Strateginen materiaalihallinta

Tässä diplomityössä käydään läpi materiaalihallintaa strategisista näkökulmista, joihin kuuluvat strateginen suunnittelu ja johtaminen, hankintatoimi, materiaalihallinta ennustamisen ja varastoimisen kautta sekä yleinen toiminnan kehittäminen. Näiden osa-alueiden kokonaissummasta tulee käsite strateginen materiaalihallinta, jonka avulla tässä työssä yritetään ratkaista tutkimuskohteena olevan yrityksen materiaalihallinnan haasteita. Strateginen materiaalihallinnan suunnittelu pitää aloittaa hahmottamalla oma ympäristö, esimerkiksi portfolioanalyysiä ja Ishikawan kalanruotokaaviota hyväksikäyttäen. Tämän jälkeen omat materiaalihallinnan kyvykkyydet voidaan analysoida, esimerkiksi SWOT-analyysin avulla, jolla pystytään kartoittamaan omat vahvuudet ja heikkoudet, sekä uhat että mahdollisuudet. Vasta kun ympäristö ja omat kyvykkyydet ovat analysoitu, voidaan asettaa päämäärät ja tavoitteet, joilla pyritään tukemaan kyseistä liiketoimintaa strategisen materiaalihallinnan avulla. Näiden tavoitteiden ja päämäärien saavuttamista on tärkeää myös seurata ja mitata. Strategista materiaalihallintaa voidaan optimoida eri tavoin, esimerkiksi erilaisilla hankinta-, varastointi, ja ennustemalleilla. Myös ABC-analyysin avulla voidaan ohjata eri ABC-luokkien materiaalihallintaa. Strateginen materiaalihallinta pyrkii siis tukemaan strategisesti liiketoimintojen päämääriä ja samalla vastaamaan asiakaskysyntään määritetyllä toimituskyvyllä minimi kokonaiskustannuksin.

Logistics service provider's strategy renewal

Tässä diplomityössä tutkitaan strategian määrittämistä. Tutkimus keskittyy logistiikkapalvelualan yrityksen strategian uudistamiseen ja strategiatyön kehittämiseen. Tutkimus pyrkii selvittämään miten yritys pystyy parhaiten saavuttamaan strategiset tavoitteensa. Lisäksi pyritään selvittämään miten yritys pystyy luomaan ja ylläpitämään kilpailuetua. Tutkimus toteutetaan tutkimalla ensin strategiaa, strategiaprosessia ja logistiikkapalvelualan liiketoimintaa kirjallisuudessa. Empiirinen osuus toteutetaan pääosin yrityksen johtoryhmän jäsenten kanssa strategiatyöpajoissa. Yrityksen hallitus asettaa strategiset tavoitteet ja myös hyväksyy projektin eri vaiheiden tulokset. Strategisissa analyyseissä otetaan huomioon sekä ulkoinen että sisäinen näkökulma, jotta saadaan kattava kuva yrityksen liiketoimintaympäristöstä sekä yrityksen vahvuuksista ja heikkouksista. Analyysejä hyödynnetään strategisten vaihtoehtojen muodostamisessa sekä yritys- että liiketoimintatasolla. Strategiset valinnat tehdään sen perustella, miten eri strategiset vaihtoehdot tukevat asetettuja strategisia tavoitteita. Tutkimuksen tuloksena määritellään yrityksen strategia, joka myös dokumentoidaan. Lisäksi luodaan strategisen suunnittelun ja johtamisen prosessi, joka mahdollistaa reagoinnin liiketoimintaympäristössä tapahtuviin nopeisiin muutoksiin.

The Role of HR Management in the Corporate Matrix System

The successful performance of company in the market relates to the quality management of human capital aiming to improve the company's internal performance and external implementation of the core business strategy. Companies with matrix structure focusing on realization and development of innovation and technologies for the uncertain market need to select thoroughly the approach to HR management system. Human resource management has a significant impact on the organization and use a variety of instruments such as corporate information systems to fulfill their functions and objectives. There are three approaches to strategic control management depending on major impact on the major interference in employee decision-making, development of skills and his integration into the business strategy. The mainstream research has focus only on the framework of strategic planning of HR and general productivity of firm, but not on features of organizational structure and corporate software capabilities for human capital. This study tackles the before mentioned challenges, typical for matrix organization, by using the HR control management tools and corporate information system. The detailed analysis of industry producing and selling electromotor and heating equipment in this master thesis provides the opportunity to improve system for HR control and displays its application in the ERP software. The results emphasize the sustainable role of matrix HR input control for creating of independent project teams for matrix structure who are able to respond to various uncertainties of the market and use their skills for improving performance. Corporate information systems can be integrated into input control system by means of output monitoring to regulate and evaluate the processes of teams, using key performance indicators and reporting systems.

Examining the Influence of the Patient Declaration of Values on Hospital Policies and Practices

The purpose of this study was to explore how a leading Ontario hospital operationalizes their Patient Declaration of Values (PDoV) in policy and in practice. This was a single case study, which took place in a leading patient-centred Ontario hospital. The study included 18 individual interviews with employees and patient experience advisors, as well as, document analysis of strategic planning reports (n=10). Five themes emerged: (1) setting the stage, (2) inspiring change, (3) organizational structures, (4) organizational and environmental barriers, and (5) reflection and improvement. This study has highlighted the role of the PDoV within a leading Ontario hospital. It lends itself to providing a process with core strategies for creating change in an acute health care organization; to embed a culture of patient and family centred care.

Le développement durable et la démocratie participative : une étude de cas du réseautage de la société civile au Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

Stratégie syndicale et fermeture d'usine en contexte de mondialisation : le cas Paccar inc., usine Kenworth de Sainte-Thérèse

Ce mémoire illustre l'évolution de la stratégie du syndicat des TCA-Québec, unité locale 728 représentant les employés de l'usine Kenworth de Sainte-Thérèse, de la fermeture de l'usine en 1996 jusqu'à sa réouverture en 1999. La littérature démontre que la mondialisation des marchés économiques oblige les syndicats à revoir leur stratégie lors de négociations collectives. Parfois, leur survie en dépend. Les résultats de notre étude de cas permettent de déterminer cinq événements clés où le syndicat local revoit sa stratégie pendant ce conflit de travail médiatisé : la négociation collective, l'échec de la négociation menant à une grève générale, la fermeture de l'usine, l'annonce de la réouverture de l'usine ainsi que sa réouverture. L'ensemble des résultats présentés en corrélation avec le modèle d’analyse de David Weil (1994) présente la planification stratégique de ces cinq événements à partir d’un processus intégré qui peut être décomposé en trois principales étapes : la formulation de la stratégie, sa mise en œuvre et son évaluation. Les faits sont colligés chronologiquement en exposant les transformations de la stratégie du syndicat local par l'identification d'indicateurs conçus à partir des facteurs externes évoqués dans le modèle de Weil (1994), à savoir l'analyse de l'environnement technologique, législatif et social, les priorités dictées par les membres, l'allocation des ressources du syndicat, ainsi que l'analyse de l'évaluation avantage coûts versus bénéfices.

Le Plan Nord du gouvernement du Québec : analyse du design, du positionnement et de la planification stratégique des projets d'infrastructures de transport

Cette recherche a été financée par le Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture du Québec et le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines. L’auteur a de plus reçu le support financier du programme de remboursement des frais de scolarité des forces armées canadiennes. Les cartes ont été produites grâce au logiciel ArcGIS (ESRI).

Pla director del patrimoni de l'Hospitalet de Llobregat

Màster Oficial en Gestió del Patrimoni Cultural

A Comparative Study on Internationalization and the Role of International Offices at Selected Middle Eastern and German Universities

Internationalization of higher education has become one of the most important policies for institutions of higher education worldwide. Though universities are international by nature, the need for intensified quality activities of international nature has promoted internationalization to be under spotlight of researchers, administrators and policy makers and to be an area for research. Each institution follows its certain way to govern its international affairs. Most Universities, especially in the 'Developed World' started to plan it strategically. This study explores the meanings and importance of internationalization especially that it means different things to different people. It also studies the rationales behind internationalizing higher education. It focuses on the four main prevailing rationales; political, cultural/social, economic/financial, and academic on both national and institutional levels. With the increasing need to strategically plan, the study explores internationalization strategies in terms of how to develop them, what are their approaches and types, and their components and dimensions. Damascus University has witnessed an overwhelming development of its international relations and activities. Therefore, it started to face a problem of how to deal with this increasing load especially that its International Office is the only unit that deals with the international issues. In order to study the internationalization phenomenon at Damascus University, the 2WH approach, which asks the what, why, and how questions, is used and in order to define the International Office's role in the internationalization process of the University, it studies it and the international offices of Kassel University, and Humboldt University in Germany, The University of Jordan, and Al Baath University in Syria using the 'SOCIAL' approach that studies and analyses the situation, organization, challenges, involvement, ambitions, and limitations of these offices. The internationalization process at the above-mentioned Universities is studied and compared in terms of its meaning, rationales for both the institution and its academic staff, challenges and strategic planning. Then a comparison is made among the international offices of the Universities to identify their approaches, what led to their success and what led to their failure in their practices. The aim is to provide Damascus University and its International Office with some good practices and, depending on the experiences of the professionals of the case-studies, a suggested guidance to the work of this Office and the University in general is given. The study uses the interviews with the different officials and stakeholders of the case-studies as the main method of collecting the information in addition to site visits, studying their official documents and their websites. The study belongs to qualitative research that has an action dimension in it since the recommendations will be applied in the International Office. The study concludes with few learned lessons for Damascus University and its International Office depending on the comparison that was done according to a set of dimensions. Finally a reflection on the relationship between internationalization of higher education and politics, the impact of politics on Middle Eastern Universities, and institutional internationalization strategies are presented.

Re-Framing Trade

Given the substantial and increasing encroachment of trade agreements into almost every aspect of economic and social life, there is a pressing need for research that provides a more coherent framework for understanding the source and effectiveness of organised labour ’s power and capacity to influence international trade policy. Taking the union protests against the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) as a case study, this research uses core concepts derived from social movement theory to analyse the opportunities that existed for unions to influence these trade negotiations and their capacity to identify and take advantage of such opportunities. Importantly, it adds a power analysis designed to reveal the sources of power that unions draw on to take action. The research demonstrates that even where unions faced considerable constraints they were able to re-frame trade issues in a way that built broad support for their position and to utilise opportunities in the trade negotiation process to mobilise resistance against the GATS and further liberalisation of services. The theoretical framework developed for the research provides conceptual tools that can be developed for improving strategic campaign planning and for analytical assessment of past campaigns. The theoretical framework developed for this research has potential for further application as an analytical and strategic planning tool for unions.

Propuesta metodológica para la implementación del direccionamiento estratégico

El siguiente trabajo es una recopilación de las metodologías propuestas para la implantación de la Planeación Estratégica por medio del Direccionamiento Estratégico en las empresas, que como se ha visto en los últimos años, se ha hecho cada vez más importante que las empresas logren elaborar y ejecutar sus planes estratégicos para poder afrontar de mejor forma el mercado y sus condiciones cambiantes y aun mas con el avance acelerado de la globalización. La implantación y la puesta en marcha de los Planes Estratégicos en las empresas les da mejores herramientas a las empresas para enfrentar las incertidumbres del mercado, les brinda un horizonte claro y compartido a todos los empleados, saben para donde van y como lo van a lograr por medio de su misión, visión, políticas y objetivos corporativos, haciendo a las empresas perdurables y evitando la alta mortandad de las estas. Los planes estratégicos van de la mano del estudio y el análisis de su entorno, el entorno es cambiante y por lo mismo es necesario estudiarlo constantemente, es por esto que me permito mostrar también diferentes metodologías para el estudio de la competencia.

Análisis del caso empresarial: caso estratégico de internacionalización REDCOM Limitada

REDCOM Ltda. Es una compañía especializada en proyectos de alta ingeniería en el sector de las telecomunicaciones. Sector de inigualable crecimiento y un inmenso potencial en el desarrollo de nuevas aplicaciones y soluciones. Por lo tanto REDCOM tiene un campo de acción grande donde debe empezar a dejar a un lado su visión regional para prepararse a ingresar al mercado mundial. El propósito principal del presente trabajo de análisis de la empresa REDCOM, es identificar las fortalezas y determinar las debilidades de la empresa, las cuales serán el punto de estudio para establecer un plan de mejoramiento, con metas a alcanzar en todos los departamentos: Mercadeo, Recursos Humanos, Finanzas, Aseguramiento de la Calidad y Tecnología, consolidadas en un análisis de inversión para llevar a la compañía a un nivel de competencia internacional. Estudios previos indican que REDCOM tiene excelente potencial de exportación, aunque en la actualidad, la empresa carece de la experiencia real de exportación. La meta de este cuerpo de trabajo no solo es demostrar que REDCOM puede lograr expandir su mercado y ser un competidor internacional sino también describir los beneficios que este tipo de expansión le traerá a la compañía. Si REDCOM toma la decisión de aventurarse a expandirse e internacionalizarse, el presente trabajo es una guía importante. La herramienta de diagnóstico que fue creada en la línea de investigación y aplicada en éste proyecto, arrojó un puntaje en cada una de las áreas y en sus sub-ítems a fin de que la compañía pueda medir su efectividad. Además, ésta herramienta de diagnóstico es un gran potencial de ayuda a aquellas compañías locales, nacionales y regionales para ampliar su visión en el mercado mundial.

Adaptive business intelligence for an open negotiation environment

Engineering of negotiation model allows to develop effective heuristic for business intelligence. Digital ecosystems demand open negotiation models. To define in advance effective heuristics is not compliant with the requirement of openness. The new challenge is to develop business intelligence in advance exploiting an adaptive approach. The idea is to learn business strategy once new negotiation model rise in the e-market arena. In this paper we present how recommendation technology may be deployed in an open negotiation environment where the interaction protocol models are not known in advance. The solution we propose is delivered as part of the ONE Platform, open source software that implements a fully distributed open environment for business negotiation

Análisis prospectivo de la empresa Salud Total EPS-S a 2020

El tema del sistema de salud en Colombia involucra discursos jurídicos, políticos, sociales, económicos y empresariales que se enfrentan constantemente creando inestabilidad e incertidumbre en el proceder del sistema y violentando a la Ley 100 de 1993. Bajo este marco de desequilibrio se hace necesario que la entidad promotora de salud SALUD TOTAL EPS-S realice una investigación de futuros basada en la planeación estratégica por escenarios para disminuir la incertidumbre sobre la perdurabilidad de la compañía y el funcionamiento del sistema de salud entendido como un sector relevante de la economía nacional.

Plan de mercadeo para el Hotel Campestre: La Margarita. Ubicado en el municipio de Nimaima – Cudinamarca

En el trabajo de grado se realiza un análisis del mercado y se propone una planeación estratégica para el Hotel Campestre La Margarita, ubicado en Nimaima – Cundinamarca, con el propósito de aumentar los indicadores de rentabilidad para sus propietarios, con base a un Plan de Mercadeo que permita identificar factores claves de éxito y estrategias para lograr el posicionamiento deseado en los mercados objetivos.