1st Edition Logistics Disaster Management Training Programme DHA/94/2 GE.94-00020 Logistics 1st Edition Module prepared by R.S. Stephenson, Ph.D. Disaster Management Training Programme 1993 2 STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION OF RELIEF LOGISTICS CONTENTS Acknowledgements ................................................................................6 Introduction ............................................................................................7 Part 1 Relief
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Tallinn, Estonia, 2011 © CCD COE Publications Permission to make digital or hard copies of this publication for internal use within NATO, and for personal or educational use done for non-profit or non-commercial purpose is granted providing that copies bear this notice and a full citation on the first page. Any other reproduction or transmission requires prior written permission. Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Defense Enn Tyugu R&D Branch Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCD COE) and
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Holmes et al. Implementation Science 2012, 7:39 http://www.implementationscience.com/content/7/1/39 Implementation Science DEBATE Open Access Translating evidence into practice: the role of health research funders Bev Holmes*, Gayle Scarrow and Megan Schellenberg Abstract Background: A growing body of work on knowledge translation (KT) reveals significant gaps between what is known to improve health, and what is done to improve health. The literature and practice also suggest that KT
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THE BODY SHOP Strategic Implementation Plan Table of Content Introduction 3 Section I Strategic Management Practices 4 1.1 The Body Shop’s Strategic Management Practices 4 1.2 Limitations and Alternative Approaches 6 1.3 Strategy proposed 7 Section II Corporate Governance 8 2.1 Evaluation of Governance structure 8 2.2 What is the stakeholder’s role? 9 2.2.1 Keep satisfied 10 2.2.2 Keep Informed 11 2.2.3 Key players 11 Section III Hard Changes in the Body Shop 13 3
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ISSN 1608-7143 OECD JOURNAL ON BUDGETING Volume 5 – No. 3 © OECD 2006 The United Kingdom Private Finance Initiative: The Challenge of Allocating Risk by David Corner∗ Since 1992, the United Kingdom has used a new type of public-private partnership for the delivery of public services: the Private Finance Initiative. In the design of PFI projects, the assessment of risk, and who is best able to manage it, needs to be carefully considered. Using data from government reports and case examples
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ISSN 1608-7143 OECD JOURNAL ON BUDGETING Volume 5 – No. 3 © OECD 2006 The United Kingdom Private Finance Initiative: The Challenge of Allocating Risk by David Corner∗ Since 1992, the United Kingdom has used a new type of public-private partnership for the delivery of public services: the Private Finance Initiative. In the design of PFI projects, the assessment of risk, and who is best able to manage it, needs to be carefully considered. Using data from government reports and case examples
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Do No tC op yo rP os t 9-604-081 REV: SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 ANDREW MCAFEE VINCENT DESSAIN ANDERS SJÖMAN Zara: IT for Fast Fashion On a beautiful August night in 2003, Xan Salgado Badás and Bruno Sánchez Ocampo settled into seats at their favorite tapas bar in the Spanish city of La Coruña, ordered pulpo gallego (octopus Galician style), and resumed their argument. Salgado was the head of IT for Inditex, a multinational clothing retailer and manufacturer headquartered in La Coruña (see Exhibit 1 for a map)
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the World of Retailing EXECUTIVE BRIEFING Maxine Clark, Chief Executive Bear, Build-A-Bear Workshop became President of Payless Shoe Stores, then a division of May Department Store with over 4,500 stores and $2 billion plus in annual sales at the time. In early 1997, I decided to launch a retail concept I had been thinking about—Build-A-Bear Workshop®. While most retailers are merchandise driven, Build-A-Bear Workshop® offers highly interactive experiences like a theme park. It combines the universal
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Embracing DNA, Expanding Horizons: The Panda Turns Fifty Sherine Jayawickrama December 2011 Produced for discussion at the Role of Brand in the Nonprofit Sector conference on December 8, 2011, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation. Embracing DNA, Expanding Horizons: The Panda Turns Fifty The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) was established fifty years ago to save endangered species from extinction. The first WWF office was established in Switzerland in April 1961 and the second was established
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CHAPTER 1 What Is Financial Modelling? here are all sorts of complicated definitions of financial modelling, and in my experience there is quite a bit of confusion around what a financial model is exactly. A few years ago, we put together a Plum Solutions survey about the attitudes, trends, and uses of financial modelling, asked respondents “What do you think a financial model is?” Participants were asked to put down the first thing that came to mind, without any research or too much thinking
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