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Purpose: This study is focused on achieving operational resilience through the practices of kaizen across the operational structure. The research is based on a case study of a commercial livestock farm in Nigeria. The study views the practice of kaizen from the perspective of the commitment of the members of the case study organisation who are directly involved with the operations of the organisation. Design/methodology/approach: The study applies a qualitative approach to explore the topic, engaging members of the case study organisation in the research to gather relevant data on the implementation of kaizen practices and the drive to attain resilience in the case study organisation. Semi-structured personal interviews and workshops were used for data collection. The study adopts systems theory to explore the topic, identifying and engaging relevant stakeholders. Findings: Parts of the findings relating to kaizen are the issues with the livestock production process, aggressive leadership and the issue of livestock mortality in the case study organisation. These were discussed based on extant literature. The study affirms the importance of organisational members' commitment and adequate leadership support to achieve sustainable kaizen practices. The study highlights the need to align kaizen practices with relevant organisational practices, such as reward systems and contextual requirements for its implementation in an operational process. The study suggests that further study can focus on the dynamics of the legal system on the implementation of kaizen, especially from a developing economic background like Nigeria, where this study was conducted. Originality/value: The study projects learning about the spatial factors that can affect the practices of kaizen in critical sectors like livestock management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study evaluated the effect of changing the program-based budgeting system to a performance-based budgeting system in advancing organizational goals, realizing the accountability system, and economic viability. The data of this comparative and analytical study were collected through library studies and questionnaire distribution. Therefore, a general opinion was obtained by asking the opinions of 15 experts and applying the Delphi method. Friedman's test was used in SPSS software to determine the rank of each of the indicators related to each component to determine the ranking of the indicators approved by the experts. The results showed that operational objectives, as well as the indicators of the compilation of audit standards supported by the country's health system, performance audit by the country's health system, and approved standards in the health system, are critical factors for the transparency of performance-based budgeting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Threat evaluation of operational targets is an important link when conducting anti-ship missile combat commands. Working on complicated correlation between the attributes of operational targets and lack of objective data support during subject decision-making, combine entropy weight method and grey correlation method to establish the threat evaluation model, rank the threat of targets according to limited operational indicator data, and obtain the sequence of missile attack, which proves the effectiveness and reasonability of this combined method,and provides theoretical support for the attack preference of anti-ship missiles.

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