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Most people know that organizational bureaucracy is almost always a limiting factor for a healthy innovative environment. Order and routine do not go comfortably hand in hand with innovative methods [...]

The predictions of various experts that Y2K could result in disastrous consequences turned out to be false. A meticulous examination of information systems (IS) decision-making during the Y2K exigency can provide an insight into how IS managers take decisions.

The region's countries desperately need to reform their public sectors AHMED tries for days to complete the government paperwork to transfer his children to a new school. It is no [...]

GOVERNANCE--which remains a sensitive and misunderstood topic--is now being given a higher priority in development circles. A few donors and international financial institutions (IFIs) have begun to work with some [...]

Businesses must fight a relentless battle against bureaucracy PETER DRUCKER once observed that, 'Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.' Nine years [...]

Understanding how many people work in each region is basic information, but it's vital that you know it if you are to understand the structure and reach of your company. [...]

Stressing over how to get things done is as old as a 'how many people does it take to change a light bulb' joke. And just like the light bulb, [...]

`Our policy-makers have a number of choices: either to make more funding available for the grant schemes - in recognition of the wider benefits forestry bestows upon society - or [...]

Companies have been queuing up to get into Iraq since the US-led 'surge' in early-2007 turned the tide of the insurgency that had pushed the country to the brink of [...]

Pres. Clinton ordered faster administration of export licensing on Dec. 5, 1995. The order was also intended to give in to the Defense Department's demands for oversight of certain exports while alleviating the industry's concerns about delays. Three months later, high technology industry officials are complaining that the export licensing rule has actually slowed down sales. Government officials, however, are claiming that the delays on export licensing will be minimal in the long-term.

Long Island, NY, has an inefficient public service despite the fact that one in five working people in the city is a civil servant. The bureaucracy is so extensive that having simple documents processed takes hours, sometimes even years. Its industries showed varied performance. The travel industry has witnessed an increase in traffic while some hospitals experienced profit losses. As for health, the number of children without health insurance in the state has reached more than 300,000. AIDS cases have also escalated. Property tax assessments should also be updated., The 178,400 government jobholders on Long Island, working for Long Island's 968 taxing units, rank Long Island tops in bureaucracy, with one public for every six private jobs. It isn't [...]

A visit from the federal government including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the EPA, the IRS and the Army Corp of Engineers during a crisis will typically involve an order from the agency to remedy a problem within a specified amount of time rather than to offer a suggestion for its solution. An observer demonstrates the 'efficiency' of federal assistance in recounting the tale of a government visit to a local community who had requested for federal assistance regarding a leaking dam.

In an attempt to get the worldwide ban on British beef lifted, the authorities have decided to introduce a cattle database. Every bovine animal born will have their details entered [...]

The possibility of severe winter storms due to the El Nino weather system has prompted western public works officials to complain about the bureaucratic red tape that is hampering flood control system maintenance. Santa Barbara County Dept of Public Works officials are blaming the battery of state and federal agencies for the difficulty in getting federal environmental permits from the Army Corps of Engineers. The county has been trying to obtain permits for flood control maintenance along the Santa Ynez River near Lompoc, CA, for several years.

A telephone company executive recounts the bureaucratic problems he has encountered in his company's efforts to extend services to remote areas. He narrates the immense problems posed not only by telecommunications regulators but by other government agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management as well. Instead of these areas getting immediate telephone service, years are wasted in efforts to comply with bureaucratic requirements., The Colorado River drains many tens of thousands of miles of Montana Colorado, Utah and Nevada. The over-sized ditch dug by the river is/was impassable. Only by building dams with [...]

Politicians involved in National Highway System (NHS) discussions are urged to keep focused on the benefits of the system rather than on externalities such as the presence of special projects in the proposed NHS bill. The NHS program will be the basis of the US' national transportation system well into the 21st century, and as such should be given top priority. Petty political squabbles may continue until Congress adjourns, therefore delaying and even endangering the NHS program.

Size is both relative and variable. To a graphic arts company with 20 employees and sales of $2 million, a firm with $50 million in sales seems mammoth. On the [...]

Building industry officials are praising the sweeping reforms in Ohio mechanics' lien laws. But some of those same supporters, both owners and contractors, are panning the red tape they claim [...]