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Appendix 5: Glossary of terms
Activity Capability
Efficiency Effectiveness
Intervention logic model
‘Living within our means’
Management systems Objectives
Outcome
What an agency does to convert inputs to outputs.
What an organisation needs (in terms of access to people, resources, systems, structures, culture and relationships) to efficiently deliver the outputs required to achieve the Government's goals.
Reducing the cost of inputs relative to the value of outputs.
The extent to which objectives are being achieved. Effectiveness is determined by the relationship between an organisation and its external environment. Effectiveness indicators relate outputs to impacts and to outcomes. They can measure the steps along the way to achieving an overall objective or an outcome and test whether outputs have the characteristics required for achieving a desired objective or government outcome.
A framework for describing the relationships between resources, activities and results. It provides a common approach for integrating planning, implementation, evaluation and reporting. Intervention logic also focuses on being accountable for what matters – impacts and outcomes
Providing the expected level of outputs within a break-even budget or National Health Board (NHB) agreed deficit step toward break-even by a specific time.
The supporting systems and policies used by the DHB in conducting its business.
Is not defined in the legislation. The use of this term recognises that not all outputs and activities are intended to achieve ‘outputs’. For example, increasing the take-up of programmes; improving the retention of key staff; improving performance; improving governance etc. are internal to the organisation and enable the achievement of ‘outputs’.
Outcomes are the impacts on or the consequences for the community of the outputs or activities of government. In common usage, however, the term 'outcomes' is often used more generally to mean results, regardless of whether they are produced by government action or other means. An intermediate outcome is expected to lead to an end outcome but in itself is not the desired result. An end outcome is the final result desired from delivering outputs. An output may have more than one end outcome; or several outputs may contribute to a single end outcome. (Refer http://www.ssc.govt.nz/glossary/)
A state or condition of society, the economy or the environment and includes a change in that state or condition. (Public Finance Act 1989).
Final goods and services that are supplied to someone outside the entity. They should not be confused with goods and services produced entirely for consumption within the DHB group (Crown Entities Act 2004).
Selected measures must align with the DHBs Regional Services Plan and Annual Plan. Four or five key outcomes with associated outputs for non-financial forecast service performance are considered adequate. Appropriate measures should be selected and should consider quality, quantity, effectiveness and timeliness. These measures should cover three years beginning with targets for the first financial year (2012/13) and show intended results for the two subsequent financial years. (Refer to www.ssc.govt.nz/performance-info-measures)
Increasing outputs relative to inputs (i.e. either more outputs produced with the same inputs or the same output produced using fewer inputs).
Outputs
Performance measures
Productivity
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APPENDIX 5: GLOSSARY OF TERMS