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MPPDC stormwater management program problem essential identification. Note. MPPDC = Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission; PE = problem essential.
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Public works decision and policy makers daily face myriad management problems. The problem of stormwater runoff management, for one, has for several decades received a great deal of attention, with much of that focused on reconciling the needs of natural watershed systems with those of the man-made physical and nonphysicalsocietal systems that wate...
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... lack of such a program represents an issue to be resolved. Defining a problem as shown in Figure 4 can be a chore much more difficult than meets the eye; and so, although fully describing how an AID application can promote problem definition would reach beyond the scope of this article, suffice to say that the methodol- ogy's Step 1a exists to acknowledge the primacy of defining problems in terms agree- able to an application's participants. ...
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... Enterprise AID protocols, then, PEs are always posed as "yes" or "no" type questions that must all be answered as "yes" before stakeholders may legitimately claim that a specific enterprise undertaken to resolve a specific problem has succeeded in doing so. By way of illustration, Figure 4 continues the MPPDC example with the posited stormwater management program problem and a set of PEs that SMEs could logically determine as a necessary and sufficient representation of the problem. Note that SMEs will have here determined, perhaps with the help of their effort's facilitators, that the earlier-defined problem be reconfigured and equivalently expressed in terms of three PEs, each couched as a question that the experts hope an enterprise of stormwater program development will eventually allow them to answer with a "yes." ...
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... In addition, multiple stakeholders and users of performance information may introduce additional dimensions to performance that need to be addressed. As illustrated in the article on the Enterprise AID methodology (Meyers, Hester, & Pyne, 2014), stakeholders may identify multiple dimensions that must be balanced to achieve performance. Lawther's (2014) discussion of the application of availability payments to reward performance by private partners emphasizes how public agencies should use key performance indicators that measure achievement of societal and agency goals, and not simply project goals. ...
... Chen's (2014) article on measuring sustainable transportation highlights the multiple dimensions of performance and their relevance to different constituent groups (beyond simply the DOT and its staff). The article on stormwater management enterprise performance (Meyers et al., 2014) describes a system of systems approach that allows greater stakeholder involvement in defining performance and identifying performance measures. Their Enterprise AID methodology allows for the incorporation of multiple stakeholder perspectives and the article shows, in the context of watershed and stormwater management, how various stakeholder interests might be balanced. ...
This article serves as the introduction for the four articles in this symposium issue on performance measurement and management for public works and public infrastructure. The effective management of performance in public works organizations has received an inadequate amount of study in the academic literature and it is hoped that this symposium will provide the impetus for more research on the important of performance measurement and management in public works organizations. The complexity of and challenges to performance measurement and management in public works organizations, themes that cut across all the symposium articles, are outlined and discussed in this introduction article.
Objective: Today, organizations are dealing with the systems which have structural, technological and social complexities named socio-technical systems. To capture this complexity and variety in modeling, we need methods which provide the researchers with similar level of variety. Despite developing a number of methods in different disciplines such as decision-making and systems theories, these methods are commonly one dimensional or they do not consider special aspects of socio-technical systems. Moreover, some methods do not propose a specific framework to model these systems. Therefore, the current study presents a meta-synthesis of the existing modeling methods and creates a new modeling method. Methods: The current study tries to present a meta-synthesis of the modeling methods using critical interpretive synthesis and a multi paradigm-multi methodology approach considering strengths and applicable tools of the extant methods. Results: Following the meta-synthesis, 12 descriptive themes were identified and used to analyze the methods. In addition, synthetic and analytic constructs were identified and used to propose the synthetic method. Conclusion: The proposed method, which is a by-product of the meta-synthesis of modeling methods of socio-technical systems, is able to model the different aspects of socio-technical systems using diverse concepts and tools of extant approaches and methods. However, its applicability has to be evaluated through different case studies.
