They also noted that it was likely other councils’ waste services would be similarly
operationally-focused and this spotlight upon regular service delivery would eclipse
experimentation with performance management (they considered it would be rare for
these services to have trialled using performance management frameworks). These
services operational focus was predicted to take precedence over strategic (business)
planning and, consequently, the systems they developed would be skewed towards
monitoring compliance with the EC Landfill Directive and LATS targets.