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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"Business Units"”.
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Some determinants of success and failure in first-year university business units at private colleges
… (and dropout) from first year university level Business units at two private business colleges in Perth, Western Australia. Private business colleges are convenient vehicles for international and Western Australian students who do not possess adequate academic assessments for direct entry into …
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The identification of gaps and overlaps in the product portfolio
… is usually confined to planning within business units for product families and individual products. This can pose a problem for businesses, as individual business units and development teams do not think in terms of the big picture of the company. Business units are responsible for only …
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Developing and testing a model of successful adoption of activity-based costing
… examination of the relationship between ABC and business unit performance. The study also aims to investigate why some business units have not adopted ABC and why some business units have discontinued their use of ABC.
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Technology development productivity : case studies in technology transition
… into product development groups across multiple business units of the company. An analysis of the company's documented development process activities and metrics will establish the context in which technology is transferred. The company's organizational structure is a central R&D group that …
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A systems view of quality
… possible causes of the variation amongst the business units. Benchmarking and a literature search are used to identify possible variables and provide frameworks and a basis for comparison. The problem is explored from a systemic perspective with a focus on market served and organizational …
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Product-level bill of material development process : managing complexity
… to drive standardized methods across the over 50 business units. For Cisco's supply chain to operate most efficiently, all Cisco Business Units (BUs) must accurately structure and manage their product-level BOMs. The purpose of this thesis research is to document the as-is BOM structuring and …
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Corporate portfolio management within Japanese diversified trading & investment companies : what role does real estate play?
… Based on the historical returns of diversified business units of 4 subject companies, performances of individual business units and three portfolios (current, tangency, and "suboptimal") are analyzed and compared. The study suggests adjusting suboptimal portfolio composition based on each …
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A Decision Support System for the Electrical Power Districting Problem
… to decentralized operations with competitive business units. This process, commonly referred to as deregulation (or liberalization) is driven by the belief that a monopolistic industry fails to achieve economic efficiency for consumers over the long run. Deregulation has occurred in a number …
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Supply and demand planning for crude oil procurement in refineries
… exchange has been problematic because the four business units with their disparate activities have not been able to capture and appropriately structure the required information. How can business executives in the oil industry assemble all of the required information to achieve system-wide …
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Economic Capital Analysis with Portfolios of Dependent and Heavy-Tailed Risks
… risk capital needs to be allocated to the business units of a financial entity. That is, there are overwhelmingly many ways to conduct the allocation exercise, and there is arguably no standard method to do so on the horizon. Two overarching approaches to allocate the aggregate risk capital …
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Synergy, relatedness, and organization form in the strategic management of diversification
… from sharing firm-specific resources among the business units of a multi-business firm. Therefore, the stronger the competitive advantages derived from these shared resources, the higher would be the realized synergy among the business units. The concept is further expanded to incorporate …
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Essays on credit risk, risk adjusted performance and economic capital in financial institutions
… holding of bank assets and the operation of bank business units.
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Knowledge management within a multinational knowledge led company
… its manufacturing facilities as competing business units. The purpose of the research was to establish if this method of organising business units provides the overall corporation with a competitive advantage, or if competing business units inhibits performance preventing or restricting the …
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The Evolving Project Management Office as a Tacit to Explicit Knowledge Broker
… of knowledge within the organization’s business units. While explicit knowledge is more easily recorded, tacit or qualitative (i.e., “sticky”) knowledge is seldom easy to transfer. Internal sharing and retrieval of this knowledge are essential core competencies for business units to …
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A Stakeholder Perspective On Hrm-Performance Linkages
… managers and 201 senior HR executives from 201 business units, representing North America, Latin America, Europe, China and Australia.
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Study and analysis of best practices for the development of systems engineers at a multi-national organization
… to fill the need within multiple business units of a large multinational corporation and recommend best practices for development of system engineers/integrators. This thesis will investigate a product oriented company which operates in various market segments. This company, a …
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A Complex Adaptive Systems Analysis of Productive Efficiency
… Within a proposed framework DEA "decision-making units" (DMUs) are represented as agents in the agent-based modeling (ABM) paradigm. Guided by simple rules, agent DMUs representing business units of a larger management system, 'align' with one another to achieve mutual protection/risk reduction …
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Aerospace automated drilling and fastening technology product selection framework
… and Ascent itself. Ascent has two different business units that produce equipment to automate the drilling and fastening of aerospace structures. These two units each come with vast product portfolios, and distinct approaches to address customer needs. This thesis focuses on an efficient …
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Improving supply chain responsiveness for diesel engine remanufacturing
… a team was formed with representatives of all business units involved in the supply chain. Following the first three steps of a DMAIC methodology, the team used the following techniques and made the consequent findings: (1) Define: using Value Stream Mapping, a first-ever value stream map of …
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Investigating the linkage between business objectives and information technology objectives : a multiple case study in the insurance industry
… how can the degree of linkage between business and information technology (IT) objectives be measured, and 2) what factors are associated with the attainment of linkage. The linkage within multi-divisional life insurance companies was studied at both the corporate (3 sites) and business …
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