Report
Expenditures on purchased goods and services constitute large and growing portions of the budgets for most enterprises. The authors offer a set of steps for managing these, synthesized from the literature for analyzing total spending on commodities.
News Release
RAND and Health Dialog Form Strategic Alliance to Create New Tools to Evaluate Quality and Efficiency of Health Care
News Release
Contrary to popular belief, patients with multiple chronic illnesses do not receive worse quality of care, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today.
News Release
May 9, 2007 news release: RAND Supply Chain Policy Center to Research Critical Issues in Freight Transportation.
Project
The RAND Supply Chain Policy Center conducts research that helps the public and private sectors address critical issues in freight transportation to the U.S., North American, and international economies.
News Release
February 1, 2007 news release: Study Finds Academic Gains Not Superior Among Philadelphia Students Enrolled in Privately Run Public Schools
Research Brief
Research charities are under increasing pressure to improve the translation of new scientific knowledge into benefit for patients. This research brief outlines a novel evaluation of paybacks of research grants by the Arthritis Research Campaign.
Research Brief
This brief provides insight into the issues involved in research measurement and evaluation, and offers ways to approach the objective of assessing benefit. It also provides a 'toolkit' for use in the evaluation process.
Report
As the Army transforms its operating force, it must also transform its institutional activities to align them with operating forces and to release resources from institutional activities that the Army can use to add new brigades and weapon systems.
Report
As the Army transforms its operating force, it must also transform its institutional activities to align them with operating forces and to release resources from institutional activities that the Army can use to add new brigades and weapon systems.
Journal Article
Compare different methods of combining quality indicators scores to produce composite scores summarizing overall performance of health care providers.
Report
Provides background about market research and a summary of "how-to" guidance for U.S. Air Force commodity teams tasked with conducting market research in order to improve Air Force procurement by emulating commercial best practices.
Report
Describes spend analyses drawn from a purchasing and supply management demonstration for purchases of F100 spare parts and repair services.
Report
This report investigates the deployment and management of personal advisers in three employment education companies in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Report
Investigates the appropriate use of the Balanced Scorecard, a popular performance measurement and management instrument, in research and development organizations.
Commentary
Published commentary by RAND staff: Cities Should Enlist Business in Their Battle Against Crime.
Report
Addresses how to assess police performance and how to use performance assessments to strengthen incentives for the police.
Report
Reports results of interviews of youths treated in 11 adolescent programs that had been identified as having suggestive evidence of effectiveness, to learn whether they had better outcomes than they would have had at other facilities.
News Release
On behalf of the U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, the RAND Corporation is fielding the first national survey to measure the impact of cybercrime on American businesses.
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