scholarly journals Playing the Game of Health: Best Practices for Health Optimization Program in a Worksite Setting, with Case Study of a Real World Example

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Dunn ◽  
Scott Conard ◽  
Lauren Kirschner
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
Care Plans ◽  
Literacy Engagement ◽  
Worksite Health ◽  
The Cost ◽  
And Behavior

<p><em>While there have been multiple efforts to improve the health of the population, and simultaneously reducing the cost of healthcare and improving the quality of care, there is no single model for improving population health. Worksite health is a microcosm of the health of the nation and the results of been mixed. This paper considers the best practices associated with key worksite health. These best practices include the type of worksite intervention, attention to health literacy, engagement, onsite clinics, coaching and care plans, a digital platform, social support, population health, performance excellence, performance improvement, and an evaluation strategy. While each best practice is considered important, very few programs provide all of the components, and most emphasize one component over the other. A gap in the literature, therefore, is how these best practices can be combined into a single program. Following the review of literature of best practices, a case study, of the program design, of a comprehensive worksite program was conducted to demonstrate how these best practices are operationalized. The Game of Health, is a cognitive based program that focuses on stress management and behavior change in a program that provides onsite programs, a medical clinic, and a digital platform.</em><em></em></p>

scholarly journals Evaluation of harvesting technology of vineyard pruning based on a Mátra wine region case study

2014 ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Cecília Gonda
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Nutrient Supply ◽  
Collection System ◽  
Theoretical Possibility ◽  
Additional Energy ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Family Household ◽  
Wine Region ◽  
The Cost

Wineyard pruning utilization for energy purpose is not only a theoretical possibility, the machine background has also been developed. Economic- and environmental experimentations has made by specialists and they seek to developed the best practice in logistics suitable for local conditions and they propagate the results for the potential users. Nevertheless, the utilization does not seem to be typical in Hungary and some other wine-grower countries. For example, in Hungary the additional energy from vineyard pruning eventuates – tillage, nutrient supply; – phy+tosanitary, environmental pollution; – energy management and economic questions. In Hungary the most important problem is practice of the vineyard pruning utilization were mentioned by the users is the establishment of collection system and the high logistic costs as Marczinkó (2007) experiences confirm this. As I experienced in practice, the winegrowers are uninterested in utilization. Most of them burn it at the end of the vineyard in many cases without considering of the relevant statutory prohibition. As my own several years expriment shows at Mátra wine region it is not the technical background which causes the failure. We can use effectively balers or chippers for collection. The cost of chipping is 14 535–27 000 Ft per hectars with the introduced technologies on Mátra wine region. The cost of 1 GJ of heat production is 606–1125 Ft. We can substitute the fuel with vineyard pruning and it means approximately 115 000 Ft saving for a family household per year.

Closing the Treatment Gap: The EPA Case Study of Schizophrenia

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S4-S4
Author(s):  
W. Gaebel
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Socioeconomic Impact ◽  
Treatment Gap ◽  
Medical Interventions ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Deutschland Gmbh ◽  
Health Gains ◽  
Healthcare Interventions ◽  
The Cost

IntroductionSchizophrenia still ranks among the first 10 leading causes of disability worldwide. Recent analyses show that there is a considerable treatment gap in schizophrenia in Europe and worldwide.ObjectivesTo provide evidence-based information and give a concise overview of what is needed to overcome the treatment gap in schizophrenia.MethodsUsing a combined approach of systematic review and health economics was used to assess the socioeconomic impact of medical interventions (or the lack of thereof) for schizophrenia.ConclusionsThe case study analysis demonstrates socioeconomic impact and health gains of best practices in specific healthcare interventions for schizophrenia in comparison with the cost burden of current care or non-treatment.Disclosure of interestUnterstützung bei Symposien/Symposia Support– Janssen-Cilag GmbH, Neuss– Aristo Pharma GmbH, Berlin– Lilly Deutschland GmbH, Bad Homburg– Servier Deutschland GmbH, München– Fakultätsmitglied/Faculty Member– Lundbeck International Neuroscience Foundation (LINF), Dänemark

Rapid benchmarking: the case of a multinational dairy company

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubab Malik ◽  
Robin Mann ◽  
Rebecca Knapman
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Rapid Improvement ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Internal Benchmarking ◽  
The Right

PurposeThe purpose of the study is to investigate and document a new approach to best practice benchmarking called rapid benchmarking. Rapid benchmarking is defined by the authors as an approach to dramatically shorten the typical length of time to conduct a successful best practice benchmarking project.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology involved a case study exploration of a multinational dairy company's best practice benchmarking approach using structured interviews and data collection to examine the speed and results achieved through its benchmarking approach and whether it was justified in naming it as rapid benchmarking. A comparison of the speed of the dairy company's approach was undertaken against 24 other organisations that had utilised the same benchmarking methodology (TRADE Best Practice Benchmarking). In addition, a literature review was undertaken to search for other cases of rapid benchmarking and compare rapid benchmarking with other rapid improvement approaches.FindingsThe findings revealed that the approach used by the dairy company was unique, with best practices being identified and action plans signed off for deployment within a five-day period (far quicker than the average time of 211 days reported by other organisations). Key success factors for rapid benchmarking were found to be allocating five dedicated days for the benchmarking team to spend on the project, identifying the right team members for the project, obtaining sponsorship support for the project and providing intensive facilitation support through a benchmarking facilitator.Research limitations/implicationsOnly one company was found to use a rapid benchmarking approach; therefore, the findings are from one case study. The depth of analysis presented was restricted due to commercial sensitivity.Practical implicationsThe rapid benchmarking approach is likely to be of great interest to practitioners, providing them with a new way of finding solutions and best practices to address challenges that need to be solved quickly or with minimal expense. For organisations that have been using benchmarking for many years, the research will enable them to re-evaluate their own benchmarking approach and consider if rapid benchmarking could be used for some projects, particularly for internal benchmarking where it is easier to apply.Originality/valueThis research is the first to identify and document a rapid benchmarking approach and the first to provide a detailed analysis of the length of time it takes to undertake best practice benchmarking projects (and each stage of a benchmarking project).

scholarly journals Benchmarking CEO compensation: Developing a model for different business strategies

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-104
Author(s):  
Merwe Oberholzer
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Ceo Compensation ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Cost Leadership ◽  
Differentiation Strategy ◽  
Leadership Strategy ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
The Cost

Porter’s generic business strategies of cost leadership and differentiation were adjusted to make them applicable to CEO compensation strategies. The cost leadership strategy equates to a firm that attempts to signal that their CEO is not over paid, not reaping off much of the profits, but is compensated according to best practices. The differentiation strategy relates to a firm that believes it is important to signal that their CEO is above average and therefore should earn an above average compensation. The purpose of the study was to develop a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model with two stages. The first provides a best practice frontier to benchmark segments of CEO compensation against determiners thereof, including firm-, CEO- and governance characteristics. Firms with different strategies will then position themselves differently to the best practice frontier. Irrespective of the strategy chosen at the first stage, the second stage estimates how efficient firms are to convert the above-mentioned determiners into multiple performance measures. The contribution of the study is that employing such a model may change the philosophy of how firms look at CEO compensation, for example firms whose CEOs are at the bottom half are not necessarily below average or underpaid, but signal that their CEOs are compensated according to best practices.

scholarly journals How policies become best practices: a case study of best practice making in an EU knowledge sharing project

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Oliver Blake ◽  
Meredith Glaser ◽  
Luca Bertolini ◽  
Marco te Brömmelstroet
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Best Practice

A Scorecard for Supporting Enterprise Knowledge Management

2003 ◽  
Vol 02 (03) ◽  
pp. 191-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Cormican ◽  
David O'Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Knowledge Assets ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Competitive Success ◽  
Knowledge Management Initiatives

Enterprise knowledge management is becoming a critical component of competitive success. Managers must ensure that they can successfully generate, leverage and reuse knowledge assets in their organisations. In this view, they must seek to develop an environment that promotes effective knowledge management initiatives. Self-assessment scorecards can help managers and decision-makers ascertain whether they are incorporating best practices in terms of knowledge management initiatives. This paper presents findings from an exploratory case study analysis. Specifically, it presents a knowledge management scorecard expressly designed to help managers measure their performance in terms of knowledge management against best practice. It helps to provide an overview of a company's strengths and areas for improvement with regard to knowledge management, highlighting those areas that require attention. In this view, it serves as a checklist for effective knowledge management.

scholarly journals Management Communication Failures in Faculty Hiring Processes: A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 60-69
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Management Communication ◽  
Practice Test ◽  
Faculty Positions ◽  
Job Candidates ◽  
Career Skills ◽  
Industry Professionals ◽  
Do So

While universities contribute directly to the future successes of students through the delivery of content knowledge and the development of key career skills, they might also reasonably be expected to model the “best practices” of industry professionals. However, based upon a three-year study of the communications between universities and graduate students applying to nearly two-hundred faculty positions, universities often fail the best practice test when interacting with job candidates. Ironically, they do so even when recruiting for faculty positions that target candidates specializing in the pedagogies and practices of effective communication.

Disaster debris management best practice case studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-182
Author(s):  
Julia Crowley, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Initial Survey ◽  
Disaster Debris

Objective: To identify debris management best practices for planning and responding to debris-generating disaster events.Methodology: Four best practice county case studies were selected through the responses of emergency management directors to an initial survey about debris management. Interviews were setup with the emergency management directors, and additional interviewees were identified through snowballing. Interviews were conducted, transcribed, and coded to identify six themes.Results: The six themes that were identified through the coding include: debris management plans, challenges, collaboration, learning, communication, and debris operations. Case study interviewees identified their pre-event debris management plans as important for an effective and efficient debris management process. Interviewees also demonstrated a strong willingness to work together on debris management as well as an understanding of individual roles and responsibilities. Furthermore, interviewees address the concept of learning from past disaster events as a means of managing the uncertainty of disaster debris management.

The Influence of Attitudes, Subjective, Norms, and Behavior Controls on Intention to Choose Islamic Banks With Islamic Religiosity as a Moderating Variable (Case Study at Bri Syariah Purwokerto Customers)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akhmad Khoyrun Najakh ◽  
Dwiwiyati Astogini ◽  
Sri Martini
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Subjective Norm ◽  
Subjective Norms ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Control Behavior ◽  
Before And After ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Number Of Customers

The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of attitudes on the intention to choose Islamic banks, to analyze the effect of subjective norm on the intention to choose Islamic banks. to analyze the effect of the control behavior of the intention to choose the Islamic banks, to analyze the moderating influence of religiosity on the relationship attitudes, subjective norms and behavioral control of the intention to choose the Islamic banks . The method used is a survey with a sampling technique used purposive sampling with a sample size of this study was 100 respondents . Further analysis tools used in this study is multiple regression analysis using SPSS 16.0 software . Based on this study it can be concluded that the attitude does not affect to the intention of choose Bank BRISyariah. Subjective norm positive effect on intention choose Bank BRISyariah. Control behavior does not affect to the intention choose Bank BRISyariah. Relationship between Attitudes, Subjective Norms and Behavior Control with the intention to select Bank BRISyariah not moderated by religiosity.Based on these conclusions can be said that the Bank BRISyariah should improve understanding related to the subjective norm in order to increase the number of customers who use the services of Islamic Banking . Further research is recommended in order to follow up and develop this research to further explore the independent and dependent variables continued before and after behavioral intention or intention to perform a specific action .

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