Proposed Holistic Framework for Managing Development of Road Infrastructure Technology in South Africa

1998 ◽  
Vol 1637 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-23
Author(s):  
F. C. Rust ◽  
R. M. Vos
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Transportation Industry ◽  
The Public

The technology development process for the public sector in the transportation industry in South Africa became fragmented as a result of a short-term view with a lack of strategic focus. The subsequent perceived poor performance of the technology development program and inadequate implementation of results motivated the development of a new model for technology development—utilizing a holistic, systems approach at the strategic level with supporting techniques and basic information. The conceptual development of the new technology development model implemented in South Africa is discussed and the use of some of the concepts in the planning and execution of technology development programs for the Southern African Bitumen Association (Sabita) and the South African Department of Transport (SADoT) are illustrated. It is concluded that technology transfer and implementation would be much more effective if it were conducted as part of the technology development system.

Technology Management Renewal at NOVA Gas Transmission

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy C. Cormier ◽  
David V. Dorling
Keyword(s):  
Technology Management ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
Industry Leader ◽  
High Level ◽  
Organizational Principles

NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL) is an industry leader in successfully applying new technology to meet business needs. The company has had a formal technology development program since 1983 and invests approximately $5.5 million annually towards developing and implementing beneficial new technology. Over the years, this leadership has provided tremendous value to NGTL’s customers, shareholders, employees and the communities in which it operates. In 1994, as part of the company’s re-engineering initiative, a high-level scoping effort identified several opportunities to further enhance the business value derived through the application of technology. To realize these opportunities, NGTL launched an effort to renew its processes for managing technology. Through this renewal effort, NGTL: 1) developed guiding organizational principles for managing technology, 2) established Key Technology Areas of focus, 3) re-structured its technology development organization, 4) leveraged best-practice concepts to improve the process of developing and implementing technologies, and 5) made significant progress in marketing the value of technological innovation across the organization. This paper will highlight NGTL’s technology management renewal effort including its historical context and rationale, the process used and the major outcomes.

scholarly journals Development of a New Construction Research Model for Saudi Arabia

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Yasir Alhammadi ◽  
Dean Kashiwagi ◽  
Jacob Kashiwagi ◽  
Kenneth Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Construction ◽  
Management Project

The Saudi Arabian construction industry has had poor performance for the past thirty years. There have been many publications identifying the problem and potential causes. There have been no publications identifying what the source of the problem is, how to mitigate the problem, and actual testing to validate the proposed solution. This paper discusses why this problem exists, what is a potential solution, and an action plan that mirrors the most successful (construction management, risk management, project management and procurement delivery) research and development program in the world (22 years, $16M, +1750 tests, six different countries, 31 states in the U.S. and 98% customer satisfaction). The solution proposed in this paper is unique to the strengths and weaknesses of the research and development programs at universities in the Saudi Arabian kingdom.

scholarly journals Accountability of Village Fund Management: Case Study in Bulusuka Village, Jeneponto Regency

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Nasir Nasir ◽  
Sulaiman Asang ◽  
Hamsinah Hamsinah ◽  
Muhammad Rusdi
Keyword(s):  
Development Program ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Fund Management ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Public ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
Village Government ◽  
Management Case Study

This study aimed to describe and analyze the accountability of Village fund management in terms of the dimensions of transparency, liability, control, responsibility, and responsiveness in Jeneponto Regency, Bontoramba District, Bulusuka Village. This research is a descriptive study using a qualitative approach that is phenomenological. Bontoramba Jeneponto Regency, South Sulawesi Province. Research informants included the internal village government, Bontoramba District Head, Regional Examination Team (TPD), Academics and NGOs. Data is collected through observation, interviews and documentaries, while data analysis is done through data collection, reduction, presentation and verification / conclusion. The results showed that the accountability of Village Fund management in terms of the dimensions of transparency, liability, control, responsibility, and responsiveness were not fully maximally managed accountably. The process of managing village funds in an accountable and transparent manner through the Musdus (hamlet deliberation) and Musdes (village deliberation) of budget designs and development programs and deliberations on budget realization and development program realization by installing information boards and billboards in public places, so that the public knows the process of managing village funds universally.

Partisipasi Masyarakat dalam program pembangunan Infrastruktur Perdesaan (PPIP)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Lina Kumala Dewi ◽  
Bambang Triono ◽  
Dian Suluh Kusuma Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Development Program ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Technical Documentation ◽  
Rural Infrastructure ◽  
High Participation ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Household Heads

The construction of public participation has paid his dues. This is that in realizing development projects readily undergoing a failure that empowers people. Related in all process that deals with planning, implementation, the use of results and development monitoring. The rural infrastructure development program (PPIP) is development programs community empowerment. Where people have got to dive headlong in village development, especially physical development he purposes of this research is to find how the participation of the community in the Rural infrastructure development program (PPIP), Ngranget Village, Dagangan District, Madiun Regency. The kind of research is qualitative descriptive. In research, this is the population is the number of household heads involved in the delivery rabat concrete development in Ngranget village which consisted of 95 KK. The majority of informants interviewed in this research was 12 people. Was used in the study data collection method that is Technical Documentation interviews and data available for analysis namely described the results of research or data with a form of what is he got writer whether it is the results of the interviews, or result in appreciating documentation then investigated and the studies of the issue and. The result that the community participation in development in the village of rabat concrete Ngranget mind (planning), low participation in the form of energy high, participation in the form of expertise, quite low in the form of goods low, the form of money and participation is very low.

Public finance flow in contemporary Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 2501-2523
Author(s):  
V.V. Smirnov
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Public Finance ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Management Decisions ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Cluster Analyses ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Wealth ◽  
Economic Formation

Subject. This article discusses the issues related to public finance. Objectives. The article aims to identify the determinants, indicators, and priorities of the public finance flow in contemporary Russia. Methods. For the study, I used the methods of statistical, neural network, and cluster analyses, and the systems approach. Results. The article identifies and describes the determining indicators of the main aggregates and balances of public finance, sources, and the use of funds. It establishes a link between the main aggregates and balances of public finance, defining the form and content of Russian capitalism. Conclusions. Understanding the issue and problem of public finance flow in contemporary Russia helps identify the reasons for the inability to transit to a capitalist socio-economic formation. The provisions of the study expand the scope of knowledge and develop the competence of public authorities to make management decisions on the distribution and redistribution of the value of a public product and part of the national wealth.

Enterprise Development Programming in Partnership with Local Government, Science and Business. The Example of Rybnik

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
Wojciech Kiljańczyk
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Enterprise Development ◽  
Entrepreneurship Development ◽  
Development Programming ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Resources And Capabilities ◽  
The City

The article concerns the mechanisms of entrepreneurship development in partnership with local government, science and business. The author presents evidence that the sector partnership is crucial for the success of projects developing entrepreneurship in the local and regional perspective. Local government has the resources and capabilities to act as initiators of projects and programs supporting the economic development of the city or voivodeship. At the same time, representatives of local government units must use appropriate operational and management methods in the implementation of the policy of strengthening entrepreneurship. Inter-sectoral collaboration requires the application of organisational solutions allowing for the involvement of units in different fields and basing on various legislation. The author also indicates that the source of the competitive advantage of cities and regions may be the specialisation, as well as the commercialisation of knowledge and technology. In this case, the inter-sectoral partnership is crucial as it conditions the success of economic development programs in its social, economic and political sense. At the same time, the article describes the methods of building the inter-sectoral cooperation. As a basis for the appropriate use of the different potential of the cooperating participants, the authors indicated projects and programs embracing groups of projects. All this is worth being recognised within the framework of strategic documents, such as development plans, strategies, and other records used by local government agencies. The article uses the outcome of the participatory workshops during the preparation of the Rybnik Enterprise Development Program. The aim of the study is the verification of the assumption that the sectoral partnership is crucial to the processes of local and regional entrepreneurship development.

Effect of Resource Factors and Quality of Instruction on Performance in Mathematics of Nigeria Secondary School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Umar Abdullahi ◽  
Musa Sirajo
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Secondary School Student ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
School Students ◽  
Quality Of Instruction ◽  
The Public

It seems that educational system in Nigeria has undergone only quantitative improvement in terms of number of schools and students’ enrolment. However, there has been little effort in respect to the capacity to manage them through provisions of adequate financial, human, material and physical resources. Physical and material resources in secondary schools were discovered to be inadequate and poorly equipped. Some of the secondary school buildings were dilapidated, also the allocated financial resource, teaching and non-teaching staff are grossly inadequate compared with the students’ enrolment. The public, the Ministry of Education and other stakeholders in education are expressing serious concern about the consistency of the poor performance of secondary school students especially in mathematics. Increase in population and the government’s free education programs make people want to take advantage of the education provided. Provision of both professionally qualified and non-qualified teachers by government and non-state providers of education also appear not to ameliorate the problem of declining performances in mathematics. The effect of all these on the public secondary school student academic performance in mathematics concern the researchers of this study. It is against this background that the study sought to empirically investigates effect of resource factors and quality of instruction on performance in mathematics of Nigeria secondary school students.

Fine MCP Decapsulation Technology Development

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianwei Zhou ◽  
Wei Zheng ◽  
Taekoo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Etching ◽  
Etch Rate ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Ammonium Hydroxide ◽  
Mechanical Polishing ◽  
Technology Process ◽  
Tetra Methyl Ammonium Hydroxide ◽  
Die Surface

Abstract Multi-Chip Package (MCP) decapsulation is now becoming a rising problem. Because for traditional decapsulation method, acid can’t dissolve the top silicon die to expose the bottom die surface in MCP. It makes inspecting the bottom die in MCP is difficult. In this paper, a new MCP decapsulation technology combining mechanical polishing with chemical etching is introduced. This new technology can remove the top die quickly without damaging the bottom die using KOH and Tetra-Methyl Ammonium Hydroxide (TMAH). The technology process and relative application are presented. The factors that affect the KOH and TMAH etch rate are studied. The usage difference between the two etchant is discussed.

Systems view of integrated water quality monitoring within the requirements of the new national water policy in South Africa

1998 ◽  
Vol 38 (11) ◽  
pp. 141-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Marjanovic ◽  
M. Miloradov
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Water Quality Management ◽  
Water Quality Monitoring ◽  
Point Sources ◽  
Quality Monitoring ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
National Water

The new National water policy will change the way water quality is managed in South Africa. The paper considers the water policy and the repercussions it will have for water quality monitoring in South Africa. Using the systems approach the paper discusses an integrated water quality monitoring system for ambient water quality and point and non point sources of aquatic pollution. The proposed methodology makes possible continuos assessment of water quality in an efficient manner so as to support water quality management in South Africa.

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