MANAGING CRIME AND QUALITY OF LIFE USING COMPSTAT: SPECIFIC ISSUES IN IMPLEMENTATION AND PRACTICE By Dr. Vincent E. Henry* I. INTRODUCTION The highly effective management model or paradigm that has come to be known as Compstat was first developed within the New York Police Department in 1994 as a process for managing crime and quality of life in New York City. Compstat was developed in response to a very specific set of immediate needs confronting the NYPD at that time: the compelling need to
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Harvard Business Review Article Proposal “Putting the ‘R’ Back into CRM” By Susan Fournier (Boston University) and Jill Avery (Simmons College) November 17, 2009 1.) What is the central message (the “aha”) of the article you propose to write? What is important, useful, new, or counterintuitive about your idea? Why do managers need to know about it? Ten years ago, Fournier et al.’s Harvard Business Review article, “Preventing the Premature Death of Relationship Marketing,” charged
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Caspe, Lilac Certeza, Jason Diestro, Laurence Tugade, Ruby Rosselle PoS131: International Political Economy TITLE One cannot speak of International Political Economy without at least wading through the fundamental debate between the degree of importance of political structures and market forces in economic development. This dynamic serves as one of the basic foundations of the discipline itself as well as subsequent major schools of thought. Theories in International Economy have
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Write that Journal Article (in seven days) Dr Inger Mewburn Director of Research Training Australian National University This slide deck is released under a Creative Commons license Are you a plotter or a pantser? Plotters like to plan and then write line by perfect line. They take a long time, but don’t have to do a lot of editing later. Pantsers like to just jump in, with minimal preparation. They make a mess and then clean it up. The cleaning up can take a long time. Ideally you
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S. Park and S.-Y. Ohm: New Techniques for Real-Time FAT File System in Mobile Multimedia Devices 1 New Techniques for Real-Time FAT File System in Mobile Multimedia Devices Sunhwa Park and Seong-Young Ohm Abstract — Flash memory has become the most important storage media in the mobile multimedia products such as MP3 players, mobile phones, and digital cameras. Most mobile multimedia devices, however, use one of the conventional FAT file systems slightly modified for flash memory environments
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providing evidence to the contrary has been provided to enable a balanced analysis. Therefore, a balanced description of mirror neurons will facilitate any critical analysis for the possible psychological implications, thereby providing a balanced argument for the legitimacy of mirror neurons. Additionally, following any analysis of relevant research, a balanced and supported conclusion was produced in order to summarise any analysed research. Accordingly, the concept of mirror neurons first came
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Paper Writing Process The series of steps that most writers follow in producing a piece of writing. The five major stages in the writing process are finding a topic and generating ideas (discovering), focusing on a main or controlling idea and mapping out an approach (organizing), preparing a rough draft (drafting), reworking and improving the draft (revising), and proofreading and correcting errors. Discovering – The first stage in the writing process. It may include finding a topic, exploring
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Political Philosophy Revision Notes Brief Definitions Autonomy - A group or individual who has the ability to govern themselves, make decisions and act upon those decisions. Self-Government. Democracy – A government ruled by the people, and consisting of ‘the people’. Direct Democracy – Electors (the people) vote on every Government Issue. Representative – Electors vote in a person to represent ‘the people’. Ideology – A set of rules, morals and political views that governments base their
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Activity Based Costing in the Public Sector By: Brandy Medina Public sector organizations at all levels and of all types are facing intense pressure to do more with less. Governments at all levels in almost all the countries in the world are feeling some kind of pressure. The pressure on spending comes from many sources, i.e. from politicians aiming to win taxpayers’ approval. There is pressure from the competition with other cities to attract homebuyers or with other counties, states or nations
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article from 1996, he asks “What is Strategy” and discussed operational efficiency in connection with strategy making and he advised that those two things should not (can not) be used interchangeably. Below their is a summary of Porter‟s main arguments from his article and what he sees as main components on strategy and how to distinguish between operational efficiency and strategy. SUMMARY The ability the make an informed decision about how, when and where to target a customer group, facilitate
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