Many organizations have embraced strategic planning, but the implementation process remains a cha... more Many organizations have embraced strategic planning, but the implementation process remains a challenge resulting in well-formulated strategies that fail to be accomplished at the implementation stage. Strategy implementation skills are not easily mastered, unfortunately. In fact, virtually all managers find implementation the most difficult aspect of their jobs- more difficult than strategy formulation.. The ability to implement strategies is one of the most valuable of all managerial skills (Higgins, 2004). Non Governmental Organizations are not an exception. In fact, implementation of the planned strategies is one of their major challenges towards achieving their objectives. This study departed from the previous studies looking into relationships and endeavored to establish the factors influencing implementation of strategic plans in Non-Governmental Organizations in Kenya, with special focus on Africa Platform for Social Protection. Literature on strategic plan implementation ha...
Recent water scarcities across the southwestern U.S. with severe effects on the living environmen... more Recent water scarcities across the southwestern U.S. with severe effects on the living environment inspire the development of new methodologies to achieve reliable drought forecasting in seasonal scale. Reliable forecast of hydrologic variables, in general, is a preliminary requirement for appropriate planning of water resources and developing effective allocation policies. This study aims at developing new techniques with specific probabilistic features to improve the reliability of hydrologic forecasts, particularly the drought forecasts. The drought status in the future is determined by certain hydrologic variables that are basically estimated by the hydrologic models with rather simple to complex structures. Since the predictions of hydrologic models are prone to different sources of uncertainties, there have been several techniques examined during past several years which generally attempt to combine the predictions of single (multiple) hydrologic models to generate an ensemble of hydrologic forecasts addressing the inherent uncertainties. However, the imperfect structure of hydrologic models usually lead to systematic bias of hydrologic predictions that further appears in the forecast ensembles. This study proposes a post-processing method that is applied to the raw forecast of hydrologic variables and can develop the entire distribution of forecast around the initial single-value prediction. To establish the probability density function (PDF) of the forecast, a group of multivariate distribution functions, the so-called copula functions, are incorporated in the post-processing procedure. The performance of the new postprocessing technique is tested on 2500 hypothetical case studies and the streamflow forecast of Sprague River Basin in southern Oregon. Verified by some deterministic and
Many organizations have embraced strategic planning, but the implementation process remains a cha... more Many organizations have embraced strategic planning, but the implementation process remains a challenge resulting in well-formulated strategies that fail to be accomplished at the implementation stage. Strategy implementation skills are not easily mastered, unfortunately. In fact, virtually all managers find implementation the most difficult aspect of their jobs- more difficult than strategy formulation.. The ability to implement strategies is one of the most valuable of all managerial skills (Higgins, 2004). Non Governmental Organizations are not an exception. In fact, implementation of the planned strategies is one of their major challenges towards achieving their objectives. This study departed from the previous studies looking into relationships and endeavored to establish the factors influencing implementation of strategic plans in Non-Governmental Organizations in Kenya, with special focus on Africa Platform for Social Protection. Literature on strategic plan implementation ha...
Many organizations have embraced strategic planning, but the implementation process remains a cha... more Many organizations have embraced strategic planning, but the implementation process remains a challenge resulting in well-formulated strategies that fail to be accomplished at the implementation stage. Strategy implementation skills are not easily mastered, unfortunately. In fact, virtually all managers find implementation the most difficult aspect of their jobs- more difficult than strategy formulation.. The ability to implement strategies is one of the most valuable of all managerial skills (Higgins, 2004). Non Governmental Organizations are not an exception. In fact, implementation of the planned strategies is one of their major challenges towards achieving their objectives. This study departed from the previous studies looking into relationships and endeavored to establish the factors influencing implementation of strategic plans in Non-Governmental Organizations in Kenya, with special focus on Africa Platform for Social Protection. Literature on strategic plan implementation ha...
Many organizations have embraced strategic planning, but the implementation process remains a cha... more Many organizations have embraced strategic planning, but the implementation process remains a challenge resulting in well-formulated strategies that fail to be accomplished at the implementation stage. Strategy implementation skills are not easily mastered, unfortunately. In fact, virtually all managers find implementation the most difficult aspect of their jobs- more difficult than strategy formulation.. The ability to implement strategies is one of the most valuable of all managerial skills (Higgins, 2004). Non Governmental Organizations are not an exception. In fact, implementation of the planned strategies is one of their major challenges towards achieving their objectives. This study departed from the previous studies looking into relationships and endeavored to establish the factors influencing implementation of strategic plans in Non-Governmental Organizations in Kenya, with special focus on Africa Platform for Social Protection. Literature on strategic plan implementation ha...
Recent water scarcities across the southwestern U.S. with severe effects on the living environmen... more Recent water scarcities across the southwestern U.S. with severe effects on the living environment inspire the development of new methodologies to achieve reliable drought forecasting in seasonal scale. Reliable forecast of hydrologic variables, in general, is a preliminary requirement for appropriate planning of water resources and developing effective allocation policies. This study aims at developing new techniques with specific probabilistic features to improve the reliability of hydrologic forecasts, particularly the drought forecasts. The drought status in the future is determined by certain hydrologic variables that are basically estimated by the hydrologic models with rather simple to complex structures. Since the predictions of hydrologic models are prone to different sources of uncertainties, there have been several techniques examined during past several years which generally attempt to combine the predictions of single (multiple) hydrologic models to generate an ensemble of hydrologic forecasts addressing the inherent uncertainties. However, the imperfect structure of hydrologic models usually lead to systematic bias of hydrologic predictions that further appears in the forecast ensembles. This study proposes a post-processing method that is applied to the raw forecast of hydrologic variables and can develop the entire distribution of forecast around the initial single-value prediction. To establish the probability density function (PDF) of the forecast, a group of multivariate distribution functions, the so-called copula functions, are incorporated in the post-processing procedure. The performance of the new postprocessing technique is tested on 2500 hypothetical case studies and the streamflow forecast of Sprague River Basin in southern Oregon. Verified by some deterministic and
Many organizations have embraced strategic planning, but the implementation process remains a cha... more Many organizations have embraced strategic planning, but the implementation process remains a challenge resulting in well-formulated strategies that fail to be accomplished at the implementation stage. Strategy implementation skills are not easily mastered, unfortunately. In fact, virtually all managers find implementation the most difficult aspect of their jobs- more difficult than strategy formulation.. The ability to implement strategies is one of the most valuable of all managerial skills (Higgins, 2004). Non Governmental Organizations are not an exception. In fact, implementation of the planned strategies is one of their major challenges towards achieving their objectives. This study departed from the previous studies looking into relationships and endeavored to establish the factors influencing implementation of strategic plans in Non-Governmental Organizations in Kenya, with special focus on Africa Platform for Social Protection. Literature on strategic plan implementation ha...
Many organizations have embraced strategic planning, but the implementation process remains a cha... more Many organizations have embraced strategic planning, but the implementation process remains a challenge resulting in well-formulated strategies that fail to be accomplished at the implementation stage. Strategy implementation skills are not easily mastered, unfortunately. In fact, virtually all managers find implementation the most difficult aspect of their jobs- more difficult than strategy formulation.. The ability to implement strategies is one of the most valuable of all managerial skills (Higgins, 2004). Non Governmental Organizations are not an exception. In fact, implementation of the planned strategies is one of their major challenges towards achieving their objectives. This study departed from the previous studies looking into relationships and endeavored to establish the factors influencing implementation of strategic plans in Non-Governmental Organizations in Kenya, with special focus on Africa Platform for Social Protection. Literature on strategic plan implementation ha...
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