Establishing Effective Goals

When establishing goals it is important to identify those measures that are indicative of a good program. They must emphasize activities that are needed to meet the goals. 

A common downfall is to develop broad-ranging goals with no clear understanding of the activities that impact the outcomes, which in turn determine whether or not the goals are met. The best results for a metrics program can be achieved when the goals set are appropriate. 

Guidelines for developing effective goals and objectives have been presented in this chapter. The following are some examples of poorly constructed and well-constructed safety goals and objectives  

This is considered a poorly written safety goal since it does not establish a timeframe for completion. It also does not provide a specific outcome that would be indicative of meeting the goal. 

This is considered a well-constructed safety goal because it establishes a fixed longterm focus for the safety program. The desired outcome for the goal is also measurable. 

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Established the goal of therapy to reduce blood pressure to non-hypertensive levels with minimal or no adverse effects... 

The Board of Directors of BP p.l.c., BP s executive management (including its Group Chief Executive), and other members of BP s corporate management must provide effective leadership on and establish appropriate goals for... 

While the goal of the previous models is to carry out analytical calculations and gain insight into the physical picture, the multidimensional calculations are expected to give a quantitative description of concrete chemical systems. However at present we are just at the beginning of this process, and only a few examples of numerical multidimensional computations, mostly on rather idealized PES, have been performed so far. Nonetheless these pioneering studies have established a number of novel features of tunneling reactions, which do not show up in the effectively one-dimensional models. 

After a period of hibernation following the publication of Turkevich s seminal papers in the 1950s [44,46], a whole plethora of preparative protocols has been published since Henglein and coworkers resumed this work in the late 1970s [107,108], The goal of this chapter is not to present a comprehensive directory of all synthetic papers on nanometal colloids, but to provide the reader with a general survey of a number of modern versions of established preparative methodologies that have been tested and found effective in a number of practical applications. 

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