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Research Brief

Improving Educational Outcomes Through Accountability: Lessons from Other Sectors — Jan 1, 2004

This research brief describes work documented in Organizational Improvement and Accountability: Lessons for Education from Other Sectors (MG-136-WFHF).

Report

Benchmarking Security and Trust in Europe and the US — Jan 1, 2003

Explores how Europeans and Americans experience on-line threats and vulnerabilities.

Report

Systems of Innovation Within Public and Private Organizations: Case Studies and Options for the EPA — Jan 1, 2003

Systems of Innovation Within Public and Private Organizations: Case Studies and Options for the EPA

Journal Article

Quality-of-care Indicators for Early-Stage Prostate Cancer — Jan 1, 2003

This study establishes a foundation on which to build quality-of-care assessment tools to evaluate the treatment of early-stage prostate cancer.

Journal Article

The Role of Performance Measures for Improving Quality in Managed Care Organizations — Jan 1, 2001

Performance measures are used for quality improvement in addition to informing external constituents.

Report

Velocity Management: The Business Paradigm That Has Transformed U.S. Army Logistics — Jan 1, 2001

Velocity management has brought a new way of doing business to U.S. Army logistics, with a renewed focus on the Army customer and a powerful approach for process improvement that cuts across three critical performance dimensions: time, ...

Report

Dollars and Sense: A Process Improvement Approach to Logistics Financial Management — Jan 1, 2000

This report documents analysis conducted in support of the Velocity Management Financial Management Process Improvement Team.

Journal Article

From Understanding Health Care Provider Behavior to Improving Health Care: The QUERI Framework for Quality Improvement — Jan 1, 2000

Basic science and health care research provide the evidence base for the scientific practice of medicine.

Journal Article

Quality Enhancement Research Initiative for Human Immunodeficiency Virus/acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: Framework and Plan — Jan 1, 2000

The authors will require that these issues be addressed in evaluations of HIV-QUERI interventions.

Journal Article

Quality Enhancement Research Initiative in Mental Health — Jan 1, 2000

VA recently introduced its Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) to facilitate the translation of best practices into usual clinical care.

Research Brief

Define-Measure-Improve: The Change Methodology That Has Propelled the Army's Successful Velocity Management Initiative — Jan 1, 2000

Focuses on a key element of the Velocity Management story: the Define-Measure-Improve methodology that has propelled the Army's successful change.

Report

Environmental Management in Design: Lessons from Volvo and Hewlett-Packard for the Department of Defense — Jan 1, 1998

The authors of this report concentrate on two corporations -- Volvo and Hewlett-Packard -- to identify the key factors that led to successful implementation of a design-for-environment program.

Report

Demographics: A Casebook for Business and Government — Jan 1, 1997

This is a collection of 20 case studies prepared by a group of demographers; professors of economics, sociology, population studies, business, and marketing; and research analysts interested in understanding a world of changing demographics.

Report

Sustaining Innovation in South Gate: A Framework for Restructuring City Government — Jan 1, 1996

The demands being placed on municipal governments have increased dramatically over the past several years.

Research Brief

Improving Freight Transportation Policy in the Netherlands — Jan 1, 1996

The study analyzed the benefits and costs of a broad range of policy options for mitigating the negative effects of the expected growth in road transport while retaining the economic benefits.

Report

Demographics: A Casebook for Business and Government — Jan 1, 1994

This guidebook offers case studies of important applications of applied demography in government planning, long-term corporate strategy, forecasting, human-resource management and marketing.

Journal Article

Estimating Spares Requirements for Space Station Freedom: Using the M-SPARE Model — Jul 1, 1993

In this guide, we describe the M-SPARE methodology, operation, and analytical capabilities.

Report

The Benchmark Separation Projection Method for Predicting Monthly Losses of Air Force Enlisted Personnel — Jan 1, 1991

Describes the benchmark separation projection method of predicting monthly losses and reenlistments.

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