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- Health Care and the Public Sector
- This paper summarizes the many aspects of public policy for health care. Optimal insurance balances the marginal costs of risk bearing and moral hazard. In the US, government policy has historically tilted towards more generous insurance, by excluding employer payments for health insurance from income taxation. The welfare loss from...
- White papers 2002-02-01
- Catastrophe Insurance Market in the Caribbean Region: Market Failures and Recommendations for Public Sector Interventions
- This paper develops a conceptual framework for risk management and shows that the insurance market for catastrophic risk in the Caribbean region remains a "thin" market characterized by "high" prices and "low" transfer of risk. It analyzes the possible market failures, which could explain the lack of development of the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Procurement Reform Using Strategic Sourcing
- In an ongoing effort to uncover better ways of doing business, many purchasing leaders are discovering that a well-established, commercial best practice translates well to the public sector, including postal service organizations, or posts. Procurement in the public sector, as a profession, generally strives to find ways to make a...
- White papers 2004-04-15
- Strategic Sourcing Roundtable Defines Top 5 Challenges to Public Sector Strategic Sourcing
- The paper discusses in brief about the Top 5 Challenges, which were jointly compiled by Roundtable members representing government agencies across the Federal government. The Public Sector Strategic Sourcing Roundtable, a forum for senior Federal procurement executives sponsored by Censeo Consulting Group and University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of...
- White papers 2004-09-02
- Leadership and Management Competencies: Lessons From the National Occupational Standards
- The pros and cons of a competency/standards approach to leadership and management development have been under debate for some time. Whilst many people now question the validity of this approach, organisations in all sectors continue developing their own frameworks and the government encourages and promotes occupational standards. In the current...
- White papers 2004-07-07
- Overview of International Public Sector Standards in Accounting, Auditing and Internal Control
- This paper has been prepared by the PEFA Secretariat, drawing significantly on research undertaken by Meherji Madan of the World Bank. PEFA is a partnership program of the World Bank, the European Commission, the UK Department for International Development, the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, the International Monetary Fund,...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- Rethinking Risk: A Strategy For Improving Public Sector Sourcing Performance
- Governments are increasingly engaged in large-scale external sourcing of services, which vary from IT services to the provision of public infrastructure. Such arrangements are often almost impossible to reverse, and performance levels are difficult to assess. One crucial performance promise for externally sourced contract arrangements is that they will result...
- White papers 2006-12-14
- A Holistic Audit Of Managing Intellectual Property
- The management of Intellectual Property IP within Australian government research and development agencies has changed dramatically over last few years. Increasing expectations have been placed on utilising public sector IP to both underpin economic development and augment taxes by generating new revenues. And public sector R&D management has come under...
- White papers 2004-02-29
- Meeting The Procurement Challenges Of The Public Sector
- For organizations responsible for maintaining public funds and public trust, controlling costs by automating standard procurement processes is only a partial solution. Government procurement professionals must adhere to many regulations and structured guidelines. The SAP Government Procurement application was created specifically for the unique, complex tasks these professionals perform every...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Transforming Procurement For The 21st Century
- Procurement practices and processes as well as the related terms, conditions, regulations and statutes were originally designed to support state and local government in acquiring the essential supplies necessary to run their operations - the proverbial pencils, pens and paper. This paper sets out the case for transforming procurement processes...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Outsourcing Risk?: The Regulation Of Occupational Health And Safety Where Subcontractors Are Employed
- The subcontracting out of production tasks and services is not a new phenomenon, but from the late 1970s, and more especially over the last 15 years, the practice?now frequently referred to as outsourcing?has grown substantially across a range of industries in most industrialized countries.1 Recent surveys undertaken in the United...
- White papers 2005-10-24
- SAP Procurement for Public Sector: Maximize Government Purchasing Power and Improve Contract Compliance
- It's hard to ensure effective procurement with traditional solutions that lack support for a complex procurement life cycle. But the SAP Procurement for Public Sector package is tailored to meet these demands. It helps you improve operational efficiency and service levels as well as satisfy policies and regulations. As a...
- White papers 2007-09-01
- Global Infrastructure Crisis: The Problem Is More Than Money
- We are in the midst of global infrastructure crisis. Infrastructure worldwide is deteriorating and needs to be replaced or enhanced. Existing public funding sources are inadequate to meet the need, but the problem is more than money - private sector funding is available. But public sector asset owners and their...
- White papers 2008-07-23
- How SMES Can Win Public Sector Contracts
- As the public sector looks to cut expenditure, smaller suppliers will have to work even harder to reach the top of the tendering shortlist. Understand the process Goal: Learn how to work within the public sector’s procurement process....
- Articles 2009-09-07
- CBI Publishes Wish-List For British Industry
- "Balance and growth". These are the words that perhaps best describe the CBI's blueprint for steering Britain's economy back on the right track. During a press conference at the industry body's Centre Point HQ Deputy-Director General, John Cridland, and Chief Economic Adviser, Ian McCafferty, outlined their organisation's recommendations to the UK government's pre-budget ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-18
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- Wooing Uncle Sam for e-gov business; Microsoft and IBM among those making moves to win public-sector contracts.(Brief Article)
- With private-sector sales slumping and public agencies mandated to ramp up Internet operations, high-tech companies see big government as very big business. With private-sector sales slumping and public agencies mandated to ramp up Internet operations, high-tech companies see big government as very big...
- Research articles 2001-05-14
- Unisys Designs Four Public Sector Solutions to Help Gov't Agencies Streamline Business Processes and Capitalize on Technology Investments
- BLUE BELL, Pa., /U.S. Newswire/ -- Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced the development of four solutions for key public sector areas based on the Unisys Business Blueprinting initiative. Combining the company's broad knowledge of mission-critical processes vital to public sector operations with advanced technology and best practices, the...
- Research articles 2003-06-10
- CA Names Pat Gnazzo General Manager for Public Sector Business
- ISLANDIA, N.Y. -- CA (NYSE: CA) today announced Pat Gnazzo as its senior vice president and general manager for its U.S. Public Sector business, effective immediately. In this newly created position, Gnazzo heads up all operations for CA's Federal, State and Local business including management, administration, and regulatory matters, as...
- Research articles 2007-11-05
- Systems Alliance Opens Richmond Office, Hires Former Dell Business Development Leader to Run Virginia Operations
- Stephen Phillips Will Grow Relationships with Public- and Private-Sector Clients SPARKS, Md. -- Systems Alliance, Inc., a regional systems integrator providing high-value IT and business consulting services, today announced Stephen Phillips, formerly an account executive with Dell responsible for the computer giant's higher education and public-sector business in central...
- Research articles 2008-12-02
- e-Government And Business Competitiveness: A Policy Review
- Nowadays fast changing world, the Information and Communication Technology ICT revolution and globalization have become powerful forces in boosting economic growth and competitiveness across nations. Technology offers the hope of helping countries use the economies of scale generated by information advances to cut costs while also improving productivity and service...
- White papers 2005-10-01
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