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Mensah, Albert Kobby. "Political brand management : forms and strategies in modern party politics." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2276/.
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The concept of branding is known within the commercial world as the marketing tool that enables customers to make product and service choices using functional and emotional attributes which they find satisfactory. These functional and emotional attributes are what is conceptualized by producers as brands. Hence, the traditional notion of the brand as an identifier and differentiator is passed on to the political market, according to the literature on political branding. However, many years into the inquest of political branding as an essential part of our electoral processes, agreement on political brand development is still proving elusive. In the literature, there are different views on how the political brand is developed. Some argue for political brand identity management based on policy attributes, whereas others regard candidate attributes as the essential source. This research argues for the amalgamation of all the three political elements: the party, the policy, and the candidate as a comprehensive source of building a political brand that is responsive to prevailing political market conditions. Using a case study of a political party in Ghana, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the research aims to demonstrate how party values are considered to be an integral part to policy and candidate attributes in building a comprehensive political brand identity. Here, the study does not imply that the NPP deliberately used branding as a set of principles in managing its campaign. However, it proposes that the strategies and the tactics with which the party executed its electioneering campaign parallels the brand architecture concept in marketing, given the way it identified roles for the three political elements (the party, the candidate, and the policy) and occasionally rearranged them to reflect the broader party goals. The research therefore borrows from brand management literature the brand architecture‘ concept to guide its analysis and the eventual development of a parallel model, the political brand architecture (PBA)‘ approach for political brand management.
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Nsubuga-Mugoa, Josephine Kayaga. "Successful Strategies for Using Knowledge Management in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6464.
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Knowledge management (KM) is vital for an organization to succeed in a highly dynamic and competitive world. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies that managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) use to effectively integrate KM into business practices. The study population comprised 5 managers from 2 SMEs operating in Uganda. The eligibility criteria for this study were that participants had to be from Ugandan SMEs with a knowledge-intensive environment, managers with some responsibility of KM in the organization, and experienced with at least 1 year of successful KM practices. The conceptual framework for this study was theory z. Data were collected through face-to-face, semistructured interviews and reviews of company documents. Member checking was completed to strengthen credibility and trustworthiness. After methodological triangulation of the data sources collected and completion of Yin's 5-step process of data analysis, 5 themes emerged: having supportive leadership, ensuring sustainability, embedding KM practices in the organization culture, socialization, and embracing modern technology. The findings of this study might promote social change by supporting SME managers' use of KM to expand opportunities for employees to learn new skills and knowledge leading to the expansion of employment opportunities.
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Smith, Jacques. "Constructing low cost core-satellite portfolios with multiple risk constraints: practical applications to Robo advising in South Africa using active, passive and smart-beta strategies." Master's thesis, Faculty of Commerce, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32985.
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Risk and tracking error budgeting was originally adopted by large institutional investors, including pension funds, plan sponsors, foundations, and endowments. More recently, risk and tracking error budgeting have gained popularity among financial advisors, multi-managers, fund of funds managers, high net worth individuals as well as retail investors. These techniques contribute to the portfolio optimisation process by limiting the extent to which a portfolio can deviate from its benchmark with regards to risk and tracking error. This is an ambitious paper that attempts to determine the optimal strategy to practically implement risk and tracking error budgeting as a portfolio optimisation technique in South Africa. This study attempts to bridge the gap between active, passive, and smart-beta investment management styles by introducing a low-cost portfolio construction technique, for core-satellite portfolio management, which contributes to the risk and tracking error budgeting process. Core-satellite portfolios are designed to expose the portfolio to a low-cost primary “core” consisting of passive and enhanced index funds, thus systematic risk “beta”, limiting the tracking error of the portfolio. The secondary “satellite” component is allocated to active and smart-beta managers to exploit expected excess return “alpha”. The primary aim of this research is to construct a rule-based product range of core-satellite portfolios called “replica portfolios”. The product range builds on the foundation of the Association for Savings & Investments South Africa (ASISA) framework. The study identifies three “target portfolios” from ASISA's framework, namely (1) High Risk: SA General Equity, (2) Medium Risk: SA Multi-Asset High Equity and (3) Low Risk: SA Multi-Asset Low Equity. Through this framework, active managers from each category are shortlisted using a Sharpe and Information Ratio filter. A secondary filtering technique, namely Returns Based Style Analysis (RBSA) is used to determine the style, R-squared and alpha-generating ability of active managers versus the passive asset classes and style indices they seek to replicate. Applying Euler's theorem for homogenous functions, we decompose the risk of the coresatellite portfolio into the risk contributed by each of its components. The primary mandate of the core-satellite portfolios in the product range is to allocate risk and tracking error efficiently across several investment management styles and asset classes in order to maximise returns while remaining within the specified risk parameters. iii The results highlighted that active managers, after fees, predominantly failed to outperform their benchmarks and passive building blocks, as identified through RBSA over the sample period (October 2009 – September 2019). However, only a small number of active managers generated superior risk-adjusted returns and were included in the core-satellite range of products. This study recommends to investors that they exploit the “hot-hands effect” by investing in specialised, benchmark agnostic active managers who consistently produce superior risk-adjusted returns. By blending active, passive and smart-beta strategies, investors are exposed to less total risk, less risk per holding and a lower tracking error. The three coresatellite portfolios developed in this study generated absolute and risk-adjusted returns that are more significant than their active and passive counterparts. Fee arbitrage was derived through the range of core-satellite products, resulting in tangible alpha over the sample period. The study encourages investors to use smart-beta strategies alongside active and passive funds since it improves Sharpe and Information ratios while enhancing the original portfolio's characteristics.
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Palíšek, Eduard. "VLIV STRATEGICKÉHO ŘÍZENÍ NA PROSPERITU FIRMY." Doctoral thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-233709.
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The target of this dissertation thesis is to verify a relationship between strategic planning and prosperity of the company. Opinions of many experts about expediency of strategic planning vary. Some believe that strategic planning is a base for successful growth, while others demonstrate through results of many different researches that a direct relationship between strategic planning and success of the company cannot be proven. Therefore an empirical research was made to test hypotheses about the impact of strategic planning on prosperity of the company. The theoretical part of the thesis describes the development of strategic management followed by a description of internal and external business environments and the impacts which influence them. The theoretical part also describes the characteristics of strategic management and planning, tools and models as well as methods for measurement of efficiency of strategic planning. As the sub-target of this thesis is also to propose a simplified model of strategic planning which could be applied in small and medium size companies, the theoretical part is concluded by description of specifics of small and medium size companies. The analytical part of the thesis consists of detailed analyses of data collected through questionnaires. Based on results of those analyses, profiles of different categories of companies are synthesized. Conclusions of performed analyses and syntheses are used as a base for testing of validity of defined hypotheses. A new concept of the “4-segments model” of strategic planning is presented in the proposal part of the thesis. Benefits for theory and for practical use are evaluated at the end of the thesis.
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Hall, Johan, and Patrick Fraenkel. "STRATEGISK STYRNING AV PORTFÖLJER MED UTVECKLINGSPROJEKT : EN MODELL SOM GENOM STRATEGISKA STYRMEDEL OCH PROJEKTPARAMETRAR KOPPLAR SAMMAN PROJEKTPORTFÖLJHANTERING MED STRATEGI." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Industriell ekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-130500.
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Examensarbetets mål har varit att utveckla en modell för att värdera och prioritera utvecklingsprojekt som verkar för att projektportföljen som helhet ska stödja företagets strategier. För att uppnå målet gavs studien syftet att förklara en process samt vilka styrmedel och parametrar som skapar en projektportföljhantering med koppling till strategin. Bakgrunden till syftet grundas både empiriskt och i vetenskapen. Den empiriska grunden sammanfattas i fyra utmaningar som identifierats genom en förstudie och genom beställaren Propias erfarenhet i följande fyra punkter: a) Företagen upplever en saknad av översikt över hur projekten uppfyller strategin. b) Önskar ökad transparens kring hur strategiska värderingar och prioriteringar görs. c) När externa förutsättningarna genom strategi ändras är det inte säkert att projektet omvärderas. d) Projekt växer och blir mer komplexa utan att omvärderas och har på så sätt svårt att motivera resursåtgång. En förstudie av befintlig vetenskap påvisade att koppling mellan projektportföljhantering och strategi behövde undersökas vidare. För att svara på företagens utmaningar och samtidigt bringa klarhet i hur strategi kan kopplas till projektportföljhantering gjordes en teoretisk utveckling av en modell och analysmodell som sedan låg till grund för att analysera data från en empirisk studie. Den empiriska insamlingen gjordes genom kvalitativa intervjuer på tre företag på koncernnivå och inom ett av företagen gjordes en mer omfattande studie där även enskilda affärsområden studerades.Arbetet resulterade i en modell som innefattar en process som beskriver stegen från identifiering av initiativ till utvärdering samt utifrån vilka styrmedel och värderingsparametrar, prioritering samt beslut inom processen ska baseras på. Stegen i modellen är identifiering, klassificering, balansering, urval, prioritering, optimering, sekvensering, beslut och utvärdering. De styrmedel som kopplas till processen och som lämpar sig för att koppla strategi till projektportföljhanteringsprocessen(PPH) är främst riktlinjer, budget, mål och mätetal samt strategiska perspektiv. Hur stegen kopplas ihop med styrmedel och parametrar visualiseras i Figur 1.För utmaningarna a, och b, föreslås att företag har identifiering, klassificering och balansering av projekt och placerar projekten i rätt portfölj samt att företag använder sig av en projektportföljhanteringsprocess (PPH-process) som skapar transparens och en översikt. För utmaningarna c, och d, föreslås att företag kopplar sin strategi till sina projektportföljer, skapar en synkronisering mellan strategi- och PPH-processen samt parkerar projekt som inte är aktuella för denna iteration av PPH-processen.The goal of the thesis is to develop a model to valuate and prioritize development projects to ensure that the project portfolio is in line with strategy. To reach the goal the report was given the purpose to explain a process and which management control instruments and valuation parameters that creates a project portfolio management process that is connected to strategy. The background is based both in theory and empirically, which was ensured during the pre-study. The empirical background can be summed up in four main points: a) Businesses experience a lack of overview regarding how projects contribute strategy. b) Businesses wish for increased transparency regarding how strategic valuations and prioritization are being made. c) When external factors incorporated in strategy is changing it does not mean the all projects are re-valuated. d) When projects grow to be gradually more complex there is a tendency of not revaluating, hence resulting in trouble allocating resources for the project.A pre-study was conducted which showed that research finds a gap between strategy and how project portfolios are managed and that gap needs to be further examined. To fill the gap and answer to the empirical challenges a theoretically developed model has been developed combined with a model of analysis which was the foundation of the analysis of empirical data. The empirical data was collected through qualitative interviews from three different companies on corporate level as well from business level in one of the companies.This report has resulted in a process, management control components and parameters to be able to evaluate and prioritize project in a portfolio. The process consists of the steps identifying, clustering, balancing, selecting, prioritizing, optimizing, sequencing, deciding and evaluating. Meanwhile, guidelines, budget, performance measurement with goals and strategic perspectives are suitable formats for transferring strategy into the project portfolio management process.To handle point a) and b) above the study suggests that the process steps identifying, Clustering and balancing are used to place the projects in the appropriate portfolio and by that facilitate balance between projects and initiatives. To ensure transparency and enable overview the process needs to be formal and followed by the users. Regarding point c) and d) it is suggested that the project portfolio management process need to be adjusted for compatibility with the strategy development process and that projects.
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Ondrišová, Karolína. "Strategický rozvoj podnikatelského modelu v kontextu právní regulace." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-443011.
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This diploma thesis focuses on the issue of the impact of legal regulation on the business model during its formulation and implementation. This work outlines the theoretical background in which are described the key concepts of work, strategic management and strategy, the insured strategy of corporate and business strategy and innovative approach as a business model Canvas. Furthermore, the basic characteristics of the level and method of legal regulation are outlined. The analytical part presents a specific business model, which will be used to reveal key areas subjected to legislation, which will then be compared with the solutions of the most successful companies in the given area. Based on these findings, the design part deals with the formulation and implementation of the business model so that it is legally compliant at both national and supranational levels, with the economic impact of the selected solution according to the degree of complexity and risk.
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Backéus, Sofia. "Forest management strategies for CO₂ mitigation." Umeå : Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2009. http://epsilon.slu.se/200989.pdf.
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Laš, Jan. "Moderní informační a podnikové strategie." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-165230.
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The goal of this paper is to explore corporate and information strategies, focus is put on new and modern business models. I accentuate alignment between corporate and information strategy. Theoretical overview of corporate and information strategies is followed by description of modern trends that were discovered by author. All new trends are analyzed from IT and business point of view. Some trends are demonstrated on real companies in the paper. The analysis consists of corporate strategy and searching for the way how IT can support business and how to be in alignment. Two types of companies are included. First type is company that built up business model based on IT/ICT strategy. The other type includes companies that are running business for longer time and new IT/ICT strategy deployment or better alignment between strategies brought improvement and better market position. The paper includes basic model representing strategic management that is presented at the end. This gives an overview to all readers how the process goes from corporate and information strategy to application portfolio. The paper is destined for professionals and nonprofessionals who are interested in modern strategies. It is also useful for IT/ICT managers when working on own strategies.
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Hapala, Marek. "Strategický management ve veřejné správě." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-76250.
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This diploma thesis is focused on implementation evaluation of strategic management on the level of local regional authorities. According to extensiveness of this issue, it's concretely targeted on usage of modern methods of management and quality, which have been discused a lot during last years. In the theoretical part of this thesis there are mentioned basic principles that include individual requirements to current public administrational reform. Further the most important methods and tools are presented here (authorities are aspiring to use them to improve their own services). The practical part is mainly focused on research of current modern methods use on czech regional authorities. These methods are being consequently compared with effected similar research on austrian regional authorities. Research evaluation is applied for convenient comparing example to extrapolation of another classifications and recommendations.
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Reis, Claudio Ricardo Martins dos. "Interações entre valores e atividade científica e sua aplicação ao contexto dos campos sulinos." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/150649.
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Na primeira metade de século XX, tanto os empiristas lógicos quanto os racionalistas popperianos sustentaram que os juízos científicos corretos derivavam de sua conformação a certas regras: indutivas, dedutivas, hipotético-dedutivas ou formalizáveis segundo o cálculo de probabilidades. No entanto, após a emergência de novos trabalhos, como os de Thomas Kuhn, houve um amplo desenvolvimento de abordagens que analisam a inferência científica com base em valores, em vez de regras estabelecidas a priori. A estratégia proposta por Kuhn considera a prática científica e sua história um elemento importante para uma compreensão adequada da racionalidade da ciência. Sua abordagem envolve a consideração de valores cognitivos, tais como fecundidade, consistência e escopo de teorias. Ampliando essa abordagem, estudos mais recentes – a partir da década de 90 e com grande efervescência nos últimos anos – defendem a tese de que o conhecimento científico, além de um produto da atividade social, possui ele mesmo uma dimensão social intrínseca. Poderíamos perguntar, então, em que medida valores não cognitivos, tais como valores morais e sociais, moldam a prática científica; e como esses valores poderiam exercer um papel legítimo ou mesmo contribuir para a produção de conhecimento. Essas questões envolvem o problema, bastante expressivo atualmente (cf. Longino, 2015), sobre a chamada “dimensão social do conhecimento científico”. Neste trabalho, abordo o referido problema no que tange à relação entre valores e atividade científica, utilizando-me, para a construção do artigo aqui presente, a abordagem do filósofo da ciência Hugh Lacey e aplicando-a a um contexto específico: as possibilidades de uso produtivo dos chamados Campos Sulinos.In the first half of the XXth century, both logical empiricists and popperian rationalists sustained that correct scientific judgements derived from the conformation to certain rules: inductive, deductive, hypothetical-deductive or formalizable according to the calculation of probabilities. However, mainly because of Thomas Kuhn’s works, there was an extensive development of approaches that analyze the scientific inference based on values, rather than on a priori established rules. The proposal of Kuhn considers the scientific practice and history as elements of relevance to the comprehension of science’s rationality. His approach considers cognitive values, such as fecundity, consistence, and scope of theories. Expanding this approach, recent studies – starting in the 90s and with great effervescence in recent years – defend the thesis that scientific knowledge, besides being a product of social activity, features an intrinsic social dimension. We could ask, in what measure noncognitive values, such as moral and social values, shape the scientific practice; and how these values could exercise a legitimate role, or even contribute to the production of knowledge. These questions involve the currently quite significant (cf. Longino, 2015) problem called “social dimension of the scientific knowledge”. In this work, I approach the mentioned question regarding the relation between values and the scientific activity, using the approach of the philosopher of science Hugh Lacey, and applying it to a specific background: the possibilities of the productive use of the south Brazilian native grasslands, know Campos Sulinos.
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Lindström, John. "Models, methodology and challenges within strategic information security for senior managements /." Luleå : Department of Business Administration and Social Sciences, Division of Computer and Systems Science, Luleå University of Technology, 2009. http://pure.ltu.se/ws/fbspretrieve/3404378.
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Buß, Hans-Jürgen. "Land use opitons of Namibian farms : optimal management strategies proposed by bioeconomic models /." Kiel : Vauk, 2006. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/506243761.pdf.
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Park, Byung Chun. "Analytical models and optimal strategies for automated storage/retrieval system operations." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24568.
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Aleksandar, Dejanović. "Razvoj strategijskog modela upravljanja savremenim marketing koncepcijama u funkciji unapređenja performansi preduzeća." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu, 2014. http://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=87673&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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Strategijski model upravljanja savremenim marketing koncepcijamapovezuje upravljanje razvojem novih proizvoda, upravljanje brendom iupravljanje odnosima sa potrošačima na platformi upravljanjaukupnim kvalitetom. U model je ugrađen i merni sistem na osnovuuravnoteženog pristupa merenju performansi preduzeća. Istaživanjeje pokazalo da su nabrojani elementi kompatibilni i da imajupotencijal za stvaranje sinergije, što model čini efektivnijim iuniverzalnijim. Rezultati merenja u trogodišnjem periodunedvosmisleno su potvrdila funkcionalnost modela, odnosno njegovusposobnost da pozitivno utiče na performanse preduzeća.The strategic model for managing modern marketing concepts connectsmanagement of developing new product, brand management and customerralationship management on the total quality management platform. Ameasuring system based on a balanced scorecard is built in this model.Research has shown that previously mentioned elements are compatible andhave the potential to create synergies, making this model more effective andmore universal. Measurement results obtained over a three-year periodunambigously confirm the functionality of the model, i.e. its ability to positivelyaffect company performance.
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Wang, Shuo. "Optimization Models for Network-Level Transportation Asset Preservation Strategies." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1416578565.
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Visagie, Hendrik J. "Relationship marketing : an evaluation of content, strategies and models applying in a monopolistic market." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49680.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Relationship Marketing can be defined as an ongoing process of identifying and creating new value with individual customers, and then sharing that value over a lifetime of business association. The definition incorporates a number of key concepts such as long-term commitment, open and ongoing communication, trust and interdependence, collaboration and cooperation, as well as total organisational commitment. A wide range of models and strategies describe the processes and underlying constructs and clearly distinguishes between an organisational process and a behavioral process. The organisational approach focuses on the key organisational processes, technology, culture and values as well as corporate commitment needed to make this a success. The behavioral approach focuses on the key behavioral constructs needed for successful relationship management between buyer and seller, or manufacturer and retailer, for example ongoing communication, joint planning and performance evaluation, and trust and commitment. Customer satisfaction is highlighted as a key driver of the relationship management process and a number of cases clearly indicate that satisfied customers are needed for successful Relationship Marketing. It is not only about the wining and dining, but more about adding real value that will make customers commit their lifetime business. Relationship Marketing in a monopolistic market is discussed and the question is asked why any business should implement a relationship management process when that business is dominating the market. It is quite obvious that the benefits of a relationship marketing approach will drive customer value and satisfaction to higher levels and that the future lies in retaining customers and not recruiting new customers all the time. Even in monopolistic market situations organisations will try to increase or protect market share and developing long-term relationships with customers might just provide that competitive edge needed. Relationship Marketing is clearly not only about behavioral issues ,or on the other hand about organisational systems. It is an integrated approach incorporating all key organisational processes and systems which needs to be cemented in the corporate culture and values of the business. It is also an approach that advocate very specific behavioral constructs for example trust and commitment. - Any organisation that plans to incorporate a relationship marketing approach, needs to focus on the behavioral as well as organisational aspects of business.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: "Relationship Marketing" vertaal as verhoudingsbemarking word gedefinieer as 'n deurlopende proses van waarde toevoeging vir individuele kliente oor 'n lewenslange periode van besigheidassosiasie. Definisies van hierdie benadering beklemtoon 'n aantal belangrike konsepte soos onder andere langtermyn verbintenis, twee-rigting kommunikasie, vertroue en interafhanklikheid, en samewerking. 'n Aantal modelle en strategeë onderskei baie duidelik tussen 'n organisatoriese benadering en 'n gedragsbenadering tot verhoundingsbemarking. Die organisatoriese benadering beklemtoon die belangrikheid van stelsels, prosesse, waardes en kultuur, en implementering op totale organisatoriese vlak. Die gedragsbenadering definieer verskeie gedrags konsepte onderliggend aan 'n suksesvolle verhoudingsbemarking proses. Klientbevrediging as 'n sleutel suksesfaktor word bespreek en die stelling word gemaak dat ongelukkige kliente nie hulle lewenslange besigheid sal toevertrou aan 'n verskaffer wat nie hul behoeftes bevredig nie. Verhoudingsbemarking in 'n monopolistiese mark word bespreek en die voordele van hierdie benadering word uitgelig. Enige organisasie, ongeag die markaandeel, poog voortdurend om verder te groei en 'n verhoudings benadering kan daardie addisionele voordele bied. Ten slotte, word uitgewys dat verhoudingsbemarking beide 'n organisatoriese sowel as 'n gedragsbenadering insluit en enige maatskappy wat poog om hierdie konsep te implementeer, moet beide inag neem.
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Masana, Felipe. "Synthesising business process management maturity models: Their anatomy and assessment." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211476/1/Felipe_Masana%20Sepulveda_Thesis.pdf.
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Business Process Management (BPM) maturity models are tools that help organizations in determining the capabilities required to progress in their BPM ambitions. However, the disparity of key components across different maturity models and lack of assessment tools to gauge maturity, limits the applicability of the models. Following Design Science Research and Content Analysis methods, this research presents two artifacts to address these issues: (i) a meta-model that captures the structure of BPM maturity models and (ii) a maturity grid for BPM Strategic-Alignment capabilities as an example of a ‘ready to use’ assessment tool to measure BPM maturity in organizations.
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Sentanin, Odemilson Fernando. "Gestão por processos em uma empresa de pesquisa e desenvolvimento: objetivo estratégico de um modelo de gestão." Universidade de São Paulo, 2004. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18140/tde-01022005-085937/.
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Esta dissertação tem por objetivo avaliar a gestão por processos em uma empresa de pesquisa e desenvolvimento como um dos objetivos estratégicos de seu modelo de gestão, bem como identificar seu nível de evolução e características em relação a uma empresa orientada por processos. O presente estudo de caso foi realizado no Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento de Instrumentação Agropecuária CNPDIA, uma das quarenta unidades de pesquisa da Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária Embrapa, instituição de pesquisa e desenvolvimento vinculada ao Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento, uma das maiores instituições de pesquisa do mundo tropical, presente em quase todos os Estados da Federação, nas mais diferentes condições ecológicas, contribuindo para o sucesso do agronegócio e do desenvolvimento sustentável. Realizou-se uma revisão bibliográfica sobre a importância da gestão por processos dentro de uma visão estratégica, as principais diferenças entre uma empresa estruturada por função e estruturada por processos e também as principais dificuldades de uma transição para processos. Por meio da análise de documentos e relatórios apresentados pela empresa, entrevistas relacionadas ao tema com gerentes e funcionários da empresa, e estudo do Modelo de Gestão Estratégica MGE adotado, no qual insere-se a gestão por processos como um de seus objetivos estratégicos e confrontando com a teoria, este estudo de caso avaliou como a empresa está se estruturando para atender às necessidades e desafios apresentados nesse contexto de mudanças, os quais forçam as organizações a reavaliarem e readequarem seus modelos de gestão e suas estruturas organizacionais para conseguirem manterem-se vivas nesse ambiente competitivo. Os resultados obtidos nesta pesquisa demonstram que a unidade, apesar de apresentar vários indicativos de mudança de estrutura organizacional para modelos mais flexíveis, está passando por uma fase de transição, caracterizando um aprendizado para todos os envolvidos e, principalmente, que as resistências apresentadas a esse novo modelo de gestão proposto estão sendo reduzidas por conseqüência da internalização dos conceitos e do maior conhecimento, por parte dos executivos e funcionários, sobre a abordagem de processos.This dissertation aims to evaluate the process management in a research and development institution as one of the strategic objectives of its management model, as well as to identify its level of evolution and characteristics in comparison to a company guided by process. The present case study was accomplished in the National Agricultural Instrumentation Research Center CNPDIA, one of the forty units of research of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation Embrapa, research and development institution linked to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, one of the largest institutions of research of the tropical world, present in almost all the States of the Federation, in the most different ecological conditions, contributing to the success of the agribusiness and of the maintainable development. A bibliographical revision on the importance of the process management for a strategic vision was carried out. The main differences between companies structured by function and companies structured by process and also the main difficulties of a transition for process were investigated. Through the analysis of documents and reports presented by the company, interviews related to the theme with managers and employees of the company, and the study of the Model of Strategic Management MGE - adopted, in which interferes the process management as one of its strategic objectives and confronting with the theory, this case study evaluated as the company is structuring to meet to the needs and challenges presented in that context of changes, which force the organizations reanalyze and readjust their management models and their organizational structures to maintain itself alive in that competitive environment. The results obtained in this research demonstrate that the unit, although presenting several indicative of change of organizational structure for more flexible models, it is going by a transition phase, characterizing a learning for all involved them and, mainly, that the resistances presented to that new management model proposed they are being reduced for consequence of the adoption of the concepts and of the largest knowledge on the part of the executives and employees, on the approach of process.
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Wagenaar, Elmien. "A mathematical approach to financial allocation strategies." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52648.
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Elahi, 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.
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Morandi, Marc Joseph. "Assessing the Influence of Different Inland Lake Management Strategies on Human-Mediated Invasive Species Spread." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1365116997.
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Roberts, Ian. "The role of management in the turnaround process." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-role-of-management-in-the-turnaround-process(9ac4e2c1-cd5f-4f56-a16f-f323c9f59c78).html.
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This thesis is entitled The Role of Management in the Turnaround Process and is presented for the degree of Doctor of Business Administration at the University of Manchester by Ian Roberts in April 2015. Inquiry into turnaround has largely has been carried forward in two broad areas of study: strategy and management. Strategy research has attempted to identify a single or limited number of strategies which apply in all turnaround situations, while management studies have concentrated on managers themselves or some of the techniques they employ. Neither school has systematically analysed how turnarounds are actually implemented in dysfunctional organisations and both schools are weak in extant theory. As a consequence, a holistic explanation of the process leading from crisis to viability is lacking. This thesis addresses these lacunae in three ways. Firstly, it provides a systematic study of how professional turnaround managers implement the turnaround process over time. Secondly, it applies a unique and complementary mix of extant theory which addresses both cognitive and organisational aspects of strategy formulation and implementation. Thirdly, it presents a holistic turnaround model based on six core constructs which are argued to be necessary and sufficient to explain the dynamics of the turnaround process. The thesis adopts a mixed-methods approach. A survey is used in order to gather data from turnaround professionals on implementation methods. This data is then subjected to statistical analysis in order to identify the most important factors for implementation. These concepts are then blended into a conceptual framework which is tested for its explanatory and predictive power on a matched pair of turnaround case studies of two mid-sized UK manufacturing companies in the household goods sector, one of which executed a successful turnaround and one of which failed in the attempt. The model is able to explain and predict the outcome in both cases. The thesis is one of only a handful of turnaround studies which employs a rigorous case study research protocol. Its principal contribution is that of a middle range turnaround theory of the causal factors leading from organisational crisis to dissolution or viability.
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Sperling, Brian Keith. "Information Sharing Strategies To Improve Team Mental Models In Complex Systems." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/6975.
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This thesis hypothesizes that providing task specific information to individual team members will improve coordination and decision-making, and therefore team performance, at time critical tasks. Major themes addressed in this research include teams and team processes, mental models, team mental models, work domain analysis, and hierarchical task analysis. Furthermore, the theory behind the development of complementary models is introduced. A unique method to identify the information sources and requirements in a complex team environment is first discussed in general and then specifically applied in two domains.
The findings are presented of two experiments examining the effects of imposing different information distribution strategies that range from no complementariness to full complementariness of information. Team communication, team and individual task performance, workload, and timeliness and effectiveness of team decision making were assessed in nominal and off-nominal conditions. The first experiment used an automobile simulator and examined team navigation while driving. A second experiment was designed to incorporate additional measures to more specifically investigate individual performance, team workload, and clarity of information requirements using a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter simulator. The procedures used for both experiments provided for dynamic yet controlled environments through which critical factors that influence team process and performance could be evaluated accurately.
Results of these experiments provide empirical evidence that providing task relevant information to individual team members in a time critical environment, while limiting their access to non-relevant information, improves individual and team performance. Furthermore, there is evidence of increased individual performance that indicates this method of distributing information among team members may provide individual crewmembers with a more accurate task relevant mental model of their own environment. This research provides new insight into how the distribution of information among team members effects the development of mental models, information requirements, team and individual performance, and communications, and highlights several directions for future research.
The information distribution design principles presented in this thesis address the heterogeneity of teams; teams cannot be thought of as groups of identical individuals. The results concerning the communication, workload, performance and team of mental models were consistent across the domains in this research.
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Porter, Rosalyn. "Mathematical models of a tick borne disease in a British game bird with potential management strategies." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3039.
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Louping ill virus (LIV) is a tick borne disease that causes mortality in red grouse, an economically important game bird of British uplands. The aim of this thesis is to extend previously published models of LIV , to consider the potential impact of different management strategies. In addition a new route of infection and the seasonal biology of both grouse and ticks will be explored. Grouse chicks are known to eat ticks as part of their diet in the first three weeks of life which may contribute to virus persistence if chicks consume infected ticks. This novel route of infection is incorporated in to the model which predicts that ingestion increases the range of host densities for which the virus is able to persist. The ingestion of ticks by grouse also reduces the tick population so that for low host densities the ingestion of ticks by grouse reduces the tick population so virus cannot persist. The model is adapted to take account of the seasonal biology of grouse and ticks. Although the temporal predictions of the seasonal models show some differences the addition of seasonality does not alter the model predictions of when LIV is likely to persist at different grouse and deer densities. Consequently seasonality is felt to be unimportant when considering management strategies. The treatment of sheep with acaricide in an attempt to reduce the tick population on a grouse moor is currently being trialled in Scotland. We use a model to predict the likely effect of this strategy at different deer densities. The number of ticks found attached to sheep varies so we consider the effect of tick attachment rates as well as acaricide efficacy. Although we predict that acaricide treated sheep can reduce the tick population and therefore LIV in grouse in some circumstances the treatment is less effective in the presence of deer. Consequently we use a model to make theoretical predictions of the effectiveness of acaricide treated deer as a control strategy for reducing LIV in red grouse. The effect of culling deer on LIV in grouse is also modelled and contrasted with the effect of acaricide use. It is predicted that acaricide treatment of deer could be highly effective, particularly if the deer density is first reduced by culling. Finally we considered the direct treatment of red grouse with acaricide. Female grouse can be given an acaricidal leg band which protects her directly and indirectly protects her chicks as they acquire some acaricide whilst brooding. Trials have suggested this can reduce tick burdens for individuals. We use the model to determine the potential effect that treating individual broods may have on the whole grouse population. The model predictions suggest that unless acaricide efficacy on chicks is high and long lasting treating individual broods is unlikely to reduce LIV in the whole population but will still provide some benefit for the individuals. The effectiveness of treatment is reduced by higher deer densities. The success of the management strategies considered in this thesis appear to be restricted by the presence of deer. It may therefore be that a combination of treatments including the treatment of deer may be of the greatest benefit to the grouse population.
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Heyneke, Petrus Erasmus. "Application of enterprise risk management models during new business development / P.E. Heyneke." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4473.
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Enterprise is often described as risk for reward, but it may be possible to reduce
the risk while improving returns. According to SEDA, failure rates of SMMEs in
South Africa range from 70 to 80 percent. The need for this study arose when it
was found that most SMMEs did not have a formal system in place to mitigate their
risks right from the outset in the feasibility study, the business plan design and the
start–up of the business. This lack of mitigation controls could be a result of a lack
of understanding of the enterprise risk management (ERM) methodology or an
inappropriate ERM decision–making model to assist them in a way that would
mitigate their risk and minimise financial losses.
The ERM approach can anticipate unplanned occurrences and is a systematic way
of foreseeing the future. Entrepreneurs and business owners take on risks to
pursue new business objectives within their respective risk appetites. This study
also evaluated several models of risk identification and the ERM methodology. In
this study an ERM model, ISO 31000, was applied in a business case and a
comparison was made between the risks identified in the business plan and the
ERM approach.Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.
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Matulková, Lenka. "Aplikace integrovaného modelu managementu a návrh Balanced Scorecard v organizaci." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-204002.
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The thesis is focused on management analysis of the selected organization in terms of components and factors that are then used to design of the system of strategic management Balanced Scorecard. The first part is focused on describing the theoretical background concerning the issue of the effect of the organizations administration and management. Comprehensive evaluation of the level of management is performed in the second part. Organizational performance is assessed using the Balanced Scorecard method. Particular perspectives, strategy, targets and their measurements are determined for organization. The interdependence of the targets is presented in the Strategic Map. The conclusion is made by evaluating the achieved findings and formulating specific recommendations for the selected organization.
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Lee, Ruri. "Business models and strategies in the video game industry : an analysis of Activision-Blizzard and Electronic Arts." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81088.
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Thesis (S.M. in Management Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references.
In recent years the video game industry has been of great importance in the business world beyond the role of a cultural medium. With its huge size and potential for more growth, the industry has attracted many newcomers. The target customers are expanding to females and elders who have not been known to be game players. Moreover, the introduction of new platforms, personal computers and mobile devices, broadens the application of the video games. Because of its diversified mechanisms and platforms, the business models of the gaming industry have evolved. In this thesis, the traditional and newly invented business models are introduced with an analysis of pros and cons through real cases of gaming companies. The analysis of Activision-Blizzard and Electronic Arts shows the current business strategies of two giants in the industry, "diversification" and "casual games". Moreover, the huge difference of financial performances of two companies indicates the risk of an overbroad portfolio and investment in an unfamiliar genre.
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Tufail, Mohammad. "OPTIMAL WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR URBAN WATERSHEDS USING MACRO-LEVEL SIMULATION MODELS LINKED WITH EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS." UKnowledge, 2006. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/313.
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Urban watershed management poses a very challenging problem due to the varioussources of pollution and there is a need to develop optimal management models that canfacilitate the process of identifying optimal water quality management strategies. Ascreening level, comprehensive, and integrated computational methodology is developedfor the management of point and non-point sources of pollution in urban watersheds. Themethodology is based on linking macro-level water quality simulation models withefficient nonlinear constrained optimization methods for urban watershed management.The use of macro-level simulation models in lieu of the traditional and complexdeductive simulation models is investigated in the optimal management framework forurban watersheds. Two different types of macro-level simulation models are investigatedfor application to watershed pollution problems namely explicit inductive models andsimplified deductive models. Three different types of inductive modeling techniques areused to develop macro-level simulation models ranging from simple regression methodsto more complex and nonlinear methods such as artificial neural networks and geneticfunctions. A new genetic algorithm (GA) based technique of inductive modelconstruction called Fixed Functional Set Genetic Algorithm (FFSGA) is developed andused in the development of macro-level simulation models. A novel simplified deductivemodel approach is developed for modeling the response of dissolved oxygen in urbanstreams impaired by point and non-point sources of pollution. The utility of this inverseloading model in an optimal management framework for urban watersheds isinvestigated.In the context of the optimization methods, the research investigated the use of parallelmethods of optimization for use in the optimal management formulation. These includedan evolutionary computing method called genetic optimization and a modified version ofthe direct search method of optimization called the Shuffled Box Complex method ofconstrained optimization. The resulting optimal management model obtained by linkingmacro-level simulation models with efficient optimization models is capable ofidentifying optimal management strategies for an urban watershed to satisfy waterquality and economic related objectives. Finally, the optimal management model isapplied to a real world urban watershed to evaluate management strategies for waterquality management leading to the selection of near-optimal strategies.
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Pussep, Anton [Verfasser], Peter [Akademischer Betreuer] Buxmann, and Dirk [Akademischer Betreuer] Schiereck. "Firm Strategies and Business Models in the Software Industry: A Configurational Approach / Anton Pussep ; Peter Buxmann, Dirk Schiereck." Darmstadt : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1132248779/34.
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Santana, Reynoso Alfredo. "Decision Aid Models for Resource Sharing Strategies During Global Influenza Pandemics." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3331.
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Pandemic influenza outbreaks have historically entailed significant societal and economic disruptions. Today, our quality of life is threatened by our inadequate preparedness for the imminent pandemic. The key challenges we are facing stem from a significant uncertainty in virus epidemiology, limited response resources, inadequate international collaboration, and the lack of appropriate science-based decision support tools. The existing literature falls short of comprehensive models for global pandemic spread and mitigation which incorporate the heterogeneity of the world regions and realistic travel networks. In addition, there exist virtually no studies which quantify the impact of resource sharing strategies among multiple countries. This dissertation presents three related models that contribute to filling the existing vacuum. The first model develops optimal capacity management strategies for multi-region pandemic surveillance. The second model estimates the pandemic propagation time from the onset to a likely pandemic export region, such as a major transportation hub. The model builds on a large-scale agent-based simulation and geographic information systems (GIS). The model is tested on a hypothetical outbreak in Mexico involving 155 regions and over 100 million people. The third model develops an empirical relationship to quantify the impact of various U.S. - Mexico antiviral sharing strategies under several pandemic detection and response scenarios.
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Matinmikko-Blue, M. (Marja). "Stakeholder analysis for the development of sharing-based spectrum governance models for mobile communications." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2018. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526220512.
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Abstract Radio spectrum is a scarce natural resource whose efficient management has been the source of contentious debate for over a century. The mobile communication ecosystem has created a tremendous business that is reliant on the availability of spectrum for wireless networks. The growth of mobile communications has increased the rivalry between the different wireless ecosystems that compete over gaining access rights to radio spectrum. Due to the scarcity of unallocated spectrum bands without incumbent users, sharing-based governance models for spectrum management have gained increasing attention in regulation, industry and academia. Spectrum sharing allows two or more wireless systems to operate in the same spectrum band. These systems often come from different wireless ecosystems that have conflicting goals. Spectrum sharing, and specifically the development of new sharing-based governance models for more efficient management of the scarce resource, is a strategic management topic that calls for the development of rules and conditions by regulators that are agreeable to all involved stakeholders. This thesis presents a novel framework for the development of upcoming sharing-based spectrum governance models that bring together stakeholders from different wireless business ecosystems with conflicting goals. The framework is built upon the theoretical basis of governance models, stakeholder analysis, and business ecosystems. Spectrum management is here seen as governance of common pool resources, and the tool of stakeholder analysis from strategic management is formally introduced into the development of new sharing-based spectrum governance models where different business ecosystems collide. The developed three-step stakeholder analysis is applied to two case studies for mobile communications including the future use of the ultra-high frequency (UHF) band, and the licensed shared access (LSA) concept. For the UHF band case study, the thesis identifies the stakeholders, analyses their relations and saliences to reach long-term compromises between broadcasting and mobile communication ecosystems. For the LSA case study, the thesis identifies the stakeholders and their relations, and develops management actions through a work flow for the main phases and stakeholders’ tasks. It then presents the world’s first live field trial with mobile communication systems, where the conflicting requirements of all stakeholders were considered. The developed stakeholder analysis model formally introduces the strategic management of stakeholders into the spectrum management domain, and it provides regulators, industry and academia a new tool for reaching long-term compromises in spectrum management through sharingTiivistelmä Radiotaajuudet muodostavat rajallisen luonnonvaran, jonka tehokas hallinta on ollut vuosikymmenten ajan kiistanalainen keskustelunaihe. Matkaviestinnän ekosysteemi on luonut suurta liiketoimintaa saamalla käyttöönsä radiotaajuuksia, joilla matkaviestinverkot voivat toimia. Matkaviestinnän kasvu on lisännyt eri langattomien järjestelmien ekosysteemien välistä kilpailua radiotaajuuksien saatavuudesta. Taajuuksien yhteiskäyttöön perustuvat hallintamallit ovat herättäneet kasvavaa kiinnostusta taajuushallinnoissa, teollisuudessa ja tutkimusmaailmassa, koska lähes kaikki radiotaajuudet on jo annettu erilaisten langattomien järjestelmien käyttöön. Taajuuksien yhteiskäyttö mahdollistaa kahden tai useamman radiojärjestelmän toiminnan samalla taajuusalueella. Usein nämä järjestelmät edustavat erilaisia langattomia ekosysteemejä, joilla on ristiriitaiset tavoitteet. Taajuuksien yhteiskäyttö ja siihen liittyvien hallintamallien kehittäminen rajallisen luonnonvaran tehokkaamman käytön mahdollistamiseksi on strategisen johtamisen aihealue, joka edellyttää, että taajuushallinnot kehittävät säännöt ja ehdot, jotka ovat hyväksyttäviä sidosryhmille. Tämä väitöskirja esittelee uuden viitekehityksen taajuuksien yhteiskäyttöön perustuvien taajuuksien hallintamallien kehittämiselle tuomalla yhteen eri sidosryhmät, jotka edustavat erilaisia langattomia liiketoimintaekosysteemejä, joilla on ristiriitaiset tavoitteet. Kehitetyn viitekehyksen teoriapohja koostuu hallintomalleista, sidosryhmäanalyysistä sekä liiketoiminnan ekosysteemeistä. Tässä työssä taajuuksien hallinta nähdään yhteisresurssien (common pool resource, CPR) hallintana, ja strategisen johtamisen työkaluista sidosryhmäanalyysi on valittu taajuuksien yhteiskäyttömallien kehittämiseen erilaisten liiketoiminta-ekosysteemien kohtauspisteessä. Työssä kehitettyä kolmiaskelista sidosryhmäanalyysiä sovelletaan kahteen matkaviestinnän tapaustutkimukseen sisältäen UHF-taajuuden tulevaisuuden käytön sekä taajuuksien lisensioidun yhteiskäytön (licensed shared access, LSA). UHF-taajuuden tapaustutkimuksessa väitöskirjassa tunnistetaan sidosryhmät ja analysoidaan niiden riippuvuuksia ja painoarvoja pitkän tähtäimen kompromissin löytämiseksi yleisradioliikenteen ja matkaviestinnän ekosysteemien välille. LSA-tapaustutkimukselle väitöskirjassa tunnistetaan sidosryhmät ja niiden riippuvuudet sekä kehitetään johtamismalleja työnkulkukaavion avulla. Lisäksi työssä esitellään maailman ensimmäinen todellisella matkaviestinjärjestelmällä tehty kokeilu, joka ottaa huomioon eri sidosryhmien ristiriitaiset vaatimukset. Työssä kehitetty malli on ensimmäinen strategisen johtamisen sidosryhmäanalyysin sovellus taajuuksien hallintaan ja tuo taajuushallinnoille, teollisuudelle ja tutkimusmaailmalle uuden työkalun pitkän tähtäimen kompromissien löytämiseen taajuuksien hallinnalle yhteiskäytön avulla
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Bexell, Anders, and Fredrik Olofsson. "Talent Management : Beyond the concept of Talent Management." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Administration, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-132.
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Författarna till denna uppsats har under de senaste åren kunnat följa en explosionsartad snabb utveckling av böcker och artiklar publicerade kring konceptet Talent Management. Dessa böcker och artiklar har gemensamt att de betonar vikten av att företag adopterar konceptet och de ödesdigra följderna om de låter bli. Talent Management är enligt många ett utav det största och senaste begreppen inom personaladministration.
Under personaladministrationens historia har emellertid en mängd olika begrepp kommit och gått ur tiden såsom Personnel Management, Human Resource Management och Strategisk Human Resource Management och många forskare har hävdat att dessa begrepp inte skiljer sig nämnvärt åt, utan snarare kan karaktäriseras som ett kontinuerligt strävande efter legitimitet och status av personalansvariga. Det huvudsakliga temat i detta strävande har varit att ett företags personal utgör en viktig och betydande del av organisationen och därigenom kan utgöra skillnaden mellan framgångsrika och icke framgångsrika företag.
Syftet med den här uppsatsen var att ta reda på de bakomliggande faktorerna och motiven till varför företag implementerar Talent Management, samt att undersöka i vilken utsträckning konceptet kan sägas karaktäriseras av ny och värdefull kunskap.
Genom att jämföra teorier om HRM och personalutveckling med normativ litteratur och intervjuer kring Talent Management har författarna kommit fram till att Talent Management inte kan sägas karaktäriseras av ny och värdefull kunskap, utan snarare som ett försök att paketera om gamla idéer och tekniker under en ny etikett. Förfat-tarna till den här uppsatsen tror att konceptet kan sägas känneteckna ännu ett försök av personalansvariga att stärka sin legitimitet och status i sina respektive organisationer.
The authors of this thesis have found that, during the last years, the world has witnessed a dramatic explosion of articles and books about the concept Talent Management. These books and articles, all emphasise the urgency for companies to adopt the concept and the devastating consequences if they don’t. The concept is by many re-searchers seen to be the top issue and, the latest trend within Human Resource Management.
Nevertheless, throughout the history of the personnel profession the world has witnessed several different concepts such as Personnel Management, Human Resource Management, and Strategic Human Resource Management and several researches have claimed that these concepts describes the same thing. Some researchers have argued that the different concept instead represent a continuous rhetoric struggle by HR professionals to enhance their legitimacy and status by becoming more business oriented and demonstrate that employees indeed can make a difference in distinguish-ing successful organizations from others.
The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the underlying reasoning and logic to why companies adopt talent management and explore what the concept represents in terms of new knowledge.
By comparing traditional theories of HRM and HR planning with normative literature and interviews on Talent Management the authors have found that the concept does not represent any new and distinctive knowledge, but rather can be considered as an effort to repackage old ideas and techniques with a new label. The authors of this thesis believe that Talent Management is another illustration of the struggle by HR professionals to enhance their legitimacy and status in their organization.
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Kulhanek, Ashley Lynn. "User-Friendly Methods for Timing Integrated Pest Management Strategies: An Analysis of Degree-Day Models and Biological Calendars." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1259690152.
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Monteiro, Alexsandro. "Proposição de modelo estratégico de gestão de compras de materiais e serviços para uma empresa de nutrição animal." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/159307.
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O setor de compras nas empresas tem se deparado com a necessidade de tornar-se mais eficiente e eficaz em suas aquisições, por isso, as organizações têm aderido ao uso de ferramentas estratégicas de compras adequadas às suas necessidades. Por este motivo, o presente trabalho objetivou propor um modelo de gestão de compras de materiais e serviços em uma empresa privada do agronegócio Matogrossense de nutrição animal, alinhado às suas estratégias. Desta forma, o trabalho estruturou-se em dois artigos. No primeiro artigo foi realizada uma análise no processo de compras praticado na empresa, para verificar o alinhamento do modelo de gestão do setor de materiais e serviços às estratégias da empresa, através do mapeamento do processo de compras e de uma entrevista semi estruturada com a direção da empresa responsável pela área, no intuito de verificar o alinhamento do processo utilizado com as estratégias da empresa. No segundo artigo, realizou-se a proposição do modelo de gestão de compras de materiais e serviços para a empresa, partindo das necessidades estratégicas identificadas no primeiro artigo e do levantamento dos principais modelos de gestão estratégica de compras de materiais e serviços existentes na literatura. Um modelo estratégico de gestão de compras para a empresa em estudo, foi estruturado através de um diagrama SIPOC e de um fluxograma detalhado do processo e, posteriormente, validado junto à diretoria da empresa. Obteve-se então, como resultado, um modelo de gestão capaz de alinhar o setor de compras de materiais e serviços às estratégias da empresa. O modelo contém, além do detalhamento das etapas do processo de compra, a proposta do uso de ferramentas de compras estratégicas adequadas ao perfil da empresa, como a Matriz de Kraljic (1983) aliada ao modelo de Ogden (2003), ambas adaptadas ao contexto analisado.The purchasing department in companies has been faced with the need to become more efficient and effective in their acquisitions, so organizations have joined the use of strategic tools appropriate to their shopping needs. Therefore, this study aimed at proposing a purchasing management model of materials and services in a private company in Mato Grosso agribusiness animal nutrition, aligned to its strategies. For this purpose, work was structured in two articles. The first article it was done an analysis in the shopping process practiced for the company, to check the alignment of the materials and services sector of the management model to business strategies, through the purchasing process mapping and a semi structured interview with the company´s management responsible for the area, in order to verify the alignment process used, with the company's strategies. On the second article, took place on purchasing management model proposition of materials and services for the company, starting from the strategic needs identified on the first article and the survey of the main models of strategic management purchases of materials and services available in the literature. A strategic model of purchasing management for the company under investigation, it was structured through a SIPOC diagram and a detailed flow chart of the process and subsequently validated by the company´s staff. There was thus, as a result, a management model able to align the purchasing department of materials and services to the company's strategies. The model contains, in addition to detailing the stages of the buying process, the proposed of use of strategic purchasing tools appropriate to the company profile, such as the Mother of Kraljic (1983) combined with the model of Ogden (2003), both adapted to the analyzed context .
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Moghaddaszadeh, Kermani Mohammad. "Criticality strategic decision making model for maintenance and asset management." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/criticality-based-strategic-decision-making-model-for-maintenance-and-asset-management(913ab341-1c44-480c-875e-77d8e28f037b).html.
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Over the last century, there has been growing interest in changing the approach to maintenance management. The current practice for selecting critical equipment and making a decision on the most appropriate maintenance strategy is perceived to have serious limitations, principally because it lacks decision analysis. Due to the complex nature of decision-making in maintenance management, different models have been developed for selecting critical equipment. However, many of these models considered maintenance management as operational concern and ignored the strategic concerns of maintenance management. This thesis builds upon earlier works on decision-making for selecting critical equipment and maintenance strategy. It sets out to construct three hypotheses by introducing evidence from a comprehensive literature review, case study analysis and in-depth interviews. The thesis focuses on artificial intelligence and multi-criteria decision-making techniques (i.e. Fuzzy Logic and Analytical Hierarchy Process) to bridge this gap. It proposes a strategic decision-making model in maintenance and asset management for selecting critical equipment and deciding on a maintenance strategy. The novelty of model is to propose an approach in which maintenance strategy can be applied based on the equipment criticality while not making a trade-off between safety and cost but rather to combine the concern of safety with financial, operational and technical perspectives. The model provides an opportunity to consider safety as the first priority. The research output suggests that existing criticality assessment methods for optimising maintenance delivery have limited value and are suffering from a lack of strategic decision analysis. Multi-criteria decision-making tools could be used to improve decision-making of criticality assessment methods and hence maintenance strategy implementation. The validity of the proposed strategic decision-making model was tested through case study analysis and in-depth interviews. The results suggest that a strategic decision-making model could have a significant impact on improving safety, reliability and operational availability. The strategic decision-making model would enable asset managers to track the consequences of their decisions whilst dealing with maintenance. It is also an effective tool in the hands of a maintenance department to convince their asset managers to make a maintenance investment.
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Haule, Henrick Joseph. "Evaluation of Traffic Incident Timeline to Quantify the Performance of Incident Management Strategies." UNF Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/791.
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Transportation agencies are introducing new strategies and techniques that will improve traffic incident management. Apart from other indicators, agencies measure the performance of the strategies by evaluating the incidents timeline. An effective strategy has to reduce the length of the incident timeline. An incident timeline comprises various stages in the incident management procedure, starting when the incident was detected, and ending when there is the recovery of normal traffic conditions. This thesis addresses three issues that are related to the traffic incident timeline and the incident management strategies.
First, co-location of responding agencies has not been investigated as other incident management measures. Co-location of incident responders affects the incident timeline, but there is a scarcity of literature on the magnitude of the effects. Evaluation of the co-location strategy is reflected by the response and verification durations because its effectiveness relies on improving communication between agencies. Investigation of the response and verification duration of incidents, before and after operations of a co-located Traffic Management Center (TMC) is done by using hazard-based models. Results indicate that the incident type, percentage of the lane closure, number of responders, incident severity, detection methods, and day-of-the-week influence the verification duration for both the before- and after- period. Similarly, incident type, lane closure, number of responders, incident severity, time-of-the-day, and detection method influence the response duration for both study periods. The before and after comparison shows significant improvements in the response duration due to co-location of incident response agencies.
Second, the incident clearance duration may not necessarily reflect how different types of incidents and various factors affect traffic conditions. The duration at which the incident influences traffic conditions could vary – shorter than the incident duration for some incidents and longer for others. This study introduces a performance measure called incident impact duration and demonstrates a method that was used for estimating it. Also, this study investigated the effects of using incident impact duration compared to the traditionally incident clearance duration in incident modeling. Using hazard-based models, the study analyzed factors that affect the estimated incident impact duration and the incident clearance duration. Results indicate that incident detection methods, the number of responders, Traffic Management Center (TMC) operations, traffic conditions, towing and emergency services influence the duration of an incident.
Third, elements of the incident timeline before the clearance duration have been overlooked as factors that influence the clearance duration. Incident elements before the clearance duration include verification time, dispatch duration, and the travel time of responders to the incident scene. This study investigated the influence of incident timeline elements before clearance on the extent of the clearance duration. Also, this study analyzed the impact of other spatial and temporal attributes on the clearance duration. The analysis used a Cox regression model that is estimated using the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) penalization method. LASSO enables variable selection from incidents data with a high number of covariates by automatically and simultaneously selecting variables and estimating the coefficients. Results suggest that verification duration, response travel duration, the percentage of lane closure, incident type, the severity of an incident, detection method, and crash location influence the clearance duration.
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Tijana, Savić Tot. "Razvoj modela strategijskog menadžmenta ljudskih resursa u funkciji sticanja konkurentske prednost." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu, 2016. http://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=101316&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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U radu se proučavaju osnovne karakteristike pristupamenadžmentu ljudskih resursa i njihova povezanost saaktivnostima procesa menadžmenta ljudskih resursa ielementima konkuretske prednosti sa ciljem kreiranjamodela kojim će organizacije biti u mogućnosti dausklađuju pristupe, aktivnosti procesa i elementekonkurentske prednosti.Reserch paper explores the basic characteristics of thehuman resources management approach and theirconnection with the activities of the human resourcemanagement process and elements of competitiveadvantages in order to create a model that organizationswill be able to use in harmonizing approaches ,activities, processes and elements of competitiveadvantage.
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Zoogah, Baniyelme David. "Alliance mental models and strategic alliance team effectiveness." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1148569488.
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Rocha, Maks Wilhem Gutierrez. "Modelo de negócios: teoria e prática: um estudo em empresas de tecnologia." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12139/tde-26112015-133325/.
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Com suas origens há mais de meio século atrás e um auge experimentado nos últimos 20 anos, \"Modelo de Negócios\" é um termo frequentemente presente nas conversas tanto acadêmicas quanto corriqueiras. Apesar deste uso massivo, parece existir pouca clareza na compreensão do seu significado em ambas as esferas, dando-se este como subentendido em muitos casos. Referências na literatura falam sobre a falta de consenso sobre questões básicas na sua definição até poucos anos atrás. Outros autores citam uma situação paradoxal devido a sua grande popularidade em domínios relacionados à prática junto a seu uso em inúmeras publicações acadêmicas, e certa relutância por alguns setores na Academia. Por fim, vários autores se mostram esperançados com os avanços atingidos na procura de estabelecer o constructo de modelo de negócios como robusto e passível de progressos na direção de seu uso em pesquisa. Ante este panorama, a presente investigação se propôs, por uma parte, fazer uma revisão das principais abordagens discutidas até a data, com o intuito de se aproximar de melhor forma a sua compreensão, e por outra, explorar em campo os temas identificados na revisão, realizando estudos de caso múltiplos em três empresas relacionadas ao setor de tecnologia no Brasil. Valendo-se de uma busca bibliográfica sistemática em bases científicas como são as da Web of Science, Scopus, Google Acadêmico e portal CAPES de periódicos, apresenta-se uma aproximação do Estado da Arte sobre o assunto e se propõe um constructo sobre modelo de negócios. Como resultado se identificou que os elementos \"Valor\", \"Atividades\" e \"Modelo de lucro\" são importantes para a definição do conceito. Funções como alinhamento; análise e formulação estratégicas; e exploração, foram identificadas. Propriedades como mutabilidade, dinamismo e imitabilidade são apresentadas e discutidas. Pela sua importância, uma seção é dedicada à discussão da relação entre estratégia e modelo de negócios. Aplicando o método de estudo de caso e suas técnicas específicas de análise, respondemos algumas questões. De forma geral, pode-se dizer que os estudos realizados em campo corroboraram com muitas das ideias propugnadas na teoria revisada, porém, diferenças e novos insights também surgiram. No fim, são apresentadas todas as considerações decorrentes da interpretação dos dados na pesquisa, as limitações desta, e as sugestões de pesquisa futura. Considerando que aportes nesta direção permitem esclarecer ainda mais a compreensão sobre modelo de negócios, ao explorar seus fundamentos teóricos e suas conceitualizações na prática, espera-se que o estudo contribua ao debate e linha de pesquisa empreendidas globalmente e, por sua vez, aporte com os seus resultados a pesquisas futuras na área de Administração Estratégica e a outras linhas de pesquisa relacionadas.With its origins almost a half century ago and a heyday experienced during the last 20 years, \"Business model\" is a term frequently present in academic and commonplace talks. Despite this massive use, it seems that not much clarity exists on its understanding in both circuits, in many cases taken it for granted. References in literature speak about lack of consensus about basic issues in its definition, until not long ago. Other authors speak about a paradoxical situation due its huge popularity in domains related to practice, together with its use in countless academics publications, and some kind of reluctance by some scholarly sectors. Finally, some authors manifest themselves as hopeful with the achieved advances in the search of a business model construct as robust and susceptible of progress on its use in research. Facing this panorama, the present study propose to itself, on one side, to do a review about the main approaches discussed until today, with the intention of getting closer, in the best manner, to its comprehension, and by other side, to explore in field, the topics identified on the review, conducting multiple-case studies in three organizations related to Brazil\'s technology sector. Resorting to a systematic bibliographic search in scientific bases as Web of Science, Scopus, Scholar Google and CAPES journals portal; an approximation to State of Art about the topic is presented and a construct about business model is proposed. As a result, it was identified that elements as \"Value\", \"Activities\", and \"Revenue model\" are important to define the concept. Functions as alignment, strategic formulation and analysis, and exploration-exploitation, were identified. Properties as mutability, dynamism and imitability are presented and discussed. Because of its importance, a section is devoted to the discussion about the relationship between strategy and business model. Applying the case study method and its specific analytical tools, we answered some questions. In general, it can be said that the studies conducted in field corroborate many of the ideas stated in the theory reviewed, although some differences and new insights also appeared. In the end are presented all the considerations derived from the data interpretation in the research, its limitations, and future research suggestions. Regarding that contributions in this direction, allow to clarify even more the understanding about business model, by exploring their theoretical underpinnings and their conceptualizations in practice, we hope that the study will contribute to the debate and research line undertaken globally, and also, subsidize with its findings to future research in Strategic Management and other related research streams.
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Beaver, Robert. "Contributions By Individual and Group Strategies for Organizational Learning in Architectural, Engineering, and Construction Firms." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2748.
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Organizations with multiple operating requirements require support functions to assist in execution of strategic goals. This effort, in turn, requires management of engineering activities in control of projects and in sustaining facilities. High level strategies include employing engineering support that consists of a project management function encompassing technical and managerial disciplines. The architecture/engineering, and construction office (AEC) is the subject of this research. Engineering and construction oriented organizations have experienced challenges to their abilities to learn and grow. This has potential detrimental implications for these organizations if support functions cannot keep pace with changing objectives and strategy. The competitive nature and low industry margins as well as uniqueness of projects as challenges facing engineering and construction. The differentiated nature of projects tasks also creates a need for temporary and dedicated modes of operation and thereby tends to promote highly dispersed management practices that do not dovetail very well with other organizational processes. Organizational learning is a means to enhance and support knowledge management for improving performance. The problem addressed through this research is the gap between desired and achieved individual and group learning by members of the AEC, and the members' abilities to distinguish between the need for adaptive learning or innovation. This research addresses learning by individuals and groups, and the strategies employed through an empirical study (survey). A conceptual model for organizational learning contributions by individuals and groups is presented and tested for confirmation of exploitive or explorative learning strategies for individuals, and directions composed of depth and breadth of learning. Strategies for groups are tested for internal or external search orientations and directions toward the single or multi-discipline unit. The survey is analyzed by method of principal components extraction and further interpreted to reveal factors that are correlated by Pearson product moment coefficients and tested for significance for potential relationships to factors for outcomes. Correlation across dependent variables prevented interpretation of the most significant factors for group learning strategies. However, results provide possible support for direction in supporting processes that promote networking among individuals and group structures that recognize the dual nature of knowledge - that required for technical competency and that required for success in the organization. Recommendations for practitioners include adjustments to knowledge acquisition direction, promoting external collaboration among firms, and provision of dual succession pathways through technical expertise or organizational processes for senior staff.Ph.D.
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Beyonyi, Eugene Y. "An assessment of funding management strategies in ‘’No Fee’’ Schools in Cape Town: with specific reference to selected primary schools." University of the Western Cape, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8122.
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Masters in Public Administration - MPAThere is a growing body of literature on no-fee public schools in South Africa. The vision of this policy is to ensure that all citizens have equal access to quality basic education. This study, conducted an assessment of the funding-management strategies in three no-fees public primary schools within the Western Cape Education Department. This is vital as post-1996 the African National Congress embarked on the transformation of education in the country to ensure that all citizens have unfettered access to quality education as stipulated in the 1996 Constitution Section 29 (1) (a) which expresses that everyone has the right to basic education. This is also supported by the White Paper on Education, the School Act of 1996 and the policy document on School Fee Exemption and no-fee of Schools of 2007. As a follow-up to the no-fee policy, there was the creation of no- fees schools in Cape Town.
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Pötzl, Julian. "Strategien zur vertikalen Hersteller-Händler Kooperation in der Konsumgüterindustrie : ein Modell auf Basis des Informationsaustausches /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2001. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00027060.pdf.
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Tsai, Luis Wan Kai. "Modelo de gestão estratégica das informações: um estudo comparativo de casos de pequenas empresas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3135/tde-15122006-100342/.
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Atualmente, vivemos em um contexto de alta competitividade entre as empresas no Brasil e no mundo. Devido ao intenso ritmo de mudanças tecnológicas, às transformações socioeconômicas, ao aumento dos riscos internos e externos e outros fatores, surgiu a necessidade das empresas buscarem o aperfeiçoamento de seus produtos e de seus processos de negócios para assegurarem os seus lucros e as suas sobrevivências. A gestão estratégica da informação, ferramenta necessária em resposta a estas mudanças, utiliza informações encontradas no ambiente interno da empresa para a formação de uma estratégia a fim de estabelecer o rumo a ser seguido de uma maneira rápida e precisa. Para tanto, esta ferramenta deve considerar tanto as potencialidades como as dificuldades da pequena empresa que influenciam no processo de gestão estratégica. Para este fim, as informações devem ser coletadas de uma maneira organizada e planejada, pois as mesmas são consideradas recursos tão importantes quanto os recursos de capital, mão-de-obra e tecnologia. As informações possibilitam a diminuição do grau de incerteza, permitindo melhoria na qualidade das decisões. Este trabalho apresenta propostas de melhoria da gestão estratégica das informações para pequenas empresas neste ambiente de alta competitividade. Para fundamentar estas propostas, é apresentada uma revisão bibliográfica que abrange os temas de planejamento estratégico, ambiente interno da empresa, informações estratégicas, sistemas de informação e conceitos e especificidades da pequena empresa. Após a revisão bibliográfica e a fundamentação teórica, o trabalho apresenta a comparação de casos de três empresas de desenvolvimento de software na região metropolitana de São Paulo, em que se conclui que as mesmas necessitam de melhorias na gestão estratégica das informações para organizar as informações internas que circulam e que são armazenadas de uma maneira dispersa dentro da empresa, o que dificulta sua recuperação e utilização para fins estratégicos.Now, we lived in a context of higher competitiveness among the companies in Brazil and in the world. Due to the intense rhythm of technological changes, to the socioeconomic transformations, to the increase of the internal and external risks and other factors, grows up the need of the companies look for the improvement of their products and of their processes of businesses to assure their profits and their survivals. The strategic information management is the necessary tool in response to these changes that it uses strategic information of values found in the internal environment of the company for the formation of a strategy to establish it heading for being following by a fast and necessary way, considering the potentialities and the difficulties of the company, and the specific characteristics of the small company that influence in the process of strategic management. For this end, the information should be collected in an organized way and drifted, therefore the same ones are considered resources as important as the capital resources, labor and technology. The information makes possible the decrease of the uncertainty degree, allowing improvement in the quality of the decisions. This work presents proposed of improvement of strategic information management for small companies in this adapts of high competitiveness after a bibliographical revision that it included the themes of strategic planning, internal atmosphere of the company, strategic information, systems of information and concepts and specificities of the small company. The work presents the comparison of cases of three companies of software development in the metropolitan area of São Paulo, where it is concluded that the same ones need improvements in the strategic information management to organize the internal information that circulate and they are stored in a way disperses inside of the company hindering the recovery and its use for strategic ends.
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Costa, Eliezer Arantes da. "Matriz de jogos estrategicos : novo modelo para representação e estudo de conflito de interesses." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/260673.
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Orientadores: Celso Pascoli BotturaTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação
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Resumo: O objetivo desta pesquisa é o desenvolvimento de um novo modelo conceitual para representação, de uma forma integrada, das mais diversas situações de conflito de interesses, como uma base para análise e projeto de controle de sistemas hierárquicos multiagentes, e para o aprimoramento da metodologia de capacitação de executivos para a administração estratégica desses conflitos. O método utilizado para esta pesquisa foi um investigação das condicionantes análogas presentes nos quatro jogos clássicos da Teoria dos Jogos ¿ Nash, Stackelberg, Pareto e Minimax ¿ buscando, entre eles, as características semelhantes e as peculiaridades que realmente os fazem semelhantes e distintos entre si. Desta investigação, foram identificadas duas dimensões diferenciadoras, que possibilitaram a concepção e a construção de uma matriz para representação desses jogos, de uma forma integrada. O modelo conceitual resultante desta pesquisa fornece um esquema analítico abrangente, inspirado na teoria dos jogos, e é usado para explicar, descrever, interpretar e prever os comportamentos dos diversos agentes autônomos envolvidos em situações de conflito de interesses e, em certos casos, prescrever decisões mais adequadas. A Matriz de Jogos Estratégicos (MJE), proposta e utilizada neste trabalho, estabelece um quadro de referência conceitual, mapeando seis diferentes tipos de jogos. Nela, os pressupostos dos modelos clássicos de jogos citados, e outros em casos-limite, são usados de forma integrada e complementar. São tratados, na MJE, jogos competitivos e cooperativos, jogos equilibrados e não-equilibrados, levando em conta tanto a postura concorrencial de cada jogador como o seu pressuposto de relação-de-forças. A MJE contempla de forma inovativa o tratamento de múltiplos subjogos estratégicos simultâneos entre os agentes envolvidos. A aplicação dos conceitos da MJE a complexos sistemas ¿ hierárquicos ou não ¿, com múltiplos agentes inteligentes interativos autônomos, provê uma metodologia de utilidade para análise e projeto de estratégias de controle. Parte importante deste estudo é a realização de experimentos exploratórios com propósito pedagógico. Esses jogos de empresa, realizados via computador, indicam que os participantes ampliam sua percepção para compreender os diversos jogos a jogar, e sua habilidade para atuar em cada um deles. Este uso da MJE leva cada participante a analisar situações de conflito de interesses e a melhor escolher suas decisões estratégicas: Através de um processo dinâmico interativo de tentativa e erro, ele ou ela acaba aprendendo a tomar melhores decisões, levando em conta as possíveis decisões dos demais agentes envolvidos bem como sua avaliação das conseqüências de suas escolhas. Palavras-chave: Matriz de Jogos Estratégicos; teoria dos jogos; jogos estratégicos; jogos de empresas; controle multiagente; gestão de conflitos; planejamento estratégico; gestão estratégica; simulação de empresas; treinamento gerencial; jogos hierárquicos
Abstract: The objective of the current research is the development of a new conceptual model aiming to represent, in an integrated manner, the many situations of conflict of interests as a basis for analysis and design of hierarchical multiagent systems control and for the improvement of the methodology for betterment of the managers¿ skills to deal with the strategic management of such conflicts. The investigation method used was a comparative analysis of the unique characteristics of classical games from Game Theory ¿ Nash, Stackelberg, Pareto, and Minimax ¿ searching, among them, their commonalities and differentiations. This investigation identified two distinct dimensions that enabled the conception and construction of a matrix to represent, in a integrated form, those four games mentioned above. The resulting conceptual model provides a comprehensive analytical scheme, inspired in the theory of games, and is used to explain, describe, interpret and forecast behaviors of autonomous agents involved in situations of conflict of interests and, in some cases, to prescribe the more adequate decisions. The Strategic Games Matrix (SGM) proposed and used in this study establishes a conceptual reference framework mapping six different types of games. In it, the assumptions for classic game models, among others for limitcases, are used in an integrated and complementary manner. The SGM deals with both competitive and cooperative games, as well as balanced and unbalanced ones, taking into consideration both the players' competitive postures and the powerratio assumed by each one. The SGM contemplates in an innovative way the treatment of multiple simultaneous strategic sub-games among the agents involved. The application of the SGM concepts to complex systems ¿ hierarchical or not ¿, with multiple autonomous intelligent interactive agents, provides a methodology of utility for analysis and design of their control strategies. An important part of this study is the exploratory experiments with pedagogical purpose. Such business games, played in a computer, indicate that the participants increase their perception to understand the various games to play, and their ability to act at each one of them. This use of the SGM leads each participant to analyze conflict of interests¿ situations and to improve its strategic decisions: Through an interactive dynamic process of trial and error he/she ends up learning how to make better decisions taking into consideration the likely decisions of the other agents involved as well as her/his evaluation of the consequences of their choices. Keywords: Strategic Games Matrix; game theory; strategic games; business games; multi-agent control; conflict management; strategic planning; strategic management; business simulation; managers training; hierarchical games
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Wang, Yu [Verfasser]. "Development of Dynamic Models with Spatial Resolution for Electrochemical Energy Converters as Basis for Control and Management Strategies / Yu Wang." Aachen : Shaker, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1098039114/34.
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Schneider, Ariane Hinça. "Inteligência coopetitiva setorial: uma proposta de modelo." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2015. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/1588.
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O contexto do ambiente de negócios aponta a necessidade de novas formas de gestão para a competitividade sustentável das organizações ao longo do tempo. A coopetição caracteriza-se como uma alternativa para interação entre diferentes atores, que concorrem e cooperam simultaneamente, na busca de objetivos comuns. Essa relação dual, dentro de uma perspectiva de ampliação dos ganhos, transforma competidores em parceiros e favorece a competitividade, principalmente de organizações de um mesmo setor. A disciplina de inteligência competitiva, por sua vez, tem auxiliado as organizações, individualmente, na sistematização de informações que apoiam o processo de tomada de decisão, o qual beneficia a competitividade. Em função disso, observa-se a possibilidade de conciliar a coopetição e a inteligência competitiva em um processo sistematizado de inteligência setorial para relações coopetitivas. O objetivo geral desta pesquisa, portanto, é propor um modelo de inteligência coopetitiva setorial. O delineamento metodológico caracteriza-se como, de abordagem mista (métodos quantitativos e qualitativos), de natureza aplicada, de objetivos exploratórios e descritivos. Os procedimentos adotados foram a pesquisa bibliográfica, por meio da análise bibliométrica e estudo de caso. A Articulação das Rotas Estratégicas para o Futuro da Indústria Paranaense foi o objeto de investigação selecionado. Foram elaborados protocolos para a coleta de dados primários e secundários. Na coleta de dados primários foram enviados questionários web aos setores selecionados para investigação. Foram obtidas 149 respostas completas do questionário web e também foram realizadas entrevistas com todos os integrantes da equipe técnica da Articulação, um total de cinco entrevistados. Após a coleta, todos os dados foram tabulados, analisados e validados por meio de grupo focal com os mesmos cinco integrantes da equipe técnica da Articulação e realizadas entrevistas com um representante de cada um dos quatro setores selecionados, num total de 9nove participantes da validação. Os resultados da pesquisa permitiram a sistematização de um modelo de inteligência coopetitiva setorial denominado ICoopS. Esse modelo é caracterizado por cinco fases, quais sejam: planejamento, coleta, análise, desenvolvimento de projetos, disseminação e avaliação. Cada uma das fases está detalhada em entradas, atividades e saídas. Os resultados da pesquisa apontam que a coopetição setorial é motivada principalmente pelo compartilhamento de conhecimento, desenvolvimento tecnológico, investimentos em P&D, inovação, integração da cadeia e complementação de recursos. Foi reconhecida a importância de uma instituição neutra como facilitadora e incentivadora da aproximação interorganizacional. Dentre as principais dificuldades figuram o financiamento para os projetos, a adesão de novos integrantes, a falta de ferramentas para análise das informações e a disseminação das ações.The business environment context points at the necessity of new forms of management for the sustainable competitiveness of organizations through time. Coopetition is characterized as an alternative in the interaction of different actors, which compete and cooperate simultaneously, in the pursuit of common goals. This dual relation, within a gain-increasing perspective, converts competitors into partners and fosters competitiveness, especially that of organizations within a specific sector. The field of competitive intelligence has, in its turn, assisted organizations, individually, in the systematization of information valuable to decision-making processes, which benefits competitiveness. It follows that it is possible to combine coopetition and competitive intelligence in a systematized process of sectorial intelligence for coopetitive relations. The general aim of this study is, therefore, to put forth a model of sectorial coopetitive intelligence. The methodological outlining of the study is characterized as a mixed approach (quantitative and qualitative methods), of an applied nature, of exploratory and descriptive aims. The Coordination of the Strategic Roadmapping Project for the Future of Paraná's Industry is the selected object of investigation. Protocols have been designed to collect primary and secondary data. In the collection of the primary ata, online questionary were sent to the sectors selected for examination. A total of 149 answers to the online questionary were obtained, and interviews were performed with all embers of the technical team of the Coordination, in a total of five interviewees. After the collection, all the data were tabulated, analyzed and validated by means of focal groups with the same five members of the Coordination technical team, and interviews were performed with a representative of each of the four sectors selected, in a total of nine participants in the validation. The results allowed the systematization of a sectorial coopetitive intelligence model called ICoops. This model is characterized by five stages, namely, planning, collection, nalysis, project development, dissemination and evaluation. Each stage is detailed in inputs, activities and outputs. The results suggest that sectorial coopetition is motivated mainly by knowledge sharing, technological development, investment in R&D, innovation, chain integration and resource complementation. The importance of a neutral institution has been recognized as a facilitator and incentive to the approximation of organizations. Among the main difficulties are the financing of the projects, the adhesion of new members, the lack of tools for the analysis of information and the dissemination of the actions.
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Chambers, Eric, and Manuel Patrocinio. "Business Models and Value Creation : A Case Study of New York City Economic Development Corporation." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet (USBE), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-52335.
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Since its establishment as an emerging area of research in strategic management over a decade ago, business model research has had little consensus towards adopting a single definition or common language for this rapidly growing management concept. However, strong agreement as to the relevance of value creation within organizations underlies existing business model literature. Moreover, applications of business model frameworks outside the private sector have been limited. Recent literature has identified business model innovation and design as a critical tool in effective implementation of organizational strategy, and empirical research in business models from new and alternative perspectives may reveal linkages between strategic management issues and effectiveness in creating value in public and citizen sector organizations. Nevertheless, existing academic literature has not yet explored applications of traditional business model frameworks within a public sector context, nor has the need for empirical research linking the business model concept with public sector management been addressed. The main purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of how business models can be defined, redefined, and applied in city economic development agencies for application as a strategic public management tool. An analysis of how the business model of a prominent city economic development agency has been employed and how value is created within this model will be undertaken. This empirical study also aims to determine conceptual linkages between business model applications in city economic development and to contribute a theoretical foundation towards development of future research. Given the multi-faceted applications of the business model concept, the authors have conducted exploratory research targeting the application of current business model concepts and frameworks to a city economic development agency representing an influential global center of finance and commerce, the City of New York. The significance of conducting empirical studies on city economic development agencies is due to the influence in which these organizations have on industrial cluster growth, national economic competitiveness, and citywide and regional transformation. In considering this context, The New York City Economic Development Corporation is the primary economic growth engine for the City of New York, and strives to create and deliver value to citizens, businesses, and other stakeholders of New York City. Findings from this study suggest that economic development professionals have not adequately clarified the term ‘business model’ for promoting common language between strategists, project managers, consultants, and executives to support strategic business model design within city economic development agencies. The authors conclude that equally relevant to framing and applying theoretical foundations grounded in the business model concept, is the identification of value-creating activities within economic development agencies and development of citizen-focused value propositions. This empirical study aims to define, clarify and explore the former, while calling upon a need for future research of the latter.
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Vašková, Alexandra. "Mobilná aplikácia ako súčasť marketingovej komunikácie Fakulty managementu VŠE." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-197450.
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Diploma thesis focuses on modern trends in marketing communication of specific educational institution. Main goal of the thesis is to analyse and to design of a mobile application for Faculty of Management University of Economics in Prague as a new tool of marketing communication intended for candidates interested in studying and potential students. Theoretical part of the thesis includes general topics about strategic university management of Universities, marketing communication and relations management. Author also presents the mobile application as a product, its applicability, ways of its distribution and necessary steps for its analysis and design.
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Veselin, Luburić. "Uvođenje novih upravljačkih mjera u zaštićenim područjima sa ciljem unapređenja modela zaštite prirode u Crnoj Gori." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Prirodno-matematički fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2016. https://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=101047&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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Potreba za organizovanom zaštitom i upravljanjem zaštićenim područjima prirode javila se krajem XIX vijeka. To koindicira sa konstituisanjem prvog Nacionalnog parka na svijetu, Jelouston, Amerika. Formalno su za nacionalne parkove proglašena područja Durmitora, Lovćena i Biogradske gore 1952. godine. Sljedeće zaštićeno područje, Skadarsko jezero, proglašeno je 1983. dok je najmlađi Nacionalni park Prokletije formiran 2009. godine. Najmlađe zaštićeno područje u Crnoj Gori je Regionalni park Piva. Činjenica da je Crna Gora prva deklarisana ekološka država na svijetu, što je Ustavom definisana kategorija, obavezuje sve subjekte na lokalnom, regionalnom idržavnom nivou da se aktivno uključe u proces organizovanog upravljanja i zaštite područja prirode i da na kompleksan način rade na unapređenju i održivom korišćenju njihovih resursa. Primarna funkcija u svim tim procesima mora biti zaštita prirodnih elemenata, staništa, vrsta i habitata.The need for an organized protection and management of protected natural areas emerged in the late XIX century. it coincides with the establishment of the first national park in the world, Yellowstone, USA. Areas of Durmitor, Lovcen and Biogradska Gora were formally declared national parks in 1952.Skadar Lake became protected area in1983, while the youngest national park Prokletije was declared in 2009. The youngest protected area in Montenegro is the Regional Park Piva.The fact that according to theConstitution Montenegro was declared the world's first ecological state, obliges all parties at local, regional and state level to actively engage in a process of organized management and protection of natural areas, as well as to work on improvementand sustainable usage of their resources. Primary function in all those processes should be the protection of natural elements, species and habitats.
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Souza, Eduardo de Queirós. "Proposta de um modelo de implementação da gestão estratégica em organizações públicas com o uso integrado do balanced scorecard e do governo matricial: um estudo de caso no ministério da saúde." Universidade Federal da Bahia, 2008. http://www.adm.ufba.br/sites/default/files/publicacao/arquivo/eduardo_de_queiros_souza.pdf.
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Esta dissertação propõem-se a apresentar um modelo de implementação da gestão estratégica em organizações públicas com uso integrado do Balanced Scorecard (BSC) e do Governo Matricial (GM), após apresentar uma revisão bibliográfica sobre o Balanced Scorecard e sobre o Governo Matricial, na qual foram estabelecidos elementos de comparação e análise entre estas duas metodologias e foram identificadas as possibilidades de complementaridade entre elas para auxiliar a implementação da estratégia de organizações públicas. O modelo é composto por seis etapas: Concepção da Estratégia; Tradução da Estratégia (Planejamento Estratégico); Alinhamento da Organização com a Estratégia; Atribuição de Responsabilidades; Alinhamento dos Processos internos com a Estratégia (Planejamento Operacional); Acompanhamento e Avaliação de Resultados. Para a elaboração do modelo proposto foi estudado o caso da implementação conjunta das duas metodologias no Ministério da Saúde. E ao final do trabalho cumpriram-se os objetivos propostos, pois o GM e o BSC foram analisados à luz dos elementos de comparação propostos, foram identificados os pontos de complementaridade entre as metodologias, e por fim foi apresentado um modelo que possibilita auxiliar a implementação da estratégia em organizações públicas.
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