2012-05-24T14:32:03Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/business-strategies.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1153.html May 7, 2012 May 7, 2012

Historically, police agencies have measured their performance against a restricted set of crime-focused indicators, but modern police officers must be prepared to take on a wide variety of roles. Performance measures should be multidimensional to capture this complexity. This report describes some key considerations in designing measures to evaluate law enforcement agencies and includes a detailed review of some international best practices.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1137.html Mar 21, 2012 Mar 21, 2012

Congestion within the U.S. freight system has increased dramatically in the past few decades, costing travelers, consumers, and businesses billions of dollars each year. A federal policy is offered to address the challenges faced by the U.S. freight network in an environment dominated by declining revenues and public resistance to increasing taxes.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201200111.html Mar 1, 2012 Mar 1, 2012

Networks are increasingly invoked by contemporary economists as a novel mode of organising human endeavours, somewhere between price markets and command hierarchies, somehow able to produce coordinated coherence. The book emerges from a European Commission project aimed at developing new indicators and measures of innovation.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR904.html Feb 29, 2012 Feb 29, 2012

In 2002, the Air Force initiated a program called Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), which seeks to manage relationships with suppliers to reduce the total cost of logistics operations and improve their performance. This report reviews the literature on best practices in SRM, assesses how the Air Force has implemented SRM, and recommends actions, based on lessons from the private sector, that the Air Force could take to improve its SRM program.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP661.html Jan 19, 2012 Jan 19, 2012

The ImpactFinder provides an overview of research impact and a basis for more detailed examination of the 'why and how' of research translation. The tool is implemented as a web questionnaire and collects information across a range of social, cultural and economic impacts. It was developed to meet the need of the UK's new framework for research funding but potentially has wider application.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2012/01/13/RAND.html Jan 13, 2012 Jan 13, 2012

Michael D. Rich, the new president and chief executive officer of the RAND Corporation, shares his thoughts about his new role and the future of RAND.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120053.html Jan 1, 2012 Jan 1, 2012

Open innovation has gained increased attention as a potential paradigm for improving innovation performance. This paper addresses crowdsourcing, an under-researched type of open innovation that is often enabled by the web.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9624.html Dec 15, 2011 Dec 15, 2011

Describes the methodology used to develop resource allocation and forward positioning recommendations for the sustainment stock portion of Army pre-positioned stocks, given a specific scenario and budget.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1148.html Dec 9, 2011 Dec 9, 2011

This report presents the results of an evaluation of health care performance measures, describes how performance measures are being used by a wide array of organizations and the types of measures being used for different purposes, summarizes key barriers and facilitators to the use of measures, and identifies opportunities for easing the use of performance measures moving forward.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB632.html Dec 7, 2011 Dec 7, 2011

The Army desires a distribution system for home station units that provides timely and low-cost delivery of needed supplies. A critical part of this system is the scheduled truck service provided by the Strategic Distribution Platforms. Although this system is relatively strong, researchers explored ways to improve it by adding new units and posts to the truck network and taking other steps to reduce "leakage" from the truck network.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9629.html Nov 29, 2011 Nov 29, 2011

Examines whether there is a less costly medical distribution structure for U.S. Central Command that would maintain or improve performance.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9616.html Nov 29, 2011 Nov 29, 2011

Discusses how to design a distribution network that takes advantage of the respective strengths of different modes of transportation to meet combatant command needs while minimizing total supply chain costs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG991.html Nov 3, 2011 Nov 3, 2011

Department of Defense policies, procedures, and organizations for program management and oversight of defense acquisition programs do not align well with shipbuilding. Ship acquisition programs have characteristics that deviate from the normal framework in significant ways, resulting in disconnects and some confusion. The authors examine these differences and suggest policies that can better account for them.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB631.html Oct 10, 2011 Oct 10, 2011

An evaluation by RAND Europe of the Greek research and development (R&D) system has identified opportunities to improve economic growth and social outcomes.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/10/10.html Oct 9, 2011 Oct 9, 2011

An evaluation by RAND Europe of the Greek research and development (R&D) system has identified opportunities to improve economic growth and social outcomes.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100157.html Sep 30, 2011 Sep 30, 2011

Affordability benchmarks and premium-contribution requirements for Children's Health Insurance Program expansions in three states vary substantially, underscoring the ambiguity and subjectivity of affordability standards.

http://www.rand.org/multimedia/audio/2010/10/25/improving-public-services.html Sep 25, 2011 Sep 25, 2011

RAND recently assessed accountability systems in five sectors (child care, education, health care, public health emergency preparedness, and transportation) and made recommendations on how to improve such systems to better achieve government or agency goals.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG803.html Sep 21, 2011 Sep 21, 2011

Considers potential efforts by the U.S. Department of Defense to assess the performance of military treatment facilities (MTFs) in cost-effectively managing health care. The authors first provide an overview of performance assessment in the nonmilitary health care sector; they then analyze the use of average MTF utilization and costs as performance measures, focusing on how MTF size and catastrophic cases affect these metrics.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1108.html Jul 13, 2011 Jul 13, 2011

Over the past decade, U.S. Marine Corps intelligence has had to tailor its organization to meet the evolving demands of the operational environment. A broad review of its design examined how to align it efficiently and effectively with current and future missions and functions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1010.html Jul 15, 2011 Jul 15, 2011

Peer review is considered the gold standard for reviewing research proposals, but it is not always the best method for every research funding process. RAND Europe has developed a folio of cards highlighting a set of established approaches that offer unique alternatives to traditional peer review.