traders.” In their view, energy trading is more closely associated with investment banks and merchant energy companies. However, nearly all oil and gas companies are exposed to conditions or are engaged in activities that contribute to a risk profile that is very similar to that of an energy trading concern. Oil an…
Accenture 2013 Global Risk Management Study Many organizations say they want to make better use of analytics, but it is apparent that there is still plenty of ground to cover here. High-performance risk management organizations are taking a focused approach to embed analytics into their management processes. They are doing so by, among other measures, improving data quality and developi…
The majority of the entries are written as closely as possible to the original perspectives of the influential writers and researchers who are associated with them. While all the important strategy and strategic management concepts are here, the primary aim in making these notes is to include (sometimes at length) ideas which are generally downplayed or neglected in the mainstream strategic ma…
The role of Bank is diversified into financial intermediaries, facilitator and supporter. Yet the banks place themselves as a trusted body for the depositors, business associates and investors. Liquidity risk may arise from these diverse operations, as they are fully liable to make available, liquidity when stipulated by the third party. Additional efforts are required by Islamic banks for scal…
“The Essentials of Strategic Management” provides us with a short, concise explanation of the most important concepts and techniques in strategic management. It is a rigorous explanation of many topics and concerns in strategic management