What is Strategic Planning? Explain its relevance to the management of a Human Service Organization of your choice. What is building a house without a blueprint? In everything we do‚ planning is essential‚ it serves as a guideline. With reference to the question‚ strategic planning offers many benefits to social service organizations‚ operating within an environment‚ funding cutbacks and emerging competition‚ (Finley et al‚ 2001). According to Florence Green (2009)‚ strategic planning is an
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Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. As such they constitute an enabling technology for knowledge management. Dubbed "the GPS of the information universe"‚ topic maps are also destined to provide powerful new ways of navigating large and interconnected corpora. While it is possible to represent immensely complex structures using topic maps‚ the basic concepts of the model Topics‚ Associations‚ and Occurrences
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BOOK REVIEW BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and make the Competition Irrelevant W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne‚ 2005. BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY : How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant. Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation. ISBN 1-59139-619-0. I find this book‚ Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant‚ is very informative. The only thing that I am not very fond of
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The Blue Film An old proverb goes “The past will always come back to haunt you”. Which means‚ that no matter how much you try to hide something from your past it will somehow surface again. It is only a matter of time. This is a very fitting proverb when talking about the short story “The Blue Film”. “The blue film” is a short story about a single evening in the life of a middle aged Europe-an couple. It is a simple chronological story. The novel has a strong marriage and divorcement theme
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Production Research‚ Vol. 46‚ No. 23‚ 1 December 2008‚ 6627–6647 Strategy maps as improvement paths of enterprises M. BARAD*y and S. DRORz yDepartment of Industrial Engineering‚ Tel Aviv University‚ Ramat Aviv‚ Tel Aviv‚ Israel zDept. of Industrial Engineering and Management‚ Ort Braude College‚ Karmiel‚ Israel (Revision received December 2007) To locate and prioritize the improvement needs of an enterprise‚ a strategy map merging managerial principles of the BSC with quality principles stemming
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Practitioner Activity 1 briefly summarise the CIPD Profession Map (i.e. the 2 core professional areas‚ the specialist professional areas‚ the bands and the behaviours) The CIPD HR Profession Map has been developed with the help of HR professionals around the world. Many organisations use the CIPD profession map to measure their HR capability‚ address areas for development‚ and to develop their employees within HR. The HR profession map is made up of ten professional areas‚ eight behaviours and
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Auden’s ‘Refugee Blues’ laments the plight of the Jews who were forced to flee Europe when the Holocaust started and they were rounded up and killed or imprisoned under the cruel regime of Hitler. The poem starts with a narrator‚ who is later revealed to be a German Jew‚ describing a large city which is home to ten million people some of whom are well off and live in luxurious large houses while others make do in slums and shabby houses. Yet‚ the narrator tells the person with him‚ presumably a
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many other people‚ they have found football to be a hobby‚ something to do in there past time. They have formed habits around watching the game. In the movie "Varsity Blues‚" football isn’t just a past time for the town‚ but it is a way of life‚ the whole town is involved in the high school football team. "Varsity Blues" takes place in a small town in Texas called West Canyon‚ in this town if you are a healthy boy‚ then you are a football player. Young males have tons of pressure from their
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Case Exam 2—Amazon.com Inc. Amazon’s most recent business initiatives serve small and medium sized businesses by providing data storage‚ computing capacity‚ logistical and distribution support. Amazon founder and Chief Executive‚ Jeffery P. Bezos‚ recently began initiatives to help businesses run the burdensome technical and logistical aspects of their businesses in an effort to become a 21st century digital utility (Cravens & Piercy‚ 2013‚ p. 608). Amazon’s vast array of technology services allows
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Title: Perfect blue Page 1-48 Author: Laura Langston Setting: Grandma’s house‚ School and home. Main Characters: Description: Erin Dog lover‚ really tall‚ Dark hair and responsible. Cassie Prankster‚ loves horses and has light hair. Steve (dad) Joker‚ young and careless
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