An executive summary needs to clearly define a problem, whether it's supply-chain management or marketing campaigns overseas.
This 'stream convergence' occurs when a problem is clearly defined, a solution has been developed and is waiting to be implemented, and the public perception for both problems and solutions is favourable.
Awards are based on the ability of the author(s) to clearly define a particular issue and to propose actionable steps toward alleviating or eradicating the problem.
The issue has to be seen to address a clearly defined problem (in the problem stream) and then a policy solution to the problem has to be available (in the policy stream) [18].
A comprehensive research agenda would start by clearly defining the problem (size, nature) before formulating solutions, how to implement them, and evaluating their effectiveness.
This process involves breaking larger problems down into smaller ones, clearly defining each problem, analysing the causes or contributing factors, critically examining current responses to the issue, and working out new strategies to deal with them, based on the analyses.
This process focuses on clearly defining the problem at hand and identifying the full suite of decision-relevant objectives, such that the best available science can be used to evaluate the utility of different actions and the trade-offs in choosing one option over another.
Patient concerns obviously are of a scope and scale completely different from those of my appliances; yet the patients too have a problem, a problem that is clearly defined to them, a problem they have spent hours, days, weeks, perhaps years mulling over.
Our population of interest comprised those aged less than 18 years with a clearly defined vision problem and a clearly defined neurodevelopmental problem.
Ideally, you want people who are just "living their lives" but are running up against a clearly defined problem because of a misguided law.
