'The intense competitition to host the Olympic Games, coupled with the multibillion-dollar enterprise that results from winning that competitition, has exposed the weaknesses in the movement's governing structures and operating controls,' he said.
" 'Celebrate' is a word we could use for Columbus's genius, his persistence against the odds in getting people who were much more powerful than he was to back him in a risky enterprise that had results way beyond anyone's imagination.
In the U.S. alone, we spend more than a trillion dollars on an antiquated enterprise that yields marginal results.
Will we continue to use limited funds to support the currently slow and cumbersome research enterprise that produces costly results that may not be relevant or easily translated into practice, or are we willing to pursue alternative approaches that in other research disciplines have produced rapid and relevant improvements?
See a connection on the home page at www.nnyagdev.org for history on the invasive alfalfa snout beetle arrival in New York State, when the solution seeking research began, and a new business enterprise that developed as a result of the research.
He promises much needed extra health visitors – but Sure Start would face cuts, contracted out to voluntary groups in "a new spirit of enterprise" that would "pay by results".
Making movies and running a country, or campaign, are completely different of course -- but my sense is that Barack Obama would benefit from being seen as able to run a complex enterprise that had to produce results (I know...his campaign...but beyond that).
Launched in the UK, social impact bonds financially reward private investors and delivery organisations, usually charities or social enterprises, for measurable social outcomes that result in a saving for the state.
THE ROLE OF AN OUTWARD-DIRECTED MANAGEMENT The first task of management is to define what results are in the enterprise that is in its keeping.
The AETA criminalizes protest activity aimed at "damaging or interfering with the operations of an animal enterprise," specifically citing activism that results in "the loss of profits".
