Michelle Shumate and Liz Howard
In this case, lessons from the Chicago Benchmarking Collaborative illustrate key principles of collaborative action and the importance of using data to achieve SMART goals.In…
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In this case, lessons from the Chicago Benchmarking Collaborative illustrate key principles of collaborative action and the importance of using data to achieve SMART goals.
In 2015, the Chicago Benchmarking Collaborative (CBC) was a network of seven agencies in Chicago, Illinois, serving 12,000 low-income residents. Each of the agencies had early childhood, school-age children, and adult education programs. At the prompting of the Chicago Community Trust, they came together to (1) benchmark their education programs outputs and outcomes; (2) learn and share best practices through developing a common set of metrics and measurements and implementing these measurements into a case management software system; and (3) share the costs of the case management software system to be used for program evaluation and continuous quality improvement.
Three aspects of CBC are particularly noteworthy. First, there are no joint program activities or clients among these agencies. Their exchange is limited to sharing data and other information. This makes CBC distinct from collaborations formed to begin a program or to advocate for a policy. Second, the group requires each agency to enter data on a timely basis and to set SMART goals based on the data reports. The agencies are held mutually accountable for their work to achieve their own SMART goals during the year and report on progress. Third, CBC used monetary incentives to ensure that data entry and SMART goal action remained a priority for each agency.
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This paper is a continuation and development of the author's thesis regarding deviant activity in the financial markets of the City of London. The basis of the thesis is that…
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This paper is a continuation and development of the author's thesis regarding deviant activity in the financial markets of the City of London. The basis of the thesis is that deviant activity in financial institutions has become legitimated in that external regulatory controls have failed to enforce order against the internally generated sub‐cultural codes of practice which have developed consequent upon the forces of economic imperative (the ideology of excellence in the enterprise culture) and globalisation (the technological revolution). The thesis originally dealt with the period between 1984 and 1989 which was characterised as ‘Casino Capitalism’. This paper examines whether this is still relevant and proposes a number of additional elements and examples in its articulation.
The paper assumes a conflict between the discourses (domains of language) of finance, criminality and regulation. It suggests that in the recent past transgression of codes has…
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The paper assumes a conflict between the discourses (domains of language) of finance, criminality and regulation. It suggests that in the recent past transgression of codes has become the norm in financial services practices. Utilising the idea that profit orientated organisations and operatives are crimogenic and that the border between organised economic activity and organised criminality is negotiable, it further suggests that the strategic deployment of nomination in relation to economic activities involving financial services serves to neutralise responses which would ordinarily classify these activities as deviant and subject to orthodox criminalisation. Without recourse to unified definitions and standards of criminality, the effectiveness of rational regulatoiy responses is flawed from the beginning. The paper raises broader questions regarding governmentality, legitimation and anomie. The deregulation, technologisation and internationalisation of the London financial markets has served to remove a central source of regulator authority (the State and its institutional agencies). Regulation through compliance suggests that the responsibility for legitimation and the production of values and ethics resides with the practitioners themselves who operate in a state of anomie (normlessness) in response to risk (financial risk and norm‐breaking risk). The absence of a grounded discourse of criminality operative within the con sciousness of practitioners and regulators enables ethical and moral relativity to flourish. The paper ends with a call for a restatement of criminological ‘labelling’ theory and for this to become an element in the informing theoretical criteria in future studies of fraudulent activity.
This paper pursues the thesis which the author has previously developed under the title ‘The Legitimation of Deviance in the Financial Markets’. This thesis suggests alternative…
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This paper pursues the thesis which the author has previously developed under the title ‘The Legitimation of Deviance in the Financial Markets’. This thesis suggests alternative forms of analysing the rela‐tionship between government and capital markets with reference to deviant activity. It is suggested that the processes of political and economic deregulation have involved an enhancement in the complexity in the structure of power relations and in a moral and ethical indetermination in the propagation and promulgation of norms and behaviour. This paper develops the original thesis regarding the appropriateness of the application of the sociological concept of anomie in understanding the configuration between internal and external deviant motivation.
This paper is concerned with the recommendations of the Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance under the Chairmanship of Sir Adrian Cadbury (Final Report 1st…
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This paper is concerned with the recommendations of the Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance under the Chairmanship of Sir Adrian Cadbury (Final Report 1st December, 1992). The paper analyses the recommendations of the Committee with particular reference to the establishment of a Code of Practice and offers a critical evaluation of the Committees proposals within the broader frame of the internal regulation of corporate power. It specifically analyses the recommendations made with regard to auditors' liability and offers an assessment of the importance of gaining a regulatory perspective on the operation of the accounting profession with regard to the auditing of public companies.
Christopher C. Stanley and R.V. Balendran
Debonding, leading to the subsequent detachment of applied finishes toconcrete buildings, is becoming a serious problem in many parts of theworld. Checking building elevations by…
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Debonding, leading to the subsequent detachment of applied finishes to concrete buildings, is becoming a serious problem in many parts of the world. Checking building elevations by employing the technique of Infra‐red Thermography using a process developed by the writer can give advance warning of potential defects. This can enable early remedial action to be undertaken to repair a building surface before it becomes detached from the concrete substrate, possibly resulting in a hazard to passers‐by. The thermographic test method has been compared with other more traditionally used NDT methods including sounding, rebound hammer, and ultrasonic pulse velocity measurements. Although the thermographic equipment is initially more expensive, the surveying method can be shown to be faster and more accurate than any other technique currently available for this type of building evaluation.
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Recent years have seen the market opportunity for innovative bioscience products grow rapidly. For instance, the human clinical diagnostics field is now a $17 billion world‐wide…
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Recent years have seen the market opportunity for innovative bioscience products grow rapidly. For instance, the human clinical diagnostics field is now a $17 billion world‐wide market, and in specific sectors, such as point of care (POC) and over the counter (OTC), there is an increasing emphasis on novel device and chemistry design. Pharmaceuticals is an even more massive $200 billion market world‐wide, where major opportunities for innovative products lie in combinations of pharmaceuticals with diagnostics and in advanced drug delivery systems.