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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"long-range planning"”.
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Corporation Long-Range Planning
Planning, especially long-range planning is very vital to management. In this competitive and complicated business world long-range planning is found at the very heart of a growing and dynamic business organization. Long-range planning in the past was considered to be only a theoretical concept …
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Long range planning of manufacturing footprint
… thesis discusses the development of a scenario planning tool that is focused on estimation of manufacturing footprint requirements for the company's internal manufacturing network. The tool we develop takes a demand forecast as an input and converts it to a physical space requirement in square …
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Forecasting resource requirements for drug development long range planning
This thesis investigates the use of a task-based Monte Carlo simulation model to forecast headcount and manufacturing capacity requirements for a drug development organization. A pharmaceutical drug development group is responsible for designing the manufacturing process for new potential drug …
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Corporate long-range planning in South Africa: its extent and nature
… for the most complete information possible on planning activity and practices among South African firms. It was also dictated by an urgent necessity to clarify the methodologies, techniques and frameworks used at present in business planning. Alas, only too often scholars and practitioners …
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Influencing managerial cognition and decisions using scenarios for long-range planning
… empirical findings related to two aspects of long-range planning: scenario planning as a planning method and cognition of planners. Long-range planning situations are encountered when designing public infrastructures (e.g. transportation systems) as well as developing strategies for corporate …
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Long range planning of biologics process development and clinical trial material supply process
… across industries in order to make strong longterm, strategic decisions and an area many companies struggle with. The resources required for the development of a biologic drug are especially hard to estimate due to the variability in the time and probability of success of each development …
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Planning for Technology in School Facilities
… purpose of this study is to examine the issue of planning for technology in existing, new, or renovated school facilities. The focus is to provide educators a technology profile to help with planning issues regarding school design and the integration of technology in school facilities. Very few …
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Future value chains in the computer hardware industry
… supply chain design is one such area where long-range planning can especially help. This is primarily because investments in new supply chains have a long return period, which also influence the chances of future success of a company. However, developing such long-range views of the whole …
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Risk analysis model for the ascent phase of scientific balloon operations
… balloon mission. This model can be used as a long range planning tool or on the day of launch to determine whether the mission risk level is acceptable.
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GENERATING.CAPACITY RELIABILITY INDICES
… methods are widely used, for generating capacity planning in power systems. In recent years, however, special interest has been devoted to further development of comprehensive probabilistic techniques. The thesis examines several methods of obtaining quantitative reliability indices useful in the …
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Capacity planning under demand and manufacturing uncertainty for biologics
Due to the long lead times and complexity in drug development and approval processes, pharmaceutical companies use long range planning to plan their production for the next 10 years. Capacity planning is largely driven by the long-term demand and its forecast uncertainty. The impact of …
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Planning Gone Hog Wild: Mega-Hog Farm in a Mountain West County
… of hog farms, few studies have focused on the planning process and evaluated its effectiveness in dealing with the threats and challenges that a CAFO poses. This qualitative study used interviews, observations, public meeting minutes, and other written sources of data to evaluate whether or not …
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Designing cities for the elderly
… company, threats to physical safety, and limited range of travel. Through careful planning and design, local governments can make physical improvements to the public environment to allow seniors easy access to all parts of the town or city, and these improvements benefit people of all ages as …
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Future scenarios for green chemical supply chains
… decisions taken by firms in this industry have long-term impacts. As such, any uncertainty in the environment that affects these strategic decisions in supply chains needs to be understood before committing to the assets. In particular, sustainability related concerns have risen in importance in …
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Overcoming Barriers to Institutionalize Climate Change Resiliency Practices : MassDOT
… there is a need to mitigate these risks through long-range planning and climate change adaptation strategies. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) recognizes that infrastructure must be fortified through these methods but has yet to establish a systematic approach for …
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Renewable energy in electric utility capacity planning: a decomposition approach with application to a Mexican utility
… energy sources as decision variables into the long-range planning methodology. In this dissertation, efficient algorithms for electric utility capacity expansion planning with renewable energy are developed. The algorithms include a deterministic phase which quickly finds a near-optimal …
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Don’t Overlook Your Largest Asset Class: Value Creation through Enterprise Real Estate Optimization
… 3) real estate has a seat at the table for long range planning, and; 4) a financial dashboard to measure the financial and earnings impact of real estate optimization. In Study Two, a Qualtrics survey was used to gather quantitative data from 48 subjects producing results based on dependent …
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The Prospects of State Directed Reform in Education
… of Iowa schools; (c) increase the likelihood of long-range planning or turn the responsibility over to someone who can; (d) honor capacity where it exists and create capacity where it does not exist.
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