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Techakittiroj, Kittiphan. "Visibility graphs and motion planning." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/935947.
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Atsu, Daniel Workman. "Culture and management transition planning in Nigerian family businesses| Mixed methods study." Thesis, University of Phoenix, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10169623.
Full textAbsence of management transition planning in Nigerian family enterprises undermines economic growth and job creation. Family businesses contribute significantly to the economic development in Europe and North America. This Mixed methods study involving sequential explanatory design investigated and explored the connection between culture and management transition planning in Nigeria. The specific problem investigated was the incessant collapse of family businesses after the death of founders. Management transition planning and its relationship with national culture of Nigeria, from the perspectives of nonfamily managers, is the main objective of this research. A survey involving a self-developed 40-item Likert-type scale was used for collection of data for the quantitative segment of the study. One hundred managers from 10 family businesses located in Lagos and Ogun states of Nigeria participated in the survey. During data analysis, SPSS 21.0 aided the computation of Spearman’s Rank Order correlation coefficient, which revealed that cultural beliefs and values, extended family system, tradition/legacy, and lifestyles of the family business owners had negative relationship with management transition planning. The quantitative findings indicated statistically significant correlation between culture and attitudes of family business owners toward management transition planning and allowed rejection of the four null hypotheses. Five top managers of the family businesses participated in the qualitative segment by responding to semi-structured interview questions. NVivo 10 software assisted the analysis of the qualitative data. The qualitative findings supported the quantitative results. Administrators, bankers, family business entrepreneurs, and academics would obtain valuable information from the outcomes of this study.
Smith, Tania. "The Newmed business simulation : the development of the business plan as a tool to demonstrate the importance of business principle application." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52000.
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The NewCo Medical company (NewCo ) is a simulated manufacturing and marketing company. It manufactures plastic utility goods in the health and baby-care industries, and proceeds to market these goods globally. NewCo intends to raise money in order to fund its operations and marketing drive, since it is poised for huge and imminent growth. The business simulation intends to demonstrate the value and effectiveness of the business plan, and to encourage the reader to investigate the issues that pertain to the successful operation of a business, beyond its description in the business pIan. The reader is invited to analyse the business pIan and its proposed strategies, bearing in mind that the pIan has been developed and presented with a potential investor in mind. This exercise should create an awareness of the importance of a due diligence to be performed before any investment decision can be made.
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Toliver, Yetta. "Succession Planning for Next Generation Business Leaders." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3730.
Full textOrtiz, Daniel M. "Retail Business Managers' Strategies for Enhancing Workplace Diversity Planning." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6084.
Full textDillard, Robin Ford. "Healthcare Executive Leadership Development and Succession Planning." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4212.
Full textParks, Talecia Y. "Strategies to Implement Succession Planning in a Nonprofit." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5515.
Full textKongsamutr, Navatasn. "Airline key change drivers and business environmental analysis in the Southeast Asia : strategic planning perspectives." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2010. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/5727.
Full textMcCarthy, Kristina L. "Cross-Project Knowledge Transfer Succession Planning for Family-Owned Businesses." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5223.
Full textFoster, Tracy A. "Budget Planning, Budget Control, Business Age, and Financial Performance in Small Businesses." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3605.
Full textGaskill-Clemons, Robert John. "Scenario Planning for Organizational Adaptability: The Lived Experiences of Executives." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5078.
Full textRutherford, Sarah. "Business Environmental Design, Consumer Visual Literacy and Self-Concept." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1353277884.
Full textColeman, Pheobie Latossa. "Executive Management Methods to Prepare Employees for Future Positions." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3149.
Full textMartin, Christina. "Succession Planning and Development of Nurse Leaders." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5900.
Full textBoykins, Regenia R. "Nonprofit Leaders' Strategies for Succession Planning." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6525.
Full textChaharsooghi, S. K. "Manufacturing planning and control in small companies : A contribution to the application of 'scientific' methods in small business with the help of microcomputers." Thesis, University of Hull, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.382109.
Full textReed, Connor. "The Geography of Partial-Market Exits: Applying Geospatial and Econometric Methods to Analyze 2017 Department Store Closures in the United States." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1505160/.
Full textByers, Leigh. "Succession Planning Strategies of Faith-Based, Nonprofit Leaders of the Boomer Generation." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2251.
Full textKapondoro, Lloyd. "Factors to determine standardised human resource metrics for strategic business management : a case of selected organisations from the hospitality industry in Cape Town." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2044.
Full textThe paradigm shift from administrative to strategic Human Resource Management (HRM) has, arguably, necessitated the need for a more objective and quantitative HRM that shows how HRM interlinks with strategic organisational outcomes. Consequently, HR metrics, measurements and analytics can be tools, which can give HRM a status and position that is similar to other functional departments in organisations that provide numerical data. The purpose of this study was to explore HRM factors that are critical to determine strategic HR metrics. The purpose arose owing to documented scholarship, which argues that the current regime of HR metrics has no appeal to top management; is composed of too many metrics that are confusing; is suitable for traditional HRM; and does not give HRM a strategic status. The objective of the study was, therefore, to provide HR factors that link with strategic or organisational level outcomes and based on these factors, determine a metric that HR practitioners and top management can adopt as standard. The literature review had to be merged in a systems theory framework to develop the conceptual framework to start a grounded theory methodology. Within this methodology both secondary and primary data was collected and analysed. As part of its summary, the literature review included a meta study of prominent research on the HRM-firm performance relationship. The mini meta-analysis involved 27 studies whose mean coefficient of determination was calculated to show the strength of the variability in firm performance for which HRM accounted. This analysis revealed that HRM, on average, accounted for 31% of the variability in firm performance in the models that were used to investigate the relationship. An analysis was conducted of documents as part of a content analysis to collect secondary data, while questionnaires were used to collect primary data. The key finding was that the strategic HR factors are the HRM outcomes, namely employee engagement, commitment, satisfaction and embeddedness, while the HR metric that connects the HR factors and strategic outcomes is given as p=kH+c, where p is organisational performance, H are the HR factors, k is a constant of proportionality, and c is basic employee performance. It was also found that employee engagement had the most impact on organisational performance, relative to the other HR factors. As a result, the key recommendation made in this study is that organisations should use employee commitment, engagement, satisfaction and embeddedness to boost performance with special attention on employee engagement. The metric p=kH+c can be used to measure the level at which HR factors boost performance.
Arthur, Elizabeth A. "Successful Enterprise Resource Planning System Implementation: A Higher Education Managerial Perspective." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3016.
Full textTarmann, Jr Mark. "Small to Medium Enterprise Succession Planning: Millennial Employee Development." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4405.
Full textTheus, Isaac C. "Strategies for Succession Planning and Leadership Training Development for Nonprofit Organizations." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6490.
Full textBenson, Victoria L. "Improving Employee Engagement through Strategic Planning by Human Resources Professionals." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4501.
Full textEjakpomewhe, Robinson. "Influence of Succession Planning on Knowledge Transfer." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4215.
Full textGoldston, Justin. "Critical Success Factors in Enterprise Resource Planning Implementation in U.S. Manufacturing." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6567.
Full textFondren, Paul O. "Governmental Procurement Restrictions, Deficit Reductions, and the Sustainability of Alaska Native Corporations." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1565.
Full textAkindoju, Oluwatoyin Oluremi. "Exploring Small Business Strategies in Halifax, Nova Scotia." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2709.
Full textNdeisieh, Atem Emmanuel. "Strategies for Success and Sustainability in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Beyond the First 5 years." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5757.
Full textHarrington, Robert P. "Forecasting corporate performance." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54515.
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Thompson, Enid Alane. "Managing Effective Communication After a Crisis." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2698.
Full textUrbanovsky, Joshua C. "Computational Methods to Optimize High-Consequence Variants of the Vehicle Routing Problem for Relief Networks in Humanitarian Logistics." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248473/.
Full textKroener, Martina Ursula. "Multi-level Analytic Network Process Model to Mitigate Supply Chain Disruptions in Disaster Recovery Planning." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2016. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1540.
Full textOldacre, Rohan. "Empirical Examination of User Acceptance of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems in the United States." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2039.
Full textWilliams, Eric D. "Transformational Strategic Choice: The Generational Succession Effect on Small Businesses." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1332.
Full textElahi, Behin. "Integrated Optimization Models and Strategies for Green Supply Chain Planning." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1467266039.
Full textKande, Sona. "Etude et résolution de problèmes de planification dans des réseaux logistiques multi-échelons." Thesis, Troyes, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TROY0015/document.
Full textThis work presents a planning problem in a distribution network incorporating two levels inventory management of perishable products, lot-sizing, multi-sourcing and transport capacity with a homogeneous fleet of vehicles. A mixed integer linear programming (MILP) a greedy heuristic and a reactive randomized heuristic are developed to solve this real planning problem. There are some instances for which the solver CPLEX cannot give a good upper bound within the limited time and for other instances it takes a lot of time to solve MILP. The heuristics are alternatives to the mixed integer linear program to quickly solve some large instances taking into account original and difficult constraints. For some instances the gap between the solutions of the solver (MILP) and the heuristics becomes quite significant. The variable neighborhood descent (VND), the iterated local search (ILS) and the multi-start iterated local search (MS-ILS) are implemented. These methods are included in an APS (Advanced Planning System) and compared with a MILP solver. The instances are derived from actual data or built using a random generator of instances to have wider diversity for computational evaluation. A lagrangian relaxation is developed to compare the solutions of the instances, for which CPLEX cannot give a good upper bound within the limited time, with the other methods (greedy heuristic, VND, ILS and MS-ILS). A lagrangian heuristic is proposed; the solution of lagrangian relaxation is used to build a feasible solution with a repair heuristic
Vedra, Ivo. "Ocenění konkrétního podniku." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Ústav soudního inženýrství, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-232827.
Full textMcIndoo, Lauren. "Nonprofit Sustainability: How Does Departure of a Founding Leader Impact Outcomes?" ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4157.
Full textFrancisco, Melissa. "A Framework of Critical Success Factors for Business Organizations that Lead to Performance Excellence Based on a Financial and Quality Systems Assessment." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/6272.
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Chikono, Nathan Nomore. "Leadership Practices that Improve the Workplace Safety Environment." Thesis, Walden University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10259015.
Full textInadequate leadership is the reason workplace accidents in the mining industry remain high, making the industry one of the most hazardous operational activities in the world. Unsafe leadership practices may result in death or injury to workers. A group of 30 mining company leaders from 3 gold mines in Zimbabwe revealed an exception to these hazardous practices, however, notable through their outstanding safety improvement records. To better understand what these practitioners were doing, this multicase study research design explored their strategies to improve the workplace safety environment in the mines. Data were collected using audio-recorded semistructured interviews and document analyses. Shewhart’s plan-do-check-act conceptual framework anchored the study. Data analysis followed the thematic data analytic approach involving classification, coding, and interpretation to identify common themes. The following themes emerged: planning and organizing, leading, and risk management. The findings indicate that the business leaders created a safe work environment by planning the work to be performed; how the task would be executed; and when, where, and who performed the task. The results of study also indicate that leaders designed the work environment, trained, empowered, and equipped employees with the relevant skills, and provided appropriate technology and personal protective equipment to improve workplace safety. Finally, the research findings indicate that leaders embedded risk management principles and practices in every process or activity, and continuously learned from each event to create a safe work environment. The findings promote social change by encouraging safe behavior and risk-based thinking and practices in the workforce and the community.
Steele, LaTonya. "Exploring Mentoring and Career Advancement: A Community College Case Study." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2767.
Full textBanaszewski, Roni Fabio. "Modelo multiagentes baseado em um protocolo de leilões simultâneos para aplicação no problema de planejamento de transferências de produtos no segmento downstream do sistema logístico brasileiro de petróleo." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2014. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/822.
Full textO segmento downstream da cadeia de suprimentos da indústria brasileira de petróleo é composta por bases de produção (e.g. refinarias), armazenamento (e.g. terminais) e consumo (e.g. mercados consumidores) e modais de transportes (e.g. oleodutos, navios, caminhões e trens). O planejamento da transferência de derivados de petróleo nesta rede multimodal é um problema complexo e atualmente é realizado para um horizonte de três meses com base na experiência de profissionais e sem auxílio de um sistema computacional de apoio à decisão. Basicamente, o problema pode ser visto como uma negociação para alocação de recursos disponíveis (tais como derivados de petróleo, tanques e modais de transporte) pelas diferentes bases envolvidas que necessitam enviar ou receber derivados de petróleo. Na literatura, alguns problemas semelhantes, porém mais voltados para o planejamento de redes formadas por um único tipo de modal de transporte, têm sido tratados por diferentes abordagens, com predominância da programação matemática. Estes trabalhos ilustram a difícil tarefa de modelar grandes problemas por meio desta abordagem. Geralmente, tais trabalhos consideram apenas um curto horizonte de planejamento ou apenas uma parte do problema original, tal como uma parte da rede petrolífera brasileira, gerando limitações importantes para os modelos desenvolvidos. Devido às características do problema em estudo, o qual envolve toda a rede de transporte e apresenta perfil de negociação entre as diferentes entidades envolvidas, surge o interesse da utilização do paradigma de sistemas multiagente. O paradigma de agentes tem sido aplicado a problemas de diferentes contextos, particularmente em problemas de gerenciamento de cadeias de suprimentos devido à sua correspondência natural com a realidade e, em geral, em problemas que envolvem a competição por recursos por meio de mecanismos de negociação com base em leilões. Este trabalho apresenta um novo protocolo de negociação baseado em leilões e aplicação deste protocolo em forma de um modelo multiagente na resolução do problema de planejamento em questão. Os agentes que formam a solução representam principalmente os locais de produção, armazenamento, consumo e os modais de transporte na rede petrolífera brasileira. O objetivo destes agentes é manter um nível de estoque diário factível de cada produto em cada local por meio de transferências de produtos pela rede petrolífera brasileira com preferível redução do custo de transporte. Por fim, este trabalho apresenta a satisfação destes objetivos por meio de experimentos em cenários fictícios e reais da rede brasileira de petróleo.
The Brazilian oil supply chain is composed by oil refineries, consumer markets, terminals for intermediary storage and several transportation modals, such as pipelines, ships, trucks and trains. The transportation planning of oil products in this multimodal network is a complex problem that is currently performed manually based on expertise, for a period of three months, due to the lack of a software system to cover the problem complexity. Such problem involves the negotiation of available resources such as oil products, tanks and transportation modals between different sources and consumption points. Similar problems, but more directed to the planning of single modes of transportation, have been treated by different approaches, mainly mathematical programming. Such works illustrate the difficult task of modeling large problems with this mechanism. Generally, they consider a short horizon planning or only part of the original problem, such as a part of the network, rendering important limitations to the models developed. Due to the characteristics of the problem in study where the full network needs to be considered and there exists negotiation amongst the different entities involved, the usage of multi-agent models seems to be worth to explore. Such models have been applied in different contexts such as to supply chain problems due its natural correspondence with the reality. Furthermore, in problems involving competition for resources, multi-agents negotiation mechanisms based on auctions are commonly applied. Thus, this thesis presents one auction-based solution formed by the cooperation among agents for them to achieve their goals. The agents involved in the auctions represent mainly the production, storage and consumption locations. Their goal is to maintain a daily suitable inventory level for each product by means of transportation through the multimodal network at a low transport cost. Finally, this paper presents the satisfaction of these objectives through experiments on real and fictional scenarios of Brazilian oil network.
Cuppett, Gregory Allen. "Evaluating methods for developing a vision as they apply to small landscape architecture firms." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10106/990.
Full textAitken, David William. "The conceptual design and development of simulation-based workshops." Master's thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150047.
Full textWang, Shen-li Victor, and 王勝利. "The Planning of Globalized Production and Marketing Strategy for Taiwan Small and Medium Business To be invested in Mainland China - Case: Hexman Graphic Equipment." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96407155727776241559.
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The planning of globalized production and marketing strategy for Taiwan Small and Medium Business to be invested in Mainland China. Case: Hexman Corporation (Graphic & Printing Equipments) Student: Wang Shen-li Advisor: Dr. Li Cheng-Chung National Tsing Hua University Institute of Technology Management Abstract This research explored to assess a planning of globalized production and marketing strategy for Taiwan Small and Medium Business to be invested in Mainland China. This study collected the industrial information and data to observe investment of graphic manufacturers how to operate a new site in Mainland China. Based on the observed evolution any paths of knowledge and globalization to be invested next to Mainland China. Further, the study explores production, marketing, labors, law and regulations, taxes and environment to be avoided and/or less risks. Key words: Graphic Equipment, Investment of Mainland China, Taiwan Small & Medium Business.
BACCIOTTI, DANIELE. "Methods and tools to support New Product Development tasks." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2158/1044510.
Full text"Marketing in Music Therapy: A Survey of Self-Employed Music Therapists to Identify Methods of Marketing Planning, Positioning, Promotion, and Implementation." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.24900.
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Marin, Mike A. "Exploring complexity metrics for artifact-centric business process models." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23179.
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Grobler, Chris Daniel. "A strategic theoretical framework to safeguard business value for information systems." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24724.
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Мансурова, И. В., and I. V. Mansurova. "Инвестиционное планирование на промышленном предприятии (на примере ФГУП УЭМЗ) : магистерская диссертация." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/50417.
Full textExamines the concept, nature and classification of investments, the mechanism of investment planning at the enterprise and state investments in Federal districts of Russia. Also analysed the existing methods of management of investment projects and the necessity of implementation of projects of technical re-equipment of the FSUE UEMP. Developed the integrated methodology of investment projects preparation, which includes stages of preparation of the project within the FSUE UEMP, and the stages of processing of project documentation at the level of Rosatom, which will increase the effectiveness of the company's investment activities through expansion of the investment portfolio at the expense of projects financed from the consolidated resource of Rosatom state Corporation; has been made to the calculation of indicators of investment attractiveness of the project of technical re-equipment of the production unit of the FSUE UEMP.