Dissertations / Theses: 'Business planning'

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Jurečka, Peter. "Integrated Business Planning." Doctoral thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-149894.

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Increasing competitive pressures on most markets force companies to continuously review the effectiveness and efficiencies of their operations. Traditional approach to business planning is becoming insufficient to cope with growing requirements on operational excellence. Concept of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) -- constituting the latest development stage of well-known Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) -- is proposed as the right response on how to master the challenges of globalized economy in this field. The thesis combines theoretical analysis of inefficiencies of traditional S&OP with applied research realized on the case from real business environment. Microeconomic optimization models are employed to demonstrate the sub-optimal outcomes resulting from the lack of cross-functional integration and potentially antagonistic incentives in business planning. Overview of latest best practices in this area further complements the theoretical part of the thesis. Empirical part of the study summarizes author's experience from leading the large scale implementation of IBP concept in the multinational company. Theoretical assumptions of financial benefits of IBP implementation are tested against empirical observations via usage of statistical apparatus. This part may also be viewed as detailed guideline describing the project of IBP implementation. As a result, integrated approach to business planning proves to bring measurable financial as well as non-financial improvements for the company.

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Kubatko, O. "Complete business planning system." Thesis, Вид-во СумДУ, 2005. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/19885.

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Trindade, Marta Rodrigues dos Santos Jordão. "Business planning in a prowactive." Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10027.

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A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics
Facing financing challenges, NGOs need alternative ways to be independent and self-sustainable. This project aims to provide a hybrid option for an NGO for Development called WACT complementing its social projects with commercial activities. In a form of a business plan, there are here outlined all the steps and decisions for this NGO to enter the training market in a competitive way assuring it to get high levels of revenues that will lately be allocated to the NGO.s social projects. This project assures that adding a commercial role into the core activities of WACT enables the NGO to follow its values and social goals more effectively, with the revenues of 20,000 Euro created in a four-year period which can financially boost the entire activity of WACT.

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Протченко, В. С. "Business planning of industrial enterprises." Thesis, Чернігів, 2020. http://ir.stu.cn.ua/123456789/20041.

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Протченко, В. С. Business planning of industrial enterprises=Інструментарій бізнес-планування діяльності підприємства : дипломна робота : 073 Менеджмент / В. С. Протченко ; керівник роботи Дука А. П. ; Національний університет «Чернігівська політехніка», кафедра публічного управління та менеджменту організацій. – Чернігів, 2020. – 69 с.

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El, Alioui Safaa. "Planning Private Business Start-Up." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-18026.

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The main objective of the thesis is to use several managerial tools in order to plan how to start a private Moroccan-Czech business in the Czech Republic. In order to achieve this goal, the main objective was subdivided in a set of partial goals. To start a business includes firstly to have an idea and to consider its viability through a feasibility study before planning its execution. Secondly, to support the startup process from the procedural point of view, it is reasonable to use project management since it revealed processes that are common to any project lifecycle: initiation, planning, execution, control and closure. The application of these processes helps to create a structured action plan. In order to answer all questions, the thesis is divided in three steps. In the first one, project management is explained as well as its concepts and processes and application method. The second step describes the methodology of a startup business; and the third step is the achievement of the constructed methodology in a real business planning, that is monitored and evaluated continuously. The result of the thesis is a business idea verified as viable through a feasibility study. Then a business plan is prepared in order to detail the opportunity, strategy and financial expectations; this document is a key to find investors, funding or associates and should consider potential risks and how to avoid or solve them. When the financial and material requirements are met, the legal and administrative procedures as well as the company installation can start. The thesis also includes a time schedule and budget to every activity which have to be respected and continuously controlled during the business operation executing. However, some risks may appear during the project, and a good preparation and planning means keeping in mind the project's achievement.

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Boon, Elizabeth Ann. "Business parks and the planning process." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341672.

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Jablonski, Przemyslaw, Richard Grezdo, and Jing Hong YangXue. "Business Planning Involvement in New Ventures." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-26766.

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Background - Planning occupies an important position in business literature. It is a well-investigated area with a long and extensive research tradition. However, the findings of the research are not consistent. In the planning literature there is a strong debate among researchers which results in two opposing points of view. On the one hand, proponents of planning in business, also known as the planning school, claim that planning plays an important role and has a positive impact on companies. On the other hand, opponents challenge these claims and suggest that a company should instead focus on flexibility, learning and resource utilization. These claims may be of particular interest in new ventures. The environment in which new ventures usually operate may be turbulent with a high degree of uncertainty and a lack of resources. This setting may create problems for the application of planning procedures and can contradict suggestions in existing literature. In addition, the entrepreneur plays a crucial role in every new venture. He or she is the one who founds the new venture and is the main decision-maker. Planning activities compete for resources and time, which are scarce commodities in new ventures and can cause entrepreneurs to allocate less time to the business itself. Purpose - The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the changes in business planning in new ventures. In addition, we endeavored to explain the reasons why these changes occur and what sparks them. Our aim was to gain in-depth understanding of the business planning change phenomenon in new small-sized firms and add additional knowledge to the existing planning literature. Method & Theory - Semi-structured interviews with six entrepreneurs in the Jonkoping region were conducted to collect the empirical data on business planning within the service industry. The collected data was analyzed together by applying the theoretical frame of references. Conclusion - The thesis concluded that three main business planning situations occur in new ventures. These were at first a smooth or volatile increase during the beginning period of new ventures and resulted in the presence of the stabilised business planning pattern in the later stage of new ventures. This study also observed three main drivers behind those changes: business planning experience, economical factors and customers.

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Hamel, Sherdon. "Strategic business plan: Senior Planning Solutions." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1875.

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Wilson, Steven L. "Antecedents to business succession planning in small relationship-dependent service businesses." Thesis, Oklahoma State University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10142120.

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As the baby boom generation approaches and enters traditional retirement ages, the owners of small professional service firms are being inundated with advice concerning how to implement a business succession plan. While much of the advice may be valuable and sound, a significant portion of this advice appears to be derived from a one-size-fits-all approach that ignores, or fails to address, the needs, desires, and personal characteristics of the business owner. Small business succession planning advice often involves growing the business into a self-perpetuating organism. However, many small business owners may not want to do what is necessary to manage a business for optimum succession planning. The researcher used a quantitative research methodology to identify antecedents to business succession planning in small, relationship-dependent service businesses. The research combines concepts from the Theory of Planned Behavior and from the family business succession planning literature to identify potential owner characteristic and situational antecedents to business succession planning. The study focused on a sample population of owners of small financial-services businesses affiliated with one broker-dealer. Most of the sample population offers tax and accounting services in addition to their financial services. The population is in the business of planning for their customers but to a large extent neglect or choose not to plan for their own ultimate exit from the business. While business owners face many choices and obstacles in preparing their firms for their eventual exit, this study indicates that the decision to pursue business succession planning by the owners of small, relationship-dependent service businesses is overwhelmingly driven by the business owners’ perception of the availability of a qualified successor. Thus the decision to pursue business succession planning by this sample population is more likely to be a reaction to circumstances than a proactive choice driving the owners’ business decisions.

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Botha, Gerald. "A business plan for an international squid business." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21604.

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Talhado Fishing Enterprises (Pty) Ltd is a squid fishing company founded in 1988, with sea and land based freezing facilities. Operating from the East coast situated in the Port Elizabeth harbour, the company processes and packages its caught and bought out product for sales to its export customers situated in Spain and Italy. The company is privately owned, 38.8 percent owned by previously disadvantaged persons. This study examines the whether it would be feasible to expand its operations into the USA, namely into the California area where a squid fishery exists. The study further centres around the company’s existing markets, namely Spain and Italy, to establish whether demand exists to purchase this Californian squid specie. The reason for the study is that due to legislative and political issues growth in the squid industry in South Africa is limited. It is therefore considered pertinent to source further supply of product in order to expand its business. The aim of the study is establish whether it is feasible to expand the company’s operations internationally and does the outcome of this initial study warrant the development of an in depth business plan. In order to achieve these objectives the following approach was followed: A comprehensive literature study was conducted with regard to the industry internationally and locally; Interviews was conducted with independent experts such as attorneys and industry role players situated in California; Potential sellers of businesses were sourced in the California and interviews were arranged with these role players; The response to the interviews was measured against the literature study conducted and financial statements supplied.

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Foster, Tracy A. "Budget Planning, Budget Control, Business Age, and Financial Performance in Small Businesses." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3605.

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Over 390,000 businesses failed in the United States in 2014. The primary cause for most business failures is poor planning, and budgets are a primary means of planning. The purpose of this correlational study was to examine to what extent, if any, budget planning, budget control, and the age of the business significantly predict financial performance in small businesses. The target population consisted of small business leaders in the Midwest. Churchill and Lewis's theory on the relative importance of selected management factors of small businesses through 5 stages of development formed the theoretical framework for this study. Data were collected through a self-developed online survey using existing Likert-scale measures for each variable based on prior research about those variables. A convenience sample of 86 Midwest U.S. small business leaders identified through SurveyMonkey's crowdsourcing pool resulted in 77 participants with useable responses. Standard multiple linear regression determined the extent to which budget planning, budget control, and age of the business predicted the value of financial performance. The model as a whole was able to significantly predict financial performance. The linear combination of predictor variables (budget planning, budget control, and business age) accounted for approximately 12% of the variation in financial performance. Budget planning significantly predicted financial performance, even when budget control and business age were held constant. Better planning using budgets may help leaders improve the financial health of their small businesses, potentially reducing business failures and job losses. Financially strong and healthy small businesses can create jobs and improve the economic health of local communities.

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Fay-Spina, Diana. "Exploring Business Planning Strategies of Women-Owned Small Businesses in the Construction Trades." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3522.

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Many small businesses fail to survive past 5 years, listing the primary reason given for failure as inadequate business planning strategies. The construction industry provides the building and upkeep of physical infrastructure (buildings and roadways) in developed societies and is a major contributor to the gross domestic product for many nations. In the United States, the construction trades primarily consist of small businesses, with a smaller portion of the sector classified as women-owned. The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore the business planning strategies that successful women-owned small business (WOSB) construction leaders in New Jersey use for sustainability and growth. Contingency theory and expectancy theory of motivation served as the conceptual framework for this study. The sample was comprised of 3 women small business owners in the construction trade in New Jersey. Data collection included semistructured face-to-face interviews, a review of organization documents, business website review, and field notes. Member checking strengthened creditability and trustworthiness. Based on Rowley's 3-step data analysis plan and a thematic analysis of the data, 5 themes emerged: constant review of goals and plans, communication and teamwork, reliance on expertise, networking, and continuous education. The findings in this study may contribute to social change by providing knowledge for sustainability and growth of women owned businesses (WOBs). By putting the findings to practical use, WOBs could sustain beyond 5 years, which would positively influence society by enhancing the local economy, promoting job development and fostering positive community relations.

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Botha, Jacques. "A cyclic approach to business continuity planning." Thesis, Port Elizabeth Technikon, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/81.

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The Information Technology (IT) industry has grown and has become an integral part in the world of business today. The importance of information, and IT in particular, will in fact only increase with time (von Solms, 1999). For a large group of organizations computer systems form the basis of their day-to-day functioning (Halliday, Badendorst & von Solms, 1996). These systems evolve at an incredible pace and this brings about a greater need for securing them, as well as the organizational information processed, transmitted and stored. This technological evolution brings about new risks for an organization’s systems and information (Halliday et. al., 1996). If IT fails, it means that the business could fail as well, creating a need for more rigorous IT management (International Business Machines Corporation, 2000). For this reason, executive management must be made aware of the potential consequences that a disaster could have on the organisation (Hawkins,Yen & Chou, 2000). A disaster could be any event that would cause a disruption in the normal day-to-day functioning of an organization. Such an event could range from a natural disaster, like a fire, an earthquake or a flood, to something more trivial, like a virus or system malfunction (Hawkins et. al., 2000). During the 1980’s a discipline known as Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) emerged to protect an organization’s data centre, which was central to the organisation’s IT based structure, from the effects of disasters. This solution, however, focussed only on the protection of the data centre. During the early 1990’s the focus shifted towards distributed computing and client/server technology. Data centre protection and recovery were no longer enough to ensure survival. Organizations needed to ensure the continuation of their mission critical processes to support their continued goal of operations (IBM Global Services, 1999). Organizations now had to ensure that their mission critical functions could continue while the data centre was recovering from a disaster. A different approach was required. It is for this reason that Business Continuity Planning (BCP) was accepted as a formal discipline (IBM Global Services, 1999). To ensure that business continues as usual, an organization must have a plan in place that will help them ensure both the continuation and recovery of critical business processes and the recovery of the data centre, should a disaster strike (Moore, 1995). Wilson (2000) defines a business continuity plan as “a set of procedures developed for the entire enterprise, outlining the actions to be taken by the IT organization, executive staff, and the various business units in order to quickly resume operations in the event of a service interruption or an outage”. With markets being highly competitive as they are, an organization needs a detailed listing of steps to follow to ensure minimal loss due to downtime. This is very important for maintaining its competitive advantage and public stature (Wilson, 2000). The fact that the company’s reputation is at stake requires executive management to take continuity planning very serious (IBM Global Services, 1999). Ensuring continuity of business processes and recovering the IT services of an organization is not the sole responsibility of the IT department. Therefore management should be aware that they could be held liable for any consequences resulting from a disaster (Kearvell-White, 1996). Having a business continuity plan in place is important to the entire organization, as everyone, from executive management to the employees, stands to benefit from it (IBM Global Services, 1999). Despite this, numerous organizations do not have a business continuity plan in place. Organizations neglecting to develop a plan put themselves at tremendous risk and stand to loose everything (Kearvell-White, 1996).

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Hindle, Kevin, and khindle@swin edu au. "An enhanced paradigm of entrepreneurial business planning." Swinburne University of Technology, 1997. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20050802.152712.

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The research project reported in this dissertation discovered, applied and drew inferences about the utility and applicability of an enhanced paradigm of Entrepreneurial Business Planning (EBP). The project was motivated by the observation that a clear disparity existed between the teaching of entrepreneurship � in which attention to EBP has been intense and significant � and entrepreneurship research � in which attention to EBP has been negligible. Discovery commenced with development of an analytical framework suitable for classifying and analysing an EBP paradigm, should one be found to exist. This framework was created by combining the four essential ingredients of a paradigm � distilled from an analysis of several definitions of the word paradigm in appropriate contexts � with the three core roles which Mintzberg (1994) argued are the key descriptors of the function of any plan. An existing but inadequate EBP paradigm was revealed by a content analysis, conducted according to an adapted combination of the methodological prescriptions of Krippendorf (1980) and Carney (1972), of a large sample of the existing EBP normative literature: that is, prescriptions purporting to teach the reader how to write a successful Entrepreneurial Business Plan. A combination of logical critique, application of appropriate analytical models and development of grounded theory � based upon the methodology first articulated by Glaser and Strauss (1967) � resulted in production of an enhanced EBP paradigm, a complex construct embracing: (1) precise definition of application boundaries, (2) twelve laws; (3) six success rules; (4) and specified instrumentation requirements. Application of the enhanced EBP paradigm involved four research case studies embracing the case research methodology espoused by Yin (1989). Four Entrepreneurial Business Plans were written according to the prescriptions of the enhanced EBP paradigm and submitted to the marketplace. Sufficient time (between four and eight years) was allowed for results to be monitored. The four case study businesses were selected to span a variety of key attributes designed to maximise two things: (1) the ability to attribute causation of observed results (most particularly the attraction of the investment funds solicited by each Entrepreneurial Business Plan) directly the application of the enhanced EBP paradigm rather than any other possible cause; (2) the ability to make wide rather than narrow inferences about the applicability and utility of the enhanced EBP paradigm. Inferential conclusions were drawn from individual and cross-case analysis. Four points encapsulate the most significant results of the research to the community of entrepreneurship scholars and practitioners and beyond them, to the managerial community at large. (1) The research provides a basis for systematic inquiry in the field of Entrepreneurial Business Planning and a template for quality assessment of Entrepreneurial Business Plans. (2)It redresses the imbalance between research and teaching in an important field of the entrepreneurship discipline. (3)It extends the domain, credibility and utility of entrepreneurship as a discipline. (4) It is the potential generator of many practical analytical constructs and corollary theory in a wide variety of managerial fields. Extended case analysis provided two examples of domain extension and the generation of corollary theory and practice: first, in the field of �venture renaissance� (a term coined to represent the domain of all non startup applications of the enhanced paradigm of Entrepreneurial Business Planning) and second, in the field of mergers and acquisitions. These two illustrations of corollary theory and practice provide strong concluding arguments in favour of the proposition that the enhanced EBP paradigm has substantial general utility. In summary, as a result of the research reported in this dissertation, Entrepreneurial Business Planning may be regarded as a distinct grouping of integrated techniques amounting to a managerial technology for removing impediments to business growth by attracting necessary investments on behalf of articulated strategies. Entrepreneurial Business Planning has thus emerged from vague definition amid the narrow contextual confines of a startup venture seeking venture capital, to precise definition in a far broader context as a generic technology for the removal of impediments to business growth, wherever and however they occur.

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Botman, Pamela Lynn Shelton. "Strategic business planning for the minority contractor." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45734.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-133).
by Pamela Lynn Shelton Botman.
M.S.

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Єврейська, О. В. "Business planning of activities of the enterprise." Thesis, Чернігів, 2020. http://ir.stu.cn.ua/123456789/19956.

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Yevreiska, О. V. Business planning of enterprise activity=Бізнес - планування діяльності підприємства : дипломна робота : 073 Менеджмент / О. В. Єврейська ; керівник роботи Філіпова Н. В. ; Національний університет «Чернігівська політехніка», кафедра публічного управління та менеджменту організацій. – Чернігів, 2020. – 75 с.
Business planning is not a new phenomenon in Ukraine's economy. It is an integral tool of the business environment used to create a new business or project. The business plan describes the main aspects of the future project or enterprise, analyzes all the problems it may face, and provides ways to solve them. It is also the main document on the basis of which partners, investors and creditors provide the necessary investments. In a market economy, such a plan should be a planned program to study the market and competitors, risk, production and economic, financial activities and sales and ensure 8 the adaptation of the firm to new conditions. This approach involves the possibility and need to develop local business plans for individual projects, products (goods) and services. In crisis conditions, the business plan of the enterprise is designed, above all, to solve the problem of improving its financial condition. The concept of the system of internal business planning is to create a system of management and analysis of all areas of financial and economic activity of the enterprise, which meet the following requirements: ⎯ Development of a functional model of the enterprise with the allocation of basic business units and management functions; ⎯ Interconnectedness of a complex of receptions in horizontal and vertical section; ⎯ Reliability and timeliness of analytical information obtained as a result of the enterprise; ⎯ Qualitative analysis and detection of deviations as a result of plan-factor comparison; ⎯ Flexible and fast scheme of adaptation to changes of internal and external factors. Thus, business planning is a universal tool that can be used with different target settings. The theoretical and practical fundamentals of enterprise business planning were investigated and summarized; thereupon the best ways to improve the effectiveness of drafting the business plans were developed. The theoretical fundamentals of enterprise business planning were investigated, and their essential characteristics were unified. The methodological principles of drafting the business plan were summarized, and the practice of business planning at LLC “LKT 2016” was analyzed. The proposals for business-planning improvement of the company under investigation in the context of adjusting to dynamic market changes were developed.
Бізнес-планування – не нове явище в економіці України. Це невід’ємний інструмент бізнес-середовища, що використовується з метою створення нового підприємства чи проекту. Бізнес-план описує основні аспекти майбутнього проекту чи підприємства, аналізує всі проблеми, з якими воно може зіштовхнутись, і передбачає способи їх вирішення. А також є основним документом, на підставі якого партнери, інвестори та кредитори надають необхідні інвестиції. В умовах ринкової економіки подібний план повинен бути плановою програмою вивчення ринку і конкурентів, ризикової, виробничо-господарської, фінансової діяльності і продажів та забезпечувати адаптацію діяльності фірми до нових умов. Такого роду підхід передбачає можливість і необхідність розробки локальних бізнес-планів по окремим проектам, продуктів (товарів) і послуг. У кризових же умовах бізнес-план підприємства покликаний, перш за все, вирішувати завдання поліпшення його фінансового стану. Концептуальною ідеєю системи внутрішньофірмового бізнес-планування є створення системи управління та аналізу усіх сфер фінансово-економічної діяльності підприємства, які відповідають таким вимогам: ⎯ Розробка функціональної моделі підприємства з виділенням основних бізнес-одиниць і функцій управління; ⎯ Взаємопов'язаність комплексу прийомів в горизонтальному і вертикальному розрізі; ⎯ Достовірність і своєчасність аналітичної інформації, одержуваної в результаті роботи підприємства; 7 ⎯ Якісний аналіз і виявлення відхилень в результаті план-факторного зіставлення; ⎯ Гнучка і швидкодіюча схема адаптації до зміни внутрішніх і зовнішніх факторів. Таким чином, бізнес-планування є універсальними інструментом, що може застосовуватисяз різними цільовими установками. Отже, у випускній кваліфікаційній роботі було проведено дослідження та узагальнення теоретичних і практичних основ бізнес-планування на підприємстві та сформовано на цій основі оптимальні шляхи підвищення ефективності розробки бізнес - планів. Досліджено теоретичні основи бізнес-планування на підприємстві та узагальнено їх сутнісні характеристики. Узагальнено методичні засади складання і оформлення бізнес-плану та проведено аналіз практики бізнес-планування на підприємстві ТОВ «ЛКТ 2016». Розроблені пропозиції щодо удосконалення практики бізнес-планування у діяльності досліджуваного підприємства у контекстів адаптації до динамічних ринкових змін.

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Larney, Dennis Patrick. "A curriculum guide for teaching business planning." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2722.

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The purpose of the project is two-fold. First, to design a curriculum guideline for career and technical educators to teach the elements of business planning to a new population of graduates that need the material to manage their vocation successfully. Secondly, it can be used as a very practical way of integrating academic and occupational training program.

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Toliver, Yetta. "Succession Planning for Next Generation Business Leaders." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3730.

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The ability to backfill leadership positions has become a key focus of business leaders since 2005 when the baby boom workforce started to age. An aging workforce threatens the capability of business leaders to develop leadership pipelines to ensure business success. Grounded by the social exchange theory, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore successful strategies that technology services managers used to align core business objectives to improve succession planning at a technology services organization located in Dallas, Texas. Data collection and triangulation included semi structured telephone interviews with 12 technology services managers, company documents, and archival information. Data analysis included the examination of rich text data, coding, and classification of themes using Yin's 5-step approach. Four themes emerged, revealing that these managers (a) created and sustained a leadership talent pipeline for high potential employees for future leadership roles; (b) sourced internal candidates with core leadership competencies; (c) remediated leadership skills gaps through developed relationships and documented processes; and (d) re-engineered the replacement planning process for the internal leadership talent pipeline. Implications for positive social change include the potential for technology services managers to implement effective succession planning strategies that could increase employee morale, enhance profitability and growth, and promote healthy community partnerships.

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Knoll, Sebastian Müller-Stewens Günter. "Cross-business synergies a typology of cross-business synergies and a mid-range theory of continuous growth synergy realization /." Wiesbaden : Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Dr. Th. Gabler, 2008. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10239446.

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Shirahatti, Murughendra. "Business planning and forecasting application for Synopsys, Inc." [Chico, Calif. : California State University, Chico], 2009. http://csuchico-dspace.calstate.edu/xmlui/handle/10211.4/176.

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Chrzanowski, Michael J. (Michael John). "Development of a manufacturing & business planning tool to aid in forward planning." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52961.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1993, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 93).
by Michael J. Chrzanowski.
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Niven, John L. "Integrating business strategy and enterprise resource planning systems /." Electronic version, 1999. http://adt.lib.uts.edu.au/public/adt-NTSM20040204.140352/index.html.

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Elijah, J. J. "A strategic financial planning model." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49669.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This report contains a strategic management model to assess the impact on the EVA тм of the individual business units and the consolidated group total of a Company, when manipulating any of the key business drivers. The model has been designed to deliver a solution to the end-user that is simple to operate and presents graphical outputs to enhance understanding and interpretation. The sensitivity analysis, the EVA тм tree and the financial statements are presented in Excel. A simulation technique is used to forecast NOPAT values from a set of key drivers. The theories used to construct the model are explained and a hypothetical example is provided. The appendices also provide the concept of EVA тм, simulation techniques, list of assumptions and model instructions. The report is comprehensive enough to allow the reader to develop, implement and test a model of this nature. Opportunities for further research are also provided.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie bevat 'n strategiese bestuursmodel om die impak van individuele besigheidseenhede op ekonomiese waardetoevoeging (Engels: EVA тм) en die gekonsolideerde groeptotaal van 'n maatskappy, wanneer enige een van die sleutel besigheidsdrywers gemanipuleer word, te bepaal. Die model is ontwerp om 'n eenvoudige oplossing vir die eindgebruiker te verskaf en verskaf grafiese uiteensettings om verstaanbaarheid en interpretasie te vergemaklik. Die sensitiwiteitsanalise, ekonomiese waardetoevoegingsontleding en die finansiële state word in Excel weergee. 'n Simulasie tegniek is gebruik om NOPAT waardes van 'n stel sleutel drywers te voorspel. Die teorieë wat gebruik is om die model saam te stel, word aan die hand van 'n hipotetiese voorbeeld wat voorsien word, verduidelik. Die aanhangsels voorsien die konsep EVA тм, simulasie tegnieke, 'n lys van aannames en instruksies vir die model. Die verslag is volledig genoeg om die leser in staat te stel om 'n model van hierdie aard te ontwikkel, te toets en te implementer. Voorstelle vir verdere navorsing word voorsien.

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Haider, Sayed Jawad, Pasha Asif Mohammad, and Gbanju Patt Aruwayo-Obe. "Enterprise Resource Planning: Adding value to E-business." Thesis, Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-451.

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Organizations are now more than ever before faced with rapid changes in the market place and the need to stay competitive, profitable and satisfy customers and suppliers has driven them to seek technologies that will help them realize these goals. Two of the main con-tenders are Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and E-business related technologies. There appear not to be so many publicized literatures on the relationship between ERP and E-business. It is based on this that this report studied six (6) cases to examine the value of ERP to E-business. This study discusses their relationship, how they impact each other and how they can be made to be more useful when integrated using Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) and empirical research. What transpires from this research is that both vendors and organizations using these two technologies assigns specific values that ERP has on E-business according to their degree of importance. These values in order of importance are; increased competitiveness, increased agility and speed of business operations, improved communication, increased sales, improved business processes, reduced cost and increased profitability. Finally the study examines these values and concluded based on these values to suggest the implications for future research.

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Workman, Rossalyn. "Business food chain, a new tool for planning." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ39713.pdf.

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Dybwad, Carmen L. "Public involvement in business planning, the Mistik experience." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0023/NQ51192.pdf.

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Rabbitt, Todd Francis. "Euphoria Wake Park, Market Validation and Business Planning." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Engineering Management, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7452.

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This report entails the market validation, business planning and strategic planning for a full scale cable wake boarding park. Euphoria Wake Park has a vision to be open the first cable park in New Zealand. At this stage of the business, Auckland has been researched and the company is looking into moving into the resource consent process. While researching the potential for the cable park, it was found that although there it is very viable for Euphoria Wake Park to start in Auckland, the current stakeholders do not have the sufficient capital to do so. In order for this business to proceed, the current stakeholders of Euphoria Wake Park must work toward confirming resource consent and gaining external capital from investors.

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Bethany, Michael P. "Business continuity planning| Identifying gaps, patterns and justifications." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1526894.

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Many businesses are not adequately prepared for hazards and/or incidents that potentially imperil their operations. The question is why and whether independent variables associated with businesses and/or business principals are correlated to pre-incident planning; specifically, business continuity (BC) planning. Business principals from the Sacramento, California region participated in quantitative research to answer these questions through an online survey comprised of multiple choice, categorical, and Likert scale question types.

Findings from this research indicate 26% of businesses have business continuity plans (BCPs); employee safety was cited as the dominant motivating factor. Indicatively, an awareness gap was the dominant barrier for businesses without BCPs. Business size was found to be significantly (.015%) correlated to pre-incident planning; however, other demographic variables tested were inconclusive. Community resilience, intrinsically connected to economic vitality, is enhanced by safeguarding businesses from disruption and/or post-incident dissolution. Increasing BC planning benefits businesses and the communities where they operate.

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Honstain, Christopher Michael. "Sales & operations planning in a global business." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40106.

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Thesis (M. Eng. in Logistics)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 44).
As companies become more global and begin to outsource manufacturing and other services, the uncertainty in the supply resource increases. Demand uncertainties increase as these same companies expand into new countries to serve new customers. The globalization of business has created problems that many companies do not know how to overcome. One way of overcoming these challenges is to implement a process called global sales and operations planning (S&OP). Sales and operations planning is a collaborative process that aligns the supply side of an organization with the demand side. Aligning the goals of the different departments eliminates the "silo" mentality and creates a streamlined organization. This streamlined organization works as one team with the goal of meeting the financial expectations set by the executive team. Global sales and operations planning is a process used to match supply and demand throughout the world. To do this effectively, the process must be divided into multiple processes based on the characteristics of the supply chain for the product, the business units within the company, and geography that the business unit is located in.
(cont.) When the S&OP process is divided correctly, it allows the executive members of the company to communicate financial expectations to each of the business units, while the individual business units can match the supply and demand characteristics of the product. Vascucorp. is a company that is facing the same problems that many other companies face when trying to implement an S&OP process into their company. This thesis will focus on trying to form a common platform that companies can use to implement a successful global sales and operations planning process.
by Christopher Michael Honstain.
M.Eng.in Logistics

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Chee, Arthur K. L. (Arthur Kuan Loong), and Tzu-Hsueh Lee. "Business continuity planning for a U.S. supply chain." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92108.

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Thesis: M. Eng. in Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2014.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-80).
The research objective was to provide a directional sense of some key considerations for business continuity planning (BCP) specific to a company's downstream distribution operations in the U.S. This was achieved via a two-pronged strategy comprised of quantitative and qualitative elements to complement insights gained from the literature review. By quantitatively assessing the financial impacts arising from four hypothetical scenarios, the business impact analysis (BIA) showcased the merits of short time-to-recovery (TTR) in the event of a disruption. However, available information also appears to suggest that the estimated financial impact from carrying high-value inventory is not necessarily insignificant. Hence, a company may want to mitigate the likelihood of a scenario whereby large amounts of inventory become damaged. Qualitative information from industry participants in the study highlighted the importance of tailoring continuity plans to the unique supply chain needs of an organization.
by Arthur K. L. Chee and Tzu-Hsueh Lee.
M. Eng. in Logistics

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Special, Lori S. "Retirement planning practices among black small business owners." Thesis, This resource online, 1995. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12172008-063223/.

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Ghanbari, Ghooshchi Nina. "Constraint-based Automated Planning and Business Process Modelling." Thesis, Griffith University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/398414.

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Business processes are essential parts of any organisation which deﬁne the series of steps performed to achieve their goal. Business processes are normally designed manually by business experts who have deep knowledge of the activities performed in the organi-sations. This knowledge is commonly described in a declarative way as business rules. Organisations have to cope with large numbers of business rules and existing regulations governing the business in which they operate. Such rules are diﬃcult to maintain due to their size and complexity, and it is increasingly challenging to ensure that each business process adheres to those rules. As such, extraction of business processes from rules has three clear advantages: (1) visualisation of all possible executions allowed by the rules,(2) automated execution and compliance by design, (3) identiﬁcation of “ineﬃciencies” in the business rules. Extraction of business processes from rules set is a time and re-source consuming process. In this thesis, we have investigated two approaches to extract the business processes from the declarative speciﬁcation of it. In the ﬁrst approach, we have investigated the application of constraint satisfaction based planners to automatically extract the business process from the sets of rules specifying it. For this purpose, we have developed a constraint-based automated planner named Transition Constraints for Parallel Planning (TCPP). As a constraint-based planner, it encodes a planning problem as a constraint satisfaction problem and then extracts the plan from the solution to that. TCPP constructs its constraint model from a redeﬁned version of the domain transition graphs (DTG) of a given planning problem. TCPP encodes state transitions in the redeﬁned DTGs by using table constraints with cells containing don’t cares or wild cards. TCPP uses Minion the constraint solver to solve the constraint model and returns a parallel plan. We empirically compare TCPP with the other state-of-the-art constraint-based parallel planners. Experimental results we have conducted show that our developed planner outperforms existing constraint-based planners for a large set of benchmarks. Then we have described the speciﬁcation of the activities and regulations in the organisation in PDDL, the language used for describing planning problems, and the business process is extracted from the resulted plan. In the second approach, to handle uncertainties which may occur during execution of the process and to have a comprehensive business process, we have also designed a formal method to visualise and operationalise sets of rules as a veriﬁable business process that is compliant by design, which allows us to analyse all possible execution paths. Additionally, we formally prove correctness of the business processes generated by our method. The approach is implemented in a tool and evaluated on both performance and correctness, showing that even for highly complex sets of rules the approach performs well and outperforms a well-known state-of-the-art approach. Evaluation on a real-life process shows the feasibility of the presented approach.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Inst Integrated&IntelligentSys
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Garonne, Christophe. "Business planning in emerging firms : uses and effects." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/72949/1/Christophe_Garonne_Thesis.pdf.

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Business planning is at the core of entrepreneurship as it has implications for opportunity discovery and exploitation. This thesis' objectives are to disentangle the relationships between business planning and venture emergence to reconcile previous inconsistent findings. It reveals that the formalization of planning, the effort invested in the venture and the revision of the plan influence success for entrepreneurs in the process of launching their firm. This thesis provides generalizable results about the phenomenon of business planning by using a longitudinal random sample of emerging firms.

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Ragazzi, Luca <1990&gt. "Business Planning in ottica di Corporate Social Responsibility." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/12111.

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La responsabilità sociale delle imprese (CSR) nella sua moderna formulazione è un argomento rilevante e in continuo sviluppo, a partire dalla metá degli anni ’50 la responsabilitá sociale di impresa é un concetto che vive un processo di continua crescita, sia di importanza che di concretezza. La gravitá della crisi degli ultimi anni é certamente il presupposto per ricercare un nuovo sviluppo economico plasmato sulla responsabilitá sociale di impresa. Coordinato con la CSR, il documento che esprime e traccia la linea guida dell’idea imprenditoriale è il Business Plan, si tratta di una formulazione del piano pluriennale con il quale l’impresa programma la propria attivitá. I fattori di successo futuri sono rappresentati in questo documento che descrive il piano d’azione dell’ imprenditore, consentendo di valutarne la fattibilitá e la redditivitá. L’obbiettivo principale di questo lavoro é individuare gli elementi chiave che legano la corporate social responsibility al business plan, ovvero esaminare la pianificazioine delle attivitá in osservanza e tutela delle condizioni sociali ed ecologiche. Esiste infatti una correlazione tra le attivitá delle piccole, medie e grandi imprese con la corporate social responsibility. Le imprese sono i soggetti con maggior responsabilitá riguardo le condizioni ambientali create con l’espansione della globalizzazione, le loro strategie incidono pesantemente sul’ evoluzione ambientale. Dal punto di vista qualitativo la corporate social responsibility, se affiancata al business plan, ha mostrato di avere un impatto positivo in ogni area aziendale, dalle risorse umane alla supply chain, nelle relazioni con l’ambiente esterno, nella brand reputation e sul’ attitudine del consumatore. Con riferimento invece all’ analisi quantitativa é stato rilevato come la riduzione del costo dell’equity capital é un elemento fondamentale ottenibile con l’applicazione della corporate social responsibility, nel complesso i dati sono coerenti con la previsione che una potenziale riduzione del costo del capitale azionario motivi le imprese a pubblicare autonomamente e spontaneamente i report CSR e che si ottengono cosí ottimizzazioni della gestione delle risorse finanziarie, del ricorso al credito e che si conseguino condizioni superiori delle performance.

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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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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.
Some digitised pages may appear cut off due to the condition of the original hard copy.
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.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: geen

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Bartle, R. A. "Cross-level planning." Thesis, University of Essex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381932.

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Chesley, Daisy. "Succession Planning in Family-Owned Businesses." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3554.

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Many family-owned businesses lack strategies regarding succession planning. Succession planning is a company's way of embracing the future. The majority of U.S.-based family-owned businesses do not survive to the second generation, and only 3% of family-owned businesses make it past a third generation. This descriptive case study explored strategies that 4 leaders of a family-owned financial business in the Washington, DC area use to prepare future generations to assume leadership roles in their company. The theory of family systems and the theory of organizational and business development were the conceptual frameworks for this study. In-depth interviews with purposively selected members of the small family-owned business were supplemented with a review of documentation from archival records. Yin's 5-step analysis guided the coding process of participants' response, capturing essential elements using the participants' own language. Member checking was used to validate the transcribed data. The major themes of the study revealed the owners' strategies relating to comprehensive business development, examining the family systems, strengthening retention of all employees, examining organizational theory, planning for the future with contingency strategies, strengthening team building, training and support, and understanding leadership knowledge and leadership competency. This study may benefit small businesses by providing lessons learned on ensuring organizational sustainability. This study's implications for social change include contributing to social stability and continuing economic growth.

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Marais, Lynette. "The strategic considerations of a business strategy for SASOL Polymers PP Business." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4911.

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Thesis (MBA (Business Management))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Business strategy provides direction to Sasol Polymers PP and deserves the attention of all levels in the organization. Strategic management can be defined as an explicit guide that allows the organization to specify objectives, formulate plans to achieve these objectives and then allocate resources to execute the plans to achieve the desired outcomes. The business strategy process involves identifying Sasol Polymers PP's business environment, its resources, circumstances within which it operates and its competitive advantages. There is a basic three step process in formulating a business strategy. 1. Determine where Sasol Polymers PP currently stands. 2. Determine where Sasol Polymers PP wants to go. 3. Determine how Sasol Polymers PP will get there. The research report validates not only the importance of business strategy and the essential components of the strategic management process, but also the importance of strategy execution within Sasol Polymers PP. The implication is that managers within Sasol Polymers PP need to achieve synergy between the strategy of the organisation and the people that must execute the strategy.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Bedryfstrategie voorsien rigting aan die organisasie en verdien die aandag van alle vlakke in die organisasie. Strategiese bestuur kan beskryf word as 'n eksplisiete gids wat die organisasie toelaat om doeleindes te spesifiseer, planne te formuleer om hierdie doeleindes te bereik en dan bronne aanwys om planne te implementeer om die verlangde uitkomstes te bereik. Die proses behels identifisering van Sasol Polymers PP se besigsheidsomgewing, sy bronne, omstandighede waarin die maatskappy opereer en sy mededingende voordele. Daar is 'n basiese drie stap proses in die formulering van 'n bedryfstrategie. 1. Bepaal waar Sasol Polymers PP nou staan. 2. Bepaal waar Sasol Polymers PP wil wees. 3. Bepaal hoe Sasol Polymers PP daar wil uitkom. Die navorsingsverslag valideer nie net die belangrikheid van bedryfstrategie en die noodsaaklike komponente van die bedryfstrategieproses nie, maar ook die belangrikheid van strategie uitvoering binne Sasol Polymers PP. Die implikasie daarvan is dat bestuurders binne Sasol Polymers PP sinergie tussen die strategie van die maatskappy en die mense wat die strategie moet uitvoer moet bereik.

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Sutton, Jessica Sarah. "Mapping business in Hong Kong : towards a framework for business-sustainable development /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20263302.

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Tontoh, Anthony, and Yaw Opoku Gyamfi. "MAINTAINING CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP IN BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS MARKETING." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Administration, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-463.

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The relationship between organizations and their customers is a critical issue when establishing a long-term relationship. It is difficult for organizations to really manage and main-tain the relationship with their customers as some organizations fail to build up relationships.

The process of learning and adapting to other customers is costly and time intensive. This is an issue that needs to be taken into consideration. Another aspect that needs to be looked at is the way organizations can set up a plan to build a competitive advantage. With this, most organizations do tend to loose their customers due to the inability to use their resources well and also managing them effectively.

This paper examines the relationship between the supplier and the customer and the possibilities of managing and maintaining the customer relationship.

Qualitative analysis is used in this paper since it is the appropriate method to meet our purpose. There were two companies interviewed from the logistic industry and mechanical industry.

Finally, our result in this paper indicates that in order to maintain customers, it is vital for organizations to meet their needs. As a result, satisfaction and loyalty is the ultimate goal for organization to maintain their customers. This is the way of avoiding key and non-key customers from leaving and also strengthening the relationship.

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Restemis, Andreas, and Lovelyn Okpor. "ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS, BUSINESS PERFORMANCE AND USERS COMPLAINTS." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för ekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-15245.

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Introduction: Enterprise recourse planning (ERP) is a system that combines software, hardwareand people to manage information The aim of this study is to investigate ERP systems effect onbusiness performance (advertised vs. realized benefits) and user’s complaints. It also aims toidentify the most important issue a company faces after implementing an ERP system and if thisstops potential benefits from happening. This will be viewed from a user’s perspective. Approach/Methodology: This research includes qualitative and quantitative primary data withsecondary data to answer the research questions posed. It is based on a number of semistructuredinterviews of people well versed in ERP systems presented in case study form.Alongside, it also utilizes a series of questionnaires presented in tabular form. The data wasanalyzed and linked with theory to provide answers and test assumptions. Findings: ERP systems provide their advertised benefits to a large extent. The most importantorganizational issue after implementing an ERP system is resistance to change and this issueaffects the benefits realization of the system. Finally, user’s complaints about ERP systems arevaried and include the speed of the system, support in error situations and general complexity. Conclusions: Even though it provides many benefits in business performance, an ERP system,selection and implementation in a company is a critical step. The whole process is complicated,resource consuming, takes a long time and can encounter problems. Mistakes in theimplementation cost a company more resources to fix after they happen. In this case preventionis better than cure and the best medicine.Implications and Value of research: ERP system implementation and use should bemethodically planned from the beginning to get maximum benefits realization. This is especiallyimportant in effectively managing change in an organization. In this issue, top level managersshould be aware and committed to. Suggestion for future studies: A possible research that could correlate user complaintcategories already established with age group of respondents under a global perspective.

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Sedlák, Jiří. "Zero Waste - "Valuation and business planning" pro potenciálního investora." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-206492.

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The target of Zero Waste "Valuation and business planning" for a potential investor is to explore and evaluate the identified market opportunity. Business plan concerns the foundation of food and consumer goods retail business which is aimed towards reducing consumers negative impact on the environment, supporting local jobs and sustainable farming. The thesis is based on theoretical knowledge from the publications listed in the resources which were confronted with the reality in interviews with the owners of comparable businesses. Resulting from the business planning a calculation of present value of the proposed model enterprise has been made. Value calculated using discounted cash flows had shown that cannot be unequivocally recommended to establish the company. Pessimistic scenario shows a negative net present value and realistic option shows a positive net present value. However it is necessary to understand the thesis as a model business plan for valuation of such businesses. As for example with a different form of funding or reduction of initial investment, the company may change to a version that would be recommendable to implement.

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Ortiz, Daniel M. "Retail Business Managers' Strategies for Enhancing Workplace Diversity Planning." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6084.

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Lack of workplace diversity planning leads to negative financial outcomes. The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies that business managers in the retail sector use to enhance workplace diversity planning for assuring compliance with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regulations. The population included a single focus group of retail business employees as well as business managers of 5 distinct retail stores located in the Southeastern United States who have successfully instituted workplace diversity plans for assuring compliance with EEOC regulations. The conceptual framework for this study was cultural intelligence theory, which researchers have used to explore a person's ability to understand an unfamiliar context and assimilate the host culture. Methodological triangulation was achieved from the results of face-to-face individual interviews, a single focus group, and company documents. Interview data were analyzed using a modified van Kaam method. Analysis resulted in 3 themes (a) guiding principles; (b) training, including coaching and communication; and (c) hiring practices. The implication for positive social change includes the potential to provide new insights related to strategies applicable to workplace diversity planning in the retail businesses sector that can create or improve positive business and community relationships while potentially minimizing risk associated with profitability loss.

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McMonagle, Samantha. "Tax planning under the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 is more important than ever. /." Staten Island, N.Y. : [s.n.], 2004. http://library.wagner.edu/theses/business/2004/thesis_bus_2004_mcmon_tax.pdf.

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Usoff, Catherine Anne. "An examination of factors affecting audit planning across accounts." Connect to resource, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1261424518.

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Kilroy, Austin. "Business bridging ethnicity : how business transactions in Trinidad build trust and friendship but don't reduce prejudice." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68883.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2011.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-224).
Do business transactions between individuals of different ethnicities lead to social spillovers, in terms of building trust, friendship, and reducing prejudice? In this dissertation I interrogate that research question through a study of business transactions in four industries in Trinidad-print & packaging, food & beverages, construction, and consumer retail. I employ a mixed methods research design, which places emphasis on qualitative analysis of interview data, supplemented with quantitative analysis of that data-obtained from approximately 200 interviews plus 180 surveys. I find that business transactions do build trust and friendship between individuals, but tend not to lead to changes in individuals' wider social attitudes, particularly in terms of ethnic prejudices and opposition to intermarriage.
by Austin Kilroy.
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Stewart, K. Shelette. "Formal business planning and small businesses: a survey of small businesses with an international focus in Atlanta." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1995. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1694.

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This study examined the extent to which small businesses, with an international focus, are employing formaI business planning techniques and the extent to which such techniques contribute to the success of these businesses. The study was based on the hypothesis that small business success is associated with formal business planning. Indicators of both formal business planning, the independent variable, and small business success, the dependent variable, were developed. Survey research was conducted to generate and analyze data gathered from one hundred business owners/operators of small businesses, with an international focus, located within the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). A five-page questionnaire was developed and a survey analysis grid was designed. The researcher found that those businesses practicing formal business planning techniques were more successful than those not employing them. The conclusions drawn from these findings suggest that formal business planning contributes to the success of small businesses with an international focus.

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Chan, Miu-sze. "Multinational corporations in China analysis of a strategic business model /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36553694.

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Fogg, Jeth Al. "Cruise Ships Port Planning Factors." FIU Digital Commons, 2001. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3502.

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Van, Metzinger Willem Antonie. "Business plan for ICM (Pty) Ltd." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49719.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This business plan is a document focussing on creating a business which truly embrace the "New Economy", and by using technology, crafting a strategy which can ensure that the company become successful, and a market leader in the field of civil engineering. The plan focuses on two separate entities. Firstly, building a business by using current techniques in evaluating the industry, developing an initial strategy, and setting the tone for crafting a strategy in the future which will fulfil the goals and objectives of the company, thereby reaching it's initial vision. It use a combination of analysis, creativity, and learning to develop a market leader which has the main focus of being innovative, serving it's clients with service quality, becoming the leader in it's field. A key success factor interaction diagram was developed and combined with an industry value chain to change the operational process into a new market orientated process enabling the company to achieve it's goals. Secondly, the focus is to create wealth for its stakeholders. In that regard the current system in the engineering industry was challenged. New operational processes were developed which is in line with the company vision and mission. These processes was correlated with the financial structure and projections made to ensure that the crafting of the strategy will be done in a systematic way, but always focussing on the goals and objectives of the company. Finally, an implementation plan is developed which is a crucial action plan to ensure success in the future.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doelwit van hierdie besigheidsplan is om die basis te lê om 'n suksesvolle markleier in die siviele ingenieurs bedryf te word. Dit is gebaseer op die beginsels van die "Nuwe Ekonomie". Tesame met daardie beginsels word tegnologie gebruik om 'n strategie te ontwikkel en te vorm soos wat die maatskappy groei. Die plan fokus op twee hoofdele. Eerstens, om 'n maatkappy van statuur te ontwikkel. Huidige analitiese tegnieke om die industrie te evalueer is gebruik om 'n basis strategie te ontwikkel. Hierdie basis strategie sal dan uitgebrei word soos wat die maatskappy ontwikkel deur te fokus op sy doelwitte en sy visie. Deur analise, kreatiwiteit en kundigheid te kombineer word gepoog om te fokus op innovering en kwaliteit wat die kwaliteite is wat benodig word om 'n mark leier te word. 'n Sleutel sukses faktor interaksie diagram is ontwikkel wat tesame met 'n industrie waarde ketting gebruik is om die huidige operasionele prosesse te verander in nuwe mark gerigte prosesse. Die stelsel is die fondasie wat gelê word om die maatskappy doelwitte te bereik. Tweedens, word daar gefokus om rykdom te skep vir die aandeelhouers asook die maatskappye wat deel vorm van die lCM netwerk. Die huidige stelsels in die industrie was ge-evalueer en afgebreek totdat nuwe stelsels ontwikkel is wat inpas in die visie en missie van die maatskappy. Dit is gekorreleer met 'n finansiële model en inkomste en uitgawe projeksies vir die toekoms. Die projeksies is gebaseer op 'n geleidelike ontwikkeling van die stelsels totdat daar na drie jaar 'n gevestigde wereldklas stelsel in plek is. Laastens word afgesluit met 'n aksie-plan wat noodsaaklik is vir effektiewe implimentering van die besigheidsplan.

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