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Táborský, Tomáš. "Řízení programů v komerční sfréře a veřejné správě." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-192407.
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This thesis focuses on the topic of program management, its functioning and the emergence in the context of project management. The goal is to process standards and methodologies for working with programs to reveal their differences and the reasons that lead to their formation. Particular attention is given to compare the life cycles of the program two major commercial standards and subsequently with the approach of government. The differences in the functioning government and the private sector are one of the main axes of the whole work, and every part of this work pays attention to them. The work seeks to illuminate the principles of the program management and on selected examples demonstrate the functioning of different approaches. In the final section, on the basis of these differences defines the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches and tries to suggest the possibility of taking advantage by sharing of approach to strengthening of the opposite one.
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Turner, Christopher Gordon. "NPS TINYSCOPE program management." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/5227.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedThis master's thesis introduces the program management and concept of operations of the TINYSCOPE Program. TINYSCOPE is a 6U CubeSat designed as a low-cost and easily replaceable imaging spacecraft that can produce tactically relevant imagery data. Tactical requirements in this context would emphasize "good enough" image resolution with a rapid-response tasking loop and high revisit rate. The TINYSCOPE project intends to demonstrate the utility of small, risk tolerant spacecraft for tactical imagery. The program management section of the thesis discusses the relationships of cost, performance, risk, and schedule and the impact of each on the program. The program's successes and failures are examined to glean lessons for future program managers of university projects. The remainder of the thesis develops a comprehensive concept of operations for the prototype spacecraft. Areas of discussion include overviews of the ground, space and launch segments of the mission architecture, and proposed conduct of operations for those segments. Finally, relevant program management and systems engineering documentation are presented as appendices.
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Colangelo, Ronald. "PROGRAM MANAGEMENT FOR 2001 INSTRUMENTATION." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608735.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1999 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, NevadaThe Hardened Subminiature Telemetry and Sensor System (HSTSS) is a model program; executing Department of Defense (DoD) initiatives, such as Acquisition Reform, Industry Partnering, and the use of Integrated Product Teams (IPT). HSTSS is using partnering because the expertise is spread across the industry, and integration is required to fabricate an instrumentation system that would meet tri-service test requirements. This paper will describe the programmatic and technical approaches being used to mitigate risk. In this paper key management strategies will be addressed. I will discuss the affect that the IPT process has had on HSTSS to make the program so successful. This paper will essentially discuss the acquisition strategy as it has evolved to mitigate obsolescence. The strategy has been influenced by acquisition streamlining , commercial technology and the limited production requirements. In this paper I will address how partnering and the use of commercial technology will reduce the program costs as well as the unit cost. The importance of working together within the services and sharing funds and technology to accomplish more with less will be addressed in this paper. This paper will address how we intend to deliver a low cost, microminiature, high g (100,000 g), modular instrumentation system. This instrumentation is to be used for indirect fire and direct fire projectiles and small missiles. Data is to be collected from launch to impact. The modules being developed will include but not be limited to batteries, transmitter, data acquisition chipset and a variety of sensors (pressure, spin rate, GPS, etc.).
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Hicks, Christina M. "NPS CubeSat Launcher program management." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Sep/09Sep%5FHicks.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Space Systems Operations)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2009.Thesis Advisor(s): Newman, James H. "September 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on November 10, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: NPSCuL, CubeSat, Launcher, P-POD, ABC, Aft Bulkhead Carrier, Centaur, ESPA, Secondary Payload, Program Management. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-63). Also available in print.
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Williams, Lesa Faye. "Diabetes Self-Management Education Program." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1235.
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Diabetes is a devastating disease in American. The disease can cause chronic health comorbidities, and untreated diabetes has negative consequences for individuals and on our nation's economy. Newly diagnosed diabetics often have a lack of knowledge about the disease process. The purpose of this project was to design and implement a diabetes educational program to enhance participants' knowledge about diabetes management and self-care using the Health Belief Model. Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) is critical in improving patient outcomes and the prevention of diabetes related complications. Participation in a standardized diabetic educational intervention will improve patient knowledge, as measured by a reliable and valid pretest and posttest questionnaire. The objective was to develop a DSME curriculum that will be recognized and approved by the American Diabetes Association. A one group pretest /posttest method was employed with ten participants. A sample of ten participants between the age of 22 years old through 65 years old included eight women and two men all identified as African American. Upon completion of the 5-week DSME program, participants were noted to have started participating in weekly exercise or increased the number of days of exercise from 2 days to 3 days per week. Participants also noted a decrease in their systolic and diastolic blood pressure reading. Participants noted on average a 2-3 pound weight loss. Significant improvements were shown on both the knowledge scale and confidence scale of the modified Diabetes Project Participation Questionnaire. Results from this project indicated that participants applied knowledge from the DSME program to improve their own health status.
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Biati, Raquel Marie. "Chronic Disease Self-Management Program." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2598.
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The World Health Organization noted that 2 global health problems have reached epidemic proportions: obesity and type 2 diabetes. These conditions affect nearly 170 million people worldwide. The clinical practice problem addressed by this project was the prevalence of adults ages 50 and older in an ambulatory care setting who suffer from obesity and diabetes and may benefit from a tailored weight management and nutrition education intervention. The purpose of this project was to design a program that would decrease body mass index and hemoglobin A1c in older patients through adaption of the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program. The evidence supporting this project was obtained through a systematic literature review. The self-efficacy theory guided the project, and the evidence-based practice model used to plan the translation of the evidence into practice was the plan-do-check/study-act cycle, a continuous process improvement model used in many health care settings. The product of the project was an education intervention implementation plan that will be agreed upon by the project team and tracked using a Gantt chart. The program's effectiveness will be evaluated by analyzing the themes of qualitative feedback from patients who complete the program and through comparisons using t test statistics of body mass index and A1c that will be collected at 12 weeks and 12 months after the program start. The social change expected of this program, when implemented, is an increase in patients' engagement in and self-management of their care and a more trusting relationship among patients and the health care team. The recommendations from this project also may be useful in addressing health disparities often experienced by patients suffering from obesity and diabetes.
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Sharma, Surinder Paul. "U.S. Government Program Managers' Competencies to Manage Satellite Acquisition Programs." Thesis, Northcentral University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10603364.
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U.S. government satellite acquisition programs have continually experienced large cost overruns, schedule delays, technology development problems, and performance shortfalls, which can potentially affect national security as well as the health and safety of civilians. Government program managers play a significant role in achieving organizational objectives through the acquisition life cycle of major U.S. government programs. Prior researchers have explored the importance of program managers’ competencies. Other researchers have identified key competencies of project managers to lead and manage the projects successfully in the aerospace industry. However, not enough research was conducted to assess the U.S. government program managers’ competencies to manage complex and challenging satellite acquisition programs in combination of other program context factors above and beyond program managers’ competencies, which could moderate and affect overall program success. The purpose of this quantitative, non-experimental survey research study was to examine the relationship and importance of U.S. government program managers’ perceived hard and soft competencies needed to achieve overall program success in managing major satellite acquisition programs. Additionally, the researcher examined how the program context factors moderated the relationship between program managers’ competencies and overall program success. A web-based survey, targeting aerospace and defense professionals garnered 104 valid responses. Utilizing the competency theory framework, multiple linear regression, chi-square goodness-of-fit, and hierarchical multiple regression tests were used to analyze the study data. The survey results revealed that program managers’ both hard and soft competencies predicted overall program success, F(2, 101) = 4.085, p = .020, R2 = .075. Program managers’ soft competencies were found to be somewhat more important than hard competencies in achieving overall program success, χ 2(4) = 29.3, p < .001. Of the four program context factors, resource availability positively moderated the relationship between program managers’ soft competencies and overall program success, F(10, 93) = 2.116, p = .031, R 2 = .185. A future hypothesis-based study may be conducted for other major U.S. government defense programs or private sector programs, which may provide insight to senior management leaders into matching of program managers’ competencies to specific program contexts and program types. A qualitative study to identify the causal reasons for unsuccessful U.S. space acquisitions program outcomes may provide in-depth personal and professional perspectives of other program context factors, which may influence overall program success.
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Khan, Abdul Hamid. "Effective management development program evaluation and review technique : a study of Purdue University Engineering/Management Program." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1041808.
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This study entitled, "Effective Management Development Program Evaluation and Review Technique," examined Purdue University Engineering/Management Program for 1995. The purpose of the program was to offer management training to a population of ninety-eight engineering managers. From a quality assurance perspective the study attempted to measure those changes that occurred in the knowledge, skills and behaviors of the participants, from before to after the program, in four levels of program effect e.g., reaction, learning, behavior and results.Responses were gathered using qualitative interviews. Evidence was gathered using Learning Skills Inventory. Behavior was gathered using Leadership Effectiveness and Adaptability Description Questionnaire. Results were gathered using Managerial Skills Questionnaire of Importance and Competence over pretest, posttest and a three-month posttest on the job.Forty-two management skills criteria were collapsed to identify seven main leadership skills for reliable evidence on the hypotheses tested: Leadership/ Organization, Human Resource Management, Financial Management, Decision Making, Strategic Planning, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, and Managerial Communication. Important findings are summarized below. No significant differences were found in the Importance of each leadership skills:(a) by the type of company's business, (b) by the number of years of employment with the current employer, (c) by the number of years in the industry, and (d) by the type ofdegrees held by the manager (BS, MS, MBA).Significant Differences were found in the Importance of each leadership skills:by a broad range of titles, (b) by the size of company, and (c) by the number of years in current position.No significant differences were found in the Competence of each leadership skills:by the type of company's business, (b) by the size of company, (c) by the number of years in current position, (d) by the type of degrees held by the manager (BS, MS, MBA), and (e) by the number of years in the industry.Significant Differences were found in the Competence of each leadership skills:(a) by a broad range of titles and (b) by the number of years of employment with the current employer.Department of Educational Leadership
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Johnson, Kelvin Ray. "Evaluation of Montana's Block Management Program." Thesis, Montana State University, 2006. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2006/johnson/JohnsonK0506.pdf.
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The Block Management Program, initiated in 1985, was implemented to encourage private landowners to provide free public hunting access. Currently, the program has over 1,200 landowners enrolling 8.8 million acres, and provides over 400,000 hunter days of free public hunting. Surveys were sent to 423 landowners (303 returned) and 1,636 hunters (976 returned) to evaluate current perceptions of block management area (BMA) users. Observations, expectations, and satisfaction levels were determined by calculating frequencies and means using SAS 8.2, and then comparisons between permission method strategies and between geographic regions were evaluated. Landowners were satisfied with permission methods used, numbers of hunters received annually, and with hunter limit and travel restriction rules utilized, but satisfaction levels regarding relative game abundance and harvest success were higher in Eastern Montana than in Western Montana. Hunters were very successful in gaining permission to BMAs, and were satisfied with travel restrictions encountered, but satisfaction levels regarding amounts of other hunters seen were higher on Type 2 and on Eastern Montana BMAs. Satisfaction with game abundance was higher on Eastern Montana BMAs, and was higher with harvest success on Type 2 and Eastern Montana BMAs. Program success was evident by levels of satisfaction with the various hunter management tools evaluated by this study, but some areas needed improvement, such as increased efforts to sign BMAs, improve maps, and provide refuse receptacles to further decrease hunter violations. This study also provided insight for designing strategies that meet specific preferences and expectations of program users when developing new BMAs, including permission method, hunter number management, and travel management strategies.
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Parolia, Neeraj. "ESSAYS IN OUTSOURCED IS PROGRAM MANAGEMENT." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2134.
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IS vendor organizations are increasingly using program management practices to manage complex projects (Gierra 2004). The move to program teams is due to the realization that the management of many client projects and their underlying dependencies requires teamwork among project managers from different projects (Cooke-Davies 2002; Ferratt et al. 2006; Sanghera 2007). With two separate studies, first we extend the team competence framework and utilize organizational learning theory to understand the antecedents and outcomes of teamwork behaviors. Empirical results from the first study indicated that teamwork behaviors within the program team were significantly related to an increase in team competencies of personnel development, methodology development and dissemination and customer focus. Further, the three program team competencies were a significant predictor of program outcomes. In the second study, we investigate the outcomes of conflict resolution and their impact on program performance. The results indicated that conflict resolution can enhance the level of communication, mutual support and effort among IS program members Directions for practitioners and implications for future research are discussed.Ph.D.
Department of Management Information Systems
Business Administration
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Baumann, B. Marc. "Defense acquisition program manager as program leader : improving program outcomes through key competencies and relationship management." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/83786.
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Thesis (S.M. in Engineering and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-168).
The US defense acquisition system is a massive enterprise charged with developing and acquiring state-of-the-art military technology and systems. For the past 65 years, many broad-reaching studies and commissions have endeavored to refine and overhaul the acquisition process to improve its value delivery in the form of increased capability, in less time, and for lower costs. But processes don't make things, people do; which reframes this research to focus on people over process. Acquisition people are knowledge workers, who must creatively execute defense programs within the system and processes they are given. The Government Program Manager (PM) is the primary focus of the thesis. The research explores how the PM is able to achieve improved program outcomes through a combination of leadership competencies and management of key stakeholder relationships. The examination of relevant acquisition literature provides opportunities for the application of systems, stakeholder, and negotiation theory to enable PMs to achieve value delivery on defense programs. Additional theories on organizational routines and activity systems provide insight on how effective PMs can build acquisition dynamic capabilities in the small and in the large to benefit US national security. The research gathers interview data from PM experts and leadership of several large acquisition case study programs. Unique to this research is the multi-dimensional perspective obtained from the Government PM, the lead User representative, and the prime contractor PM on the case programs. This approach enables an examination of the influence of dyadic and triadic relationships and program priorities alignment, with particular focus on the Government PM's role in establishing and managing those stakeholder relationships. The research concludes that strong dialectic leadership, with sufficient managerial and technical competence is paramount for an exceptional PM to succeed in delivering improved program outcomes. Recommendations are provided for the PM, those responsible for PM development, and the DoD to increase efficiency and effectiveness of the defense acquisition enterprise.
by B. Marc Baumann.
S.M.in Engineering and Management
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Williams, Joshua P. (Joshua Prop). "Creating DoD program success through program management leadership and trust-based relationships." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100388.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, System Design and Management Program, 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Program management is the art of creating success in a complex and ever changing environment. It is fueled on knowledge work. Trust and the relationships are the foundational enablers that must be actively managed and nurtured. The Department of Defense Acquisition System is vast and as with any large system, it contains a multitude of issues. This examination focuses on program management challenges faced by the Government Program Manager and their Defense Contractor counterpart, and how each introduce trust-based relationship barriers and enablers impacting an actor's ability to establish trust and a relationship. This inspection explores trust-based relationship barriers and enablers derived from five different bodies of knowledge. First, I establish a barrier and enabler baseline based on my own professional experience. Second, I capture literature research and theory based barriers and enablers, which provide a diverse and rich understanding of trust and relationships. Third, I conduct a process research study of two major programs and inspect readily available and secondary information to determine trust patterns, common themes, and unique perspectives. Fourth, I survey Acquisition Professionals to determine trust-based relationship barriers and enablers at the Executive, PM-to-PM, and Program Level. Concluding, I interview Acquisition Professionals to garner a deeper understanding of the Department of Defense Acquisition System. Throughout each body of knowledge, I compare barriers and enablers to identify common themes, which produces the basis for each recommendation. Recommendations are focused on improving a PM's skills and the environment in which he or she operates. Actors within the DoD Acquisition System are trained on process routines but are not adequately trained on enablers such as leadership and communication, which build a capability to intelligently execute the routine. Intelligent application of the process routine introduces program management flexibility and trust. This in turn allows an actor to leverage the process to build trust and success system wide. Without actors, trust, and relationships, the process will never produce 'art of the possible' results.
by Joshua P. Williams.
S.M. in Engineering and Management
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Gronychová, Gabriela. "Globální talent management ve společnosti Schindler." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-201730.
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The Master thesis Global talent management in Schindler Company aims to map the concept of the career programme in Schindler Company SCDP (Schindler Career Development Programme) and to assess the feedback of programme participants based on the survey among participants. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part of the thesis consists of theoretical knowledge on talent management and work with talents. Basic and key terms that are crucial for deeper introduction to the topic are defined in this part as well. The second part already has a practical character and it is dedicated to the program. Its particular phases, objectives and specifics are defined. The research part is based on the survey completed by participants of the programme. The programme is assessed based on the evaluation of the survey and recommendations for its improvement are proposed. The benefit of this thesis is the provision of survey results and recommendations for programme improvements, which can help Schindler with better understanding on their talents´ attitude.
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Woodall, Yonghee K. "The program management challenges of Web 2.0." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/JAP/2010/Jun/10Jun%5FWoodall%5FJAP.pdf.
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"Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Program Management from the Naval Postgraduate School, June 2010."Advisor(s): Naegle, Brad R. ; Boudreau, Michael. "June 2010." "Joint applied project"--Cover. Description based on title screen as viewed on July 15, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Web, Web 2.0, Internet, Information Age, Program Management, Program Manager, programmatic. Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-105). Also available in print.
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Barrera, Mark A. "Marketing the Masters of Executive Management program." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/07Dec%5FBarrera%5FMBA.pdf.
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"Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration from the Naval Postgraduate School, December 2007."Advisor(s): Hudgens, Bryan ; Zolin, Roxanne. "December 2007." "MBA professional report"--Cover. Description based on title screen as viewed on January 10, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-88). Also available in print.
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Snell, Eric Jeffrey. "Pest management program for structured urban environments." Thesis, This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05022009-040516/.
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Bateman, Nancy G., and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Evaluating the Alberta riparian habitat management program." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2001, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/128.
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This study illustrates a utilization-focused program evaluation approach newly applied to resource management. The Alberta Riparian Habitat Management (Cows and Fish) Program provides awareness programming to cattle producers to facilitate community-based action on riparian issues. The rationale is to develop producers' ecological literacy by increasing riparian knowledge and use of sustainable grazing management strategies by sharing appropriate ecological and management information. Attitude change is presumed to underlie the new behaviour(s). Programming contributed to ecological literacy when it was community-based, producer-positive and partnership-oriented, and when opportunities existed for personal interaction among peers. Effectiveness declined when resources were insufficient and when programming seemed unrelated to local landscape or operational features. The attitude-behaviour relationship was weakly associated with ecological literacy; its complexity and relevance to ecological behaviours merits further investigation. Program evaluation is of utility in resource management. Its potential will be fully realized by ensuring that research designs appropriately parallel programming rationale and evaluation requirements.ix, 316 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
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Barrera, Mark A., and Timothy W. Karriker. "Marketing the Masters of Executive Management program." Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/10184.
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MBA Professional ReportThe purpose of this MBA project was to review the current Masters of Executive Management education curriculum at NPS. An internal analysis of the current program was conducted to fully understand the strategic goals of the program and the existing curriculum. An environmental scan of current and potential military customers was conducted to assess requirements for junior executive education and determine whether the MEM program corresponds with these requirements and, if not, what changes to curriculum should be considered. Information collected was then used to determine prospective customers while creating a detailed marketing strategy for the GSBPP. Once information was collected, it was possible to construct a marketing plan to increase the NPS brand awareness in hopes of attracting students. Marketing plan recommendations include: (1) Package its various products/programs and market under one primary GSBPP brand; (2) Abandon current traditional and passive marketing efforts for an active recruiting approach by utilizing relationship marketing strategies; (3) Develop alumni networks that provide marketing labor and tools to stimulate demand for the GSBPP.
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Tolan, Lisa M. "Formal evaluation Washburn County Anger Management Program." Online version, 2000. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2000/2000tolanl.pdf.
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Bucior, Michael. "Program management, program structure design : an examination of program design processes used in the Queensland public sector." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1996. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36302/1/36302_Bucior_1996.pdf.
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The objective of the research undertaken was to examine the concept of
program structure design within the context of program management, propose an
ideal-type model for a program design process and use it to assess the 1989-1993
program design activities of Queensland Government departments.
A search revealed a dearth of literature on the topic of program design and the
lack of sound empirically based theory on the topic.
Staff from seventeen government departments were involved in structured face
to face interviews using a questionnaire with a list of forty-three questions.
The framework for the ideal type-model was gleaned from the little available
program management and related literature, and the interviews with departmental staff
who were involved in program management activities.
The research found that the design period was particularly turbulent for the
public sector. It was characterised by the rise to power of the first new State
Government in thirty years, a reduction in the number of departments from 27 to 18,
departmental amalgamations, large scale retrenchments, Public Sector Management
Commission reviews of all departments, a new Public Service Management and
Employment Act, many new operational Standards and the new concept of program
management.
All programs in all government departments and agencies were being designed
almost simultaneously. In the absence of a program design model and under tight
resource constraints, relatively few departments undertook comprehensive and
effective program design activities. Many departments renamed existing
organisational units as programs and a few simply synthesised programs for central
agency financial reporting purposes.
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Refsgaard, Jens Christian. "Hydrological modelling and river basin management." København : GEUS, 2007. http://www.geus.dk/program-areas/water/denmark/rapporter/geus_special_rap_1_2007.pdf.
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Hooper, Margaret Berrey. "Selection of an Evidence-Based Pediatric Weight Management Program for the Dan River Region." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/47969.
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Background: Efficacious pediatric weight management (PWM) programs have existed for over two decades, but there is limited evidence that these programs have been translated into regular practice. There is even less evidence that they have reached communities experiencing health disparities where access to care is limited. The purpose of this project was to use a community-engaged approach to select an evidence-based PWM program that could be delivered with the available resources in a community that is experiencing health disparities.
Methods: The project was developed by the Partnership for Obesity Planning and Sustainability Community Advisory Board (POPS-CAB) in the Dan River Region of southwest Virginia. The POPS-CAB included representatives from a local pediatric health care center, the Danville/Pittsylvania Health Department, Danville Parks and Recreation, the Boys and Girls Club, and the Fralin Center for Translational Obesity Research (n=15). Three PWM programs were identified that met the criteria of demonstrating short and longer-term efficacy, across multiple studies and diverse populations, in reducing childhood obesity for children between the ages of 8 to 12 years across multiple studies. The programs included the Traffic Light Diet, Bright Bodies, and Golan and colleagues' Home Environmental Change Model. All three programs included a high frequency of in-person sessions delivered over a 6-month period, but one included an adapted version that delivered the content via interactive technology and could be delivered with far fewer resources (Family Connections adapted from the Home Environmental Change Model). A mixed-methods approach was used to determine program selection. This approach included individual POPS-CAB member rating of each program, followed by small group discussions, a collective quantitative rating, and, once all programs were reviewed a rank ordering of programs across characteristics. Finally, a large group discussion was conducted to come to agreement on the selection of one program for future local adaptation and implementation. All small and large group discussions were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim to identify themes that influenced the program selection decision. The quantitative results were averaged across individuals and across the groups. Qualitative results were reduced to meaning units, and then grouped into categories, and lastly, themes.
Results: Individual ratings across Bright Bodies, Family Connections, and Traffic Light were 3.9 (0.3), 3.6 (0.5), and 3.4 (0.4), respectively. The ratings differed slightly between community and academic partners demonstrated by a higher rating for Bright Bodies by community members and a higher rating for Family Connections by academic members. After small group discussions the average group ratings across the programs was 3.8 (0.4) for Bright Bodies, 3.5 (0.6) for Family Connections, and 3.4 (0.6) for Traffic Light. Finally, the rank order of programs for potential implementation was Bright Bodies, Family Connections, and Traffic Light. Qualitative information for each program was broken down into four main themes of discussion, (1) the importance for the chosen program to have a balance of nutrition and physical activity, (2) negative perceptions of calorie counting, (3) a desire to target both the parent and the child, as well as (4) the need for practicality and usability the target settings. During the final large group discussion, the above themes suggest that the primary reasons that Bright Bodies was selected included the availability of nutrition information, structured physical activity sessions, presence of a usable workbook, as well as the balance of parent and child involvement.
Conclusion: Key considerations in program selection were related more to the program content, delivery channel, and available resources for replication rather than simply selecting a program that was less resource intensive.Master of Science
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Machniak, Martin J. "Development of a Quality Management Metric (QMM) measuring software program management quality." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1999. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA374316.
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Thesis (M.S. in Software Engineering) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1999."December 1999". Thesis advisor(s): J. Bret Michael, John Osmundson. Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-144). Also available online.
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Gilani, Roshanak 1963. "A systematic approach for architecting a knowledge management system for project management." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29178.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-73).
Project managers from varying industries face common challenges that exist in complex projects. Examples include: product and resource dependencies, poor communication of critical information within a project, lack of project control, lack of adequate tools to manage resources, etc. Best practices and industry standards (e.g. Capability Maturity Model, Total Quality Management) have been found to mitigate many of these problems when fully implemented. However, no automated tool exists that collectively implements and supports these practices. This thesis proposes a tool that automates many of the requirements management processes and project management processes across all stages of a project's lifecycle. In developing the architecture for such a tool, an industry survey was conducted among leaders from academic, government, and commercial organizations to determine common approaches and obstacles prevalent in managing projects. Based on the survey data, this thesis describes the system architecture and design of a project management tool comprised of numerous protocols. These protocols help to create an environment which minimizes the resistance to change as a result of organizational culture. This tool provides a new set of standards and practices for more mature project management. The results of following these standards and practices are: a left shift of project targets with less variation from estimates to actual results, formal defined project processes for inner and inter-project coordination, project configuration control and maintenance of requirements and historical data, risk management for dependencies and critical paths, automated tools that reduce project overhead and a project tracking and oversight mechanism. Although this thesis is based on an analysis of best practices and industry standards, the resultant framework is original. The proposed architecture can be utilized to develop a world class project and knowledge management software application.
by Roshanak Gilani.
S.M.
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Shakeri, Mojdeh. "Variant configuration and management : challenges and opportunities." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118520.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2018.Page 72 blank. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-71).
The goal of this thesis is to understand the complexity of configuring and managing variants in Simulink, a model-based design tool that is used in different industries such as automotive, aerospace, and healthcare; and to simplify it by analyzing its capabilities and proposing different solutions using different modeling, workflow and visualization techniques. Models play a major role in system engineering. Model-based development methods have gained widespread adoption in the past two decades. Simulink has been used by thousands of engineers around the world to design and simulate engineering systems. Any improvement in Simulink directly simplifies engineers' workflows and enables them to achieve their tasks more efficiently and effectively. I have studied variability concepts and use cases of configurators in different domains such as (1) personal customization of products (mass customization), (2) choice navigation in retail, and (3) software and model-based design tools. This has enabled me to understand complexities of configurators in different domains, and learn how some of the complexities have been addressed or managed. I conclude that the variant support in Simulink lacks some capabilities to fully support variability for large real-world applications in industry. To improve Simulink variant configuration and management, I propose solutions based on "feature modeling" and "interactive configurator" concepts. Use of "Binary Decision Diagrams" is recommended to achieve higher runtime performance when using interactive configurators for large modular systems and large teams. Also, I propose different visualization techniques to enable model designers to understand variant relationships in the model, check whether they have modeled the variants properly, and help them to further modularize their systems.
by Mojdeh Shakeri.
S.M. in Engineering and Management
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Chvátalová, Aneta. "Talent management." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-162769.
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This thesis deals with talent management. Its aim is to identify the best practices in talent management based on secondary and primary research of selected talent management programs. The theory is focused on definition of strategic HR management and especially talent management as one of its priorities. It is followed by explanation of the basic concepts of talent (such as high-potential, high performing and key employees) and talent management. Further descriptions of talent management process as well as TM challenges are included. The practical part is divided into two main sections. The first one is related to research in four companies and evaluation of their current talent management programs. Due to the fact that Generation Y is still more and more included in talent pool, the second part covers description of work life from its point of view. The final section contains a summary and the best practices.
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Pollack, John F. "Automated tool for Acquisition Program Management Students (ATAPMS)." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2000. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA375840.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management) Naval Postgraduate School, March 2000.Thesis advisor(s): Snider, Keith F. ; Osmundson, John S. "March 2000." Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-107). Also available in print.
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Brandes, Pauline J. "A readiness model for implementation of Program Management." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/MQ30890.pdf.
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Allen, James D. "Information technology program management: is there a difference?" Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/42573.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedThe federal government spends billions of dollars on information technology (IT) projects each year. Despite spending billions on IT, the government has achieved little of the productivity improvements that private industry has realized from IT. Too often, federal IT projects run over budget, behind schedule, or fail to deliver promised functionality. The March 2009 Defense Science Board concluded that three root causes emerged from a review of major IT acquisition programs where cost, schedule, and performance were issues. First, senior leaders lacked experience and understanding. Second, the program executive officers and program managers had inadequate experience. Third, the acquisition process was bureaucratic and cumbersome, where many who were not accountable had to say yes before authority to proceed. To address these concerns, the U.S. Chief Information Officer, the Office of Personnel Management, and the Office of Management and Budget launched an initiative to strengthen program management by designing a formal IT Program Management career path. This research analyzes the need for IT Program Managers (PM) within the federal government by comparing the differences between IT PMs and non-IT PMs.
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Palmquist, Robert John. "The Pilot Contracting Activities Program: a management review." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/23350.
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The Pilot Contracting Activities Program (PCAP) is designed to provide a means for selected Department of Defense activities to submit requests for deviation or waiver of Federal and Department of Defense acquisition regulation requirements in order to decrease administrative burden, increase procurement effectiveness and efficiency, and simplify the contracting process. This thesis examines the implementation and management of the PCAP program by the participating activities, the status of the Program in general, offers recommendations for improvement, and analyzes what effect the Program will have on regulatory reform. (KR)
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Booth, Brandi. "Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management Program for Correctional Officers." NSUWorks, 2009. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_stuetd/12.
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Research involving correctional officer stress has increased over the past several decades due to the overall concern of the consequences of stress within the field. When comparing the body of research for police officers versus correctional officers, it is clear that there is abundance of research for the former than the latter. Further, advanced stress management programs have yet to be evaluated in a correctional setting, specifically the cognitive-behavioral interventions supplied in medical and athletic settings. The present investigation studied the effects of an adaptive cognitive-behavioral stress management for correctional officers during their academy training and its effect on self-reported stress levels pre-field training, 3-month and 6-month field training time. Officers were placed into two groups, one of which received the 1-hour CBSM program (focusing on cognitive restructuring, assertion and problem-solving training) and the other that received the standard protocol in academy training. The officers completed a series of self-reported measures including the Job Stress Survey, Symptom Checklist-90-Revised, the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding and an assessment to determine their knowledge retention of the skills presented in the program. Results indicated that those in the experimental group's self-reported job stress severity increased over six months, compared to the control group. It was suggested that participants tended to present themselves in an overly confident and inaccurate manner, which may have contributed to the subclinical scores on the scales. Additionally, the experimental group demonstrated decreases on several job stress measures, and increases in phobic anxiety and depression.
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Brown, Thomas R. Jr. "The Common Airborne Instrumentation System Program Management Overview." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/611744.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 17-20, 1994 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, CaliforniaThe Department of Defense, through a Tri-Service Program Office, is developing the Common Airborne Instrumentation System (CAIS) to promote standardization, commonality, and interoperability among aircraft test instrumentation systems. The advent of CAIS will change how the DoD test community conducts business. The CAIS program will allow aircraft test and evaluation facilities to utilize common airborne systems, ground support equipment, and technical knowledge for airborne instrumentation systems. The CAIS Program Office will conduct requirements analyses, manage system upgrades, and provide full life cycle support for this system. It is initiating several requirements contracts to provide direct ordering opportunities for DoD users to easily procure defined test instrumentation hardware. The program office will provide configuration management, inventory control, maintenance support, system integration, engineering support, and software management. In addition, it will continue to enhance the current system and develop new items to meet future requirements. Where existing equipment provides added benefit, this equipment may be added to the official CAIS family.
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Danielson, Danielle Marie. "Designing a Hypertension Management Program for Family Healthcare." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2014. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27363.
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The purpose of the practice improvement project was to determine the hypertension management needs of the Family HealthCare (FHC) clinic in Fargo, ND by staff interviews, observation, and data review as well as to develop a hypertension management program to meet those needs. The clinic?s needs and barriers regarding hypertension patients were identified and addressed in the newly proposed hypertension management program. FHC did not have a structured hypertension management program. The main barriers identified included poor patient follow-up, limited patient educational materials on hypertension, and ineffective patient flow. The program was developed based on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration?s hypertension control program. Items addressed in the program were correct blood-pressure taking techniques, evidence-based guidelines regarding patients with hypertension, hypertension tools for providers, education for providers and patients, and follow-up recommendations. The hypertension management program is to be managed by a quality improvement (QI) team that consists of providers, nurses, pharmacists, dietitians, health coaches, receptionists, and schedulers. The QI team will be responsible for evaluating the progress of the program using FHC?s Uniform Data Set report. The goal is to increase hypertension control (patients with a blood pressure of less than 140/90) to 70%. The hypertension program and recommendations were presented to the clinic director Dr. Espejo. The goal was for FHC staff members to recognize the benefits of the hypertension management program and for them to decide to try to implement the program at their facility.
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Burke, Patrick Breen. "Management for Program Sustainability Amidst Rapid Volunteer Turnover." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64395.
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Program sustainability is a major issue for nongovernmental organizations. Sustainability depends on the ability of an organization to maintain its capacity, which can be severely hindered by high rates of personnel turnover. This is especially true for turnover in nonprofit organizations that offer volunteer-led programs and are consequently heavily reliant upon those individuals to carry out their missions. Creating a strong institutional memory for both tacit and explicit knowledge and properly managing volunteers are two critical elements in creating the capacity needed to maintain a high-quality program. This thesis analyzes the case of a youth center in Macedonia that is dependent upon its volunteers to function and is afflicted by sustainability and discontinuity issues in its programs due to a regular rapid turnover of its volunteers. The center promotes youth development through informal education of its participants, primarily high school youth. Interviews, participant observation and document analysis provided insight into the program sustainability issues present at the youth center. I present a series of scenarios that highlight the issues of volunteer management and institutional memory loss concerning volunteer turnover that I discovered in my analysis. I conclude by calling for better preservation of institutional memory, more targeted recruitment and training that emphasizes creating routines and establishing volunteer expectations to enable improved program sustainability.Master of Urban and Regional Planning
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Hillman, Laketa Monique. "Experiences of Chronic Disease Self-Management Program Leaders." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3105.
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Chronic conditions are public health threats. The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) is an evidence-based disease management program that addresses personal self-management of chronic conditions. The CDSMP involves peer trainers who instruct and assist with chronic disease preventive measures. Although disease management demonstrates promise to improving patient self-maintenance, previous researchers have not evaluated how the program affects program leaders. The purpose of this study was to discover how self-help leaders feel about the CDSM program. The overarching research question asked about perspectives that self-help leaders had toward the program. Through a narrative qualitative approach, the perceptions of peer leaders were examined to determine if the program was personally beneficial. Guided by the social cognitive theory, a purposeful convenience sample of 20 participants completed the study. The participants were practicing peer trainers in the CDSMP program. Data analysis included hand coding using open and axial coding and content analysis. Study findings included themes surrounding how the CDSMP program benefits health in general as well as the management of facilitators' own chronic diseases, health behaviors, and increased quality of life. The ability for chronic disease management leaders to experience positive effects of the program they administer may result in positive social change. This awareness can positively affect social change by enhancing an already established evidence-based community health program with stronger and better-equipped leaders.
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Schiener, Lisa. "Developmental Evaluation of a Centralized Denials Management Program." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2881.
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Health care reimbursement is changing, and hospitals are finding it difficult to receive payment due to insurers' denial of services already rendered to patients. A denial can be considered an underpayment by the insurer to the hospital. Using a Six Sigma approach, a large hospital system in the southeast United States found that individual hospitals were not focused strictly on denials, but other tasks as well. Hospital administrators conducted a literature review and found that centralizing denials management team has improved reimbursement outcomes elsewhere. Therefore, the hospital system implemented a centralized denials unit to focus on overturning insurer denials while the patient was still hospitalized. The purpose of the project was to develop an evaluation plan to determine whether the pilot centralized denials management unit could overturn an additional 5% or more of the concurrent denials compared with the current individual hospital-based denials management approach. The quantitative evaluation plan will guide review of data collected from one organization to determine payer trends on the types of denials received and reasons for the denials. Understanding the pattern of denials is expected to uncover opportunities for denials coordinators in the dedicated centralized management unit to challenge payers based on contract language or medical necessity. If the centralized denials management unit is shown to reduce denials, it will be considered for expansion corporate wide. The social change expected through a successful denials management unit program is that the hospitals in the system will recover payment for services rendered and will be able to continue to provide quality care in the communities they serve.
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Tseng, Tzu-Jung. "Asthma self-management program for adolescents in Taiwan." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/94102/1/Tzu-Jung_Tseng_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis reports on a randomised controlled study conducted in Northern Taiwan. This study examined the effectiveness of a newly developed asthma self-management program based on Bandura's self-efficacy model on levels of adolescents' self-efficacy, outcome expectation, asthma self-management behaviours and symptoms of asthma. Study findings have contributed evidence supporting effective developmentally appropriate, educational support strategies for adolescents who, have demonstrated to improvement in prevention and more effective management of their asthma symptoms.
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Hadrabová, Jitka. "Komunikační program ve vybrané společnosti." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-135926.
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Develop a strategic analysis of the selected company. Describe the marketing mix and marketing management with an emphasis on communication policy of the company. Prepare a draft communication program.
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McNally, Raymond Gordon, and n/a. "Defence technological edge program management : a search for more reliable outcomes." University of Canberra. Management and Policy, 2002. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061013.122250.
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During the early 1960s, the US Department of Defense, under Secretary Robert
McNamara implemented for the first time in national government a Planning-Programming and Budgeting System (PPBS) in order to improve effectiveness
and efficiency in defence program management. McNamara sought improved
effectiveness through a formal five-year program designed to reduce costs. He
also sought efficient methods of managing joint service strategy coordination,
requirements' analysis and planning, and improved alignment between the
choice of requirements and the size and nature of the acquisition program. The
Australian Defence Organisation (ADO) and the UK Ministry of Defence later
sought to implement their own forms of PPBS. Recently, both have introduced
program management innovations that seek to achieve more reliably effective
and efficient outcomes.
The thesis has reviewed program management theory with a particular focus on
its implementation challenges relating to strategic management, program
review, personnel management and program coordination. It has sought to
answer the research problem: Which specific management designs could offer
better outcomes for Australian defence technological edge programs? The
thesis' central proposition is that the greatest opportunities for improving
defence program outcomes occur when classic PPBS concepts are
implemented within a Program Management System that incorporates Zero-
Base budgeting (ZBB), Management by Objectives (MBO), and Matrix
structural systems. All of these systems, either alone or in combination seek to
enhance program quality, scheduling, financial management and evaluation.
The research used in-depth case study research based on qualitative data found
within a selection of recent Australian National Audit Office reports, and other
public records. The central proposition is subjected to dynamic reliabilityrelated
contingency analysis and evaluation. The thesis concludes with the
proposition that if managers were to implement a contingency based integrated
mixture of the above-mentioned systems they could expect improved
technological edge program outcomes.
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Law, Angwei. "Smart contracts and their application in supply chain management." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114082.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-79).
Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that records exchanges of value between parties securely, permanently, and in an easily verifiable manner. It is the technology underlying cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Although initially used for financial transactions, blockchain's applications extend beyond finance and can impact a wide variety of industries. One such application is in supply chain management. With multiple stakeholders and business transactions, supply chains are inherently complex. Many challenges exist, including the lack of transparency and traceability, difficulty in managing risks and disruptions, and the need to build trust and reputation. Blockchain technology ushers in the potential to solve these challenges through the use of smart contracts. Smart contracts are digital agreements between transacting parties that are written in computer code and deployed to the blockchain, where they will self-execute when predetermined conditions are met. They reduce complexity in a supply chain through automated verification and execution of the multiple business transactions involved. A decentralized, immutable record also ensures all stakeholders have equal access to information and helps build trust. Smart contracts improve the transparency, traceability and efficiency of a supply chain, allowing it to be more agile while strengthening relationships among stakeholders. In this thesis, I create a proof-of-concept to explore the application of smart contracts in supply chain management. The proof-of-concept consists of three smart contracts, coded in Solidity, that can be integrated to determine the provenance of goods, track the chain of custody as goods flow through a supply chain, automatically execute payment upon fulfillment of criteria, and maintain an open database of stakeholders with a score indicating their reputation. I validate the proof-of-concept using the Ethereum platform, which was specially conceived for smart contract and decentralized application development. Preliminary testing shows that the contracts are able to interact with one another and execute their functions as intended. Further testing is necessary to evaluate the performance of the contracts on the live Ethereum network, and integration with smart sensors should be explored to create a more viable real-world solution.
by Angwei Law.
S.M. in Engineering and Management
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Gozluklu, Burak. "A new project management system dynamics model and simulator." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113517.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 56-57).
Simulators generated from project management system dynamics models are exercised for training the future project managers. In today's' high dynamic, vibrant and complex markets, the models should incorporate more business dynamics and also provide more tools to the players who can flexibly steer in the project games. Along with that objective, this study brings new dynamics and modeling approach to the original multi-phase project system dynamics model of Ford and Sterman, 1998. The new dynamics include the development of new features in the market growing the customer expectation, reflection of customer expectation to project economics, supersede of project concurrencies by rushing the tasks, allowing the defects delivered to customers to be compensated by lifetime repair cost and free positioning of the phase schedules while maintaining concurrencies. A new formulation for completion putthrough, option to include final downstream defect correction and elaborate project econometrics are also included. The model is built in modules that can be utilized to increase the number of phases and/or explain the model to the trainees more easily. The project model employs two options; a zero-defect policy and allowed defect policy where the latter is newly introduced by the repair cost. The system dynamics model is tested by proposed extreme project manager traits which are implemented as table function to use one or more modules to pursue an ultimate objective within a certain logic. A construction project principally mimicking the cases provided by Parvan et al. 2015 is simulated with the manager traits. The results initiate interesting tradeoffs such as the influence of project delivery time versus repair cost, accepting new tasks versus creating more defects or rescheduling the project or positioning the workforce before the ramping up of testing and defective task correction activities. The model necessitates a deeper understanding and analyses of long-term phenomenon such as the lifetime repair cost, the financial consequences of defects and lifetime earnings of products as well as the continuous feature development in the market and its economic value. It is found that the current model proposes an enhanced tool for the training of future project managers. Keywords: System dynamics, project management, simulation, defect policy, numerical modeling.
by Burak Gozluklu.
S.M. in Engineering and Management
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Ferre, Gregoire 1978. "IT management in the aerospace industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/27014.
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(cont.) payoff IT investments. When the North American Aerospace Industry invests less than any other industry in the high risk investments, its foreign counterpart invests more than any other industry. The second major finding is that the governance mechanisms in place are similar in the two Aerospace Industry segments, contrary to the IT Portfolios. IT decisions are made usually by IT executives or business executives, based on the information provided by Chief level executives and at least one other business group. Finally, the third major finding is that the Aerospace Industry gets above average returns from IT by being good at IT Business Planning, Top Management involvement and User Satisfaction. However, a major effort needs to be placed on improving user satisfaction as it is not always properly managed and hinders returns from IT. The lack of extensive communication also hinders the returns from IT by not guarantying top management involvement and awareness of the IT governance mechanisms.
This thesis originated by a need for the Lean Aerospace Industry to study in the Aerospace Industry what seems to be a troublesome domain for many other industries: Information Technologies (IT). Beforehand, there were two ways to do so: study how aerospace companies implement major systems like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Product Data Management (PDM). After a few short case studies, it seemed companies were puzzled by the true extent and the pervasiveness of IT. Therefore, we chose to not look at IT "locally" but try to understand the bigger picture. This thesis is largely based on the pioneering work done by Peter Weill and the Center for Information Systems Research of the MIT Sloan School of Management on IT Portfolio and IT governance. It rationalizes IT by setting it as a portfolio, just like financial investments. Balancing the IT portfolio will ensure anticipated alignment with the corporate strategies. However, the elaboration of proper IT governance mechanisms is necessary to ensure value and return from IT. Defining the governance is "specifying the decision rights and accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior on the use of IT". We therefore applied the IT Portfolio and IT governance frameworks defined by Peter Weill to the Aerospace Industry through the analysis of surveys available in Appendix D. We were able to get data from ten different companies spread out across the world. This allowed us to examine several IT profiles, and to make several significant findings, among which three are of major importance and are described below. The first major finding is that the North American IT portfolio is risk-averse, while the aggregated rest of the world is prone to invest heavily in high risk/high
by Gregoire Ferre.
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Uichanco, Joline Ann Villaranda. "Data-driven revenue management." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41728.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computation for Design and Optimization Program, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-127).
In this thesis, we consider the classical newsvendor model and various important extensions. We do not assume that the demand distribution is known, rather the only information available is a set of independent samples drawn from the demand distribution. In particular, the variants of the model we consider are: the classical profit-maximization newsvendor model, the risk-averse newsvendor model and the price-setting newsvendor model. If the explicit demand distribution is known, then the exact solutions to these models can be found either analytically or numerically via simulation methods. However, in most real-life settings, the demand distribution is not available, and usually there is only historical demand data from past periods. Thus, data-driven approaches are appealing in solving these problems. In this thesis, we evaluate the theoretical and empirical performance of nonparametric and parametric approaches for solving the variants of the newsvendor model assuming partial information on the distribution. For the classical profit-maximization newsvendor model and the risk-averse newsvendor model we describe general non-parametric approaches that do not make any prior assumption on the true demand distribution. We extend and significantly improve previous theoretical bounds on the number of samples required to guarantee with high probability that the data-driven approach provides a near-optimal solution. By near-optimal we mean that the approximate solution performs arbitrarily close to the optimal solution that is computed with respect to the true demand distributions.
(cont.) For the price-setting newsvendor problem, we analyze a previously proposed simulation-based approach for a linear-additive demand model, and again derive bounds on the number of samples required to ensure that the simulation-based approach provides a near-optimal solution. We also perform computational experiments to analyze the empirical performance of these data-driven approaches.
by Joline Ann Villaranda Uichanco.
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Kocziszky, György, Somosi Mariann Veres, and P. G. Pererva. "Compliance program of an enterprise." Thesis, Харківський національний університет будівництва та архітектури, 2018. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/36538.
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Rogers, Lorna. "A patient management program: The evaluation of a combined pre-admission and early discharge program." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1997. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/903.
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The purpose of this descriptive study was to describe the evaluation of a 'Patient Management Program'. This managed care type of program combined a Pre-Admission Clinic and an Early Discharge Program. It was established as a twelve month pilot program at a major Western Australian public teaching hospital in January 1995. It aimed to provide a more efficient health service by replacing part of elective surgical patients' inpatient care with outpatient services. The first component of the Program was the Pre-Admission Clinic, which allowed patients to undergo pre-operative assessment and testing prior to admission to hospital, thus facilitating same day of surgery admission and reducing hospitalisation by at least one day. It also enabled identification of patients unfit for surgery, allowed discharge planning to be initiated, and patient education to be undertaken. The second component of the Program was the Early Discharge Program, which aimed to facilitate patient discharge from hospital, and to provide acute post discharge care and support. The significance of it’s component was the continuity of care, as the same nursing staff who provided pre-admission assessment, education and discharge planning also provided inpatient discharge co-ordination, post discharge support, and the delivery of domiciliary nursing care.
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Sanchez, Marcos A. (Marcos Ariel) 1965. "Lean project management framework for the entrepreneur : traditional projects management, critical chain, and systems dynamics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29151.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-77).
The thesis presents a lean and efficient project management framework that addresses many of the project management challenges found in an entrepreneurial environment. The framework contains an optimal and practical combination of the most critical and successful elements of traditional project management and concepts from critical chain management and system dynamics. The project management approach focuses on improving management efficiency within an entrepreneurial setting. The proposed project management framework does this by accomplishing the following: 1) establishes the over-arching objective of project management, 2) identifies the fundamentally, critical elements and value-added elements of project management, and 3) proposes an appropriate set of approaches, methods and tools. An important value-added element in the proposed project management framework is the ability to quantify the cost and quality implications that occur when new requirements or significant changes are forced on the product and project. The framework is developed from an entrepreneurial perspective and therefore emphasizes a project management approach that is effective (intuitive framework that captures essential, value added elements), efficient (requires low maintenance and does not become a project in itself), and flexible (approaches and methods proposed are responsive to change). The framework also emphasizes the importance of viewing and managing the project from a systems perspective so that better decisions about the tradeoffs can be accomplished. The combination of traditional project management, critical chain management and system dynamics helps to produce a robust and holistic representation of the project that provides idealistic, realistic and pessimistic views of the project. The proposed framework offers a consolidated project management method to help managers in an entrepreneurial environment in the following three key areas: 1) effectively plan and manage the development effort, 2) understand and communicate the effects of changes to the project, and 3) develop better contingency plans.
by Marcos A. Sanchez.
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García, Saavedra Juan Pablo. "The impacts of airline loyalty programs on revenue management optimization." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113516.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-107).
Loyalty Programs have evolved over years turning into unique business units, responsible for producing an important source of revenue for airlines. However, despite their contribution to the business, the lack of knowledge on the impacts of giving away rewards to loyal customers may lead to suboptimal decisions, harming bottom line results. The main objective of this thesis is to develop a methodology to model and measure the net revenue impacts of award passengers as they integrate to current airline revenue management optimization practices. By modeling an award demand using the Passenger Origin Destination Simulation tool, it was possible to understand the impacts on airlines' main metrics compared to an environment without these passengers, and to define a baseline scenario based on current airline industry data, to analyze the impacts of different RM strategies. A methodology was proposed to identify and quantify three main effects seen when allowing award passengers into the current RM optimization. The Award Revenue accounts for the economic benefit for the airline of each award passenger. Displaced Revenue is the ticket revenue loss due to the displacement of paid passengers. And, the Sell Up effect measures the change in average paid fare as a result of the introduction of this new demand. Differences between the real economic benefit to the airline of award passengers and the value that the RM optimizer uses for assigning their availability were introduced to measure the net award revenue impact. Results showed that at award valuations higher than the lowest fare, airlines are able to increase their total revenues due to higher award revenue and lower displaced ticket revenue. This outcome was consistent for all RM Schemes and demand levels examined.
by Juan Pablo García Saavedra
S.M. in Engineering and Management
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Botros, Mina N. M. "Human resource management in project portfolios : architecting an allocation process." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113511.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-117).
A review of project portfolio management (PPM) literature has shown that human resources allocation is rarely revisited beyond the initial planning cycle, and that it is often treated as a static problem. Therefore, this thesis sought to understand modern PPM practices further and to underscore variables that correlate with proficient portfolio planning, management, and execution. A survey of current practices has yielded several unexpected results. For example, the extent of employee involvement in resource allocation decisions, via active participation in the PMO, is positively correlated with highly effective PPM practices. Organizations experience schedule delays on the order of 10-20%, even though they classify their PPM practices as highly effective. Furthermore, 54% of survey participants indicated their firms do not evaluate nor model resource uncertainties, risks or interdependencies, of which 85% conceded these variables should be addressed. Given the survey results and given that PPM methods were borne of Markowitz's Modern Portfolio Theory, this thesis sought to frame the human resource allocation problem as a sociotechnical system instead. As such, nine critical system design decisions were identified and combined to yield distinct process architectures. Next, these architectures were scored and evaluated against performance metrics levied by the system stakeholders. An architectural tradespace of 11,664 feasible human resource allocation systems was generated; of which 42 architectures are nondominated. The systematic analysis in this thesis revealed that 100% of the architectures on the Pareto Front are analogous to a transparent, market-like resource allocation system as opposed to an anonymous, centralized system. Furthermore, 83% of these architectures appointed the employee as the sole decision-maker of its allocation to tasks. Roughly 70% of these architectures required agents to frequently updated task start and end times, hence reducing uncertainty and risk in planning. Future work shall re-assess the architecture scores and stakeholder requirements prior to application on a pilot portfolio.
by Mina N.M. Botros.
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Parry, David (David Michael). "Supply chain management for low-volume, high-variation manufacturing." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112067.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, System Design and Management Program, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 64).
This thesis introduces a low-volume, high variation manufacturing company that is experiencing issues managing its supply chain. Issues include lack of process ownership, poor requirements flow down to vendors, and an ineffective supplier selection process. This example uses a systematic approach for addressing re-occurring problems related to supply chain management. The premise underlying the approach exemplifies that modem process improvement techniques such a Lean Manufacturing boast large efficiency gains in operations, but fail to address pre-operation process issues such as supplier selection based on capability alignment. By breaking down the current condition, issues within the current process and their associated root causes were identified. These included: inadequate internal processes, lack of access to information on supplier capabilities, and responsibility ambiguity. Corrective actions and countermeasures to these root causes such as: defined roles for the supplier selection process; a Supplier Capability Matrix; and internal requirements for supplier selection serve as a basis for a redesigned process. This results in a target condition that differs from the current in organizational structure, internal process requirements for supplier selection, and fewer non-conformance identified at incoming inspection. This thesis also provides a proposal for transitioning towards the target condition via an incremental implementation. This process utilizes the scientific method as a methodology for incorporating new processes, and to validate their effectiveness on the overall system in a step by step fashion. Verification of improvement can serve as a business case for additional change and implementation. This case study of a small electronics manufacturing company demonstrates the method in practical application. Results suggest that application is best suited for organizations that are looking to optimize their supply chain by reducing the risk of receiving non-conforming, or unusable material from their suppliers. The approach for identifying process issues, determining root causes, and implementing countermeasures provides a robust example for process improvement efforts.
by David Parry.
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Moreno, Andrea(Andrea Carolina Moreno Tomalá). "Predicting student dropout in a MicroMasters program." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122250.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2019Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-68).
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) became popular in 2012. Today, MOOCs have evolved from single courses to programs that consist of a series of courses, and one or more proctored exams. Once completed, these programs open doors to career advancement and even master's degrees from renowned universities across the globe. Despite the increasing popularity and benefits of such programs, the dropout rate is surprisingly high. The purpose of this thesis is to build accurate predictive models of student dropout in MOOC-based programs as well as identify which factors are correlated with dropout. For this study, we focused in a MOOC-based program known as a MicroMasters. We chose the first ever created MicroMasters: the MITx MicroMasters® in Supply Chain Management. We collected data from more than 10,000 students, 25 courses and used Logistic Regression to build our predictive models. Results show that there are different factors associated with dropout depending on where in the program ladder the student is at. For students in initial courses, grades, gender, and level of education are correlated with dropout. Our models reached recall values as high as 0.98 and precision values as high as 0.93. For learners who have completed four or more courses, our models are not highly predictive, suggesting that external factors outside of the scope of this study, such as personal reasons or day-to-day duties, prevented learners from finishing the program. Finally, several high-level strategies were developed in order to guide a plan to reduce learner dropout at any point in the MicroMasters. The results found in our research, in conjunction with a solid implementation plan, is the first step to decrease program attrition.
by Andrea Moreno.
S.M. in Engineering and Management
S.M.inEngineeringandManagement Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program