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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Tactical decisions"”.
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Essays on supply chain contracting and tactical decisions for inter-generational product transitions
… supplier management. The second focuses on tactical decisions on inventory and pricing during inter-generational product transition. In many industries, manufacturing firms use multiple competing suppliers in their component or product sourcing strategy. Chapter 2 studies optimal …
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AUGMENTED REALITY SPATIAL CUES FOR TARGET ACQUISITION
… may gain more bandwidth to focus on essential tactical decisions. AR has the potential to enhance the speed and accuracy of target acquisition by delivering landmark cues linked to pre-planned tactical control measures. This thesis investigates the effectiveness of AR in lowering cognitive load …
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Comparison of the Observed Mixe Layer Depth in the Lee of the Hawaiian Island to the Modeled Mixed Layer Depth of the Regional Navy Coastal Ocean Model
… aids naval operators in making important tactical decisions. This study evaluates the ability of the Hawaii Regional Navy Coastal Ocean Model to accurately predict the depth of the surface mixed layer in this complex, wake island environment. The model was compared to CTD data collected …
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Managing a sea of information : shipboard command and control in the United States Navy, 1899-1945
… in which commanders could make informed tactical decisions with relatively limited input from subordinates, to one characterized by epistemic actions and socially-distributed cognition. The dissertation concludes with a brief analysis of shipboard command and control systems during the …
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Structuring strategic decisions through the analytic hierarchy process : a case study in the selection of warehouse location for WFP in Ethiopia
… organizations struggle to make strategic and tactical decisions due to their lack of resources, the unpredictability of humanitarian events and the lack of readily available information; the existing tools that assist optimal decision making require large amounts of precise information. As a …
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Building the Airplane While it Flies: A Case Study Approach of Police Development in Kosovo, Liberia, and Timor-Leste
… impact on the development of the police than any tactical decisions that anyone can make. Finally, while structure forces agents in a direction, individuals can definitely harm the development of the police more than they can help it. Stated more simply, the power of individual actions to create …
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Managing global software development teams : technology and policy proposals for knowledge sharing
… and differences in handling strategic and tactical decisions.
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Systems informatics and analysis for optimization of biomass feedstock provision
… model, was developed to optimize long-term decisions, such as facility numbers, locations, capacities, and biomass distribution patterns, for a three-stage biomass-biofuel production system. The model was implemented to evaluate Illinois Miscanthus based biofuel supply chain system through …
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Feedback and Control for Hierarchical Production Planning
… work focuses on planning levels dealing with tactical decisions, with three areas distinguishing it from prior research. First, the HPPSS allows explicit examination of the effects of different information exchanges between the levels of a hierarchical model. To this end, a variety of feedback …
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The Role of State and Non-State Actors in Determining Violent and Nonviolent Tactics in Political Conflict
… not appear to have a consistent effect on these tactical decisions. The third paper examines the role of civil society in preventing the onset of civil war as a trajectory of political protest events. It shows that in contexts of already undergoing nonviolent resistance, high capacity civil …
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A Generic Simulation-based Perioperative Decision Support Tool for Tactical Decision
… decision tool to help hospitals inform decisions that can lead to improved access and efficiency. A generalised, simulation based perioperative decision tool is presented that can be used to test a variety of tactical decisions. The generic model has been applied to six hospitals of …
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Integrating the Army Geospatial Enterprise : synchronizing geospatial-intelligence to the dismounted soldier
… through the battlefield and enable well informed tactical decisions. The goal of this investigation is to develop heuristics to guide the transformation efforts currently underway within the Army's Geospatial Enterprise. A set of surveys and informal interviews with individuals in the Army …
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Analytics for online markets
… techniques to design markets and optimize tactical decisions. In this thesis, we focus on two types of online markets -- peer-to-peer networks and online retail markets -- to show how using analytics can make a valuable impact. We first study scrip systems which provide a non-monetary trade …
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A Combined Inventory-Location Model for Distribution Network Design
… Inventory policy determination involves more tactical decisions such as the order quantities and frequencies at each level or echelon in the network. It is believed that these two decisions can influence each other significantly. Including a multi-echelon inventory policy decision in a …
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Resource Management and Sourcing Strategies in Supply Chain Coordination under an Uncertain Environment
<p>As two major decisions in the supply chain management, both resource management and sourcing strategies decide ‘which product goes where at what amount and what time’, in order to redeploy outbound/inbound resources to synchronize product flow and eventually fulfill customers’ requirements. …
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Duty, Honor, Country: Generalship and Institutional Magnanimity
… a war. The debates surrounding strategic and tactical decisions can involve weighing the community’s abilities and needs against the desire to win honors and accolades for oneself. The best way to protect against these dangers is to ensure that such men’s political perspectives and ambitions …
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Leveraging lessons learned in organizations through implementing practice-based organizational learning and performance improvement - An opportunity for context-based intelligent assistant support (CIAS)
Organizations that leverage lessons learned from their experience in the practice of complex real-world activities are faced with five difficult problems. First, how to represent the learning situation in a recognizable way. Second, how to represent what was actually done in terms of repeatable …
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Multi-Dimensional Problems In Single-Resource Revenue Management
… to the spot market if not booked by a deadline. Tactical decisions on number of rooms to reserve and fixed price to offer for the conference market need to be made at the beginning of the selling horizon. For the operational pricing problem in the spot market, because the two markets will join …
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A christian feminist critique of pastors' authority roles: A case study of twelve Pentecostal churches in Lusaka, Zambia
… Male pastors mostly made strategic and tactical decisions whilst the majority of female pastors made operational decisions. Female pastors had more of ministering authority whilst male pastors had more of the ruling authority. There was an extensive use of the 'Acquiescence Leadership …
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A christian feminist critique of pastors' authority roles: A case study of twelve Pentecostal churches in Lusaka, Zambia
… Male pastors mostly made strategic and tactical decisions whilst the majority of female pastors made operational decisions. Female pastors had more of ministering authority whilst male pastors had more of the ruling authority. There was an extensive use of the 'Acquiescence Leadership …
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