Download or read book Infrastructure Services Performance Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Infrastructure Services Performance Review (ISPR) provides an indication of how a sample of the Agency's IS investments have performed in delivering infrastructure services."--Executive report.

Download or read book Performance Assessment of Urban Infrastructure Services written by Enrique Cabrera Jr and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance assessment has been one of the hottest topics in the water industry in the past decade. In that period, the International Water Association has played a key role, and the performance indicators systems developed for drinking water and wastewater utilities have become a reference worldwide. This book represents a collection of the papers presented to the Pi08 Conference, in Valencia, Spain (March 2008). The conference represents the final stage in the COST C18 Action, funded by the EU and brings together some of the most relevant professionals in the water industry. The book covers the latest trends in performance assessment, as well as relevant case studies from practical applications in utilities around the globe. Themes: Performance Indicators Metric Benchmarking Process Benchmarking Asset Management Regulation Case Studies

Download or read book Infrastructure Services Performance Review written by Valerie Young and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Infrastructure Services Performance Review (ISPR) provides an indication of how a sample of the Agency's IS investments have performed in delivering infrastructure services. This executive report summarizes what was learned from the evaluations and studies that comprised this Review."--Introduction.

Download or read book Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nation's physical infrastructure facilitates movement of people and goods; provides safe water; provides energy when and where needed; removes wastes; enables rapid communications; and generally supports our economy and quality of life. Developing a framework for guiding attempts at measuring the performance of infrastructure systems and grappling with the concept of defining good performance are the major themes of this book. Focusing on urban regions, within a context of national policy, the volume provides the basis for further in-depth analysis and application at the local, regional, state, and national levels.

Download or read book Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance written by Committee on Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-01-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nation's physical infrastructure facilitates movement of people and goods; provides safe water; provides energy when and where needed; removes wastes; enables rapid communications; and generally supports our economy and quality of life. Developing a framework for guiding attempts at measuring the performance of infrastructure systems and grappling with the concept of defining good performance are the major themes of this book. Focusing on urban regions, within a context of national policy, the volume provides the basis for further in-depth analysis and application at the local, regional, state, and national levels.

Download or read book Infrastructure Services Complete Self Assessment Guide written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What key business process output measure(s) does Infrastructure Services leverage and how? Do you monitor the effectiveness of your Infrastructure Services activities? What other jobs or tasks affect the performance of the steps in the Infrastructure Services process? What business benefits will Infrastructure Services goals deliver if achieved? What are the revised rough estimates of the financial savings/opportunity for Infrastructure Services improvements? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' For more than twenty years, The Art of Service's Self-Assessments empower people who can do just that - whether their title is marketer, entrepreneur, manager, salesperson, consultant, business process manager, executive assistant, IT Manager, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are people who watch the process as it happens, and ask the right questions to make the process work better. This book is for managers, advisors, consultants, specialists, professionals and anyone interested in Infrastructure Services assessment. Featuring 608 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Infrastructure Services improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Infrastructure Services projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Infrastructure Services and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Infrastructure Services Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Infrastructure Services areas need attention. Included with your purchase of the book is the Infrastructure Services Self-Assessment downloadable resource, containing all 608 questions and Self-Assessment areas of this book. This enables ease of (re-)use and enables you to import the questions in your preferred Management or Survey Tool. Access instructions can be found in the book. You are free to use the Self-Assessment contents in your presentations and materials for customers without asking us - we are here to help. This Self-Assessment has been approved by The Art of Service as part of a lifelong learning and Self-Assessment program and as a component of maintenance of certification. Optional other Self-Assessments are available. For more information, visit http://theartofservice.com

Download or read book Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-02-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nation's physical infrastructure facilitates movement of people and goods; provides safe water; provides energy when and where needed; removes wastes; enables rapid communications; and generally supports our economy and quality of life. Developing a framework for guiding attempts at measuring the performance of infrastructure systems and grappling with the concept of defining good performance are the major themes of this book. Focusing on urban regions, within a context of national policy, the volume provides the basis for further in-depth analysis and application at the local, regional, state, and national levels.

Download or read book Global Capital Flows to Infrastructure Investments written by Joseph B. Oyedele and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demand pressure and the plethora of evidences observed in the form of increasing infrastructure financing gap, ageing infrastructure, environmental factors, such as climate change and rising quality standards are factors attracting institutional and private sector participation in infrastructure investment. Therefore, the search for innovative means of financing infrastructure has become incessant. Also, the features of the financial landscape, especially in a financial crisis has further underpinned the significance of looking beyond the present infrastructure need, to a more sustained infrastructure financing scheme anticipated from institutional investors. A well established capital market has therefore been identified as a viable option for long term and steady global capital flows to financing infrastructure projects; else, the burden will remain on governments to offer direct or indirect support to private investors in attracting financing for infrastructure development. This book therefore conceptually investigates the potentials of the capital market and institutional investors’ capital flows in bridging the global infrastructure funding gap. A fundamental conclusion from the book revealed that institutional investors particularly pension funds have the capacity to pool enormous resources into the infrastructure market, thus emphatically projecting them as a force to be reckoned with in the global infrastructure investments.

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Download or read book e Infrastructure and e Services for Developing Countries written by Karl Jonas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International ICST Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, AFRICOMM 2012, held in Yaounde, Cameroon, in November 2012. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of information and communication infrastructures and are grouped in topical sections on: e-Infrastructure, e-Services, e-Society, e-Health, and e-Security.

Download or read book RISE with SAP towards a Sustainable Enterprise written by Adil Zafar and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-02-10 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get insights and guidance on various challenges within the industry and what business levers you can consider to effortlessly lead your business transformation through RISE with SAP Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key FeaturesGain actionable insights into end-to-end process performance with process analyticsScale performance and reliability to accelerate your journey to the cloud and beyondGet a clear overview of the enabling tools and services you can leverage for the transformationBook Description If you're unsure whether adopting SAP S/4HANA is the right move for your enterprise, then this book is for you. This practical and comprehensive guide will help you determine your next steps toward building a business case, while preparing you for all the possible scenarios and enabling you to make informed decisions during implementation. RISEwith SAP toward a Sustainable Enterprise is packed with clear and detailed advice, including a run-through of what it takes to design the landscape using RISE with SAP. As you go through the chapters, you'll get a solid understanding of precisely what services are available (such as Process Discovery, data migration, the fit-to-standard approach), and which scope items on RISE with SAP should be considered, allowing you to make the most of RISE with the SAP-based model. Finally, you'll get an overview of different industry-based use cases and how they can be brought to reality with the platform that's set up on the RISE with SAP offering. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build a detailed business case to determine if RISE with SAP is the right transformation engine for you, along with a clear idea of optimized landscape design on RISE with SAP that addresses the pain points for your implementation and support activities. What you will learnUnderstand the challenges faced by organizations and CXOs with the emerging market trendsKnow what to consider when creating a business case for RISE with SAPExplore deployment options within RISE with SAP and other functional and non-functional servicesUnderstand optimized landscape design on RISE with SAP along with effective implementation and supportTake the optimum approach in adopting S/4HANA with levers like Process Discovery, testing, and automationDiscover possibilities when dealing with SAP, the vendor ecosystem, and cloud products driven by industriesWho this book is for This book is for CXOs and solutions and enterprise architects who've been working in the SAP ecosystem and want practical and concise advice on how to get up and running with the adoption of S/4HANA by leveraging RISE with SAP as the enabling engine. This book is also for professionals working toward creating a business case and trying to identify all possible best practices around the adoption of RISE with SAP and associated industry use cases. Prior experience with either SAP or a different ERP will help you get the most out of this book.

Download or read book Wireless technologies and the national information infrastructure written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the next five to 10 years, wireless technologies will dramatically reshape the communications and information infrastructure of the United States. New radio-based systems now being developed will use advanced digital technologies to bring a wide array of services to both residential and business users, including ubiquitous mobile telephone and data services and many new forms of video programming. Existing wireless systems, including radio and television broadcasting, cellular telephony, and various satellite and data networks, will also convert to digital technology. This will allow them to improve the quality of their services, expand the number of users they can serve, and offer new information and entertainment applications. Before the benefits of these wireless systems can be realized, however, technical, regulatory, and economic uncertainties must be resolved. This report examines the role wireless communication technologies will play in the evolving National Information Infrastructure (NII), examines the challenges facing policy-makers and regulators as wireless becomes a more integral part of the telecommunications and information infrastructure, and identifies some of the longer term implications of the widespread use of wireless systems and services.

Download or read book OECD Environmental Performance Reviews Mexico 2003 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review of Mexico's environmental conditions and policies evaluates progress in reducing the pollution burden, improving natural resource management, integrating environmental and economic policies, and strengthening international co-operation.

Download or read book Public Information in the National Information Infrastructure written by Henry H. Perritt (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Remote Instrumentation Services on the e Infrastructure written by Franco Davoli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on all aspects related to the effective exploitation of remote instrumentation and to the building of complex virtual laboratories on top of real devices and infrastructures. These include service oriented architecture (SOA) and related middleware, high-speed networking in support of Grid applications, wireless Grids for acquisition devices and sensor networks, Quality Service (QoS) provisioning for real-time control, measurement instrumentation and methodology, as well as metrology issues in distributed systems.

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Download or read book e Infrastructure and e Services for Developing Countries written by Yahya H. Sheikh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, AFRICOMM 2021, held in Zanzibar, Tanzania, in December 2021. The 31 full papers presented were carefully selected from 78 submissions. The papers discuss issues and trends, resent research, innovation and experiences related to e-Infrastructure and e-Services along with their associated policy and regulations with a deep focus on developing countries. In recognition of the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference organized a workshop to share experience on digital leaning and teaching at the time of pandemic, which garnered 3 papers.