The authors discuss the meaning, need and importance of diversity and discusses a case study about impact of diversity. The authors recommend policies for promotion of diversity in organizations. The authors mention a few areas where organizations must promote suitable policies to foster...

This article addresses the challenges to urban planning, which is a social activity that affects the development of urban communities and helps them to cope with the challenges posed by the global-local and real-virtual dialectic. The approach to planning is influenced by an emerging creativity...

The author recommends review of organizational practices to ensure that there is no discrimination and that diversity is encouraged. The author recommends that every institution must foster such practices which may promote diversity, inclusive practices and sustainable development goals

Aim/purpose - The purpose of this article was to identify the information and communication technology (ICT) tools fostering the co-production of social services, acknowledging that the technological environment is an important contextual condition enhancing the development of co-production....

This paper introduces the Portfolio Project Matrix Model P2M2™ for managing capability acquisition and innovation in military applications. We present an overview of related theories and models and provide references. An annex is included, featuring a visualization tool used to analyse...

The European Quality Assurance methodology is pushing hard Portuguese Universities so that they should improve their overall performance. Working at a Portuguese University more than a decade ago, one of the authors experienced several life cycles in different Departments and the experience...

The article explores the conduct of strategic sessions with organizations whose task is elaboration of a development project (transformation). A detailed description is given of the stages that must be handled by the session participants, i.e. employees of the organization itself and the session...

Raising the effectiveness of Italy’s public sector is more urgent than ever. It will be key to revive investment and productivity and improve access to quality public services for the most vulnerable. The quality of public goods and services is variable, weakening Italy’s resilience to...

The objective of evaluating public policy measures is to assess its implications and thus to obtain a measure for weather the respective program has been successful. In this paper, we consider and classify microeconomic and microeconometric approaches to measuring this success. To do so, the...

Infolge der Regionalisierung von Wirtschafts- und Strukturpolitik entstehen entweder vollkommen neue Institutionen (horizontale Regionalisierung) oder Institutionen mit neuen Kompetenzen (vertikale Regionalisierung). Der Erfolg einer Regionalisierungspolitik läßt sich am Grad der...