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In any optimized asset management system, risk management is considered to be one of the core elements. International asset management standards like PAS 55, ISO 55000 has integrated risk management with the asset management process throughout the life cycle of assets. Risk based asset management guides the organization to perform the trade-off on both cost and risk, and enables a structured decision-making...
This paper sets out a methodology for the asset management transformation of a complex organisation operating multiple sites and extensive fleets of physical assets. The approach is based on PAS 55:2008 and ISO 55000 specifications for an asset management system. Case study material is utilised to draw out specific approaches for applying the techniques to deliver tangible performance improvement...
Physical asset management is a section with growing importance in utility companies. Asset management is recommended to function simultaneously at operational, tactical and strategic level to realize organizational strategic plans with technical solutions. Currently, tactical asset management is well established with risk analysis. However, at a strategic level, new analytical tools are needed to...
As an important indicator measuring enterprise management level, psychological ecology level of enterprise organization is an important basis for behavior prediction and management decision. Enterprise organization is made up of individual. The combination of individual psychological state decides the psychological ecology of enterprise organization. The work experience of individuals is mainly exhibited...
This paper will outline the Strategic Planning and Prioritization (SP2) process which is aimed at helping decision makers to determine the best portfolio of technologies or programs to benefit their overall vision. In the past several years the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory at Georgia Tech has developed and implemented the SP2 process in applications involving commercial sponsors and government...
This paper consists of a detailed project level examination of how a project team handles a multitude of relationships. Using methodology from an ethnographic study that followed a project for years, it describes how the project team displayed an ability to meet a variety of stakeholders representing different and often divergent interests. The project teams' stakeholder activities came about as a...
This research aims to better understand how IT governance supports organizations in their business exchanges with other organizations by investigating further the various modes of interorganizational governance of IT. After conducting case studies and interviews with committee members and IT executives, two modes of governance of IT during interorganizational relationships were uncovered: outsourced...
Government agencies increasingly enter into interorganizational alliances to accomplish common goals. Alliances to create and maintain shared IT infrastructures for communication, coordination, and collaboration among agencies are an especially important phenomenon. This article examines three perspectives on the governance of interorganizational alliances (interpersonal interactions, financial ownership,...
Organizations are spending an increasing amount of their budgets on the communication infrastructure. At the same time, the solutions are becoming less defined with more technologies available and accessible. Organizations must develop an informational model and comprehensive strategies to control the flows of resources in their hierarchical structure. The hierarchical system can be decomposed into...
This study represents the confluence of two research streams under the organizational change rubric: linear/nonlinear thinking style-that is the notion that people tend to be either linear, nonlinear or balanced thinkers-and innovative intentions and resulting behaviors in organizations. It was hypothesized that a balanced linear/nonlinear thinking style and the inclination towards more innovative...
Core talent quality assessment in enterprises is very important in keeping core competence for enterprises. By grey system theory, a method based on multiple attribute grey clustering was raised to assess core talent quality in enterprises. The assessment steps of this method were analyzed and an example of this method was given. This method has the advantages of being fit for multiple attribute decision-making...
In 2001, Courtney suggested that organizational problems may be more complex or "wicked" than they seem on the surface, and perhaps a new paradigm for examining decision-making through DSS and knowledge management in organizations would be more appropriate. The notions of multiple perspectives of stakeholders and Churchman's inquiring systems, specifically Singerian inquirers, were integrated...
An analytic methodology involving modeling and simulation could help decision makers determine how their employees' use of social networks impacts their organization, identify how to mitigate potential risks, and evaluate the financial and organizational implications of doing so.
In this paper, the mixed order pricing strategy presented that can effectively motivate the distributors to increase the order quantity and reduce the times of order, especially the times of small quantity replenishment order on the basis of ensuring the same supply chain cluster agility, are presented. The implementation of the mixed order pricing strategy guarantees the same agility of the SMEs...
It is difficult to scientifically determine weights of appraisal indicators of enterprises' undertaking of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) provides a feasible way to accurately determine weights of appraisal indicators. The appraisal indicators system for CSR of private enterprises in Ningbo consists of 13 indicators. According to outcome of questionnaire...
With regard to the development of internal controls, there is lack of an index system of internal control evaluation for listed company. This largely constrains the study progress of listed company's internal control evaluation. To indicates the necessity of construct internal control evaluation system incorporate with the present condition of internal control for listed companies. Then construct...
Constantly increasing complexity of organizational environments and changing demands of the stakeholders severely affects the strategic capabilities of organizations and reduces their decision making ability dramatically. Large-scale complex systems like energy grids, air-ground traffic control systems and logistics systems are designed in multi-actor environments and hence require various perspectives...
Managerial ties may have positive impact on a firm performance. However, it's still unclear how managerial ties influence the decision-making of top managers and a firm performance. This article explores the relationship between managerial ties and firm performance by introducing a mediator of managerial sensemaking based on a survey of 243 firms in China. The empirical results indicate that managerial...
Supply Chain Logistics has been an extensive and increasingly area of research and development in the late forty years. New approaches and improved decision making tools are central issues to address. The Trade-off Matrix and the Prioritization Matrix are important tools in the fields of attribute prioritization, identification and choice. A case study of application of such techniques in a military...
This paper analyzes the causes of channel conflict based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) quantitatively. In the viewpoint of the system, the causes of channel conflict are divided into a number of factors according to the corresponding relations of domination. A hierarchical structure model is established, on which a quantitative research is carried out to investigate the causes of channel conflict...
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