• Provide for independent oversight with lay input • Separate the Custodianship of The National DNA Database from the FSS • Establish a coherent management group for The National DNA Database • Provide an even-handed service to all police forces and supplier laboratories 2. To obtain DNA profiles from the active criminal population • Publicise the value of The National DNA Database • Secure support from the Home Office for the police and The National DNA Database working in partnership with Government • Maximise sampling opportunities • Ensure retention of DNA profiles in line with current legislation and policies 3. To maintain public confidence in the security and integrity of The National DNA Database and its use Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation

Abstract Once the vision and mission of any organization is finalized the next step for them to formulate the road map to achieve that vision and mission. One of the ways is to derive strategic objectives which aid the organization to achieve its vision and mission. Generally these strategic

this paper is based was supported by the European Commission under the VIRTU@LIS project (IST-2000-28121). The authors would also like to thank the respondents who took part in the evaluation study

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standards and best practice in the production, content and dissemination of bibliographic metadata related to national published output. The Section is particularly concerned with the work of national bibliographic agencies (NBAs) in the digital age. It also promotes the importance of national bibliographic data to information professionals in library, publishing and retail supply chains. Open access to national bibliographies and the creation of sustainable business models are also promoted.

architecture by creating a d e scriptive framework from disciplines quite independent of information systems, then by analogy specifies information systems architecture based upon the neutral, objective framework. Also, some preliminary conclusions about the implications of the resultant descriptive framework

Strategic investors, such as corporate venture capitalists, engage in the financing of start-up firms to complement their core businesses and to facilitate the internalization of externalities. We argue that while strategic objectives make it more worthwhile for an investor to elicit high

Two ageing processes are happening in West European economies that have profound implications for the development of innovations and entrepreneurship in Europe. The first is the demographic trend common in most industrialised countries of an aging population. This means not only that shortages in the supply of skilled workers are appearing but also that small firm owners are also much older. The second is the firms that were started as enterprising new companies some twenty years ago, and in many cases their main products too, are now at the plateau of their life-cycles (or, even worse, sliding down the decline curves at the end of the cycle). As well as the identified economic problems with regard to increased welfare costs and a diminishing active population having to sustain the pension expectations of a growing population of economically inactive people, there is the hidden potential problem of a fall off in general small business activity. In particular, does this mean a decline in entrepreneurial activity? The Small Enterprise Research Team (SERT), an independent non-profit body based

in the efficient management of personnel in an organization. Manpower planning entails getting the right number and type of personnel to do the required tasks for the fulfillment of the goals and objectives of the organization. The manpower planning process is an ongoing and continuous strategy which is undertaken