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Berander, Patrik. "Evolving prioritization for software product management /." Karlskrona : Deprtment of Systems and Software Engineering, School of Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2007. http://www.bth.se/fou/Forskinfo.nsf/allfirst2/e68ddab28202b60dc125729f003936e0?OpenDocument.
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Levin-Nielsen, Abraham Michael. "SPATIAL PRIORITIZATION FOR INVASIVE PLANT MANAGEMENT." UKnowledge, 2012. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/forestry_etds/6.
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Invasive exotic plant species have been recognized as serious threats to ecosystems. Extensive research on invasive exotic plant species has primarily focused on the impacts, characteristics, and potential treatments. Decision tools and management models that incorporate these findings often lack input from managers and have limited use in differing invasion scenarios. Therefore, in this study, I created a scientifically-driven framework that incorporates expert input to prioritize watersheds for management within the Inner Bluegrass region of Kentucky. The widely distributed invasive exotic plant Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) was used as an example species. The framework is built around the Analytic Hierarchy Process and highlights areas in most need of invasive exotic plant management by incorporating weighted landscape variables associated with the invasion process. Results of the prioritization provide useful information for natural resource managers by aiding in the development of control strategies while also creating a valuable framework that can be adapted to various invasive exotic plant species.
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PAOLIELLO, DANIELLE BARBOSA. "PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT: PRIORITIZATION PRACTICES IN BANKING INSTITUTIONS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30936@1.
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Os avanços tecnológicos, a acirrada concorrência entre as empresas e as frequentes mudanças sociais e mercadológicas impõem uma constante busca por métodos, ferramentas e processos efetivos de gestão empresarial. Há firmas que buscam vantagem competitiva sustentável para se destacarem dos demais players que atuam no mesmo segmento de mercado globalizado. Existem também empresas que adotam estratégias com intuito apenas de sobrevivência do negócio e outras cujo foco é estritamente social, visando o desenvolvimento da sociedade, sustentabilidade ambiental, dentre outros. Dentro deste contexto, as práticas de gestão de portfólio de projetos estão sendo cada vez mais adotadas para melhoria de processos ou desenvolvimento de produtos e serviços inovadores. Um dos principais desafios enfrentados pelas organizações é definir de maneira adequada o processo de priorização dos projetos, objetivando cumprir as diretrizes estratégicas definidas pela alta cúpula administrativa. O objetivo do presente trabalho é identificar como esta priorização ocorre em instituições financeiras brasileiras. Os procedimentos metodológicos utilizados são a pesquisa bibliográfica e de campo, por meio de estudos de casos com quatro bancos brasileiros. Os resultados da pesquisa indicam a prática de priorização de projetos pelo comitê executivo composto por representantes de diversas áreas. Os projetos regulatórios atendem à demandas legais e são considerados prioritários. Espera-se que os resultados encontrados contribuam para o aumento do conhecimento sobre a priorização dos projetos, gerando novas reflexões e questionamentos acerca do gerenciamento de portfólio de projetos no Brasil.<br>The technological advances, the fierce competition among companies and the frequent social and market changes demand a constant search for effective methods, tools and processes of business management. There are firms that look for a sustainable competitive advantage to stand out from the other players that operate in the same globalized market segment. There are also companies that only adopt business survival strategies and others whose focus is strictly social, aiming at the development of society, environmental sustainability, among others. Within this context, project portfolio management practices is being increasingly adopted to improve processes or develop innovative products and services. One of the greatest challenges companies face is to define an appropriate projects prioritization process, to accomplish the strategic goals defined by top management. The objective of this work is to identify how this prioritization occurs in Brazilian financial institutions. The methodological procedures used is mainly bibliographical and field research, through cases studies with four Brazilian banks. The research results present business practices used in project priorization by the executive committee composed of representatives from different areas. Regulatory projects fulfill legal demands and are considered priorities. It is expected that the results should contribute to rise the knowledge about of the prioritization of projects, produzing new questionings about project portfolio management in Brazil.
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Braley, Kordel Thomas. "A prioritization process for access management implementation in Utah /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1834.pdf.
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Braley, Kordel T. "A Prioritization Process for Access Management Implementation in Utah." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2007. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/896.
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Appropriate access management techniques can improve the safety and efficiency of arterial roads. In order to determine which roads can most benefit by the implementation of access management techniques, a prioritization process was developed to recommend various access management treatments such as limiting access points, installing raised medians, and ensuring adequate signal spacing along corridors. To serve as the basis for the performance index, a database was created including identifying features, characteristics, and crash history for 175 arterial road segments on Utah state routes. Stepwise linear regression was applied to the data collected to determine which characteristics of the roads were correlated with crash rate, crash severity, and specific collision types. Signal spacing, access density, and median type were all determined to be correlated with crash rates and crash severity. Specifically, signals per mile, access density, and two-way left-turn lanes were all positively correlated with crashes. Other characteristics such as adjacent land use and volume were also analyzed. Finally, recommendations for access management treatments were given in the form of a decision tree. The decision tree may be used to classify existing or future road segments into subcategories based on volume, signal spacing, land use, and other criteria, with recommendations provided for each subcategory.
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Arshad, Muteer, and Tehman Pervaiz. "Designing Emergency Management Training Sessions for C3Fire – Prioritization & Information Searching." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-51938.
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<p>C3Fire is an emergency management system. The purpose of this simulation system is to develop teamdecision making skills and to provide an opportunity for researchers to perform research in a controlledenvironment. Training is a crucial task for developing skills to tackle with emergency situation. Thepurpose of this thesis is to develop decision making by keeping focus on two major areas, namely;making prioritizations and information searching using UAV & Non UAV.</p><p>Success of dealing withemergency management situation mostly depends on these training factors.The methodology which we adapt to achieve these two training goals are as follow; first we designtraining sessions based on the literature study and research work. These training sessions are fullycapable of achieving desired goals (i.e. prioritization & information searching). Finally we test thesession by playing game with the participants from the real life.</p><p>In this thesis, theory part discusses literature about C3Fire and theoretical framework explains differentterminologies and methods used in emergency management. Training sessions and their analysis isexplained using theoretical framework. Better ways of communication and prioritization while takingdecisions in emergency situation are discussed.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> C3Fire, Simulation System, Micro World, Teamwork, Situational Awareness, OODA,Prioritization, Information Searching, UAV, Non-UAV</p>
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Amlani, Ankur. "Floor entry task prioritization for highly automated fulfillment centers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126943.
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Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, May, 2020<br>Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, May, 2020 7102 Sloan School of Management.<br>Cataloged from the official PDF of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-106).<br>As automation continues to gain prevalence within the retail industry, informed decision-making by users of robotic systems is critical for management of throughput and operating expenditures. On robotic fulfillment floors, obstructions such as fallen product and deactivated robots can degrade robotic floor throughput by blocking access to product, forcing robots to re-route, and increasing worker idle time. Workers can walk onto the floor to address obstructions during operation, but such entry affects robot movement and can undermine the original intention of restoring throughput. This project aims to provide insight into the cost-benefit tradeoff of resolving obstructions to enable task prioritization and reduce unnecessary floor entry during operation, thereby improving system performance and reducing operating costs. We introduce a novel framework for modeling floor entry to determine the "value" of resolving an obstruction and apply an agile approach to rapidly develop and pilot a software tool for delivery of model recommendations in the field. During the treatment shifts, z-scores of measured pick work unavailability (our chosen performance metric, for which a reduction is indicative of improved throughput), were -0.72, -1.04, and -0.16 as compared with a control sample of similar shifts. The approximate fraction of obstructions resolved during non-operation increased by a factor of three, with recommendation adherence measurements indicating that the increase was driven by elimination of unnecessary (as determined by the model) floor entries during operation. While the sample size was not large enough to achieve a statistically significant outcome, these results offer useful insights regarding future analytical work, testing, and associated organizational changes.<br>by Ankur Amlani.<br>M.B.A.<br>S.M.<br>M.B.A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management<br>S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Simonsson, Filip, Azucar Eduardo Cuadra, and Johan Roos. "Motivational Factors and their Prioritization for GMP in Nordic SMEs." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-39849.
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Purpose - The subject of green management and its connection to motivational factors is relatively unexplored in existing literature, especially regarding SMEs in the Nordic Countries. The paper aims to investigate frequencies of motivational factors as SMEs present them, suggest the theoretical prioritization of motivational factors for green management practices, and factors impact on different levels of green management. The reason for this is to help SMEs to better understand what motivational factors to prioritize to further their green management development. Design/Method - The chosen research method of this paper is quantitative, and the empirical data is collected through questionnaires distributed using business networks in the Nordic Countries. Furthermore, the research takes an abductive approach, with a positivist paradigm, and a mixture of ontological, epistemological, and method research assumption. Findings - This paper has found that at different levels of green management practices specific factors of motivation should theoretically be prioritized based on a regression model. Furthermore, the suggested prioritization is different from presented by the sample of this paper. Research Implications - Theoretically, the thesis suggests a conceptual map of existing frameworks and the motivational factors presented. Practically, SMEs can draw from this study to see if their prioritised motivation for implementation of green management is effective or if they can further improve it.
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Imlay, Ashton David. "Improving order prioritization for the allocation of constrained supply." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122576.
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Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2019, In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT<br>Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2019, In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 54-55).<br>For top wholesale retail companies, the demand for products from US-based customers (wholesale, digital, and direct to consumer) is extremely high. However, the available supply of a product is contingent upon the success of long-term forecasting, manufacturers across the globe, and intercontinental transportation. Therefore, there is not always enough supply to meet demand. In these situations, wholesale retailers must decide which orders to prioritize in the allocation of available supply. This thesis presents a method for improving order prioritization by utilizing readily available data to wholesale retail companies and a method for predicting the effectiveness of the new prioritization methodology utilizing historical data. By prioritizing orders that meet certain characteristics deemed to be in-line with company strategy and simulating multiple conditions, it is possible to deliver improved service on a specific set of orders. The impact of this work has been verified through a simulation model. The model was used to simulate three months of supply and demand and indicated a possible increase of 10-90% in the number of units made available to ship to specific marketplace segments.<br>by Ashton David Imlay.<br>M.B.A.<br>S.M.<br>M.B.A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management<br>S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Mitchell, Steven. "HEURISTIC PRIORITIZATION OF EMERGENCY EVACUATION STAGING TO REDUCE CLEARANCE TIME." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4433.
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A region's evacuation strategy encompasses a variety of areas and needs. Primary among these is the minimization of total evacuation time, represented in models as the clearance time estimate (CTE). A generic testbed simulation network model was developed. An input/output (I/O) analysis was performed to establish a theoretical baseline CTE. Results were compared with simulations; analysis showed that the I/O method underestimated simulated CTE as a function of network size, with a correction factor range of 1.09 to 1.19. A regression model was developed for the generic network. Predictors were total trips, and network size defined as a function of origin-destination distance. Total Trips ranged between 40,000 and 60,000. Holding size constant, R-squared values ranged from 97.1 to 99.3, indicating a high goodness of fit. Holding Total Trips constant, R-squared values ranged from 74.5 to 89.2. Finally, both Total Trips and size were used as predictors; the resulting regression model had an R-squared value of 97.3. This overall model is more useful, since real world situations are not fixed in nature. The overall regression model was compared to a case network. The generic network regression model provided a close CTE approximation; deltas ranged from -4.7% to 8.6%. It was concluded that a generic network can serve as a surrogate for a case network over these ranges. This study developed and evaluated heuristic strategies for evacuation using the generic network. Strategies were compared with a simultaneous departure loading scenario. Six different grouping strategies were evaluated. An initial evaluation was conducted using the generic network, and strategies that showed potential CTE reduction were implemented on the case study network. Analysis indicated that the HF-10 (half-far) grouping for 60k total trips showed potential reduction. A complete simulation was conducted on the case network for all HF scenarios; an ANOVA was run using Dunnett's comparison. Results indicated that the HF grouping with 20% and 30% departure shifts showed potential for CTE reduction. From this it was concluded that the generic network could be used as a testbed for strategies that would show success on a case network.<br>Ph.D.<br>Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering<br>Engineering and Computer Science<br>Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Chui, Man-fat James, and 崔文法. "Prioritization of maintenance works for owner-occupiers in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4440072X.
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Schwain, Kevin D. (Kevin Douglas) 1974. "Prioritization and integration of lean initiatives with theory of constraints." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34774.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2004.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-45).<br>The principles of lean manufacturing have taken hold in a number of manufacturing firms as a means of achieving operational excellence through continuous improvement. Womack and Jones have suggested a generalized process for lean transformation in their 1996 book, Lean Thinking. A key element of this process is the creation of value stream maps for each product line. Value stream maps are the basis for planning and tracking a firm's lean transformation. Rother and Shook go further in their 1998 work Learning to See as they describe how these maps are created and then integrated into both the transformation process and the regular business planning cycle. The authors note that difficult questions remain, including: "In what order should we implement?" and "Where do we start?" Advice offered by Rother and Shook is helpful but insufficient given the complexity of many business environments and the scarcity of resources in competitive industries. This thesis builds upon Rother and Shook's work in proposing a framework for prioritizing lean initiatives. Specifically, Theory of Constraints (TOC) tools are employed as a basis for selecting programs and projects that provide the greatest system-wide productivity improvement for the least cost. In this manner, application of the proposed prioritization framework results in a more effective and efficient lean transformation. Research at the Eastman Kodak Company illustrates how this framework can be applied in a paper finishing production facility. Results highlight the system constraint in the paper slitting operation and the high leverage of machine changeover time in productivity improvement. We conclude that the Theory of Constraints can provide an effective focusing tool for the lean enterprise.<br>by Kevin D. Schwain.<br>S.M.<br>M.B.A.
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Han, Byungho. "Development, implementation, and application of project prioritization system in wafer fabrication manufacturing." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10908.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaf 65).<br>by Byungho Han.<br>M.S.
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Kaiser, Alexander, Florian Fahrenbach, Florian Kragulj, and Thomas Grisold. "Towards a prioritization of needs to support decision making in organizational change processes." IEEE Computer Society Press, 2018. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5998/1/paper0555.pdf.
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce a decision support system to prioritize needs that are anchored in an organization. We build on a systems-thinking approach and develop a weighted additive index which considers different viewpoints of organizational stakeholders. First, we briefly review the literature about identifying and prioritizing needs from various scientific disciplines. Then, we use boundary critique to identify critical stakeholders that lead to three different viewpoints in the decision support system. The internal view reflects needs that members of the organization find important and urgent to be satisfied. The external view considers knowledge of outsiders, i.e. who do not work in the organization but are acquainted with it (e.g. experts, customers, facilitators). The systemic view considers system inherent interrelations of needs as perceived by decision makers in the organization. These stakeholder views get assessed by different dimensions, which are subsequently combined and weighted. Based on a method to identify needs, we apply this index in an case study conducted in Austria and discuss implications for theory and practice.
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Jansson, Victor. "A Prioritization Model for Investments : A Case Study at Volvo Group Trucks Operations." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Industriell teknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-387892.
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Volvo’s plant in Umeå has a constant need for development, where to start new activities like projects and investments are important tools, where the competition on the market is increasing. The need for investments are major compared to the resources available, both in terms of human resources and economic resources. The plant needs to prioritize trying to choose what kind of investments are the best for the plant’s future. The problem is that there is a lack of reliable priority model for investments that consider several different parameters. To solve this issue the goal is to create a useful model that can work as a tool to prioritize projects and investments in an appropriate and reliable way. The study began with a literature review to make the researcher approach the subject and gather the knowledge needed for this study. After this, qualitative semi-structured interviews were made with different managers at the plant, to acquire their expertise and knowledge regarding the selection of criteria and their preferences of how the model should work. The next step was to analyze the old model used at the plant, its strengths, and weaknesses. At the same time, constant discussions were held with the supervisor and his manager but as well with the university, mainly through seminars. When the researcher felt he was ready he started to create the new model. There were 30 criteria included in the model, mainly collected through interviews. The large number of criteria collected were sorted into Volvo’s catchwords SQDCEP (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Environmental, People). These were decided to function as the main criteria in the model, and all the 30 criteria were called sub-criteria. The model itself originates from a process called the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). It is an established and wellknown methodology to make prioritizations. Its main idea is to compare every single project against each other which makes the method very thoughtful, solid and probably better than other ones. The conclusion is that the model is complete and should work perfectly to be used for Volvo and other companies in the complex manufacturing industry. Furthermore, the criteria chosen for the model should also be applicable for other similar companies to Volvo, as the criteria are not unique.
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Rahal, Ahmad D. "ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK FOR THE EVALUATION AND PRIORITIZATION OF UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGIES FOR LICENSING AND COMMERCIALIZATION." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2623.
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US corporations have long recognized university related scientific research as an important source of long term economic growth and technological innovation. This dynamic involvement with industry has drastically increased the university technology transfer and licensing activities, and has stretched the human and financial resources of Technology Management and Licensing Offices of many US universities. This research provides a mechanism that can aid in the complex process of properly assessing university-owned technologies and intellectual properties, to identify those with licensing and commercialization potential for the pursuit of truly important breakthrough discoveries. This research focuses on the university technology licensing and commercialization process from the perspectives of those licensing professionals whose firms' activities are engaged in licensing-in university technologies. The objectives of this research are to: 1.Identify the decision factors and licensing determinants that influence or impact the licensing and commercialization of university technologies. 2.Build and conduct a survey among those licensing professionals involved in the technology licensing process to determine the relative importance of each of the licensing determinants identified in the literature review, and their most current and up to date selection criteria for technologies they license. 3.Develop a framework to assist the University Technology Management & Transfer Office's personnel and other stakeholders in the assessment of the potential viability of the university technologies for licensing and commercialization.<br>Ph.D.<br>Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems<br>Engineering and Computer Science<br>Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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Hosten, Akyiaa Makeda. "District Level Preventive Maintenance Treatment Selection Tool for Use in Virginia." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19264.
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Preventive maintenance has the potential to improve network condition by retarding future pavement deterioration. The Virginia Department of Transportation uses its pavement management system to determine maintenance targets for each district. The districts then use these recommendations to select pavements that will receive maintenance and the types of treatments that will be applied. Each district has a different approach to preventive maintenance. There was a need for more consistent preventive maintenance practices across the state. <br />This thesis outlines guidelines for the implementation of a preventive maintenance policy. Preventive maintenance treatments currently being used within Virginia include chip seal, slurry seal, microsurfacing, and thin hot mix asphalt overlays. Historical pavement condition data was obtained from the VDOT PMS for these treatments and treatment performance models were developed. A district level treatment selection tool was developed to assist the district level decision making process. A prioritized list of pavement sections was generated, maximizing the cost-effectiveness of the selected treatments subject to budgetary constraints set by the central office. <br />The treatment selection tool was then run for each pavement classification in each district. The results of this analysis were presented. Although the recommended budget for each district was very close to the targets set by the central office, the recommended lane miles for each district were about half the targets set by the central office. It is believed that the unit costs used in this analysis were higher than those used in the VDOT PMS analysis. This selection tool has the potential to be a very powerful decision support tool if the unit costs are representative of what the expected treatment costs are for each district.<br /><br>Master of Science
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Aykaç, Tayfun [Verfasser]. "Teams in Intercultural Business Negotiations : prioritization of negotiation issues, adaptation to culture-bound negotiation styles, and (un-)ethical behavior / Tayfun Aykaç." Berlin : ESCP Europe Wirtschaftshochschule Berlin, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1071074164/34.
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Davis, Daniel Jacob. "Achieving Six Sigma printed circuit board yields by improving incoming component quality and using a PCBA prioritization algorithm." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43831.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2008.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-143).<br>Printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) are the backbone of the electronics industry. PCBA technologies are keeping pace with Moore's Law and will soon enable the convergence of video, voice, data, and mobility onto a single device. With the rapid advancements in product and component technologies, manufacturing tests are being pushed to the limits as consumers are demanding higher quality and more reliable electronics than ever before. Cisco Systems, Inc. (Cisco) currently manufactures over one thousand different types of printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) per quarter all over the world. Each PCBA in Cisco's portfolio has an associated complexity to its design determined by the number of interconnects, components, and other variables. PCBA manufacturing yields have historically been quite variable. In order to remain competitive, there is an imminent need to attain Six Sigma PCBA yields while controlling capital expenditures and innovating manufacturing test development and execution. Recently, Cisco kicked off the Test Excellence initiative to improve overall PCBA manufacturing yields and provided the backdrop to this work study. This thesis provides a first step on the journey to attaining Six Sigma PCBA manufacturing yields. Using Six Sigma techniques, two hypotheses are developed that will enable yield improvements: (1) PCBA yields can be improved by optimizing component selection across the product portfolio by analyzing component cost and quality levels, and (2) Using the Six Sigma DMAIC (define-measure-analyze-improve-control) method and the TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preferences by Similarity to Ideal Solutions) algorithm, PCBA yields will improve by optimally prioritizing manufacturing resources on the most important PCBAs first.<br>(cont.) The two analytical tools derived in this thesis will provide insights into how PCBA manufacturing yields can be improved today while enabling future yield improvements to occur.<br>by Daniel Jacob Davis.<br>S.M.<br>M.B.A.
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Yakin, Cenkler. "Quantifying Risk Management Process In A Software Organization." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607138/index.pdf.
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This study presents a quantifying risk management process and its application on a software organization in terms of risk items mitigated, exposures covered, costs, and expected exposures covered.
Risk management is defined as setting forth a discipline and environment of proactive decisions and actions to assess continuously what can go wrong (risks), to determine what risks are important to deal with, and to implement strategies to deal with those risks. Risk management can be applied in all of the business areas. In the literature, there are sources for risk management. Some of them are qualitative, and some of them are quantitative. However, there is no much source about the application study of a quantifying risk management process on a software organization.
In order to obtain insight about this issue, this study presents a quantifying risk management system to the literature and also compares the quantifying risk management policies on the data set of a software organization by finding out and analyzing their performance with respect to designated decision parameters and preference profiles for risk items mitigated, exposures covered, costs, and expected exposures covered. At the end of this study, suitable quantifying risk management policies for each profile are recommended by considering the analysis of the data set as base.
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Christoffels, Mervyn. "The influence of stakeholder power, proximity and urgency on the selection and prioritization of projects within IT project portfolio management." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10214.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-122).<br>IT investments constitute a major portion of the capital budgets of many organizations. It can be challenging to select the right projects that fit the corporate strategy to maximize value for the organization. In the past, senior executives focused on projects that met three criteria, namely being on-time, on budget and in scope. However, a shift has occurred as a result of the fact that senior executives are more concerned about the right mix of projects that will best utilise the organization's resources and deliver long-range growth. Some of the benefits of IT Project Portfolio Management (IT PPM) are to provide executives with the ability to monitor projects ensure business alignment and identify risks quickly. It is argued that maintaining a balanced portfolio of diverse projects can reduce the risk of an individual project and can produce a higher rate of return.
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Bothén, Niklas, Erik Brantås, and Carl Johan Stening. "Who Matters?! : External stakeholder analysis in projects." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Business Studies, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-127099.
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<p>Stakeholder management is a topic that has received increased attention in later years. Researchers have tried to answer the question of which stakeholders that really matters to organizations and developed ways for identifying and prioritizing among stakeholders. This thesis fills a void in academia by looking exclusively on external stakeholders in large and complex projects such as the construction of power plants. The thesis investigates the approach towards external stakeholders as well as the process of identifying and prioritizing external stakeholders in this specific setting. By using attributes identified in earlier research, a theoretical framework was created that was used to investigate two of Sweden’s largest companies through a qualitative case study. The thesis describe how stakeholder identification and prioritization occurs in the different case companies and ultimately contribute with a new model that can be used by managers to prioritize among external stakeholder in organizational projects.</p>
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Mehary, Selamawit Tesfayesus. "Assessment of Seismic Retrofit Prioritization Methodology for Oregon's Highway Bridges Based on the Vulnerability of Highway Segments." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4509.
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Geologists have indicated that the question is not if a catastrophic earthquake will occur in Oregon but when one will occur. Scientists estimate that there is close to 40 percent conditional probability that a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake of magnitude 8.0 or above will strike Oregon in the next 50 years. In addition, the majority of Oregon's bridge inventory was built prior to the current understanding of bridge response and prior to current understanding of the expected earthquake demands. In order to minimize potential bridge damage in the case of an earthquake, one approach is to retrofit seismically deficient bridges. However, often times the decision maker is faced with the difficulty of selecting only a few bridges within the inadequate ones. Hence, the issue of prioritizing upgrading naturally arises. The goal of this study is to assess and refine bridge prioritization methodology to be utilized for ranking Oregon's bridge inventory. CFRP retrofit has been experimentally and analytically evaluated to demonstrate the effectiveness of the technique and was found to be an efficient and economical option. A vulnerability assessment estimates that close to 30 percent of Oregon's highway bridge inventory will sustain moderate damage to collapse. However, retrofitting two most common bridge types in the inventory will reduce the number of damaged bridges by about 70 percent. A cost-benefit assessment that takes into consideration direct and indirect costs associated with damaged bridges and retrofitting of bridges shows that the benefit is up to three times the cost to retrofit. The same principle was applied to rank twelve highway segments for seismic retrofit considered important by Oregon Department of Transportation. One selected segment was considered to be retrofitted and vulnerability assessed. The benefit to cost ratios for each assessment was compared and the highway segments were ranked accordingly. The top five segments in the ranking happen to be located in the East-West corridor connecting I-5 to US-101.
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Andrei, Arratia-Falcon. "Prioritering av icke-funktionella krav i praktiken : Ur ett agilt perspektiv." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-210354.
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Requirements management is an important part of the software development process. The success of a project may depend on how this is handled. Even though several research studies indicates that more attention should be paid on non-functional requirements, the primary focus in practical projects still regards identifying functional requirements. Especially the prioritization of the non-functional requirements has been proven to be of great importance for the success of a project. This report investigates basics in agile requirements management involving opinions from experts from a software development company. This is done with help of existing literature and interviews with key actors involved in prioritization at the company. I investigate prioritization of non-functional requirements and possibilities for agile project development. The results contribute to developing an overall understanding of the agile way of working. The methodology of this report follows a qualitative approach. It is based on secondary data from literature and documents, but also on data collected via interviews. The results are acknowledging earlier findings from the literature and illustrate with examples actual prioritization of non-functional requirements, and how and why prioritization is a complex activity at a company. However, according to one of the most important findings of this study, the strict use of prioritization techniques is not the most urgent necessity for the success of a project.<br>Kravhanteringen är en viktig del av systemutvecklingsprocessen. Ett projekts framgång kan kopplas till hur detta genomförs. Även om flera studier pekar på att mer uppmärksamhet bör läggas på icke-funktionella krav är den primära fokusen i flera projekt fortfarande att identifiera funktionella krav. Speciellt prioriteringen av de icke-funktionella kraven har visat sig vara av stor betydelse för ett lyckat projekt. Den här rapporten undersöker grunderna i den agila kravhanteringen som involverar åsikter från experter i ett företag inom mjukvaruutveckling. Detta görs med hjälp av befintlig litteratur samt intervjuer med nyckelaktörer involverade i prioriteringen hos företaget. Jag undersöker prioriteringen av icke-funktionella krav och möjligheter för agil projektutveckling hos företaget. Följaktligen kommer resultatet bidra till att ge läsaren en allmän förståelse om det agila arbetssättet. Metodologin för den här rapporten följer ett kvalitativt tillvägagångssätt. Den baseras på sekundär data från litteratur och dokument, men även data insamlat via intervjuer. Resultaten medger tidigare upptäckter från litteraturen och visar med exempel verklig prioritering av icke-funktionella krav samt hur och varför prioriteringen är en komplex aktivitet hos ett företag. Dock är, enligt en av de viktigaste upptäckterna i den här rapporten, ett strikt användande av prioriteringstekniker inte den viktigaste nödvändigheten för ett lyckat projekt.
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O'Har, John Patrick. "Transportation asset management systems: a risk-oriented decision making approach to bridge investment." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/41231.
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Transportation Asset Management (TAM) systems are in use at a significant number of transportation agencies. These systems can be used to effectively allocate resources and continuously inventory and monitor the condition of transportation infrastructure assets. Risk-oriented decision making is becoming an increasingly important component of the management process at many organizations, including transportation agencies. TAM systems can be used to incorporate risk assessment and risk management techniques at transportation agencies.
To demonstrate the value of incorporating risk in TAM systems, an examination of the literature was performed, and a case study was conducted. This case study incorporated risk in bridge project prioritization through the utilization of data from the National Bridge Inventory (NBI), and application of Multi Attribute Decision Making (MADM) concepts to address uncertainty and prioritize selected bridges in the state of Georgia.
The case study examines the impacts of data aggregation and disaggregation, and the incorporation of uncertainty on bridge project prioritization. Results of this analysis show that when available, disaggregate data on bridge condition should be used. In addition, uncertainty, in terms of performance risk, should be incorporated when past bridge condition data is available. Furthermore, decision-maker input is an important component of the Multi Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) prioritization methodology used in this analysis. Decision-makers determine the relative importance of certain attributes, which is one of the strengths of this type of prioritization effort.
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LARSSON, ANNA, and KONKORDIYA TRIFONOVA. "Aligning product development with strategy : A Case study at Saab Combat Systems Division." Thesis, KTH, Industriell Management, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-191096.
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to increase the knowledge of how the existing gap betweenstrategy formulation and strategy implementation can be bridged in a project-‐based organization. The reason for this is to contribute with an empirical example of what challenges and obstacles are associated with this gap and how these can be solved.Method: The investigation of the strategy implementation in a project-‐based organization has been conducted as a case study. To collect the necessary empirical material, three rounds of interviews were held with relevant employees of the case company, such as the Head of Strategy, Head of Product and sales people. The interviews have been complemented by collection of documents and participation in meetings held at the case company.Findings: The findings of the case study have showed that the strategy can be implemented in three ways in a project-‐based organization: through the organizational structure, through the executed external projects and through the portfolio management. Additionally, the findings have revealed a number of existing problems within strategy implementation. The major challenges found were achieving balance in the Balanced Scorecard, prioritization of both internal and external projects and managing a programme as a project, which were confirmed in the literature.Practical implications: This study has resulted in a description of how a project-‐based organization implements its strategy. Furthermore, this study highlights the existing challenges within this process, such as achieving balance in the Balanced Scorecard and better prioritizing the internal and external projects.Theoretical implications: This study contributes with increased insight and knowledge of how a project-‐based organization implements strategy and thus, expands the knowledge of how the gap between strategy formulation and implementation can be decreased. Several problems highlighted in the literature associated with this gap have been verified by this study. In this way, additional theoretical implications are the proposed solutions for how these problems can be solved.<br>Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att öka kunskapen om hur det existerande gapet mellan strategiformulering och strategiimplementering kan överbryggas i en projektbaserad organisation. Anledningen till detta är att bidra med ett empiriskt exempel kring vilka utmaningarnas och hinder som associeras med detta gap samt hur dessa kan överkommas. Metod: Undersökningen av strategiimplementeringen i en projektbaserad organisation har genomförts i form av en fallstudie. För att samla in det nödvändiga empiriska materialet har tre intervjurundor genomförts tillsammans med relevanta anställda på fallstudieföretaget. Exempel på dessa är Strategichefen, Produktchefen och säljare. Intervjuerna var kompletterade genom insamling av dokument och genom deltagande på möten som hölls på fallstudieföretaget. Resultat: Resultat av denna fallstudie visar att strategi kam implementeras på tre sätt i en projektbaserad organisation: genom organisationsstrukturen, genom exekveringen av externa projekt och genom portföljhantering. Resultaten har också visat ett antal existerande problem inom rategiimplementeringen. De stora utmaningarna är att uppnå balansen i de balanserade styrkorten, prioriteringen av både interna och externa projekt och hantera ett program som ett projekt. Dessa utmaningar var bekräftade i litteraturen. Praktiskt bidrag: Denna studie har resulterat i en beskrivning av hur en projektbaserad organisation implementerar sin strategi. Dessutom har denna studie lyft fram de existerande utmaningarna inom denna process, såsom att uppnå balansen i de balanserade styrkorten och bättre prioritering av interna och externa projekt. Vetenskapligt bidrag: Denna studie bidrar med ökad insyn och kunskap om hur en projektbaserad organisation implementerar strategi och således, utvidgar kunskapen om hur gapet mellan strategiformuleringen och implementeringen kan minska. Flera problem som lyfts fram i litteraturen och som associeras med detta gap har blivit bekräftade i denna studie. Därför är de föreslagna lösningarna på hur dessa problem kan lösas ännu ett vetenskapligt bidrag.
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Lami, Francesco. "Bridging applied ecology and network theory to improve landscape management for conservation." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3423178.
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Agricultural intensification is widely considered a major threat to biodiversity and ecosystem services. To better protect biological communities, it is necessary to gain a more detailed understanding of the way species use habitats and move across increasingly simplified landscapes. Traditional landscape ecology approaches are mainly based on the dichotomy between focal semi-natural habitat patches and the surrounding agricultural matrix. While the advances made possible by the landscape mosaic model are undeniable, this approach fails to account for real-world complexity, as many species are known to use multiple habitat types (natural and disturbed) during their life cycle. In addition to landscape changes, many local factors (including management such as soil disturbance or pest control) can impact biodiversity, often interacting with each other. In order to inform efficient biodiversity management actions in the future, it is crucial to increase our knowledge on the way local and landscape factors can impact biodiversity at multiple spatial scales. The general aim of this thesis was to develop a novel approach to the study of species-habitat interactions, and to apply the approach to answer some pressing questions about the way landscape simplification influences important arthropod functional groups. Additionally, we studied the effects of local factors on an arthropodmediated ecosystem service (weed seed predation) in the same area. Arthropods were chosen as they are among the most abundant and ecologically relevant organisms in agroecosystems, providing a wide variety of pivotal services. The new approach, based on network theory, showed that landscape simplification reduces habitat specialization in low-mobility insect groups, and allowed us to pinpoint the most important habitat types for the facilitation of arthropod movement through the landscape mosaics. Our local-level study, on the other hand, highlighted how multiple factors can interact in a complex way in shaping ecosystem services. This study demonstrates the potential of the novel species-habitat network approach as a complementary tool for investigating landscape-biodiversity interactions, while simultaneously unveiling new information on the way landscape changes and local factors influence key arthropod groups. This enabled us to provide a series of recommendations for biodiversity management actions, varying depending on the target group. Overall, our research is a reminder of the importance of taking into account multiple potentially interacting factors at different spatial scales to correctly understand and manage biodiversity-related processes.
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Cadorin, Dario, and Rami Darwish. "Decision making biases in project portfolio selection and prioritization : An exploratory study of the rationale behind decision making leading to project portfolio problems." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-98097.
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Moleli, Moletsane Tarcisius. "Reduction of the causes of stock-outs in ERP supply chain management by prioritization of the causes : a case study at the City of Cape Town." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2725.
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Thesis (MTech (Business Information Systems))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018.<br>Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have a good reputation for automation and strength in the integration of business processes (BPs), therefore more and more organisations are adopting ERP systems. The City of Cape Town (CCT), a metropolitan municipality, is one of the organisations that have adopted an ERP system. CCT provides a wide range of services to residents and citizens in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The ERP system at CCT manages the Supply Chain Management (SCM) processes, among others, to ensure good service delivery. ERP systems are able to provide statistical reports on stock-outs; however, the information provided is insufficient to link a specific stock-out to its causes within the SCM process at CCT. This makes it difficult to select the most appropriate solution to minimise the causes and number of stock-outs. The study aims to explore the possible reduction of the causes of stock-outs at CCT stores, therefore the study has adopted a qualitative research methodology with a case study research strategy. It uses subjectivism to understand the truth, with an inductive approach applied to five different interviewee groups, namely the ERP Support Department consultants, the Procurement Department, the Inventory and Stores Management Department, the Master Data Maintenance Department, and the reservation creators. A purposive sampling method is used because the study targets knowledge and experience on the subject from the interviewees in the investigation of the problem. The case is the SCM division at CCT, the unit of analysis is the CCT stores, and the unit of observation is the employees who work for the SCM division of CCT. All ethical procedures and policies of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) are adhered to. For the data collection, in depth semi-structured questions have been developed, and the data were analysed using thematic analysis. The leading causes of stock-outs were discovered by analysing the themes. The results revealed the themes, in descending order according to the causes of stock-outs, as follows: procedures, service delivery, suppliers, stock-outs, human resources, and systems. All the objectives were achieved, thereby answering the research questions.
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Thorne, Nicholas. "Towards Lean & Green production management in the pharmaceutical industry : A framework for E-VSM and Kaizen event prioritization through a systematic literature review and case study at AstraZeneca." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar produktionsutveckling (ML), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-297653.
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In order to pursure both environmental and operational targets to facilitate the sustainable transformation of the organization, manufacturers are increasingly incorporating Lean & Green (L&G) production management approaches. Environmental value stream map (E-VSM), which is one of the most well-known L&G tools, allows manufacturers to systematically document, visualize and analyse both environmental and operational performance indicators for each process within a value stream. E-VSM has caught the attention of AstraZeneca, who are looking to implement L&G tools into their current Lean meanufacturing structure to pursue their sustainability targets in the area of environmental protection. Therefore, there is a need to evaluate whether E-VSM is effective within the context of pharmaceutical manufacturing. In this study, a systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted to explore the incentives, success factors, challenges and expected results of L&G implementation, with a specific focus on E-VSM deployment within continuous improvement (Kaizen) cycles. Subsequently, E-VSM was deployed within a pharmaceutical product value stream in a pilot project case study to generate empirical evidence of the tools effectiveness in this context. Kaizen event prioritization is the process of selecting a limited number of improvement activities to implement out of a larger set based on highest perceived benefits due to resource limitations. This study proposes an E-VSM and Kaizen framework which includes a method for systematic Kaizen event prioritization based on the SLR and case study findings. The results indicate that E-VSM is an effective tool for documentation and visualization of environmental indicators in a pharmaceutical production context. Most notably, by introducing a carbon footprint (CF) indicator and using a lifecycle perspective in the E-VSM, CF assessment was integrated into the tool successfully. The E-VSM led to identification of five Kaizen events that would collectively decrease the CF of the value stream by an estimated 65% if implemented. The E-VSM and Kaizen event prioritization framework relies on using the E-VSM to systematically quantify an environmental performance index and transforming it into criteria for Kaizen event prioritization. Future research is directed towards further systemaizing the Kaizen event prioritization method and validating the full framework in various industries.
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Krohwinkel-Karlsson, Anna. "The soft time constraint : studies of project extension within an aid agency." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Institute of International Business (IIB), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-505.
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Borneman, Chiara, and Figueira Mateus Possati. "Managing Portfolios of Developing Projects in a Complex Environment : How the UN Assign Priorities to Programmes at the Country Level." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-145417.
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Purpose: This research intends to shed a light in the practice of project portfolio management in the non-traditional – although project oriented – aid sector. The research aim is to study the decision-making structures supporting the prioritization of projectsand/or programmes in multilateral organizations, which play a determinant role in the development aid sector. Research Methodology: Through an in-depth and-holistic case study, the empiricalresearch investigated how the UN coordination practitioners perceived the role of thecontext in the implementation of the Delivery as One Approach, which comprehends aset of standards and procedures (SOPs) supporting the management of multiple UN entities at the country level, to enhance effectiveness, efficiency, coherence and impact. A total of 9 semi-structured interviews were conducted with current and former employees in the UN resident coordination office in a range of countries in Africa, LatinAmerica and the Middle East. From the collection of qualitative data, the researchers wereable to grasp the nuances of the data set through the elaboration of templates, which based the further discussion and conclusions of the work. Research Findings: The empirical findings confirmed the relevance of a number of constructs identified in the theoretical framework, defining how the context influences the decision making that takes place in the prioritization of programmes in the development aid sector. Specifically, the results highlight the relevance of the governancestructure, the bounded rationality of decision makers, specific characteristics of the decision, country peculiarities, and the different sources of uncertainty. Moreover, the relationships between these factors were highlighted through a relationship network diagram that clearly identifies the complex interrelations between these factors and theirsub-themes. Research Delimitations and Limitations: The delimitations in this study are characterized as the choices made by the researchers on the parameters considered and mentioned, setting the boundaries for the investigation. From a methodological standpoint, by using the single case study method, the findings and conclusion of the present research applies majorly to the organization studied. Originality / Value: This research advances the portfolio management literature on the field of international development aid and expands the understanding of how the aspects of this unique environment influences the decision making of assigning priorities to projects and programmes. Furthermore, the research draws attention to the different sources of uncertainties originating from the context, inherent of these types oforganizations.
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Collier, Denise Lou. "A systems approach to school improvement : the identification and prioritization of core educational systems and processes using the Baldrige quality criteria as an improvement framework for high-performing schools /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3026194.
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Rojas, Laura, and Marcela Figueroa. "Selecting and Prioritizing Projects : A study on Intergovernmental and Non-profit Organizations." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-145092.
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Nowadays, organizations are shifting towards project-based management strategies in order to implement more flexible structures that allow them to respond and compete in complex business environments. In this way, project management has been regarded as a valuable competence, providing the organization and its management teams the opportunity to adapt the knowledge, skills and tools necessary to meet project requirements as well as organizational goals. Among the wide array of decisions project managers have to evaluate project selection (PS) and project prioritization (PP) are crucial in order to maximize stakeholder’s value through the effective management and allocation of resources to projects that are in alignment with the organization’s strategic objectives. Moreover, the integration of management techniques, guidelines and practices has also become a necessity for intergovernmental (IGOs) and non-profit organizations (NPOs), especially because they do not possess a conventional bottom line and in most instances, their main goal is rarely profit maximization. Although the main objective of operations of IGOs and NPOs is also success, this is difficult to be defined and evaluated. As a matter of fact, studies related to project management in IGOs and NPOs argue that the literature available has ignored the public good sector to a great extent, since the majority of the portfolio management tools available are tailored for commercial and for-profit organizations (FPOs). Consequently, this study explores the project portfolio management (PPM) process in intergovernmental and non-profit organizations focusing specifically on the decision-making process regarding project selection and prioritization. It provides an understanding of the main criteria these organizations take into consideration when selecting and prioritizing projects and the impact these methodologies have in terms of achieving project and organizational success. In addition, it examines the role of the project management office (PMO) and individual project managers based on their influence on the decisions concerning project selection and prioritization, as well as project success and organizational success. The key findings of this study confirm the relevance of the priorities determined by the main stakeholders as one of the principal criteria for project selection, followed by the allocation of funding and resources and the need for strategic alignment. Furthermore, in terms of determining a ranking among the selection criteria, this study has found that within these organizations all the different requirements encompassed in the selection process should be treated as equal. Additionally, it has been possible to determine that for intergovernmental and non-profit organizations the project selection and project prioritization phases are not isolated from one another; and are in fact treated as on single criteria. Conversely, the findings of this study contradict the proposition that the project management office is highly influential in the decision-making process of IGOs and IGOs; however, it emphasizes the role of the project manager in project and organizational success as highly valuable since they possess the hard and soft project management skills that increase the chances to achieve the organizational goals.
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Shockley, Kristen M. "You can’t always get what you want, but does it matter? The relationship between prechild preferences and post-child actual labor division fit and well-being." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1770.
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Significant shifts in social ideology and legislation have brought about considerable changes in work and family dynamics in the Western world, and the male as breadwinner-wife as homemaker model is no longer the norm. However, despite increasingly gender egalitarian ideals, the division of labor among dual-earner couples tends to adopt a "neo traditional" once children are born, where women devote more time to family labor and men spend more time in paid employment
Although asymmetrical divisions of labor have clear workplace and societal consequences in terms of women's earnings, organizational advancement, and inequality, the effects on individual well-being are not well understood. The purpose of the present study was to apply the theoretical lens of person-environment fit to examine how misfit between dual-earner couples' pre-child division of labor preferences and post-child actual divisions of labor relate to affective (career, marital, and family satisfaction) and health-related (depression and physical health symptoms) well-being. Additionally, several conditions were posited to temper the strengths of these relationships (domain centrality, gender, voice in division of labor decision making, and satisfaction with the current division of labor).
Participants were 126 dual-earner couples with small children, and hypotheses were testing using polynomial regression analyses. The results suggested that congruence between an individual's own pre-child desires for the division of paid labor and the actual post-child division of paid labor relates to his/her own career and marital satisfaction, depression, and physical health symptoms. Congruence in the family domain is also important, as desire-division of family labor fit related to affective sentiments toward family and one's spouse. With the exception of career satisfaction, these relationships were curvilinear, such that deviations in either direction from perfect fit related to poorer well-being. On the other hand, there was little evidence for spousal effects, as dual-earner well-being did not relate the congruence between division of labor abilities and spousal demands. Finally, evidence of moderation was only found in a few cases, and none were consistent with prediction, highlighting the need for future research on the contextual conditions of P-E fit in the dual-earner context.
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Lima, Josiane Palma. "Modelo de decisão para a priorização de vias candidatas às atividades de manutenção e reabilitação de pavimentos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18137/tde-08052007-151731/.
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Desenvolver programas de conservação, a partir do conhecimento prévio do estado dos pavimentos, possibilita obter determinados níveis de qualidade em toda a rede viária. No entanto, num cenário de carência financeira, manter esses níveis de qualidade só é possível se as decisões forem tomadas considerando as seções mais prioritárias às atividades de manutenção e reabilitação (M&R) dos pavimentos. O objetivo geral deste trabalho é propor um modelo de priorização de vias, baseado na metodologia de análise multicritério agregada a um sistema de informação geográfica (SIG), considerando critérios objetivos e subjetivos no apoio à tomada de decisão. Fez parte deste trabalho uma pesquisa sobre a situação atual referente aos procedimentos de gerência da conservação de pavimentos utilizados em cidades médias brasileiras. Foi realizado um estudo de caso, na cidade de São Carlos - SP, utilizando um levantamento preliminar da condição do pavimento e de suas características físicas e geométricas, no que se refere às seções de vias urbanas, que são de responsabilidade da prefeitura. O modelo desenvolvido neste trabalho, que utiliza AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) e SIG, é adequado à realidade das cidades médias brasileiras, mas mantém a viabilidade de aplicação em cidades de outras dimensões, desde que as particularidades dessas cidades sejam consideradas. É destinado a auxiliar administradores de órgãos governamentais que têm a função de avaliar e planejar as intervenções de conservação em vias urbanas pavimentadas.<br>The development of conservation programs, starting from the previous knowledge of pavements condition, makes possible to maintain certain quality levels in the roadway system. However, in a lack of budget scenario, to achieve those quality levels the decisions have to be taken considering a pavement maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) prioritization program. The general objective of this work is to propose urban roadways prioritization model based on multicriteria decision analysis aggregated to geographical information system (GIS), considering objective and subjective criteria in the decision support. A case study was performed at the city of São Carlos, state of São Paulo, Brazil, using a preliminary study of pavement condition and physical and geometric characteristics. It was also performed a research about the current situation regarding the procedures for pavement maintenance and rehabilitation management in brazilian medium-sized cities. The model developed in this work, that uses AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and GIS is adapted to the reality of the brazilian medium-sized cities, but it maintains the application viability in cities of other dimensions, since the particularities of those cities are considered. It is dedicated to help administrators of government agency responsible for the evaluation of urban roads and pavement conservation planning.
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Widiputri, Diah Indriani. "Incorporating human factors into process plant lifecycle." Doctoral thesis, Technische Universitaet Bergakademie Freiberg Universitaetsbibliothek "Georgius Agricola", 2011. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:105-qucosa-74469.
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Major accidents in the process industries occurred mostly as an outcome of multiple failures in different safety barriers and their interrelation with unsafe acts by frontline operators. This has become the reason why safety analyses in terms of plant technical aspects cannot be performed independently from analysing human response to the changing technology. Unsafe acts and errors by operators must be seen as a symptom of system insufficiencies and underlying problems, rather than as the cause of an accident. With this paradigm, the need to optimally configure the system and the whole working condition to understand human’s limitation and requirements becomes very evident. It is too naive to desire that human operators make zero error by asking them to change their behaviour and to perfectly adapt to the system. Human Factors (HF) attempts to cope with the need to understand the interrelation between human operators, the technology they are working with and the management system, with the aim to increase safety and efficiency. In achieving this goal, HF must be incorporated into the whole plant lifecycle, from the earliest design stage to plant operation and modifications. Moreover, HF analysis must comprise all kinds of operators’ activities and responsibilities in operating process plants, which can include manual works in field and supervisory control conducted remotely from a control centre/room. This work has developed techniques that provide systematic way to incorporate HF into process plant lifecycle. The new HF analysis technique, PITOPA-Design, in a combination with the classic PITOPA, is applicable for an implementation during design and operation of a plant. With the awareness that safety analysis and HF cannot be performed separately, an interconnection with HAZOPs is made possible by means of this new technique. Moreover, to provide a systematic analysis of operators’ work in control room, an additional technique, the PITOPA-CR was also developed. This HF technique can as well be integrated into a general HF analysis both during design phase and plant operation. In addition to it, results coming from PITOPA-CR will provide information required to optimally configure control and alarm system, as well as the whole alarm management system to better understand the limitation and requirements of control room operators. The structure of the development can be described as follows: i) Development of HAZOPA (the Hazards and Operator Actions Analysis), which provides the interconnection between HF analysis and HAZOPs, ii) Development of PITOPA-Design, a technique to incorporate HF consideration into design phase, which is differentiated into 3 stages to comprise the conceptual design, the basic engineering and the detail engineering phase, iii) Development of PITOPA-CR, a technique for HF analysis in control room, iv) Integration of PITOPA-CR into alarm management system, development of a technique for alarm prioritization<br>Schwere Unfälle in der Prozessindustrie erfolgen meist aus einem Zusammenspiel mehrerer verschiedener Fehler und der gleichzeitigen Wechselwirkung mit falschem menschlichem Handeln. Dabei sind diese Fehlhandlungen nicht als Unfallursache anzusehen, sondern sie resultieren aus Fehlern, die in dem System selbst zu finden sind. Aus diesem Grund kann bei der Sicherheitsanalyse die technische Analyse nicht unabhängig von der Betrachtung des Human Factors (HF) durchgeführt werden. Um eine Reduzierung der Fehlhandlungen zu erreichen, müssen das Anlagendesign, die Bedienbarkeit und die Arbeitsumgebung an die menschlichen Fähigkeiten angepasst werden. Human Factors (HF) betrachtet die Interaktion zwischen menschlichen, technischen und organisatorischen Aspekten einer Anlage, mit dem Ziel die Sicherheit und Effektivität der Anlage zu optimieren. Dafür ist eine Einbindung von HF in den gesamten Lebenszyklus einer Anlage notwendig. So müssen HF- Analysen nicht nur während des Betriebs einer Anlage und bei Prozessmodifikationen durchgeführt werden, sondern auch während des gesamten Design- Prozesses, da gerade in den frühen Design-Phasen das Optimierungspotential besonders hoch ist. Eine solche Analysemethode muss alle Aufgaben eines Operators erfassen, so dass zwischen manueller Arbeit und der Arbeit in der Leitwarte unterschieden werden muss. In dieser Arbeit wurden Analysentechniken entwickelt, die einen systematischen Ansatz zur Berücksichtigung des HF über den gesamten Lebenszyklus einer verfahrenstechnischen Anlage darstellen. Mit Hilfe der neuen Analysemethode, PITOPA-Design, können Untersuchungen sowohl während der Designphase als auch während des Betriebs einer Anlage durchgeführt werden. Da solche HF-Analyse immer in Verbindung mit einer klassischen Sicherheitsanalyse erfolgen muss, bindet die neue Methode die HAZOP-Analyse direkt ein. Darüber hinaus wurde ein weiterer Ansatz für die Analyse von Operatorhandlungen in einer Messwartenarbeit entwickelt. Diese neue Analysentechnik, PITOPA-CR, bildet die Grundlage für Verbesserungen im Alarmsystem und wird in das Alarmmanagementsystem eingebunden. Die Arbeit ist wie folgt strukturiert: i) Entwicklung von HAZOPA (the Hazards and Operator Actions Analysis). Diese Methode stellt die Einbindung der HF-Analyse in HAZOP dar. ii) Entwicklung von PITOPA-Design, zur HF-Analyse während des gesamten Designprozesses einer verfahrenstechnischen Anlage. Die Methode wurde in 3 Teile eingeteilt, um die drei Designsphasen Conceptual-, Basic-, und Detail-Design zu erfassen. iii) Entwicklung von PITOPA-CR, zur HF-Analyse in der Messwarte. iv) Einbindung von PITOPA-CR in das Alarmmanagementsystem und Entwicklung einer Technik zur Alarmpriorisierung
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Maguiño, Llontop Luis Eduardo, and Bacilio Rubén Alfredo Guerra. "Análisis y propuestas de mejora para la gestión del servicio de reparación de motores eléctricos." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2015. http://cybertesis.urp.edu.pe/handle/urp/1306.
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El desarrollo de la presente tesis forma parte de un estudio realizado en una empresa que brinda servicios de mantenimiento y reparación de motores eléctricos para minería, industria y generación de electricidad.
La tesis tiene como finalidad proponer un modelo de gestión que permita agilizar el tiempo de reparación de motores eléctricos de corriente continua, debido a que los clientes se vienen quejando por incumplimientos en la fecha de entrega del servicio, esto genera pérdida de credibilidad, imagen de la empresa y futuros negocios.
Para remediar la problemática se utilizaron herramientas de mejora continua tales como análisis de Pareto, espina pescado, 5 por qué y matriz de priorización para determinar el estado actual del servicio de reparación de motores y determinar cuál será nuestro foco para la investigación, basado en este diagnóstico se ha establecido un estándar en la nomenclatura de actividades de un servicio completo de reparación de motor y se implementó un análisis de muestreo de trabajo para determinar el tiempo de estas actividades sin cabida a los tiempos improductivos.
Una vez determinado los tiempos se implementó la Hoja de Ruta la cual sirve de fuente para el seguimiento y supervisión más exacta de las actividades durante la ejecución del servicio y de esta manera cumplir con el tiempo de entrega prometido al cliente.
El modelo propuesto logra disminuir el tiempo de ejecución de un servicio completo de motor eléctrico del tipo CC en un 17%, así mismo se obtuvo un incremento significativo en nuestro indicador de cumplimiento con la fecha de entrega pactada y una disminución de quejas de los clientes.
The development of this thesis is about of a company that provides maintenance and repair services of electric motors for mining, industry and electricity generation.
The thesis aims to propose a management model that allows speed up the repair time DC electric motors, because customers have been complaining about violations on the date of delivery of the service, which entails loss of credibility, image of the company and future business.
To remedy the problems we used quality tools such as Pareto analysis, fishbone, 5 why’s and prioritization matrix to determine the current state of the service engine repair and determine what will be our focus for research, based on this diagnosis it has set a standard in the nomenclature of activities of a full-service repair, also Work sampling was used to determine the time to accommodate these activities without downtime.
Once determined the times we set the Roadmap which serves as a source for more accurate monitoring and supervision of the activities during the execution of the service and thus meet the promised delivery time to the customer was implemented.
It managed to reduce the execution time of a full service type DC electric motor by 17%, also a significant increase was obtained in our indicator of compliance with agreed delivery date and a decrease in customer complaints.
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Monti, Carlo Bruzaferro. "Promoção de atividades de inovação organizacional na visão do líder: estudo de caso em empresa do setor energético brasileiro." Universidade Federal Fluminense, 2015. https://appdesenv.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/1139.
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Previous issue date: 2015<br>O objetivo geral deste trabalho é analisar de que forma o desempenho da liderança e a importância dos seus papéis podem influenciar a promoção de atividades de inovação organizacionais. Para isso, esta pesquisa tem como objetivos específicos registrar qual a percepção dos gestores quanto à importância e o desempenho dos seus papéis, registrar quais tipos de atividades de inovação são promovidos pelos gestores sob a ótica de cada um dos seus papéis, analisar todas as variáveis de forma cruzada e criar um índice de coerência na promoção das atividades de inovação. A metodologia utilizada é um estudo de caso, com levantamento de informação feito por meio de questionário com perguntas fechadas. Foram feitas análises quanto aos tipos de atividades mais frequentes, aos tipos de atividades por cada papel do gestor, à importância de cada responsabilidade dos gestores, ao desempenho de cada responsabilidade dos gestores e ao desempenho em conjunto com a importância. Por fim, conclui-se que os gestores desta empresa não se comportam exatamente como esperado pela literatura. Este comportamento cria a oportunidade de se propor uma metodologia para que os gestores avaliem periodicamente suas responsabilidades e promovam as atividades de inovação necessárias de modo a maximizar sua coerência.<br>The aim of this study is to analyze how the performance of leadership and the importance of their roles can influence the promotion of organizational innovation activities. To do this, this research has the following specific objectives: registering the perception of managers on the importance and performance of their roles, record which types of innovation activities are promoted by managers from the perspective of each of their roles, analyze all the variables crosswise and create a consistency index in the promotion of innovation activities. The methodology used is a case study with information from survey through a questionnaire made of closed questions. Analyses were made for the most frequent types of activities, types of activities for each role of the manager, the importance of each one of manager’s responsibilities, the performance of each manager’s responsibilities and the performance together with the importance. Finally, it is concluded that managers of this company do not behave exactly as expected by literature. This behavior creates the opportunity to propose a methodology for managers periodically evaluate their responsibilities and promote the necessary innovation activities in order to maximize their coherence.
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Monti, Carlo Bruzaferro. "Promoção de atividades de inovação organizacional da visão do líder: estudo de caso em empresa do setor energético brasileiro." Escola de Engenharia, 2015. https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/1397.
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Previous issue date: 2015-07-16<br>O objetivo geral deste trabalho é analisar de que forma o desempenho da liderança e a importância dos seus papéis podem influenciar a promoção de atividades de inovação organizacionais. Para isso, esta pesquisa tem como objetivos específicos registrar qual a percepção dos gestores quanto à importância e o desempenho dos seus papéis, registrar quais tipos de atividades de inovação são promovidos pelos gestores sob a ótica de cada um dos seus papéis, analisar todas as variáveis de forma cruzada e criar um índice de coerência na promoção das atividades de inovação. A metodologia utilizada é um estudo de caso, com levantamento de informação feito por meio de questionário com perguntas fechadas. Foram feitas análises quanto aos tipos de atividades mais frequentes, aos tipos de atividades por cada papel do gestor, à importância de cada responsabilidade dos gestores, ao desempenho de cada responsabilidade dos gestores e ao desempenho em conjunto com a importância. Por fim, conclui-se que os gestores desta empresa não se comportam exatamente como esperado pela literatura. Este comportamento cria a oportunidade de se propor uma metodologia para que os gestores avaliem periodicamente suas responsabilidades e promovam as atividades de inovação necessárias de modo a maximizar sua coerência.<br>The aim of this study is to analyze how the performance of leadership and the importance of their roles can influence the promotion of organizational innovation activities. To do this, this research has the following specific objectives: registering the perception of managers on the importance and performance of their roles, record which types of innovation activities are promoted by managers from the perspective of each of their roles, analyze all the variables crosswise and create a consistency index in the promotion of innovation activities. The methodology used is a case study with information from survey through a questionnaire made of closed questions. Analyses were made for the most frequent types of activities, types of activities for each role of the manager, the importance of each one of manager’s responsibilities, the performance of each manager’s responsibilities and the performance together with the importance. Finally, it is concluded that managers of this company do not behave exactly as expected by literature. This behavior creates the opportunity to propose a methodology for managers periodically evaluate their responsibilities and promote the necessary innovation activities in order to maximize their coherence.
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"Paid prioritization and its implications on network neutrality." 2013. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5884472.
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Wang, Jingjing.<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-62).<br>Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.<br>Abstracts also in Chinese.
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Won, Seungwon. "A model for work function characteristics-based prioritization of technologies for captial projects." Thesis, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3099518.
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Robertson, M. P., M. H. Villet, D. H. K. Fairbanks, et al. "A proposed prioritization system for the management of invasive alien plants in South Africa." 2003. http://eprints.ru.ac.za/349/1/sajs_villet_proposed_prioritization_system.pdf.
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Every country has weed species whose presence conflicts in some way with human management objectives and needs. Resources for research and control are limited, so priority should be given to species that are the biggest problem. The prioritization system described in this article was designed to assess objectively research and control priorities of invasive alien plants at a national scale in South Africa. The evaluation consists of seventeen criteria, grouped into five modules, that assess invasiveness, spatial characteristics, potential impact, potential for control, and conflicts of interest for each plant species under consideration. Total prioritization scores, calculated from criterion and module scores, were used to assess a species' priority. Prioritization scores were calculated by combining independent assessments provided by several experts, thus increasing the reliability of the rankings. The total confidence score, a separate index, indicates the reliability and availability of data used to make an assessment. Candidate species for evaluation were identified and assessed by several experts using the prioritization system. The final ranking was made by combining two separate indices, the total prioritization score and the total confidence score. This approach integrates the plant's perceived priority with an index of data reliability. Of the 61 species assessed, those with the highest ranks (Lantana camara, Chromolaena odorata and Opuntia ficus-indica) had high prioritization and high confidence scores, and are thus of most concern. Those species with the lowest ranks, for example, Harrisia martinii, Opuntia spinulifera and Opuntia exaltata, had low prioritization scores and high confidence scores, and thus are of least concern. Our approach to ranking weeds offers several advantages over existing systems because it is designed for multiple assessors based on the Delphi decision-making technique, the criteria contribute equally to the total score, and the system can accommodate incomplete data on a species. Although the choice of criteria may be criticized and the system has certain limitations, it appears to have delivered credible results.
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Bishara, Saher A. "The effectiveness of cockpit task management training on task prioritization performance in simulated flight." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/29633.
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The cockpit is an environment in which many important tasks simultaneously
compete for pilot attention. Cockpit Task Management (CTM) is the process by
which pilots selectively attend to flight tasks in such a way as to safely and
effectively complete a flight. CTM has been categorized as a mental function that
is inherently well understood by pilots and almost always performed satisfactorily
(for example, through the trained Aviate, Navigate, Communicate, Manage
Systems hierarchy). However, there are documented instances, such as incident
and accident reports, where tasks were not managed properly, resulting in an
aircraft mishap. CTM involves the prioritization of flight tasks based on their
importance to flight safety, urgency, and how well the tasks are actually being
performed. Task prioritization errors occur when pilots do not give attention to a
higher priority task (i.e., one more important to flight safety, one that is more
urgent, or one that is currently not being performed satisfactorily) by attending to a
lower priority task (i.e., one less critical to flight safety, one less urgent, or one that
is already being performed well and is not in need of immediate attention).
The goal of this thesis was to develop a CTM training program to aid pilots'
task prioritization performance. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 with yoke,
throttle, and rudder pedals, was used to assess pilot task prioritization performance
before and after training. Three experimental groups were used: a control group
(no training), descriptive group (CTM lecture training), and prescriptive group
(CTM lecture training plus mnemonic procedure) to test the effectiveness of CTM
training on task prioritization in simulated flight. Results showed that the
prescriptive group improved in task prioritization performance in the post-training
flight. Additionally, results showed that the descriptive and prescriptive groups
both improved in memory recall (a second dependent measure). It was concluded
that CTM training is effective on task prioritization performance.<br>Graduation date: 2002
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Robertson, M. P., Martin Herrer Villet, D. H. K. Fairbanks, et al. "A proposed prioritization system for the management of invasive alien plants in South Africa." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011872.
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Every country has weed species whose presence conflicts in some way with human management objectives and needs. Resources for research and control are limited, so priority should be given to species that are the biggest problem. The prioritization system described in this article was designed to assess objectively research and control priorities of invasive alien plants at a national scale in South Africa. The evaluation consists of seventeen criteria, grouped into five modules, that assess invasiveness, spatial characteristics, potential impact, potential for control, and conflicts of interest for each plant species under consideration. Total prioritization scores, calculated from criterion and module scores, were used to assess a species' priority. Prioritization scores were calculated by combining independent assessments provided by several experts, thus increasing the reliability of the rankings. The total confidence score, a separate index, indicates the reliability and availability of data used to make an assessment. Candidate species for evaluation were identified and assessed by several experts using the prioritization system. The final ranking was made by combining two separate indices, the total prioritization score and the total confidence score. This approach integrates the plant's perceived priority with an index of data reliability. Of the 61 species assessed, those with the highest ranks (Lantana camara, Chromolaena odorata and Opuntia ficus-indica) had high prioritization and high confidence scores, and are thus of most concern. Those species with the lowest ranks, for example, Harrisia martinii, Opuntia spinulifera and Opuntia exaltata, had low prioritization scores and high confidence scores, and thus are of least concern. Our approach to ranking weeds offers several advantages over existing systems because it is designed for multiple assessors based on the Delphi decision-making technique, the criteria contribute equally to the total score, and the system can accommodate incomplete data on a species. Although the choice of criteria may be criticized and the system has certain limitations, it appears to have delivered credible results.
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Alsubhi, Khalid. "A Fuzzy-logic based Alert Prioritization Engine for IDSs: Architecture and Configuration." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3479.
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Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are designed to monitor a networked environment and generate alerts whenever abnormal activities are detected. The number of these alerts can be very large making their evaluation by security analysts a difficult task. The management is complicated by the need to configure the different components of alert evaluation systems. In addition, IDS alert management techniques, such as clustering and correlation, suffer from involving unrelated alerts in their processes and consequently provide results that are inaccurate and difficult to manage. Thus, the tuning of an IDS alert management system in order to provide optimal results remains a major challenge, which is further complicated by the large spectrum of potential attacks the system can be subject to.
This thesis considers the specification and configuration issues of FuzMet, a novel IDS alert management system which employs several metrics and a fuzzy-logic based approach for scoring and prioritizing alerts. In addition, it features an alert rescoring technique that leads to a further reduction of the number of alerts. We study the impact of different configurations of the proposed metrics on the accuracy and completeness of the alert scores generated by FuzMet. Our approach is validated using the 2000 DARPA intrusion detection scenario specific datasets and comparative results between the Snort IDS alert scoring and FuzMet alert prioritization scheme are presented. A considerable number of simulations were conducted in order to determine the optimal configuration of FuzMet with selected simulation results presented and analyzed.
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Tang, Huili, and 唐蕙莉. "Prioritization and Comparison of Indicators of Talent Management Within Domestic And Multinational Enterprises in Taiwan." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33810457343990242718.
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碩士<br>國立臺北大學<br>企業管理學系<br>101<br>According to the study, over three-quarters of business owners worldwide are facing a huge challenge on attracting key skilled talents. More than half of all business owners have difficulties on retaining key skilled talents. Taiwan's industrial development in recent years is also facing challenges on enhancing competitiveness and attracting key talents. The short, medium and long term business strategies should be in line with talent strategy. It is a feasible method to establish systematic planning of talent management system as early as possible and to develop the structural indicators and define its priorities of talent development. In this study, we selected the domestic and foreign enterprises in Taiwan as two groups, targeted 40 experts with experience in talent management, through questionnaires and inquiries to sum up the indicators structure and breakdown of indicators of talent management in domestic and foreign enterprises. This study adopted Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to analyze and prioritize the degree of importance of indicators. The results showed that the most important is talent management planning in the main dimensions of talent management indicators. The second is talent management implementation followed by the planning, and talent management operation and talent management development tied for third. Sort of indicators of the importance at the sub-dimensions in overall analysis, feedback and coaching, motivation and reward system, criteria of performance evaluation, implementation of performance evaluation and career development, are simultaneously ranked at the top three important indicators. The analyzing results of the ranked top three indicators at the sub-dimensions in Taiwanese enterprises are feedback and coaching, motivation and reward system, implementation of performance evaluation and review of appointment decisions. Yet the top three important indicators are the selection criteria, motivation and reward system and competency model establishment at the talent management planning level ranked among foreign enterprises. These findings can assist in understanding of constructions of talent management indicators and priorities in domestic enterprises and foreign enterprises, and provide practical directions of talent management to domestic and foreign enterprises in Taiwan. In addition, the researchers provide some relative suggestions for academics or practitioners based on the results of the study.
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Hwang, Jea Won. "The development of a conceptual framework for a district 4-Year Pavement Management Plan." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4269.
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The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is concerned about the widening gap between preservation needs and available funding. Funding levels are not adequate to meet the preservation needs of the roadway network; therefore projects listed in the 4-Year Pavement Management Plan must be ranked to determine which projects should be funded now and which can be postponed until a later year. Currently, each district uses locally developed methods to rank and prioritize projects. These ranking methods have relied on less formal qualitative assessments based on engineers’ subjective judgment. It is important for TxDOT to have a rational 4-Year Pavement Management Plan. The objective of this study is to develop a conceptual framework that describes the development of the 4-Year Pavement Management Plan and a proposed ranking process. It can be largely divided into three steps; (1) Network-Level preliminary project screening process, (2) Project-Level project ranking process, and (3) Economic Analysis. A rational pavement management procedure and a project ranking method that are accepted by districts and the TxDOT administration will maximize efficiency in budget allocations and help improve pavement condition.
As a part of this study, based on the data provided by the Austin District Pavement Engineer, the Network-Level Project Screening (NLPS) tool, including the candidate project selection algorithm and the preliminary project screening matrix, is developed. The NLSP tool has been used by the Austin District Pavement Engineer (DPE) to evaluate the PMIS (Pavement Management Information System) data and to prepare a preliminary list of candidate projects for further evaluation. The automated tool will help TxDOT engineers easily incorporate the developed mathematical algorithm into their daily pavement maintenance management.<br>text
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Beck, Ekkehard C. "A Discrete Event Simulation Approach to Resource Management, Process Changes And Task Prioritization in Emergency Departments." 2009. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/350.
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Emergency Departments (ED) in the US are in crisis. In 2004 between 40 and 50% of the US hospitals experienced crowding. Crowding negatively affects the quality and access of emergency care. Optimally managing the present resources in EDs and finding ways to reduce patient length of stay is critical to improving patient care in EDs. We use computer simulation modeling of patient flow in an ED (i.e. discrete event simulation) to study the impact of 1) resource management and profit optimization, 2) process changes, and 3) task prioritization on patient length of stay. Our model of patient flow, ED with multiple Acuities (EDWA), consists of a five-fold process of emergency care which represents five different types of patients. This model assigns each patient to an individual doctor and allows patient treatment process to proceed simultaneously or sequentially with other activities. The results show an increase in the need for resources with an increase in variability; the dependency of the optimal resource mix on the objective we want to optimize; and the relationship between quality of emergency care and profitability. Further, our findings imply that bedside registration (a commonly recommended process change in EDs) should only be implemented when emergency department beds are free.
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Tucker, Caroline. "Biodiversity in Two Parts: Environmental Heterogeneity and the Maintenance of Diversity, and the Prioritization of Diversity." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/43742.
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Questions surrounding the causes and consequences of diversity lie at the centre of community ecology. Understanding the mechanisms by which species diversity is maintained motivates much experimental and theoretical work, but this work often focuses on fluctuation-independent mechanisms. Variability in habitat suitability is ubiquitous through space and time however, and provides another important path through which species diversity can be maintained. As a result, considering environmental variability has value for conservation and management. Finally, differences through space and time in the mechanisms that promote and maintain diversity produce spatially varying patterns of diversity. Spatial variation in different forms of diversity (species (SR), phylogenetic (PD), and functional diversity (FD)) creates difficult decisions about prioritization and reserve locations.
This thesis uses experimental, observational, and theoretical methods to explore the causes and consequences of diversity. I show that variation in space and time has important implications for species coexistence and diversity maintenance. In microbial nectar communities, temperature variation through space and time alters the importance of priority effects on community assembly. Using models of warming temperatures in annual plant communities I show that considering temporal partitioning of flowering (a strategy to minimize competition) introduces constraints on phenological shifts: this has implications for phenological monitoring programs. Finally, I show that variability in the timing of fire events in Mediterranean shrublands contributes to coexistence between life forms, suggesting that it should be considered for fire management. In the final two chapters, I focus on conservation prioritization. Comparisons of species richness and evolutionary diversity through space in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa show that existing reserves protect Proteaceae richness, but fail to capture evolutionary distinct species. More generally, in the final chapter I suggest that SR and PD should be congruent through space when species are of similar ages, regions are depauperate, or ranges are discontinuous.