Download or read book The Contract Scorecard written by Sara Cullen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adoption and use of a contract scorecard demonstrates a maturing ability to manage commercial outsourcing arrangements. The process of designing the scorecard helps you nail down the key outcomes and avoid lack of focus, inconsistent objectives, hidden costs, indifferent service and deteriorating relationships with your contract partners. Sara Cullen's The Contract Scorecard will help you design and drive successful contracts. It offers a systematic guide based on practical advice and examples; one that explains the Contract Scorecard concept and demonstrates crucial implementation activities such as: ¢ The development of performance measures that work ¢ Sound Service Level Agreements that make obligations clear ¢ A Governance Charter that ensures both parties will adopt successful management techniques An upfront investment in your contracts, from a commercial rather than legal perspective is probably the single most influential activity you can undertake; one that will ensure your outsourcing relationships have clear business goals as the focus of the deal. Reading a copy of Sara Cullen's The Contract Scorecard should be the first step in that investment.

Download or read book Service Level Agreements written by Sara Cullen and published by outsourcingtoolset. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Contract Scorecard written by Sara Cullen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adoption and use of a contract scorecard demonstrates a maturing ability to manage commercial outsourcing arrangements. The process of designing the scorecard helps you nail down the key outcomes and avoid lack of focus, inconsistent objectives, hidden costs, indifferent service and deteriorating relationships with your contract partners. Sara Cullen's The Contract Scorecard will help you design and drive successful contracts. It offers a systematic guide based on practical advice and examples; one that explains the Contract Scorecard concept and demonstrates crucial implementation activities such as: ¢ The development of performance measures that work ¢ Sound Service Level Agreements that make obligations clear ¢ A Governance Charter that ensures both parties will adopt successful management techniques An upfront investment in your contracts, from a commercial rather than legal perspective is probably the single most influential activity you can undertake; one that will ensure your outsourcing relationships have clear business goals as the focus of the deal. Reading a copy of Sara Cullen's The Contract Scorecard should be the first step in that investment.

Download or read book The Outsourcing Enterprise written by L. Willcocks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence shows that organizations with both a CEO and a team involved in sourcing strategy and supplier configuration make more effective decisions. If the wrong supplier is chosen, performance can be negatively affected. Here the authors look at how companies can improve their outsourcing capabilities.

Download or read book Using Metrics to Manage Contractor Performance written by R. Marshall Engelbeck and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acquisition transformation has brought numerous changes to the way the Department of Defense (DoD) purchases goods and services, as well as to the way it manages the contractor?s performance after contract award. One of the most significant changes has been the emphasis on the use of commercial goods and services coupled with the use of performance-based contracts to satisfy mission-critical needs. As the performance of contractors has become more critical to the mission, there has been a significant reduction in the number of acquisition personnel available to perform what traditionally has been referred to as contract administration tasks. In addition, with the increase in the amount of services contracts, there has been a change in the skills needed to manage contracts after award. Contract administration is currently undergoing a paradigm shift because of changes to what the DoD buys and to how purchases are being made. The move to minimize the importance of detailed specifications and to rely on commercial processes requires more management than administrative skills. The bottom line is that new methods and skills must be explored and developed to more effectively perform what traditionally has been referred to as?contract administration.? This study, which addresses contracts at the micro level, concludes the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 represents a viable framework by which contracts should be structured, as well as managed. The Act requires managers in the Executive Branch to develop strategic plans and use performance indicators to measure output and to evaluate the outcome of the contract, as well as the contractor?s performance. The study also recommends Kaplan and Norton's Balanced Scorecard method of performance measurement, together with Contractor Performance Information (Past Performance Reporting) requirements, can be adapted to the management of contracts. Past Performance reporting and tracking requirements define?in general terms?the buyer?s perspective of what is expected from the contractor. The Balanced Scorecard methodology enables managers to then identify the critical success factors and critical measures for each expatiation. Both parties will benefit by jointly managing these indicators concurrently throughout the life of the contract, rather than reacting to after-the-fact reporting. The goal of such requirements is to add joint accountability for results to the buyer-seller relationship.

Download or read book Psychological Contracts in Organizations written by Denise Rousseau and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1995-05-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a wide range of theory from social and cognitive psychology, organizational behaviour, organizational learning and the management of change, this text draws useful conclusions about important psychological processes.

Download or read book The MultiCapital Scorecard written by Martin P. Thomas and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades now, organizations have been struggling to find the best way to address their social and environmental responsibilities alongside their economic obligations. In other words, they want to know how best to effectively manage their operations based on a triple bottom line (3BL)--one that reflects social, environmental, and economic performance. Recently, an international standard for integrated reporting has emerged that in principle emphasizes the importance of managing toward a triple bottom line. But it fails to provide specific guidance on how to do so. Organizations have been left to their own devices to respond. How should 3BL management actually be done? In this book, sustainability and performance experts Martin Thomas and Mark McElroy introduce the world's most advanced 3BL performance accounting methodology: The MultiCapital Scorecard. It is the first context-based integrated measurement, management, and reporting system. And, it can help corporations, public institutions, and other organizations answer the question they should be asking themselves for every aspect of their operations: "How much is enough for us to be sustainable?" The answers set internal performance standards against which operations and their impacts can be measured. Nothing less will do! The MultiCapital Scorecard describes this open-source methodology, which consists of a structured, quantitative measurement and reporting system that complies with international standards for 3BL integrated measurement and reporting. Moreover, the MultiCapital Scorecard is designed to help organizations assess their own 3BL performance in their own contexts with context-based metrics of their own choosing. An eminently practical management aid for integrated thinking, it can be tailored to any organization's needs. The authors also describe how and why businesses are gradually shifting from managing impacts on only one type of capital (economic) to managing impacts on multiple types. They also provide detailed examples of worked reports, showing how organizations might develop and quantify the interim and long-term goals to meet their obligations to their employees, community, shareholders, and the environment. The examples also show how an organization can use the Multicapital Scorecard methodology to assess their progress in meeting those goals, and convey that progress to their stakeholders.

Download or read book Balanced Scorecard Step by Step written by Paul R. Niven and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-10-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how an organization can measure and manage performance with the Balanced Scorecard methodology. It provides extensive background on performance management and the Balanced Scorecard, and focuses on guiding a team through the step-by-step development and ongoing implementation of a Balanced Scorecard system. Corporations, public sector agencies, and not for profit organizations have all reaped success from the Balanced Scorecard. This book supplies detailed implementation advice that is readily applied to any and all of these organization types. Additionally, it will benefit organizations at any stage of Balanced Scorecard development. Regardless of whether you are just contemplating a Balanced Scorecard, require assistance in linking their current Scorecard to management processes, or need a review of their past measurement efforts, Balanced Scorecard Step by Step provides detailed advice and proven solutions.

Download or read book How Much Have Global Problems Cost the World written by Bjørn Lomborg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are often blanket claims that the world is facing more problems than ever but there is a lack of empirical data to show where things have deteriorated or in fact improved. In this book, some of the world's leading economists discuss ten problems that have blighted human development, ranging from malnutrition, education, and climate change, to trade barriers and armed conflicts. Costs of the problems are quantified in percent of GDP, giving readers a unique opportunity to understand the development of each problem over the past century and the likely development into the middle of this century, and to compare the size of the challenges. For example: how bad was air pollution in 1900? How has it deteriorated and what about the future? Did climate change cost more than malnutrition in 2010? This pioneering initiative to provide answers to many of these questions will undoubtedly spark debate amongst a wide readership.

Download or read book The Contract Professional s Playbook The Definitive Guide to Maximizing Value Through Mastery of Performance and Outcome Based Contracting written by Jeanette A. Nyden and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Contract Professional's Playbook provides guidance, principles, tools and best practices for developing best in class performance- and outcome-based contracts. Leveraging our vast personal experience, we provide contract professionals with first-hand, practical know-how that answers your most pressing how to questions.

Download or read book Contract Management written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-28 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the expected benefits of Contract Management to the business? Can Management personnel recognize the monetary benefit of Contract Management? Is Contract Management dependent on the successful delivery of a current project? What problems are you facing and how do you consider Contract Management will circumvent those obstacles? How do we Identify specific Contract Management investment and emerging trends? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, 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?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Contract management investments work better. This Contract management All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. All the tools you need to an in-depth Contract management Self-Assessment. Featuring 712 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Contract management improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Contract management 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 Contract management and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Contract management Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Contract management areas need attention. Your purchase includes access details to the Contract management self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book.

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Download or read book Contracting for Services in State and Local Government Agencies written by William Sims Curry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Contracting for Services in State and Local Government Agencies provides state-of-the-art tools for best practice in the procurement of services at state and local levels, from initial stages through to completion. Including lively case studies and research conducted with state and local agencies across the United States, this book provides management advice and tips on compliance to reduce costs, select the best-qualified contractors, manage contractors’ performance, and prevent corruption and waste. Utilizing the results of new research in all fifty states, author William Sims Curry offers updated best-practice documents, methodologies, and templates including: a Request for Proposal (RFP), a scorecard for proposals to select the best-qualified contractor, a toolkit for meeting socioeconomic contracting goals without compromising price, quality, or on-time delivery, and a Model Services Contract (MSC). Special consideration is given to obtaining services and products in states of emergency. Several additional resources for practitioners are available online, including sample contracts and a straightforward, inexpensive tool for tracking contractors’ progress and cost management. The roadmap and templates contained in this book and available online to readers will prove essential to state and local government agency contracting professionals and other officials and employees called upon to participate in the drafting of solicitations, writing sole source justifications, writing scopes of work, serving on advance contract planning and source selection teams, recommending award of contracts, or assisting in the management of those contracts.

Download or read book Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction written by Beth L. Hewett and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundational Practices in Online Writing Instruction addresses administrators’ and instructors’ questions for developing online writing programs and courses. Written by experts in the field, this book uniquely attends to issues of inclusive and accessible online writing instruction in technology-enhanced settings, as well as teaching with mobile technologies and multimodal compositions.

Download or read book End of Contract the Ultimate Step By Step Guide written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by 5starcooks. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is End of Contract important for you now? What are the short and long-term End of Contract goals? How do you select, collect, align, and integrate End of Contract data and information for tracking daily operations and overall organizational performance, including progress relative to strategic objectives and action plans? What threat is End of Contract addressing? What are specific End of Contract rules to follow? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, 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?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make End of Contract investments work better. This End of Contract All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. All the tools you need to an in-depth End of Contract Self-Assessment. Featuring 674 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which End of Contract improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose End of Contract 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 End of Contract and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the End of Contract Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which End of Contract areas need attention. Your purchase includes access details to the End of Contract self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific End of Contract Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

Download or read book Contract Management Program A Complete Guide 2020 Edition written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by 5starcooks. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is responsible for errors? How do you promote understanding that opportunity for improvement is not criticism of the status quo, or the people who created the status quo? What was the context? What do your reports reflect? What else needs to be measured? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, 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?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Contract Management Program investments work better. This Contract Management Program All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. All the tools you need to an in-depth Contract Management Program Self-Assessment. Featuring 925 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Contract Management Program improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Contract Management Program 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 Contract Management Program and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Contract Management Program Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Contract Management Program areas need attention. Your purchase includes access details to the Contract Management Program self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific Contract Management Program Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

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