USEPA's focus has been on building capability for a wide variety of contaminant classes and on ensuring national laboratory capacity for potential surges in the numbers of samples that could quickly exhaust the resources of local communities.
Based on this course development work, in collaboration with Professor Das Narayandas in the Marketing Unit, Dr. Eccles is working on a book about professional service firms with the working title of Building Capabilities: Ensuring Long-Term Success in a Professional Service Firm.
We have learned that we need to focus on building capacity in countries we work in, so they eventually have the capability to deliver their own services.
For instance, KP is currently focusing innovation on responsive design; building capabilities for all platforms (web, smartphones and tablets) to make the development of the patient portal more streamlined within KP and the user experience more consistent.
What we wanted to do at F8 is enable all the over 34,000 devs on the platform, whether they're building capabilities for third-parties or actual experiences," he said.
"We want to consolidate the market, grow ourselves, and keep focusing on building operational capabilities," says Wenzel.
Vertex is an interesting company in that regard, as its platform is focused on building AI capabilities into a variety of chips, and is focused on helping bridge the gap between having powerful processors and actually using them to build AI into apps.
In addition, the program has implemented and scaled up community-based mobilization activities focusing on building individual capabilities to foster a positive perception of self, enhance self-confidence and agency among individual FSWs, and promote a collective identity to address their immediate needs, such as dealing with crises and violence.
UNICEF plans to continue its efforts to support country programmes with an ongoing focus on building local capabilities, supply management and logistics and reviewing kit compositions and packing materials as part of the organization's commitment to the Millennium Development Goal of achieving universal primary education.
Common essential individual attributes of leadership identified in virtually every consultative study are flexibility, hands-on accessibility and effective communication, professional expertise in nurturing respect and recognition and empowering team building capabilities.
