Essays on Collaboration

Education is valuable. Every person is working hard to empower their children to get the best education. On the other hand, governments are working harder to ensure that children nationwide get good education. Despite these efforts, a many children start school but do not finish the program. There are many reasons that explain why students drop out of school without the education related while others proceed studying. Some students drop out of school, because of the financial constraints, and others - due to the social factors. A school dropout rate is a big problem affecting many schools across the ...

Article: Sommerville, I. (2011). System documentation
One of the most important aspects of developing software systems includes documentation. This is a phase that is overlooked in the software development lifecycle. This is because of the fact that it is not part of the working system. The different stages of the software lifecycle development will depend on proper documentation for these stages to be understood. There is a need to ensure that the procedures and the processes of documenting the system are clearly understood in the design of the project. This will ensure that the software that has been developed ...

Introduction

It must be noted that strategic partnerships and alliances have become very important, particularly at a time where shippers as well as carriers increase their cooperation level. During the 2008 world economic downturn, many analysts predicted some gloomy future as far as the long-term supply chain relationship is concerned (Ernst & Young, 2012). The foundation of this prediction was based on that fact that all decisions would be made on the basis of lowest prices and underestimation of the increase of mutually beneficial collaboration that existed between the partners of supply chain partners. However, these forecasts never accounted to the ...

Instruction

Abstract
Conflict circumstances are critical aspects in every institution. A conflict can be defined as a situation where the needs, goals interests or values of involved parties meddle with one another. Therefore, a conflict is a normal occurrence in the workplace among other social settings. Conflict can arise between team members, organizations and clients, projects, departments, organization need vs. personal needs, and a boss vs. subordinate. In many cases, conflict can result from a perception. Conflict is not necessarily a bad thing. This is because it can present opportunities for improvement. As such, it is important to be acquainted ...

Part II: Conflict Management Plan

- Problem Solving
- Avoiding Authoritative commands
- Super-ordinate Goals
- Compromise
- Collaboration
- Accommodation
- Competing

Each strategy has advantages as well as disadvantages, which are mentioned below.

The consideration of the strategy in order to resolve the conflict between James and David depend on the collaboration. Collaboration helps the individuals to with one another in order to achieve a common goal (Anyanwu, 2009).They should sit together for discussing the situation in detail, and should adopt cooperative as well as assertive attitude. Collaboration and cooperation can pave the way to the effective resolution of the conflict (Hellriegel & Slocum, 2010). However, the presence of supervisor is necessary so that ...

Introduction

Collaboration with health care professionals is crucial for enhancing enhanced better patients’ outcome. That is because each member of the healthcare team is usually trained with specific skills that allow them to offer their service efficiently in their particular discipline. Thus, bringing together the professionals provides strength for each discipline by supplementing its weakness in treating patients. In addition, effective interdisciplinary teams results in decreased costs and improvement in patients’ satisfaction, as well as a reduction in mortality and morbidity through error reduction and patients’ safety. (Institute of Medicine, 2001) In that view, this report presents an analysis of ...

Characters in any piece of literature carries the message or at times they act as guides for a particular message. Additionally, it will be easier to determine the significance of these characters through the way they conduct themselves in the novel. Therefore, this paper will focus on the significance of the main characters in the novel “The Journey to the West.”
Notwithstanding, characterization will be discussed based on the novel, “The Journey to the West.” This literature is considered to be one of the greatest classical novels. The literature was initially published in the 1590s during Ming Dynasty. The ...

One of the most prominent traits of the USSR internal politics in the 1930s is a change of the concept of public enemies. They were converted to be defined in ethnical way, in contrast to the Marxist-Leninist approach of class. The reason for this change is the idea of ‘capitalist encirclement’ of the Soviet Union, which led to the fusion of domestic and foreign enemies. This change contributed to the struggle against ‘fifth columnists’ and in such a way it was used as a reason for terror policy against the Soviet national minorities, primarily those who lived near the ...

Problem Solving

Today, societies are more global than they have ever been in human history. Currently, there is a major exchange of knowledge and culture among various different groups of people. Sometimes problems may arise which can cause problems for a certain group or groups of people. A problem such as the color of a person's skin can lead to racism and cause a split in society. Oftentimes, the solution to these problems can be found when different groups, both large and small, come together in order to exchange ideas on problem solving. In their essay, James Surowiecki's "Committees, Juries, and ...

In the first place, one should always remember that a conflict may arise anywhere and for any reason - even in the friendliest work collective or environment. Collaboration is considered to be one of the most effective approaches of a conflict settlement. Collaborative conflict management provides for managing conflict by negotiating, a situation in which opponents in a conflict situation work together in order to achieve a common objective. This conflict management strategy is effective when each side involved in the conflict assumes responsibility for his or her own actions and diligently strains after the settlement of a problem.
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Asking people for money is not effortless, as one has to prove that their cause is worth saving, however it is a necessity for most non-profit organizations. Even though it is difficult, fundraising should be an enjoyable and stimulating experience (Klingaman, P. 11). It is important for every fundraising organization to build a fundraising network. Fundraising network is significant especially in organizations that have no solid foundation. Strong and sustained fundraising networks can help an individual raise enough to fulfill the vision of the organization. The concept behind fundraising networks is not complex; organizations raise more when they a ...

Building Relations in Higher Education Leadership Introduction The contemporary society is quite dynamic and highly interconnected. Consequently, there has been an increased need for interdependence and collaboration and every level of leadership. One individual cannot solve all the challenges facing an institution or an organization. Accordingly, an effective leader is one who promotes collaborative decision making rather than the individual intuition approach. One of the major characteristics of an effective leader is the ability to maintain collaborative relationships with all stakeholders. Collaboration comes with overwhelming benefits such as being a warranty of success. School leaders of higher education institutions ...

Introduction

In a bid to increase online and physical presence, many organizations are turning to news releases. This is where a pre-recorded audio of video message featuring various products, and in this case, the designs by Alexander Wang, are sent to news rooms or online news publications in order to inform prospective customers of the availability of said products. This paper will look into the collaboration of Alexander Wang and Hennes & Mauritz. One of the ways in which the collaboration has been celebrated is though media relations and news releases. The paper will evaluate the benefits of a news release ...

Oscorp Limited, a Chinese Company, and Quazi Designs, a United Kingdom based company, entered an agreement that provided for their collaboration in widget designing. The joint venture arose due to both companies recognition of the benefits arising from such cooperation. Due to its long experience in the designing of widgets, Quazi will undertake all the design work and review Oscorp projects to provide suggestions for their improvements. Oscorp in its part would undertake the fabrication of widgets per designs provided by Quazi. While the designs will remain the intellectual property of Quazi, both parties have to agree on the ...

Implementation of New Media for Organizational Communication

Introduction
The Hampshire Corporation (HC) is a for profit company which was founded in 1970, and has offices in the United States, Canada, England, India, Philippines and Bulgaria.  The company is considered to be one of the best in their profession, which involves designing and selling information services and products for medical professionals. Three years ago, they purchased an Indian company and have tasked them to transfer all of their hard copy material –books, paper and journals- into a digital form.  The acquisition is the first step in an initiative to become more innovative.  Currently, HC suffers substantially from ...

6) Lummus et. al concludes that trade promotion are usually used by the manufacturer to stimulate the demand of FMCG and other goods. This creates irregularities in the supply chain because the retailers usually do not foresee a increase in demand from result trade promotion activities and buy too less. This creates supply chain problems for the manufacturers. This creates a bullwhip effect in the entire supply chain. Same thing happen as a result of price fluctuation with retailers trying to buy at frequent intervals rather than purchasing large order at once. A company that is not prepared for ...

Management

The best methods to lead and manage the employees are to ensure:
- Group Maintenance and
- Promoting Collaboration within the Group
The task performance method represents the efforts of leader in order to ensure that the organization attains its goals (Bateman, and Snell). The task performance method allows the leader to adopt the directive leadership that can help the leader to guide the employees properly by showing them right direction and motivating them. This method also allows the leader to consider the production matters so that the working of employees in relation to the organizational goals can be ...

Introduction

A healthy work environment refers to a work setting that is safe, satisfying and empowering. It does not simply refers to an environment that is characterized by an absence of both perceived and real threats but in actual sense refers to place of physical, social and mental wellbeing that supports optimal safety and health. A healthy work environment is characterized by health workers, subsidiary staff, managers and leaders who as part of the patient-centered team work with an exemplary sense of accountability, professionalism, involvement, transparency, effectiveness and efficiency. One of the elements of a healthy work environment that I ...

Importance of evaluation tools

Evaluation tools refer to principles, rules, stages methods or instructions followed so as to accomplish an evidence-based project in nursing. The following are examples of EBP outcome are collaboration and funding, integrated servicers.
Collaboration and communication; since there are stages, then there is a tendency of encouraging and facilitating communication and also collaboration among the participating health care professional. Thus, it enhances confidence when working on a given project since everyone is given a chance and allowed to engage new ideas. When the opinions are encouraged, it will make the work easier as some may have encountered similar cases ...

As far as education is concerned, establishment of an effective system is essential in the primary stages of education in an individual’s life which begin at schools. To ensure all-round development of the future generation of the nation, various institutions and agencies suggest different models that are expected to enhance learning and professionalism among the students of schools . The link between these institutions’ models and their implementation in various levels of schools are counselors, who have the responsibility of the development of not only children, but future advocates of a better society and living. Thus, it is essential ...

New media artists have a duty to respect the works of other artists and not to copy them. The new media artists should produce original works to make the public happy and also for them grow their career. Originality is admired by many people, and it puts an artist on the limelight. New media artists should have their works copyrighted. Copyrights will act as protection to the products of the artists, and they can sue anyone who tries to copy or duplicate their work. A new media artist who has not copyrighted his works cannot receive protection.
The ‘Happy ...

Interagency Collaboration

Interagency Collaboration
As the adage goes ‘Unity is Strength,’ so is the situation on the ground as far as crime detection and prevention are concerned. The notion of collaboration and cooperation by all the stakeholders in maintaining sanity, law and order in the affected areas has been very effective and efficient. These two concepts of collaboration and cooperation are well informed by the need to involve the very persons affected by the problem of insecurity and the menace of drug peddling and trafficking. These concepts, therefore, involve a scenario whereby several agencies come and work together towards accomplishing the ...

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Four classical phases of disaster management are mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. Mitigation efforts can be described as the efforts that are put for the elimination and reduction of hazard and its impacts/consequences. The traditional lightning rod is an example of such effort. These responsibilities are similar as those involved in any risk management program. In this case, however, they are entirely focused on putting a stop to or curtailing the loss of cataclysmic events. Preparedness is the risk identification and after its mitigation, starting to prepare for the unforeseen and improbable. Preparedness involves steps that ...

This paper aims to discuss the relationship between whites and blacks during the era of 1971. In order to undertake the analysis, the film “Remember the Titans” has been selected. The focus of the paper is on the aspect of the relationship between Blacks and Whites, which turned into strength.
It will not be incorrect to state that the relationship as depicted in the film are believable because this was the same era when the literature of American society was enhancing the solutions for the ideological problems between whites and Americans. To some people, the relationship posed in the ...

Shared Decision Making Model

Shared decision making model article by Stacey et al. is an article written to describe the types of shared decision making models as it relates to other major concepts. Those major concepts that are explored in the paper shows show the SDM relates to the aspect of the interprofessional collaboration in the clinical practice. This paper clearly shows the fact that 21st century healthcare management now moves to the area of the patient centered care. This is what distinguishes the models. The area of the SDM depicts the importance of the health professionals especially in the areas of the ...

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If we look in natural domains, we find that social insects, including ants and bees, have the capability to incorporate themselves into the world, develop their niches, and give rise to progeny. In fact, the term "super organism" was first used for social insects in a book in 1928, and the thought has waxed and waned over the long years, occasionally producing bitterness. It denotes a grouping of individual members that form a colony with many attributes of a sole organism. Members of a colony, for example, can be considered as an organism's cells, and a number of different ...

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Aim and objective
Among the various ways of improving health care services is through teamwork and collaboration. Collaboration forms the key foundation in building trust and improving service delivery among the employees and management. Through collaboration, nurses, pharmacists, case managers, and social workers are able to associate better and this is advantageous to the organization. Nurses perform their noble role in a team of professional pharmacist, case manager, physician and social workers. The goal of this paper is to promote collaboration in order to improve client’s outcome. In a hospital health care system, it is essential that physician ...

Elsa’s Post Response

Elsa, according to Lyons (2010), the organizational culture of a health facility dictates the relationships among the patients, families and the healthcare personnel, and streamlines the care delivery process, which is what you are talking about. Good relationships among the nursing care team enhance collaboration and teamwork, while partnership with the families and the community, which your health facility emphasizes as you assert, are important in delivering patient- and family-centered, evidence-based care (Greenstein, 2012). An organizational culture based on cooperation, transparency and quality is important in delivering the best healthcare services to patients (Lyons, 2010). The culture of the ...

Dissemination of Evidence into Practice: Medical Errors

While to err is human, there are other causal factors, which do result in the myriad of medical errors experienced. Accordingly, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) provides that more than 100,000 deaths are recorded in the USA alone, on an annual basis. This is in addition to a million plus injuries, all of which are attributed to the prevailing rates of mistakes and medical errors. Various measures exist, with regard to preventing and alleviating the resultant negative effects of medical errors. However, there is need for a coordinated effort, towards finding long-lasting and practical solutions to such occurrences. ...

The United States’ history in the participation of space race has been a popular phenomenon. Their participation within space activities other than in the achievement of hopes and dreams of for a limited number, started with the Eisenhower decision of supporting earth satellite projects which are inclusive of the geophysical scope. The participation became scientific and one of the noncompetitive ones as all others is expected to be. In simpler words, even though one of the scientific groups might discover considerably important scientific facts, such a discovery could be more of a credit to the individual as compared to ...

- Primary reasons for the organization’s existence
Riordan Company is a manufacturing company that produces plastics. The key customers of Riordan are the other companies that manufacture aircrafts, appliance and automotive parts. They also supply their products to the department of defense and beverage manufacturers. It is a global company with its headquarters in San Jose. A mission statement is a message that the company states in order for the stakeholders to see. The mission is aimed at guiding the decisions, strategic plans and any other action of an organization (Brabet & Klemm, 1994). It is also used as ...

Realizing optimal nursing outcomes is a major goal in my nursing profession. To achieve this, I will apply evidence-based, patient-centered practices; engage in critical thinking with a view to making the most suitable clinical judgments; and collaborate with the other nursing care team members and healthcare personnel (Anne-Marie, Ann, Jens and Lars, 2013). My experience at Vitas Hospice helped me learn a lot as far as nursing team management and communication is concerned.

Team work and collaboration is essential in delivering the best healthcare services to the patients to achieve the best results (Maxson et al., 2011). An interdisciplinary ...

Google Spreadsheet

A Google Spreadsheet is an open web based online program offered by Google and is used by users in creating spreadsheets in order to save documents, do collaboration, and share them with other users . In Google spreadsheet users can create and edit a spreadsheet as it is also used by others who are in collaboration with the user.

How Google spreadsheet works

Google spreadsheet does not require any cost to develop it but what you need is a Google account and internet enabled computer system which has a web browser. According to you create a spreadsheet by logging into your Google account or ...

I am presently employed in a small family-owned business whose main focus is on real estate development and management. Despite the small size, the firm is incredibly fast paced and dynamic. Over the last several years the business has grown exponentially, however, despite the fast growth, the processes, management techniques, and other key tools have remained the same. Significant changes would involve stream lining the many processes in order to increase efficiency and improve the various management processes.
The company began as a small “mom and pop shop,” with the family matriarch serving as the key executive. Together with ...

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Question 3.6
Dante’s Paradiso reflects a problem that has yet remained unsolved in the mathematical world, that of squaring the circle. Simply put, squaring the circle refers to using only a straight edge and compass to draw a square with an area equal to that of a given circle. In his final stanza, Dante uses a reference to the problem of squaring the circle to depict the problem of an overwhelmed intellect, inspired by his vision of heaven and his inability to grasp it. Dante uses the mathematical explanation to explain his inability to grasp the rationality of ...

“Want a Yogurt with that Venti Late? Starbucks and Danone to Join Forces” article, written by Stephanie Strom and published at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/24/business/starbucks-and-danone-joining-forces-to-sell-yogurt.html?ref=global&_r=1& on July 23rd, 2013 discusses about an organizational strategy for increasing two companies’ visibility, market share and profits and this is the reason why I chose it, for elaborating on an organizational behavior concept.
This business strategy comes out of Starbucks’ need of diversifying its line – up of products and services and developing its food offering. With this organizational strategy, the company looks into the future, as it anticipates the market’s trends. The company’s profits ...

Article Review: Inter-Professional Collaboration in Healthcare

Collaboration is essential in healthcare settings because it improves treatment outcomes while creating an ethical workplace. Ewashen, McInnis-Perry, and Murphy (2013) analyzed two cases in which conflicts occurred through the lenses of biomedical ethics, relational ethics, and virtue ethics. Those three perspectives can enable healthcare professionals to act ethically and encourage inter-professional collaboration by providing different principles and guidelines they can use when assessing situations and making decisions.
For example, relational ethics prioritizes building relationships with patients, their families, and colleagues. Of course, some professional boundaries need to be established, but empathy and respectable behavior should always be implemented ( ...

Technology in the world has brought up tremendous changes. Collaborating for research and product development has various advantages and disadvantages. In most cases collaboration on research and product development entails workflow, business strategy, as well as collection of software application aimed at facilitating various activities. In most cases, research and product development require a lot of resources, which include lab materials, money, accessibility to company cases, and money (White & Bruton, 2011). This can be very strenuous to achieve, but collaborating for research and product development reduces the complexity of obtaining the necessary required resources. In addition, collaboration on research ...

Working together as a team has always resulted to much convergent thinking and much consensus. Collaboration is hence considered to be a center for innovation due to associations, connections, speed, energy and implementation. The act of collaboration will always result into increased chances of people associating hence interchanging ideas that always lead to an innovative combination. Collaboration feedback will always make the speed of necessary iterations increased. A solution hence matures faster from conception of ideas to delivery of solution. People tend to be more connected to each other hence enabling emergence and push of good ideas. The expected ...

Introduction

Communication is fundamental in medical practice and forms an integral part of healthcare. Those who endeavor to advance effective healthcare cannot neglect communication. In addition, given the serious nature of the healthcare environment’s demands, collaborative communication is crucial (Fowler, 2008). This implies that effective communication means should, therefore, be identified so as to open and maintain clear communication channels within and between disciplines. Intradisciplinary communication may be defined as the communication occurring between professionals within a particular discipline (Basavanthappa, 2011). In this context, this means communication between nurses. Interdisciplinary communication means communication between professionals from different disciplines (Winowiecki, ...

The overall purpose for the critical infrastructure resilience analysis is to offer support for the management of the particular infrastructure by giving them a set of flexible, complex and dynamic conclusions and principles that act as the basis for the application of the plan for the continuity of the business. Critical infrastructure resilience can attain the required standards of competency and awareness through an active contributions and participation of the central and local authorities. This can also be achieved through the inclusion of the local partners that are responsible for the management of the critical infrastructures and services and ...

Elisa

Riordan Manufacturing is a plastics manufacturer globally which has employed over 550 people with projected earnings of $46 million annually (Riordan, 1996). The company is owned wholly by Riordan Industries, a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues that of exceed $1 billion (Riordan, 1996).
The mission for Riordan is to be a company which pays attention to detail, practices quality control, and extreme precision (Riordan, 1996). The attributes of the Riordan mission are seen throughout the Riordan projects (Riordan, 1996). The most important reason for the organizations existence is to ensure company grown and a good relationship with the company’ ...

Introduction

Collaborations among non-profit organizations and other entities provide an opportunity to share information and resources. It is imperative because it enhances information and resources to reach larger communities, expand developmental programs and services. Additionally, it leverages the comparative strengths of partners hence creating change more effectively. However, collaboration is effective during the times when there is an increase in the needs and decrease in the available resources. This implies that collaboration can act as an innovative approach used to build programs with limited resources because it gets support from funders. However, for collaboration to turn out successfully there must ...

Chapter 1: Life Before Bonding

It was almost dark and there was absolutely no sound in the woods apart from three footsteps and the breeze was flowing and making noise. Suddenly, Jack stopped and said “it is enough friends, we need to do something or else we would be left alone and will remain the same in our lives”. Jack was very aggressive and he was a sodium electron, he was very introvert and remained alone in his Atom’s outer shell. Jack was tranquilized by Crystal, and she was a chlorine electron and mentioned that “Jack, together we will be able to do ...

Chapter 1: Life Before Bonding

It was almost dark and there was absolutely no sound in the woods apart from three footsteps and the breeze was flowing and making noise. Suddenly, Jack stopped and said “it is enough friends, we need to do something or else we would be left alone and will remain the same in our lives”. Jack was very aggressive and he was a sodium electron, he was very introvert and remained alone in his Atom’s outer shell. Jack was tranquilized by Crystal, and she was a chlorine electron and mentioned that “Jack, together we will be able to do ...

Introduction

Since the onset of the fiber optic technology, communication barriers have been broken and the virtualization of teams has been possible. The objective of this chapter is to analyze the significance of virtual teams and their management in software development. The paper defines virtual teams and discusses their importance, their types, and the tools used by them for collaboration. It also analyzes the challenges faced by these teams in terms of management, collaboration, and coordination. The various virtual platforms used by these teams, such as cloud computing, are discussed. A secondary literature analysis is conducted to understand the role ...

During the Holocaust, the logistics of systematically imprisoning and eliminating six million Jews and other "undesirables" could not have been done simply by the Nazi Party and conservative Germany. Many other factions and individuals contributed to the facilitation of the Holocaust and its continued operation on both civilian and military levels. There were many reasons why people collaborated with the Nazis, and the results were often much more widespread than the Germans themselves could have hoped for. Collaboration with the Nazis during the Holocaust was a vital component that contributed to the substantial number of victims accumulated during this ...

List 3 examples of Supply Chain collaboration from the case and explain the common thread that is usually found among cases of effective collaboration.
Supply Chain collaboration is an important aspect of B2B collaboration and there are several cases in this study which are outlined. The first one is the partnership between WWT and ClearOrbit where several parts of the transaction ended up in a successful collaboration which benefited both parties.
The second is the one between WWT and OEM where the latter’s expertise in the automotive industry and the former’s in IT brought about another successful ...

New and Emerging Technologies that Support Collaboration

Given the social nature of human beings and their need to communicate with each other (Rogers et al., 2007), collaboration devices have been developed to enable people to communicate in a more interactive and collaborative way despite being separated by distance.

As such, experts continue to come up with new technologies to further advance and improve the capabilities of collaboration devices and the user experience they offer.

The following are the new paradigms that have been identified for use in future technologies in the Collaborative Working Environments for Europe (CWE), ...

Teamwork is work done by several members with a crucial role to achieve the general aim of the team members. The team members work with a common objective in mind and that is what defines their general objectives. Co-ordination involves the arrangement of tasks and deploying the resources for each one involved to ensure the common goal is reached. This is the challenging aspect in human-agent robot teamwork. This coordination requires some important aspects like inter-predictability, common ground and direct ability.
In this section, I will look into the policies that enhance easy co-ordination in aspects evolving around the ...

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Introduction

It is well accepted that nurse practitioners provide excellent health care, meeting quality standards and also a cost effective alternative to the traditional medical model. As a profession, we are capable of independent practice. The issue being that In New York State, as well as 34 other states, Nurse Practitioners is required to maintain a collaborative agreement with a physician. A collaborative agreement is a very loosely defined set of mandates, left opened to many different interpretations. Also, according the Patient Protection Affordable care Act (PPACA), Nurse Practitioners are recognized as providers but ...

Collaboration and Care Coordination in Healthcare: An Analysis Overview

The structure of a bureaucratic healthcare organization can garner improvements in partnerships leading to increased care quality as a result of key collaboration efforts, and coordination. The data indicates that a 30 percent ratio of traditional Medicare payments will gradually tie to value, or quality models, like accountable care organizations. Bundled payments are anticipated as optional choices in this scenario by the end of 2016, as well. Secondly, 50 percent of payments will tie to these models by 2018 especially considering that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has a goal of attaching 90 percent of all ...

Externally, U.S. intelligence community faces unprecedented challenges amid sweeping national and international political, economic and social changes. Striking failures to meet counterterrorism and intelligence objectives in both national and international arenas indicate current tools and policies are short of closing growing gaps between intelligence work as is performed by existing intelligence agencies and hostile states, groups or individuals, locally and abroad. Counterterrorism and intelligence are still viewed in older, established Soviet-era framework (McConnell, 2007; Turner, 1991; Godson, 2010). Flaws in counterterrorism and intelligence work is, further, attributed to a set of a factors including, but are not limited to, ...

Health social determinants are defined by the WHO (World Health Organization) (2012) as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, including the health system. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels, which are themselves influenced by policy choices. The social determinants of health are mostly responsible for health inequities – the unfair and avoidable differences in health status.” The WHO definition demonstrates the many layers of complex issues that are involved in determining who has good health and who does not have good health. ...

Innovation and Commercialization in Canada

It is one thing to come up with an invention and another to manufacture the item and sell it to potential consumers. This is the essence of the Canadian commercialization gap. The country has world class innovators but a less than impressive commercialization record. Entrepreneurs and scientists develop new products every day but these ideas rarely materialize and whenever they do, they rarely make it to the mass market.
Despite decades of innovation Canada when compared to other developed countries. Compared to other 15 peer countries that are leading in innovation, Canada was ranked 13th. These finding were reported ...

1.0 Introduction
Malaria is a devastating public health problem in Benin and is the principal cause of mortality and morbidity among children under five. The annual malaria mortality in Benin is more than 1000. In addition, it is an enormous economic burden to households in Benin with many households spending up to 25% of their income on prevention and treatment of the disease. Given that in Benin, a person can contract the disease an average of 3-6 times every year, the direct and indirect economic implication of malaria is enormous. As matter of fact, Malaria is endemic in Benin ...

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Nevertheless, these tall buildings and all other structures with peculiar architectural designs require extensive engineering. Otherwise, every aspect of the construction will not fulfill the desired outcome. Consequently, construction planning also needs to be laid properly. From the very concept of the engineering, to laying it out on a number of drawing sheets, to putting it into Computer-Aided Design databases, and to implementing those designs into the actual construction of the building structure – the entire plan should have definite collaboration and should be well-detailed. Moreover, there is a need for assurance that the whole plan fits ...

The capability of professionals in the same or other disciplines to work collaboratively to deliver effective care to patients is regarded as a crucial component of professional practice involving a definite set of proficiencies. Proficiencies are defined as expansive, general capabilities that extend beyond knowledge achievement and consist of utilization of technical, clinical, problem solving and communication skills. Recent studies reveal that there are a ...

Collaborative public management is a complex yet valuable factor that must emanate from all public managers. As emphasized in Collaboration Processes: Inside the Black Box, James Perry and Ann Thomson explained that public managers must employ systematic approaches in prompting collaborative efforts with their stakeholders to ensure a fully synergetic relationship between all actors (2006). The essence of collaboration in public management is evident in the Philadelphia municipal wireless network (MWN) case presented by Rajiv Banker, Abhijit Jain and Munir Mandviwalla. The case involves the efforts of the local government of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to collaborate with various stakeholders to push through with the installation of an MWN that covers the whole city – a project initially criticized for potential inefficiency and costliness that is injurious to the city’s poor financial condition (Banker, Jain and Mandviwalla, 2007).

Perry and Thomson’s thesis perfectly fit the case at hand, as it shows how the local government of Philadelphia forged common grounds with the stakeholders who are heavily involved in the MWN project. The local government of Philadelphia, in Banker, Jain and Mandviwalla’s case, fully acknowledged the wave of dissent coming from those who have different viewpoints on the provision of a citywide Internet access service in Philadelphia that can benefit many city residents because of its low-cost, reliable and high-speed properties (2007). Emphasizing on its role as a catalyst, the local government of Philadelphia sought to introduce the MWN project in a bid to keep the city inclined with the digital times. The project, which attracted different viewpoints in the beginning, ushered in the building of collective interests that led to its success. At the start of the 20th century, Philadelphia mayor John Street introduced a convenient innovation to the city, which is the use of the Internet to access local government services (Banker, Jain and Mandviwalla, 2007). In the process, proponents of that project encountered problems attributed to the citizenry’s lack of efficient Internet connectivity and education on Internet usage.

As a solution, the local government proposed to establish an MWN, which aims to introduce wireless Internet access to people in Philadelphia that is dependable yet inexpensive at the same time. The local government sought to unite the stakeholders into one binding perspective, which is the greatness of the city of Philadelphia and its reputation of being a “city of firsts” (Banker, Jain and Mandviwalla, 2007). The MWN introduced several potential benefits to the city, and the local government used those as convincing arguments to influence the corporate sector and community groups within the city. The positive image-boosting properties of MWN pleased those behind the city’s corporate circle. Unbridled access to information that would significantly enhance the quality of education amplified support from the city community (Banker, Jain and Mandviwalla, 2007).

Banker, Jain and Mandviwalla’s case on the successful Philadelphia MWN project fully characterize the application of collaboration processes in public management. Thomson reiterated her definition of collaboration as “a process involving shared norms and mutually beneficial interactions” between autonomous actors (2006). Thomson and Perry further reiterated that failure in collaboration would follow if done only for individualistic interests and “for collaboration’s sake” (2006). Collaboration, being a costly process, is dominant in the Philadelphia MWN project. The case encapsulates Thomson and Perry’s five key dimensions of collaboration. The Governance Dimension came in when Wireless Philadelphia, a nonprofit organization tasked to supervise the execution of the wireless network, instituted decisions that led to the efficient accomplishment of the MWN project through its executive committee. The Administration Dimension of the case is present in the formation of Wireless Philadelphia’s executive committee, which includes its chief executive officer Greg Goldman and the city’s chief information officer Diana Neff, alongside other residents of the city deemed to wield considerable influence in the city concerned with the accomplishment of the MWN project.

The Autonomy Dimension rested on the collective interests of those involved in the project and the various stakeholders. The cause to establish an MWN in Philadelphia was championed effective by Goldman and Neff, hence resulting to consensus-building measures that laid the foundations for the collective interests that made the project into full reality. The Mutuality Dimension of the MWN project is apparent in the stakeholders’ interest in the main benefit MWN provides, which is to provide wireless Internet that is affordable yet stable. The Trust and Reciprocity Dimension is evident on the delegation of several tasks needed for the accomplishment of the Philadelphia MWN establishment. For instance, Wireless Philadelphia chose Earthlink to construct and provide service to the network – a move that provided competence to the local government of Philadelphia, given that establishing an MWN is one that it cannot do on its own. For the entirety of the Philadelphia MWN project case, the role of the government as catalyst led to the emergence of collaborative public management, which it used to turn the project into a full-fledged reality (Perry and Thomson, 2006; Banker, Jain and Mandviwalla, 2007).

The Philadelphia MWN project has shown that government projects could catalyze and work efficiently and favorably with several other actors through collaborative public management. The government cannot just institute programs without the approval of various stakeholders, who are generally concerned with the benefits of those programs because public money is involved. In a clear-cut sense, collaborative public management enhances the introduction of beneficial programs for the people, anchored on consensus, cooperation and coordination. Consultation between the government and different actors should take place so that an exchange of expertise, recommendations and discussions can improve the nature of government programs. Many examples similar to the case of the Philadelphia MWN project prevail. One such example is on commuter rail projects within cities.

The Ann Arbor – Detroit Regional Rail Project is an effort of the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG) to provide commuter rail service between the cities of Ann Arbor and Detroit (SEMCOG, the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, 2001). With Amtrak as the main provider of rail transport, the SEMCOG sought to utilize infrastructure that is in active use in order to ensure competent results, given that a segment of the existing Pontiac-Detroit-Chicago Amtrak corridor is ready to support the Ann Arbor – Detroit route. The project promised to “build consensus from the start” and that there is “input from all transportation system stakeholders” involved, particularly in terms of technical analysis (SEMCOG, 2001). Inputs from stakeholders is a result of 23 public working sessions held throughout the project development process, with the inclusion of various viewpoints and perspectives from stakeholders, hence the project being declared as one that contains “true regional output” (SEMCOG, 2001).

In the realm of my personal experience, I can relate collaborative public management in terms of campus leaderships. When student-leaders recommend programs, it is always important to consult the general studentry or those who are highly concerned with certain programs. Student-leaders cannot proclaim that all programs are beneficial in an outright fashion without first asking other actors – in this case, the students and those who belong to certain groups as defined by program proposals.

In sum, collaborative public management essentially follows when government acts as catalysts for programs. Assuming that the whole populace of different jurisdictions, as specified, will benefit from government programs, it is important to take note of Perry and Thomson’s thesis on the complex yet systematic dimensions of collaborative public management. This is to ensure that there is consultation with stakeholders and building of collective interests between all actors involved. In that sense, the government can avoid incompetent measures that can drastically affect its otherwise grand projects for its jurisdiction. At the same time, collective interests can mend social divisions, which will lead to further progression.

Works Cited

Banker, R., Jain, A. & Mandviwalla, M. (2007). Government as catalyst: Can it work again with wireless internet access? Public Administration Review, 67(6), 993-1005.

Perry, J. & Thomson, A. (2006). Collaboration processes: Inside the black box. Public Administration Review, 66(s1), 20-32.

SEMCOG, the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments. (2001). Improving Transit in Southeast Michigan: A Framework for Action. Detroit, MI: SEMCOG Southeast Michigan Council of Governments Information Services.

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