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One way to approach this task is to identify categories of resources and define broad parameters for their deployment for management s review. This will provide executives with a general sense of what the PSM initiative will require, without committing themselves—or the company—prematurely. 

Redefining the service offering. Based on an evaluation of customer needs and external competitors, site services and infrastructure providers firstly need to reconsider which services they should offer - and which ones they should not. They are clearly not the best owners of activities such as catering, human resources management, information management, or patent and license management - currently often part of their service portfolio. Second, they need to define which services will be provided by their own personnel and which services will be... 

The Forest Service Manual defines IPM as "a systematic decisionmaking process and the resultant management actions which derive from considerations of pest-host systems and evaluation of alternatives for managing pest populations at levels consistent with resource management objectives." In other words, IPM consists of two basic elements the decisionmaking process and the action program. 

Resource management deals with the organizational structure of the enterprise as far as it is relevant to design processes. AHEAD distinguishes between abstract resources (positions or roles) and concrete resources (employees). The manager may define a project team and then assign employees to the project positions. 

The Tavema Project11 is an example of a domain-aware workflow toolkit that helps to define and perform these biological analyses and transformations. Tavema can handle both proprietary and XML-based data formats and uses XML itself to describe the workflows and data format transformations. Tavema also supports Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) and Web Services integration to exploit a services-oriented architecture when executing workflows, like the one described here. The services orientation that Tavema is built around works well with the services-based architecture presented here. Because Tavema interfaces with services (both informatics services and grid services like resource managers and security services), it is well suited for construction of the kinds of complex research pipelines common in bioinformatics research. 

Most enterprises can define their business in terms of 10-15 key processes one to three strategic management processes, 5-7 core business processes, and 3-5 resource management processes. Figure 7 is an illustrative example of process definitions in the industrial products industry. 

Optimization in production systems is used at all levels (strategic, tactical, operative), and for each level objective and constraints must be declared. At the strategic level, the objectives in production are defined with the aim to support decisions such as the selection of product and process, the constraction of new plants, and the acquisition of external resources. At the tactical level, the objectives are defined in order to support decisions such as production planning, resource management, and identificatimi of procedures. Operative objectives are strictly related to decisions of flow management (scheduling, inventory, etc.), management and control of operations, and quality control. 

London, M., Smither, J. (1999). Career related continuous learning Defining the construct and mapping the process. Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, 17, 81-121. 

This section of ZIO requires that management define roles, assign responsibilities and authority, provide the necessary resources (financial and human), and, I emphasize, establish accountability. If a management accountability system for safety, health, and environmental results is not in place, management commitment to attaining superior results is questionable. Accountability without consequences is not accountability. 

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