Month: February 2017

Welsh council to ‘throw out’ outsourcing plans

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William Eichler 08 February 2017 Pembrokeshire County Council looks set to ‘throw out’ plans to outsource local leisure services to a charitable trust, union says. The council’s overview and scrutiny committee met last week and recommended the council retain the area’s leisure services within the council. The London-based, private consultant Winckworth Sherwood had recommended outsourcing …

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The Means-Ends Problem Solving Technique

Tools & Methods / By

MEA (Means-Ends Analysis) is an a approach that puts together aspects of both forward and backward reasoning in that both the condition and action portions of rules are considered when we decide which rules to apply. The logic of the process takes into account the gap between the current situation and the desired goal – where we wish to get to and proposes actions in order to close the gap between the two.