Blueprint for Integrating Grid-Interactive Efficient Building (GEB) Technologies into U.S. General Services Administration Performance Contracts

AbstractWith the quest for enhancing competitive position, fulfilling customer and sustainability demands, increasing profitability, asset manufacturing companies are now adapting assets towards product service systems (PSS) offered through performance contracts. Despite several benefits, the shift to performance PSS exposes industrial asset manufacturers' to performance challenges and risks. Currently, PSS designers face a challenge to exhaustively identify potential failures during PSS development. Knowledge of Product failures is critical prior to the engineering of PSS. This paper proposes a failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) method to support designers' prioritise critical failures in performance PSS development. A case study of an optical sorting machine is used to demonstrate the method's application.

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Ensuring access to medicines at a fair price? Innovative contracting experiences in France

European Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.071 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽

Author(s):

I Alaoui ◽

C Izambert ◽

A Toullier

Keyword(s):

Public Investment ◽

Access To Medicines ◽

Added Value ◽

Fair Price ◽

Real World Data ◽

Expensive Drug ◽

Patient Organizations ◽

Performance Contracts ◽

Performance Based Contracts ◽

Innovative Contracting

Abstract Issue Innovative contracting models are developed to ease price-setting negotiations in case an extremely expensive drug has not proven sufficient efficiency in clinical trials. As disruptive HIV treatments are expected in the near future, French patient organizations evaluated the ability of these innovative contracts to ensure accessible medicines at a fair price. Description Performance-based schemes condition prices paid by the State to the efficiency of the medicine observed through real-world data. In France, thirteen performance-based contracts have been concluded between 2008 and 2015. They are presented as a triple solution: innovative treatments are available to patients, manufacturers access markets, and states ensure healthcare within limited budgets. Establishing the added value of these models implies determining if they allow rapid access to treatments with substantial savings for payers, while ensuring rigorous price and cost transparency. Results Performance-based contracts indeed ensure patient access to treatments, but other mechanisms (such as temporary use authorizations) already serve this purpose. Regarding expenditure reduction however, these schemes have not proven their worth. The Court of Auditors' evaluation showed they do not generate substantial savings, as final prices correspond to those that would have applied with the European price guarantee. Lastly, as contracts are protected by business secrecy, the public cannot access neither to actual prices negotiated by payers, nor the amount of public investment that have been used for the research and development of the drug. Lessons The derogatory nature of performance contracts invites us to consider them on a case-by-case basis if ensuring access to a specific innovation is necessary. These contracts are certainly innovative, but they cannot be presented as technologies providing access at a fair price. Finally, their contractual and derogatory nature raises serious transparency issues. Key messages Performance-based contracts should be considered as alternatives to existing administrative channels provided that they lead to substantial savings and are drawn up in full transparency. Patient organizations need to assess innovative schemes such as performance-based contracting to ensure access to treatments without undermining historical struggles for fair and transparent pricing.

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Significant factors for enabling knowledge sharing between government agencies within South Africa

SA Journal of Information Management ◽

10.4102/sajim.v15i2.569 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Avain Mannie ◽

Herman J. Van Niekerk ◽

Chris M. Adendorff

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Knowledge Management ◽

Knowledge Sharing ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Employee Performance ◽

Organisational Culture ◽

Government Agencies ◽

Balanced Score Card ◽

Performance Contracts ◽

Significant Factors

Background: Globally, organisations have recognised the strategic importance of knowledge management (KM) and are increasingly focusing efforts on practices to foster the creation, sharing and integration of knowledge.Objectives: This study aimed to validate the significant factors that influence the effectiveness of KM between government agencies in South Africa. The commonly identified pillars of KM in the extant literature served as a primary framework in establishing these factors.Method: Data were gathered using an electronic survey made available to different national government agencies within the security cluster. Responses were analysed using structural equation modelling.Main findings: Existing literature highlighted organisational culture, learning organisation, collaboration, subject matter experts and trust as being determinants for knowledge management. The first two were identified as the most significant factors for knowledge sharing to succeed.Conclusion: Whilst there is universal consent as to the strategic importance of KM, actionable implementation of knowledge sharing initiatives appears to be lacking. This study emphasised the fact that leaders must instil a knowledge sharing culture either through employee performance contracts or methods such as the balanced score card. The study also showed that it is imperative for leaders to acknowledge that KM is a multi-faceted discipline that offers strategic advantages. Leaders of developing countries should note that they are on a developmental journey. This requires their organisations to be learning organisations, which necessitates a change in the organisational culture and knowledge interventions through their academies of learning.

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Leadership in Self-organized Systems: Squaring the Circle or a New Kind of Responsibility?

Asian Journal of Business and Management ◽

10.24203/ajbm.v7i3.5812 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Christoph Minnig ◽

Peter Zaengl

Keyword(s):

Elderly Care ◽

Critical Discussion ◽

Social Sector ◽

Social Security Systems ◽

Social Service Organizations ◽

Performance Contracts ◽

Immigrant Services ◽

The Social ◽

Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽

Problematic Situations

Current changes in society, in particular globalization, demographic trends, and changes in the labour market, have far-reaching implications for how we live and work together. Common social problems, for instance, are becoming more complex and new problematic situations continually arise. With cuts in the social sector and increasing demands for efficiency and effectiveness, overall conditions are becoming worse. Faced with these developments, social security systems are increasingly pushed to the limit and are forced to redefine their areas of responsibility. In addition, we must take account the issue of crowding-out processes in the social sphere. Large, mostly internationally operating enterprises for example are increasingly receiving performance contracts from governments in the areas of elderly care or immigrant services. It is also apparent that social service organizations are overloaded and that their established structures and historically evolved market positions are eroding. In the current discussion, we have to find answers to at least two questions within the context of developing organizations:1.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â How should we build organizations so that they are able to withstand or handle these challenges?2.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â How can we define the role of leadership in these organizations?First, we will discuss the concept of responsibility. We will then describe the different challenges that organizations face, particularly in the social sector. Based on Frederic Lalouxâ€™s (2014) model of â€œEvolutionary Organizations,â€ we will present a critical discussion of the possibilities for responsible leadership that are available to organizations in the social sector.

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PENGARUH KOMPENSASI DAN JOB SECURITY TERHADAP MOTIVASI KERJA SERTA DAMPAKNYA PADA KINERJA PEGAWAI KONTRAK SATUAN POLISI PAMONG PRAJA DAN WILAYATUL HISBAH KOTA BANDA ACEH

Jurnal Bisnis Dan Kajian Strategi Manajemen ◽

10.35308/jbkan.v1i1.907 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Cut Devi Maulidasari ◽

Riznal Akhyar

Keyword(s):

Structural Equation ◽

Work Motivation ◽

Employee Performance ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Job Security ◽

Partial Least Square ◽

Least Square ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Performance Contracts ◽

Banda Aceh

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this study was to determine the effect of compensation and job security on workmotivation and its impact on the performance of the Contract Employees Civil Service Police Unitand Wilayatul Hisbah Banda Aceh. Data analysis is the process of simplification of data into aform that is easier to read and implement. The method chosen to analyze the data must match thepattern of research and variables to be studied. This study using Structural Equation Modeling(SEM) with a research tool or software such as Partial Least Square (PLS) from the research thathas been done through observation and secondary data it can be concluded that compensation, jobsecurity, work motivation and employee performance contracts Police Unit Praja dan WilayatulHisbah Banda Aceh still not good, then the hypothesis 1 is rejected. From the research that hasbeen done can be concluded that the hypothesis that compensation and job security simultaneouslyand partially effect on work motivation can be received from the research that has been done canbe concluded that hypothesis stating that compensation and job security simultaneously andpartially effect the performance is acceptable. From the research that has been done can beconcluded that the hypothesis that motivation influence on work motivation can be accepted. Theresult of this research of which it can be concluded that the hypothesis of compensation and jobsecurity simultaneously and partially influence performance through work motivation isacceptable.Keywords: Compensation, Job Security, Work Motivation, Performance

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