Supporting ‘Needs-Led’ Services: Implications for Planning and Management Systems (A case study in mental handicap services)

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morag McGrath ◽  
Gordon Grant
Keyword(s):  
Care Management ◽  
Community Care ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
White Paper ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Mental Handicap ◽  
Planning And Management ◽  
Management Processes

ABSTRACTMany of the principles of the Community Care White Paper (DoH, 1989) bear a striking resemblance to the Welsh mental handicap strategy launched six years earlier (Welsh Office, 1983). This paper considers the lessons to be learnt from the Welsh strategy for the development of needs-led services as promulgated by the White Paper. Similarities and differences between the two policy initiatives are first identified before considering the conceptual basis of needs-led services. Attention is drawn to two interdependent dimensions of needs-led services, user participation and management delegation, as a means of depicting three underlying models, each with different value stances. By drawing from a case study of one area in Wales, an attempt is made to test the expectations for needs-led services in terms of local planning and management requirements of the three models against the experiences of those charged with putting them into practice. Implications for the White Paper are explored in connection with user involvement strategies and assessment and care management processes.

A Study of User Participation in Information Systems Development

1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Y.W. Wong ◽  
Graham Tate
Keyword(s):  
System Development ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Implementation Success ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Participation Process ◽  
Insight Into

User participation in information system development is considered to be an important factor influencing implementation success or failure. The ETHICS (Effective Technical and Human Implementation of Computer-based Systems) method was developed as a guide to user involvement in system design. A case study of successful implementation which did not use the ETHICS method explicitly is described. The case study and the ETHICS methodology are then compared and contrasted in an attempt to gain greater insight into user participation and to understand why the implementation was successful. Furthermore, techniques of software process modelling are applied to both ETHICS and the case study with the intention of more closely defining the user participation process and potentially also guiding it in future developments. The case study is used as a vehicle both to examine user participation and also to investigate the modelling of user participation.

Time, Attitude, and User Participation

2010 ◽  
pp. 80-98
Keyword(s):  
Process Model ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Model Analysis ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Erp Implementation ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Erp System ◽  
User Groups

Assimilation of a standard ERP system to an organization is difficult. User involvement seems to be the crux of the matter. However, even the best intentions for user involvement may come to nothing. A case study of a five-year ERP implementation process reveals that a main reason may be that the perception of usefulness of the system in any given phase of the implementation is heavily dependent on preceding events—the process. A process model analysis identifies eight episodes and nine encounters in the case showing that the user’s attitude towards the ERP system changes between acceptance, equivocation, resistance and rejection depending on three things: (1) the dynamic between user and consultants, (2) the dynamic between different user groups, and (3) the understanding of technical, organizational and socio-technical options. When relating the empirical findings to existing theory on user participation, it is argued that the changes could be explained as a slide from influential user participation toward pseudo participation and back to influential participation, and that user participation in the context of ERP implementations raises new issues regarding user participation. Thus further research regarding new approaches and/or new techniques and tools for user participation in the context of ERP implementations is needed.

scholarly journals A gestão de projetos como apoio ao processo de produção de um periódico científico

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrício Martins Lacerda ◽  
Cristina Dai Prá Martens ◽  
Emerson Antonio Maccari
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Organizational Cultures ◽  
Planning And Management ◽  
Management Processes

A evolução do conceito de projetos e o desenvolvimento e aceitação das metodologias e abordagens para seu planejamento e gerenciamento tem permitido sua aplicabilidade a diferentes áreas, realidades e culturas organizacionais. A busca por métodos e ferramentas capazes de conduzir seus projetos a um final bem-sucedido, a exemplo de um periódico científico, tem motivado muitas organizações a buscar, nas boas práticas de gestão de projetos, um melhor planejamento e gerenciamento. Nesse contexto, o objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o processo de produção de um periódico científico sob a ótica da gestão de projetos. Foi desenvolvido um estudo de caso único que verificou a aplicação dos processos de gestão de escopo, prazo e custo do projeto de produção de uma revista científica de especialidade médica. Como resultados, destaca-se que, mesmo não tendo conhecimento das boas práticas de gestão de projetos, a organização aplica algumas de suas ferramentas de maneira informal e embrionária. Foram identificados pontos que merecem atenção, pois impactam no atraso da veiculação da Revista. Proposições de melhorias foram apresentadas por meio da aplicação da metodologia da gestão de projetos, o que poderá contribuir para um melhor planejamento e gerenciamento do projeto.Abstract: The advancement of the concept of projects and the development and acceptation of methodologies and approaches for its planning and management, has permitted its applicability in different areas, realities and organizational cultures. The search for methods and instruments capable of conducting your project to a successful accomplishment, e.g. a scientific journal, has motivated many organizations to enhance planning and management by resorting to good project management practices. In this context, the objective of this paper is to analyze the process of making a scientific journal within a perspective of project management. A case study was developed that verified the application of management processes of scope, deadline and costs of the project of producing a specialized medical scientific journal. Within the results, emphasis goes to the fact that despite not having information about good project management practices, the organization applies some of its tools informally and embryonically. Some elements that impact on the delay of the magazines diffusion were identified as in need of enhancement. Improvement proposals were presented by applying project management methodologies that can contribute with enriched planning and project management.  Keywords: Scientific Journal. Editing. Project Management.

scholarly journals Mind the Gap: Why the Landscape Planning System in Sardinia Does Not Work

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7300
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Colavitti ◽  
Alessio Floris ◽  
Sergio Serra
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
The Common ◽  
Regional Landscape ◽  
Landscape Protection

In Italy, after the introduction of the Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape in 2004, the Regional Landscape Plan (RLP) has acquired a coordination role in the urban planning system, for the implementation of policies for landscape protection and valorisation. The case study of the RLP of Sardinia is a paradigmatic application to the coastal area of the island, which is considered most vulnerable and subject to settlement pressure. The objectives of preservation and valorisation of the territorial resources should be transferred into local planning instruments by adopting strategies aimed at the preservation of the consolidated urban fabric, at the requalification and completion of the existing built-up areas according to the principles of land take limitation and increase in urban quality. The paper investigates the state of implementation and the level of integration of landscape contents in the local plans that have been adapted to the RLP, using a qualitative comparative method. In addition, the results of the plan coherence checks, elaborated by the regional monitoring bodies after the adaptation process, have been analysed to identify the common criticalities and weaknesses. The results highlight the lack of effectiveness of the RLP, after more than a decade since its approval, considering the limited number of adequate local plans and the poor quality of their analytical and regulative contents in terms of landscape protection and valorisation. Conclusions suggest some possible ways to revise the RLP, focusing on the participation of local communities and the development of a new landscape culture.

USER INVOLVEMENT IN COMMUNITY CARE: ORIGINS, PURPOSES AND APPLICATIONS

1993 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
GERALD WISTOW ◽  
MARIAN BARNES
Keyword(s):  
Community Care ◽  
User Involvement

Increased Use of Care Management Processes and Expanded Health Information Technology Functions by Practice Ownership and Medicaid Revenue

2015 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hector P. Rodriguez ◽  
Sean R. McClellan ◽  
Salma Bibi ◽  
Lawrence P. Casalino ◽  
Patricia P. Ramsay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Health Information Technology ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Care Management ◽  
Management Processes
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