The phrase "prescriptive action" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where specific actions or measures are recommended or mandated to achieve a desired outcome.
Example: "The report outlines several prescriptive actions that the organization must take to improve its sustainability practices."
Alternatives: "recommended measures" or "directive actions".
But overly prescriptive action, if implemented, won't make any impact at all on the government, against which this action is apparently directed, and may have a negative impact on schools and pupils, possibly even playing directly into Michael Gove's hands if heads are unable to manage staff as required.
"We believe Futurelytics takes BI to the next level, from predictive insight (someone at the customer end watching yet another dashboard) to prescriptive action," he continues.
Chief Innovation Officer of MAT Geoff McGrath says sometimes the biggest challenge for data in healthcare is "people using prescriptive action based on algorithms across a population".
Like the discovery of a cancerous blemish, knowledge about the garbage patches tends to activate people to learn more and to take prescriptive action.
One can even make a perfect case that the Ten Commandments is a total harm reduction strategy in that it addresses the major issues of a society and encourages a strong prescriptive action to reduce the harm that is caused by not following them.
But my Achilles' heel is my overly literal approach: any time an instructor telegraphs a coming move midsong by, for instance, pointing to the right or holding up three fingers to denote repetition, I am sure to make these prescriptive actions the very centerpiece of my dancing.
The findings suggest that senior marketers written plans function as cues and guides, rather than prescriptive actions which stifle creativity and innovation.
Generally, it includes descriptive (describes data), exploratory (discovering unknown correlations in data), predictive (predict events and trends) and prescriptive (suggest actions) methods to gain meaningful insight for different domains [56, 57].
I want to stress this is not about the three organisations being prescriptive and dictating actions: each service organisation will want to reflect on its individual patients and users, before determining the most appropriate action.
"In general, shareholders tend to be more supportive of resolutions seeking disclosures of information that might be useful to investors; less supportive of prescriptive proposals seeking specific action," said Carol Bowie, head of Institutional Shareholders Services Americass Research group.
This article has shown that the ILTIAD framework can help reduce complexity in local decision-making processes on smart grid implementation, which makes it a useful heuristic tool for analytical description and prescriptive design in collective action challenges that involve a close relation between law and governance.
