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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Launching the CSP with AWS CSS worked closely with AWS from the outset of the CSP project launch in 2014. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who was with AWS at the time, operated as an executive sponsor for the engagement, providing a direct escalation path to prioritize the project’s success.

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February 2017 | Some Principles of Strategic Thinking, By John M. Bryson

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

While I haven’t read the book yet, a New Year’s Day review in the New York Times Book Review got me thinking. After all, I’ve co-authored books about the strategic uses of causal mapping with titles like Visual Strategy (Wiley, 2014) and Visible Thinking (Wiley, 2004). What might compass over map mean?

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

That means that schools need to invest resources in engaging with the neighborhood beyond the school grounds. I found this bookmark, promoting volunteering in the schools, in a book at a Library book sale. This post is a little late, National Community Planning Month ended yesterday, the end of October. It dates to the 1980s.

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CFP (and Reviewers): From Chaos to Order: Addressing Cognitive Overload in the Learning Journey (Rowman & Littlefield)

A Library Writer's Blog

When cognitive load is surpassed, it can be much more difficult to process, encode, and retain new information (Paas and Ayres, 2014). 2 (June 1, 2014): 191–95. Kern (she/her), Engineering Librarian, Pennsylvania State University Please send questions to : addressing.cognitive. Educational Psychology Review 26, no. Sweller, John.

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Public restrooms: single versus multiple-occupant

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many places have installed them, as they are often specified as part of street furniture/advertising projects (" City Room City Room Blogging From the Five Boroughs In 9 Years of Work, Just 3 Public Toilets Go Live ," New York Times , 2014, " JCDecaux wins San Francisco's iconic Street Furniture contract ").

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Why Strathcona County Council & Administration have Embraced Priority Based Budgeting

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

BPBI Project Update to Priorities Committee - September 16, 2014 When complete in 2015/16, these processes will simplify and strengthen business planning and budgeting at Strathcona County, providing focus and direction to all of the County’s activities. This new article below ( Can priority-based budgeting do the job? )

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In some respects, it's merely an extension of points (without the sociological criticism) made in the paper, " The City as an Entertainment Machine " (later expanded into a book), which extends Growth Machine arguments in terms of the post-industrial city and the shifting of focus on knowledge industries, leisure activities, and place qualities.