[2] Some consulting firms specialize in the area of best practice and offer ready-made templates to standardize business process documentation.
It is the process of reviewing policy alternatives that have been effective in addressing similar issues in the past and could be applied to a current problem.
Determining best practices to address a particular policy problem is a commonly used but little understood tool of analysis because the concept is vague and should therefore be examined with caution.
In order for a "best practice" to be valid, it must take into account all relevant approaches, since neglecting to do so would lead to inappropriate usage of the term "best."
The following points for energy code implementation is to educate and train key audiences, supply the right resources, and to provide budget and staff for the program.
The program is easily duplicated at a relatively low cost because of the straight forward teaching materials, systematic methods and administrative oversight.
In September 2013 at the New York State Conference for Mayors and Municipal Officials,[7] successes, ideas and information on best practices were shared among government peers.
A best practice that was highlighted at the conference was how Salinas, California is rebuilding their economy by engaging technology companies with their agricultural business in order to grow jobs.
This public/private partnership includes a new nonprofit called the Steinbeck Innovation Foundation to increase investment in new technologies to help the area's agricultural industry.
In recent years, public agencies and non-governmental organizations have been exploring and adopting best practices when delivering health and human services.
For example, a general working definition used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in referring to a promising practice is defined as one with at least preliminary evidence of effectiveness in small-scale interventions or for which there is potential for generating data that will be useful for making decisions about taking the intervention to scale and generalizing the results to diverse populations and settings.
Minimum requirements include (1) demonstration of one or more positive outcomes among individuals, communities, or populations; (2) evidence of these outcomes has been demonstrated in at least one study using an experimental or quasi-experimental design; (3) the results of these studies have been published in a peer-reviewed journal or other professional publication, or documented in a comprehensive evaluation report; and (4) implementation materials, training and support resources, and quality assurance procedures have been developed and are ready for use by the public.
[12] There is existing controversy about the lack of culturally appropriate evidence-based best practices and the need to utilize a research-based approach to validate interventions.
[13] CRDP intends to improve access, quality of care, and increase positive outcomes for racial, ethnic and cultural communities.
In these contexts, it is more useful to think of best management practice as an adaptive learning process rather than a fixed set of rules or guidelines.
[22] The NGA has identified science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) as important skills that need to be developed in community colleges in order to create a strong workforce.
The Best Practices guide is currently in production; it will be published and distributed to EMA providers, as well as to select organizations nationwide.
This is the first national federally funded effort to develop a Best Practices guide for providers who serve the HIV positive transgender community.
Steps are being taken in some parts of the world, for example in the European Union, where the Europe 2020 Strategy has as a top priority the exchange of good practices and networking (including the nonprofit sector).
Best practices are used within business areas including sales, manufacturing, teaching, computer programming, road construction, health care, insurance, telecommunication and public policy.
... That modeling of and nurturing deliberative, inclusive, and, yes, humble dialogue may make a greater contribution to societal welfare than the search for generalizable, "best-practice" findings – conclusions that risk becoming the latest rigid orthodoxies even as they are becoming outdated anyway.
[30] Similarly, Cem Kaner and James Bach provide two scenarios to illustrate the contextual nature of "best practice" in their article.