Electrokit: Power Utility Toolkit–Quality of Technical Service

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Augusto Bonzi ◽  
Eric Boeck ◽  
Michelle Hallack ◽  
Mariana Weiss ◽  
Yuri Daltro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Technical Service ◽  
Power Utility ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Power Utilities ◽  
Electricity Utilities

The Electrokit is an initiative created by the IDB to strengthen transformation and continuous improvement of electric utilities in the LAC region. The Electrokit is organized in 16 activities that are common to most electricity utilities. This publication presents the indicators and best practices related to Quality of Technical Service. The aim of the toolkit is to provide power utilities, policy and decision-makers access to best practices, current trends, and expertise to: (i) identify challenges, develop a strategy and action plan for addressing them; and (ii) support utilities to be more sustainable, efficient, improve customer experience and accelerate innovation to stay ahead of the rapidly sector transformation.

Electrokit: Power Utility Toolkit-Electricity Loss Reduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Augusto Bonzi ◽  
Eric Boeck ◽  
Michelle Hallack ◽  
Mariana Weiss ◽  
Yuri Daltro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Electric Utilities ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Loss Reduction ◽  
Power Utility ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Power Utilities ◽  
Electricity Utilities

The Electrokit is an initiative created by the IDB to strengthen transformation and continuous improvement of electric utilities in the LAC region. The Electrokit is organized in 16 activities that are common to most electricity utilities. This publication presents the indicators and best practices related to Electricity Loss Reduction. The aim of the toolkit is to provide power utilities, policy and decision-makers access to best practices, current trends, and expertise to: (i) identify challenges, develop a strategy and action plan for addressing them; and (ii) support utilities to be more sustainable, efficient, improve customer experience and accelerate innovation to stay ahead of the rapidly sector transformation.

Electrokit: Power Utility Toolkit-The Overview: Best Practices in Electric Power Distribution Companies in the Latin America and Caribbean Region

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Augusto Bonzi Teixeira ◽  
Eric Fernando Boeck Daza ◽  
Michelle Carvalho Metanias Hallack ◽  
Virginia Snyder ◽  
Arturo Daniel Alarcon Rodriguez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Power Utility ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Electric Power Distribution ◽  
Latin America And Caribbean ◽  
Power Utilities

The Electrokit is an initiative created by the IDB to strengthen transformation and continuous improvement of electric utilities in the LAC region. It follows international standards that characterize and evaluate utilities based on indicators and best practices. The Electrokit is organized in 16 activities that are common to most electricity utilities. The aim of the toolkit is to provide power utilities, policy and decision-makers access to best practices, current trends, and expertise to: (i) identify challenges, develop a strategy and action plan for addressing them; and (ii) support utilities to be more sustainable, efficient, improve customer experience and accelerate innovation to stay ahead of the rapidly sector transformation. The Overview presents the main objectives of the toolkit, the structure of its areas and activities, and a guide on how companies could design an action plan.

scholarly journals Can the craze for patient safety hinder a more holistic care of the person in the health care system?

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Mamane Abdoulaye Samri ◽  
Daphney St-Germain
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Clinical Governance ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Holistic Care

Background and objective: Since the publication of a report by the Institute of Medicine on the mortality associated with adverse events in the hospital, patient safety has become one of the essential objectives of the health care system. However, this movement tends to obscure the fundamental link between safety and quality of care in the health system. The study was aimed to demonstrate that the only focus on patient safety concept overshadow the more holistic care of the person and the population in the health care system.Methods: Documentary research in the Pubmed database and the Google Scholar search engine, from 1999 to 2017.Results and conclusion: Highly targeted safety research without addressing quality at first can only be a long-term panacea for current health policies. For cause, a one-way look at patient safety could lead to significant impacts at the population level. In order to get out of this craze, health system decision-makers would benefit from supporting clinical governance advocating humanistic and holistic strategies for interventions, engaging in a process of continuous improvement of the Quality of care more profitable in the long term. In order to overcome this craze, health system decision-makers would benefit from supporting clinical governance that advocates humanistic and holistic strategies for interventions, by engaging in a process of continuous improvement in the quality of care that is most beneficial in the long term. This posture is similar to Caring's well-known nursing model.

scholarly journals Neither Mercenaries nor Masterminds: Campaign Staff and Consultants in American National Elections

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Laurison
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Campaign Effects ◽  
Work World ◽  
Fundamental Uncertainty ◽  
High Level

Campaigns play a key role in shaping how Americans experience electoral politics, yet the way in which professional campaign operatives understand and approach their work has received relatively little scholarly attention. Most accounts of campaigns’ strategic decision-makers treat them as masterminds – individuals who devise tactics based on brilliant political insight or masterful data analysis. Others assume they are mercenaries, milking the electoral process for all the money they can regardless of their own ideological commitments or what might actually help candidates win elections. Neither of these approaches is sufficient to understand how political professionals understand their work; they ignore both the fundamental uncertainty of campaign effects and the particularities of the work-world of political operatives. Drawing on 79 interviews with 67 campaign staff and consultants with high-level experience in Presidential and Senate campaigns, I argue that they should be understood as participants in a field of cultural production, which functions much like other arenas where communicative materials are crafted. Gaining esteem and coveted positions within the field is most participants’ primarily motivation, and the quality of the messages, images, and strategies they produce is judged less by measurable effects on voters than by an internally-generated set of norms and ideas about best practices.

Methodology for Continuous Improvement Projects in Housing Constructions

Buildings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Patricia del Solar Serrano ◽  
Mercedes del Río Merino ◽  
Paola Villoria Sáez
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
And Control ◽  
Construction Defects

Several authors have studied construction defects, but no studies were found implementing best practices and control strategies through the implementation of continuous improvement projects. This article shows a procedure based on Continuous Improvement Projects, which can be used in building constructions, and it is structured into four phases: Plan, Do, Check, Act, following the PDCA Quality Cycle. In addition, the method developed was specified for ceramic tiling execution and was further implemented in three building projects of Spain. The results obtained concluded that the proposed Procedure can be used by construction professionals who are concerned about improving the quality of construction. In addition, the implementation of the Procedure managed to reduce around 45% the costs derived from the defects caused during the ceramic tiling execution, due to the best practices incorporated in the Procedure. A slight increase in the number of defects was also found, motivated by the thorough inspection conducted when the Procedure was applied. Therefore, the Procedure (incorporating the lessons learned) must be implemented so that by learning, gaining experience, and incorporating best practices, the goal of zero defects can be achieved.

scholarly journals Organized structure of real-world evidence best practices: moving from fragmented recommendations to comprehensive guidance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Jaksa ◽  
James Wu ◽  
Páll Jónsson ◽  
Hans-Georg Eichler ◽  
Sarah Vititoe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Real World ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Comprehensive Guidance ◽  
Real World Evidence

Decision-makers have become increasingly interested in incorporating real-world evidence (RWE) into their decision-making process. Due to concerns regarding the reliability and quality of RWE, stakeholders have issued numerous recommendation documents to assist in setting RWE standards. The fragmented nature of these documents poses a challenge to researchers and decision-makers looking for guidance on what is ‘high-quality’ RWE and how it can be used in decision-making. We offer researchers and decision-makers a structure to organize the landscape of RWE recommendations and identify consensus and gaps in the current recommendations. To provide researchers with a much needed pathway for generating RWE, we discuss how decision-makers can move from fragmented recommendations to comprehensive guidance.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS: APPLYING US EXPERICENCE TO UKRAINAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

2020 ◽  
pp. 80-85
Author(s):  
Olha Pavlenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Current State

The article discusses the current state of professional training of engineers, in particular, electronics engineers in Ukrainian higher education institutions (HEIs) and explores best practices from US HEIs. The research outlines the features of professional training of electronics engineers and recent changes in Ukrainian HEIs. Such challenges for Ukrainian HEIs as lack of collaboration between higher education and science with industry, R&D cost reduction for HEIs, and downsizing the research and academic staff, the disparity between the available quality of human capital training and the demanded are addressed. The study attempts to identify successful practices of US HEIs professional training of engineers in order to suggest potential improvements in education, research, and innovation for training electronics engineers in Ukraine.

The Rotterdam Initiative in Reducing Waste Discharges at Source

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 171-177
Author(s):  
T. Vellinga ◽  
J. P. J. Nijssen
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Detailed Balance ◽  
River Rhine ◽  
The North ◽  
Complementary Role ◽  
Action Programme ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Set Up

Much of the material dredged from the port of Rotterdam is contaminated to such a degree that it must be placed in specially constructed sites. The aim of Rotterdam is to ensure that the dredged material will once again be clean. This will entail the thorough cleansing of the sources of the contamination of the sediment in the harbours and in the River Rhine. The Rotterdam Rhine Research Project (RRP) is one of the means to achieve this based on: technical research, legal research, public relations and dialogues with dischargers. The programme for five selected heavy metals is almost complete. For many heavy metal discharge points between Rotterdam and Rheinfelden, a specially devised independent load assessment has been carried out four times. Balance studies were used to determine the relative contributions of the point discharges to the total. Currently the results are being used in an attempt to negotiate agreements with a selected number of the major dischargers. At present, more detailed balance studies are being set up and exploratory measurements carried out for organic micropollutants. It may be concluded that the research is progressing successfully and methods and techniques developed seem satisfactory and broadly applicable. The Rhine Action Programme encompasses an international effort to improve the quality of the Rhine water. Although the RRP plays a modest complementary role to the Rhine Action Plan, there is no doubt of the value of this Rotterdam initiative. The mode of work followed in the RRP contains elements that can be of use in combatting the contamination of the North Sea by rivers other than the Rhine.

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