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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"delta model"”.
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Strategic vision toward the next-generation telecom industry
… volatile change in technology and business model. Every telecom company needs strategy that gives direction through rapidly shifting environment. NTT, Japanese telecom giant is not exception. In this thesis, Delta model is utilized to obtain strategy that leads effective management and …
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Developing a strategy for the SOA market at a leading software vendor
The Delta Model Framework provides an excellent platform to analyze and develop a business strategy that will assure the firm has competitive advantage. Its foundation is in the three core positions, Best Product, Total Customer Solutions and System Lock-in. These positions allow the framework's …
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De-commoditizing the commercial jet engine business
… project is a comprehensive application of the Delta Model at a major jet engine manufacturer. It will assess and contrast customer segmentation and customer value proposition via primary research. It will also assess and contrast the current and future state "bundle of competencies" within the …
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Competitive advantage in the U.S. paper and paper products industry
… thesis applies the various dimensions of the Delta Model to the paper converting business of the Chesapeake Corporation to define a new competitive positioning that will attract, satisfy, and retain the firm's customers. The overall objective is to develop the key elements of a new business …
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Strategies for decommoditizing and internationalizing a prepaid business unit
… Brazil and overseas. The work starts using the Delta Model to segment the customers, defining the correspondent value proposition and identifying the capabilities required by the company to execute its mission. Further, frameworks for internationalization are applied to define a pathway for the …
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Developing a global strategy for a Brazilian engineering services provider
The Delta Model framework is used in this work to assess a engineering services provider's current and desired level of customer bonding and define a Strategic Plan towards a global operation. Several other frameworks serve as support for the setting of the strategic thrusts, helping select which …
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Introducing the concept of office supplies superstores in Chile
… This work is based on the application of the Delta Model. This part includes an analysis of the environment, a detail analysis of Staples (mission, organization, the store, business strategy, operations, marketing, expansion, web, acquisition and financial analysis) and a structural analysis …
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Compilation Techniques for Reconfigurable Analog Devices
… This thesis presents the concept of a delta model, a hardware abstraction that captures the device-specific behavioral deviations present in the calibrated analog hardware. The compiler uses this hardware abstraction to compensate for behavioral variations for the specific device at …
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Global business strategy and innovation in banking
… business. A systematic study will be set out to model the dynamics of different positioning of Delta Model and the effect of the underlying interactions. We will walk through the analysis of why the innovation along with the customer targeting and the operational effectiveness are crucial to …
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A framework for strategic thinking in the global market for large-scale Japanese constructions firms
… finds three distinct powerful strategic analysis models, which together cover virtually all of the major important theories in strategic management. These three models are the Porter Model, the Resource-Based View of the Firm, and the Delta Model. The thesis then reviews the three models, …
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Information technology outsourcing in emerging markets
… This can be explained by using Hax and 'Wilde's Delta Model. Several IT firms have successfully achieved these objectives in well-developed countries. However, this thesis argues that developing successful IT outsourcing business in emerging markets cannot be achieved simply by replicating …
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Investigating ecosystem-level effects of gillnet bycatch in Lake Erie: implications for commercial fisheries management
… yellow perch and white perch was predicted by a delta model developed on the PIS data. Discards were estimated as the difference between predicted bycatch and landed bycatch. Results highlighted bycatch and discard hotspots for these three species that have great management implications. Three …
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Evolutionary Debris Modeling of LEO and Cis-Lunar Space
… debris evolution in these regions. Source-sink models allow for the study of debris evolution by considering various sources and sinks of debris, including atmospheric drag and fragmentation events. In this thesis, the evolution of the LEO environment is studied using a source-sink model with a …
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Essays on Contest Theory Experiments and Revealed Time Preference Models
… 3). We then develop an empirical method to model perceptual present and time inconsistency (Chapter 4). Chapter 2 examines how the weight and the ordered weights in battles affect the behavior in sequential multi-battle contests with an experiment. We find robustly that the weight of the …
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Airline schedule planning and operations : optimization-based approaches for delay mitigation
… strategic approach, we study robust optimization models, which capture possible future operational uncertainties at the planning stage, in order to generate solutions that when implemented, are less likely to be disrupted, or incur lower costs of recovery when disrupted. We complement strategic …
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Spatial dynamics modeling for data-poor species using examples of longline seabird bycatch and endangered white abalone
… to incorporate spatial patterns and to improve model performance. The model modified with spatial filters showed superior performance over other candidate models. I also applied the geographically weighted approach to explore spatial nonstationarity in seabird bycatch, i.e., spatial variation in …