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F--The Investment/Value Returned Framework for Management of S&E
Pages 70-72

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... Creation of such an I/V framework provides a consistent set of intellectual underpinnings across a wide and diverse set of activities, and can serve as a key element of the core culture of an institution. The framework provides coherent and relatively explicit linkage between the enterprise's mission to the specific results aimed for at the working level, and upward from the individual scientist and engineer back to that overarching mission.
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From page 71...
... Evaluating the effectiveness of S&E management against these four management challenges provides a far more systematic picture than does the all-too-common collection of anecdotes and qualitative impressions. For laboratories such as the NNSA National Security labs, the success of which is strongly dependent on S&E and which do not have a profit motive, the set of values returned from the S&E investment includes at least the following: • Essential support for achieving the labs' core missions, through core work that exploits deep aspects of physics, materials science, engineering and computational science.
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From page 72...
... Appropriate dashboards, metrics and indicators are useful during this process, although they do not substitute for deep dives into issues which are surfaced by the dashboards. Closure in the cycle is typically represented by a series of higher level reviews focused on what has been accomplished relative to committed plans, other achievements, goals missed and causes, and some quantitative metrics constituting a balanced scorecard used for overall assessment of effectiveness.
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