Public Sector Technology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Susskind
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
It Projects ◽  
Rule Of Thumb ◽  
Track Record ◽  
The World

One of the most compelling objections to the development and delivery of public online courts is precisely that the state needs to be involved in putting the systems in place. Governments around the world have a woeful track record of implementing technology projects. Case studies abound which tell of untold wastage, wanton incompetence, and scant supervision. We know that most major public IT projects fail. As a rule of thumb, technology professionals often say that only 15–20 per cent of large public sector technology projects are successful, that is, on time, within budget, with systems that do what was wanted and was expected.

scholarly journals The state of heritage and cultural property policing in England & Wales, France and Italy

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
The State ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Economies

Presenting a large threat to irreplaceable heritage, property, cultural knowledge and cultural economies across the world, heritage and cultural property crimes offer case studies through which to consider the challenges, choices and practices that shape 21st-century policing. This article uses empirical research conducted in England & Wales, France and Italy to examine heritage and cultural property policing. It considers the threat before investigating three crucial questions. First, who is involved in this policing? Second, how are they involved in this policing? Third, why are they involved? This last question is the most important and is central to the article as it examines why, in an era of severe economic challenges for the governments in the case studies, the public sector would choose to lead policing.

Implementing ERP-What Happens to Competitive Advantages?

2011 ◽  
pp. 138-166
Author(s):  
David Sammon ◽  
Frédéric Adam ◽  
Kevin Higgins ◽  
Mark Synnott
Keyword(s):  
Success Rate ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Global Dimension ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Track Record ◽  
The World ◽  
Preparation Stage

Over the last 30 years, the enterprise-wide systems movement has been gathering momentum and has now reached a global dimension, with companies across the world and, more importantly, across very different industries jumping on the ERP/SCM/CRM bandwagon. The pace of implementations has been such that SAP alone have now implemented their software in 30,000 sites and have a user population well in excess of 10 million. However, studies carried out since the ERP epidemic broke out have revealed that the rationale pursued by managers in acquiring ERP packages has sometimes been weak and not well informed. Moreover, the track record of ERP implementations has not been good with many examples of implementation failures. It is our contention that the problems reported in ERP projects are due to a failure to link the business model underlying ERP packages and the unique assets of organisations. In this research study, we carried out two in-depth case studies of organisations having just implemented ERP packages and focused on the preparation stage of their projects. We also carried out a survey of organisations having implemented ERP to confirm quantitatively how well managers prepare themselves for ERP. Based on these, we uncover patterns of ERP project preparation which may explain the low success rate of ERP projects and put forward some proposals which should help managers and researchers to increase the likelihood that ERP projects are successful.

scholarly journals Property and the State or ‘The Folly of Torrens’: A Comparative Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Fitzpatrick ◽  
Caroline Compton ◽  
Joseph Foukona
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The State ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The World ◽  
Context Dependent ◽  
Social Orders

Australian lawyers often extol the virtues of the Torrens system as a means to secure property in land. Yet, the comparative evidence of benefits is mixed and context-dependent, particularly in terms of the nature, provenance and capacity of the state. This article analyses ways in which positivist land laws, including Torrens systems of title by registration, create legal understandings of property that are tied closely to projections or assumptions of state territorial authority. The intertwining of property and sovereignty constructs allodial conceptions of property based on possession or custom as subordinate, if not illegal, simply because they exist in social orders that lie beyond the administrative systems of the state. As a result, there is a chronic fragmentation of legal and social understandings of property in areas of the world with Torrens law and large numbers of informal settlements. The case studies include the Philippines and the Solomon Islands.

Commissions

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Ra Page
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Track Record ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
The World ◽  
Do So ◽  
Associative Link

Commissions have a poor reputation in contemporary critical discourse. Too strong is the associative link with the grand seigneurs of times past, who relied on poets to praise their conquests. But precisely because they have such a proven track record of controlling historical and political narratives, commissions are an undeniably strong example of ‘worlding’ through authorship. And by no means can this force be deployed only for negative ends. In this chapter, Ra Page, the founder and editor-in-chief of the Manchester-based publishing house Comma Press, demonstrates how such a process might work. The author offers case studies of short-story anthologies that unapologetically try to alter our perception of the world. They do so not just through their subject matter, but also by how they conceptualize the process of authorship and of the ideological commitments that it entails.

scholarly journals Dumitru Rusu, Analiza patrimoniului modernist-socialist în Republica Moldova prin patru studii de caz / Analysis of the modernist-socialist heritage in the Republic of Moldova through four case studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-130
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Field Data ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Republic Of Moldova ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
Modernist Architecture ◽  
The Republic

Buildings of historical value are gradually disappearing under the idle eyes of passive authorities. The purpose of this research is to analyze and describe what steps are necessary in order to include the valuable socialist modernist architecture from the Republic of Moldova in the world architectural heritage. Field data presenting the current state of 4 socialist modernist landmarks in the Republic of Moldova found these buildings in an advanced state of decay and requiring immediate intervention. The most effective way to improve the state of such historical buildings is to create appropriate legislation that would include them in the global heritage network.

High Speed Rail

2016 ◽  
pp. 262-267
Author(s):  
Raj Selladurai ◽  
George VandeWerken
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
High Speed ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The U.S

High-speed rail is gaining momentum worldwide in many countries in the world including the United States and especially in the state of California, Florida, and Texas currently. Focusing on the list of topics below would enable readers including professionals, policy-makers, leaders, staff, academicians, scholars, and students to explore assignments and research into innovative ideas, plans, and strategies related to high-speed rail in the U.S. The chapter presents a list of topics that includes case studies, research questions, projects, and other suggestions to stimulate further research and explore assignments into more optimal formulation and implementation of high-speed rail for the U.S. in the future.

How French is ‘French’ Sport?

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-268
Author(s):  
Philip Dine
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The State ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
World Cup ◽  
The World ◽  
National Model ◽  
The Media ◽  
Multiple Challenges

This article explores how sports in France have responded to the challenges of globalization, and also to the opportunities of an increasingly multicultural society. Two case studies are offered in which a distinctive national model may be seen to have been exposed to powerful transnational forces between 1985 and 2015, a period which also corresponds to sport's digital age. The sports primarily targeted are football and athletics, the most visibly international of modern games, as highlighted by their quadrennial showcases: the World Cup and the Olympic Games. The resulting case studies are intended to suggest some of the ways in which the state, the media and the relevant federations have responded to the multiple challenges of the corporate-financed and electronically mediated ‘global sporting system’. Featured athletes include Zinedine Zidane, Lilian Thuram, Marie-José Pérec and Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad.

scholarly journals Social Preservation of Traditional Administration of Indigenous Peoples — The Ho Tribe in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 143-151
Author(s):  
Christina Deogam
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
The State ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
The West ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The World ◽  
Private And Public

Indigenous peoples have distinguished cultural traditions and linguistic identity. Across the world, Indigenous peoples have always asked the State to recognise their social structure and opportunities to preserve their traditional lifestyles. The issues at stake are their rights over habitat and natural resources and the need to curtail private and public sector exploitation through alien hands. Due to the need to survive, helplessness and systematically forced assimilation, the traditional fabric of their culture are being distorted and defaced. This study deals with the concerns and issues relating to the protection of identity, tradition and customs of Ho tribe that inhabits the West Singhbhum in the State of Jharkhand in India.

P3s and Social Infrastructure: Three Decades of Prison Reform in Victoria, Australia

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-230
Author(s):  
Deirdre O’Neill ◽  
Valarie Sands ◽  
Graeme Hodge
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
The State ◽  
Prison Reform ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Rigorous Evaluation ◽  
Private Prison ◽  
The World ◽  
Exact Degree

Once regarded as core public sector business, Australia’s prisons were reformed during the 1990s and Australia now has the highest proportion of prisoners in privately managed prisons in the world. How could this have happened? This article presents a case study of the State of Victoria and explains how public–private partnerships (P3s) were used to create a mixed public–private prison system. Despite the difficulty of determining clear and rigorous evaluation results, we argue that lessons from the Victorian experience are possible. First, neither the extreme fears of policy critics nor the grandiose policy and technical promises of reformers were fully met. Second, short-term success was achieved in political and policy terms by the delivery of badly needed new prisons. Third, the exact degree to which the state has achieved cheaper, better, and more accountable prison services remains contested. As a consequence, there is a need to continue experimentation but with greater transparency.

Public Sector and Corporate Evolution

1978 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
P.L. Tandon
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship

Starting with Britain, followed by Japan and Sweden in the last century, and by Russia, Italy, and France in this century, the public sector is now spreading to most countries in the world, with a special appeal to developing countries. Most writings on the public sector have been confined to its growth and problems, its relationship with the state, and the contribution it is expected, but often fails, to make to the economy. This article, however, examines the public sector on other dimensions: 1) its place in the process of corporate evolution; 2) the relationship between capital and control in the public sector; and 3) a comparison with the multinationals.

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