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Journal articles on the topic "Process-strategy relationship"
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Abdullah Saif, Nashwan Mohammed, and Wang Aimin. "Exploring the Value and Process of Marketing Strategy: Review of literature." International Journal of Management Science and Business Administration 2, no. 2 (2014): 7–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.18775/ijmsba.1849-5664-5419.2014.22.1001.
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Marketing strategy represents a key element of success for organizations. Executing an effective marketing strategy is just as important as conceptualizing and creating it. Through marketing strategy implementation firms employ scarce resources through marketing capabilities in order to attain the set goals and targets. In order to illustrate the value of marketing strategy and the process of implementation a detailed literature review was performed. A total of (Number of Studies Depending On the References Count, After Employee Deletion) studies on the topic of marketing strategy have been examined. The meta-analysis uncovers two distinct but related features to marketing strategy content: marketing strategy decisions and marketing strategy decision implementation. The literature also suggests there is a relationship of marketing strategy, and marketing mix elements on organizational performance, and emphasizes a further need to perform conceptual and empirical studies. The originality and value of the review lies in the fact that marketing strategy has been analyzed both in terms of its outcomes and as a process that does not yield satisfactory results without effective implementation.
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Frigotto, M. Laura, Graziano Coller, and Paolo Collini. "The Strategy and Management Control Systems relationship as emerging dynamic process." Journal of Management & Governance 17, no. 3 (December 20, 2011): 631–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10997-011-9198-x.
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Kilgour, Mark, Sheila L. Sasser, and Roy Larke. "The social media transformation process: curating content into strategy." Corporate Communications: An International Journal 20, no. 3 (August 3, 2015): 326–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ccij-07-2014-0046.
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Purpose – Social media is an engaging area of research that is rapidly evolving. The purpose of this paper is to focus on how corporations should effectively utilize this new media as a marketing channel. The key to any successful communication strategy is matching the message to the target audience and achieving customer engagement. Two important target audience variables were identified as crucial when determining an organization’s social media communications strategy: the level of brand relationship, and the level of category involvement. Design/methodology/approach – Depth interviews were initially employed, followed by questionnaires, and then computer assisted content analysis was performed on 723 online media articles relating to social media marketing to identify semantic and conceptual relationships. Findings – Research from both a customer and corporate perspective led to insights into how organizations can develop their social media strategies in order to transform their brand message from being perceived as a commercial source of information to a social source – the social media transformation process. Research limitations/implications – This research suggests a finer level of segmentation of social media users that will lead to content strategies adapted to fit the current levels of brand and category involvement. This could be used by organization to develop a model of best practice to achieve their social media objectives. Practical implications – It is crucial for organizations to understand how different groups of users influence, receive, curate, and interact via social media. The greater the depth of this knowledge, the greater the effectiveness of content marketing strategies developed by the corporation. Organizations that utilize social media marketing must carefully analyse the large amount of consumer information available to them, listen to consumer conversations, and determine the needs and segments that will be most receptive to different approaches. They must also accept that in a social media environment user generated content and interactive communication processes should be at the heart of successful strategy. Originality/value – To date, there has been limited analysis of how relationship and involvement factors drive social media content (Cho et al., 2014; Malthouse et al., 2013). More research is needed to understand how key user characteristics lead to content that fully utilizes the social interaction and message diffusion potential of this media. This paper introduces a hierarchy of content marketing based upon the type of relationship between the user and the organization, as well as their level of product category involvement.
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Lavarda, Rosalia Aldraci Barbosa, María Teresa Canet-Giner, and Fernando Juan Peris-Bonet. "How middle managers contribute to strategy formation process: connection of strategy processes and strategy practices." Revista de Administração de Empresas 50, no. 4 (December 2010): 358–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0034-75902010000400002.
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The role of middle management is essential when managing integrative and emergent strategy formation processes. We stand out the importance of its role connecting micro and macro organizational level offering a very important contribution when examining the strategy-as-practice perspective and integrative strategy formation process. The main goal of this research is to analyse the relationship between the integrative strategy formation process and the roles of middle management under the strategy-as-practice perspective. To check it out we adopted a qualitative methodology droving a case analysis in a Spanish University. Data was collected by means of personal interviews with members of different levels of the Institution, documents analysis and direct observation. In advance of some results we find out that the University develops an integrative strategy formation process and confers to middle management an important role extended all over the organization.
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Adeinat, Iman. "Mediating Effects between Perspectives in Strategy Maps." Administrative Sciences 9, no. 1 (February 3, 2019): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/admsci9010014.
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Many researchers have highlighted the importance of strategy maps for improving organizational performance and providing an entire organization with a cognitive representation of its strategic objectives. However, arguing that strategy maps do not assign weight to each perspective, other researchers have generated weighted strategy maps and used various optimization models to highlight the most important perspective. In this study, I argue that organizations should understand all the causal links in a strategy map and explore paths toward improvement rather than focusing on just one perspective. To that end, I analyse all the causal relationships in the strategy map developed for a major postal service in Saudi Arabia and identify two principal mediating relationships: (1) the relationship between the learning and growth perspective and the customer perspective as mediated by the internal business process perspective and (2) the relationship between the internal business process perspective and the financial performance perspective as mediated through the customer perspective.
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Özsomer, Ayşegül, and Gregory E. Prussia. "Competing Perspectives in International Marketing Strategy: Contingency and Process Models." Journal of International Marketing 8, no. 1 (March 2000): 27–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1509/jimk.8.1.27.19561.
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Empirical studies investigating the relationship between marketing standardization and performance have generated mixed results. This study investigates the causal ordering between marketing strategy and marketing structure as determinants of subsidiary performance. The authors propose a multiple contingencies approach that tests both the contingency (e.g., Chandler 1962 ) and the process (e.g., Bower 1970 ) frameworks in the subsidiary context. Findings based on a two-phase longitudinal study provide initial support for the framework that suggests that marketing structure follows marketing strategy. In response to increased target market similarity, companies in the study opted for more standardized marketing strategies. Furthermore, centralization of structure mediated the relationship between marketing strategy and subsidiary performance. The performance impact of centralization, however, was cross-lagged and negative. Results suggest adapting marketing strategies to local markets as a way of enhancing performance.
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Payne, Adrian, and Pennie Frow. "A Strategic Framework for Customer Relationship Management." Journal of Marketing 69, no. 4 (October 2005): 167–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1509/jmkg.2005.69.4.167.
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In this article, the authors develop a conceptual framework for customer relationship management (CRM) that helps broaden the understanding of CRM and its role in enhancing customer value and, as a result, shareholder value. The authors explore definitional aspects of CRM, and they identify three alternative perspectives of CRM. The authors emphasize the need for a cross-functional, process-oriented approach that positions CRM at a strategic level. They identify five key cross-functional CRM processes: a strategy development process, a value creation process, a multichannel integration process, an information management process, and a performance assessment process. They develop a new conceptual framework based on these processes and explore the role and function of each element in the framework. The synthesis of the diverse concepts within the literature on CRM and relationship marketing into a single, process-based framework should provide deeper insight into achieving success with CRM strategy and implementation.
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Senaji, Thomas, and Andrew B. Nyaboga. "Knowledge Management Process Capability: Operations Strategy Perspective." International Journal of Management & Information Systems (IJMIS) 15, no. 3 (June 16, 2011): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/ijmis.v15i3.4651.
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According to the resource based view (RBV) of the firm (Wernerfeldt, 1984; Barney, 2004) and distributed knowledge system view of the firm, knowledge is a critical organizational resource that contributes to superior performance if relevant KM capabilities are built and applied to the knowledge resources. The perspective that sound operations strategy applied to knowledge is necessary for a firm to take full advantage of knowledge management programmes is explored in this paper. The objective of this paper is to document empirical evidence from existing literature on the effect of KM process capability on performance of firms and to identify opportunities for further research which can generate more knowledge to help in the understanding of this relationship leading to the improvement of the contribution of knowledge to performance. An empirical literature survey method was used to collect information regarding KM process capability and its effect on performance. The results suggest that knowledge management process operations positively impact performance. Arising from these findings, it is proposed that studies be launched to determine the relative disposition and contribution of each of the KM process capabilities operations to performance. Such studies will guide organizations in building KM process capabilities and carrying out operations which can be leveraged for sustainable superior performance using knowledge resources.
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Payal, Ruchi, Salma Ahmed, and Roma Mitra Debnath. "Impact of knowledge management on organizational performance." VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems 49, no. 4 (November 11, 2019): 510–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/vjikms-07-2018-0063.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamic relationships among the essential knowledge management (KM) constructs, i.e. strategy, enablers and processes, and to establish their links to organizational performance using a holistic integrated model. Design/methodology/approach The structural equation modeling approach was used in the research study. The primary data were collected from IT managers in Indian software firms. Findings The study successfully tested an integrated KM model in an Indian scenario. The study found that the KM strategy, enablers and processes had a significant positive relationship with the organizational performance. An appropriately designed KM strategy significantly influenced the KM enablers and KM process. KM enablers nurtured in an organization positively impacted the KM process. Furthermore, the KM process partially mediated the relationship between the KM strategy and organizational performance, and partially mediated the relationship between KM enablers and organizational performance. Originality/value This study is one of the few to empirically establish how the essential KM constructs of strategy, enablers and processes together impact organizational performance.
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Zaidi, Faza Ihsan, Emma Marinie Ahmad Zawawi, and Rumaizah Mohd Nordin. "Strategy implementation process for better employees’ performance in construction companies." MATEC Web of Conferences 266 (2019): 03002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201926603002.
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Strategy implementation is known as the most tedious and challenging stage in strategic planning. Strategy implementation can influence the whole texture of a company, including its employees’ performance. Studies have shown that improper strategy implementation can lead to poor employees’ performance. However, there is still a lack of empirical evidence to prove this relationship. Strategy implementation process implemented differ between companies. It influences the employees’ commitment, retention and growth and hence performance. The aim of this research is to analyse the relationship between the strategy implementation process and employees’ performance in construction companies. Respondents were G7 contractors in Klang Valley, Selangor. Pearson correlation analysis was used to analyse the data and it is proven that the strategy implementation process influences the employees’ performance in construction companies. Based on the data correlation, construction companies which provide training for employees to carry out the strategic action plan able to gain positive employees’ performance. This research shows that the strategy implementation process does influence employees’ performances in construction companies especially toward employees’ retention and employees’ growth. Top management in the construction companies can use this research as a tool to conduct strategy implementation in their companies.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Process-strategy relationship"
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Thomson, Kenneth. "Intermediate text representations in the writing process : their relationship with writing strategy." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311195.
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A survey of two hundred and fourteen undergraduates explored the inter-relationship between the writing strategy adopted, the intermediate text representations created, the methods used to create them, the processes performed on them, and their function in the writing process. The sequence of intermediate text representations created was elicited as a progression through a six box grid where each box represented a different type of intermediate text representation that may have been created. This method was found to be valid and a wide variety of routes through the grid were identified that displayed stability, efficacy, and utility in describing writing behaviour. Five stable writing strategies were elicited from a cluster analysis of the undergraduates' responses to a series of questions on their writing behaviour. A fresh sample of forty-nine undergraduates was able to readily identify from the cluster descriptions the strategy they had adopted to complete a similar writing task, and the writing strategies displayed similarities with those identified in other studies. A relationship was found between the adopted writing strategy and the sequence of intermediate text representations created. The intermediate text representations were created by a variety of methods and served a variety of functions including: collecting information, determining the scope of the task, establishing gaps in knowledge, reducing the cognitive load during planning, developing and expanding ideas, organising ideas, summarising points, facilitates translation, and facilitating collaborative writing. A relationship was found between the sequence of intermediate text representations created, and both the reported method of creating an intermediate text representation and the function it served in the writing process. The results have implications for future research on the writing process and for teachers of writing concerned with raising the standard of undergraduate writing. Six recommendations are made regarding the direction and scope of future research.
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Dinh, Loan. "Semantic manipulation and business context in big data analytics." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2018. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/169920.
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Business organisations receive a huge amount of data from many sources every day. These data are known as big data. Since they are mostly unstructured, big data creates a complex problem of how to capture, manage, analyse and then derive meaningful information from them. To deal with the challenges that big data has brought, this research proposes a new technique in big data analytics in the business area to integrate semantically meaningful information relevant to textual queries and business context. To achieve this aim, this study makes three major related contributions. Firstly, the relationship between business processes and strategies is established using the concept of a rule-based inference model via facts and annotations. This relationship is required to determine the importance of a big data query for a business organisation. Secondly, we introduce approaches to determine the significance level of a query, by incorporating the processstrategy relationship, process contributions and priority of business strategies. Thirdly, the proposed data analytic technique embeds business context into the bedrock of data collection and analysis process. The first two contributions were implemented using Python programming language including the Pyke package (Pyke is built in the Python environment and has an artificial intelligence tool for the development of expert systems) and their performances were analysed based on a business use case. The last contribution was implemented mainly in the Hadoop and Java programs. Results show that the first contribution successfully establishes the processstrategy relationship, the second calculates the significance level of a query in relation to a business organisation, while the third reveals the huge impact of query significance level and business context on big data collection and captures deep business insights.Doctor of Philosophy
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Olson, Corey, and Antonia Rödel. "The Evolution of E-Commerce : How to develop a successful Strategy?" Thesis, University of Kalmar, Baltic Business School, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-1946.
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E-commerce presents a new format for doing business. It creates an efficient, yet complex, system providing potential time and cost savings. The main question is then how a comprehensive strategy is developed to outline the new process. Whether an MNC can successfully develop an e-commerce strategy or not, depends on their understanding of customers within their global environment and the secure transfer of customer information. They must adjust their company operations to concentrate on identifying sources of customer relationship management, such as segmentation, needs and abilities, benefits, values, buying behaviour and trust aspects. Companies need to differentiate their ecommerce approaches from their competition, in order to enable and motivate their transition to an online system.
In the case of our methodology, a qualitative, single case study approach of Electrolux Professional Laundry Group was used. Interviews of their customers and sales offices from around Europe determined their understanding and opinions of the closure of warehouses to concentrate on e-commerce within the company. Findings indicate that there is a need to clarify the role of the system, the safety of the customer's information and how it relates to the responsibilities of the sales offices in question. In addition, customers must be carefully researched in order to make the new system congruent with their purchasing preferences and abilities. Once created, a clear model is established to determine their affects on the process of creating a successful e-commerce strategy.
Due to the increasing presence of e-commerce amongst competition in Electrolux's industry, the need to develop a detailed e-commerce strategy is crucial. Their products and services are some of the highest-rated in the industry, but their e-commerce system needs to be improved to match the standards of their well-known brand name. Therefore, careful development of their e-commerce operations will require detailed attention to every stage of the strategy process.
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Wangärd, Sofie, and Martina Hultqvist. "Marknadsföringsstrategier inom småföretag : Intuition eller taktiskt val?" Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Företagsekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-31931.
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Small businesses are the largest employers in Sweden and employ most people on the labour market. Therefore they are considered one of the most important components for an economic growth in a country. However small businesses have problems regarding profitability and survival on the market. It is also considered hard to conduct business for smaller companies, where the lack of restricted resources is a crucial factor. The purpose of this study is to, through a producer perspective and with a qualitative approach, review whether and in what way small businesses uses marketing strategies in their planning. This will be done by answering the following research question: “In what sense do small businesses implement marketing strategies in their work with marketing?” The following conclusions were drawn from the study: • Small businesses implement marketing strategies in their everyday work in the sense that almost all of the small businesses that participated in the study have thought about the factors relating to the selection of target group and the company's own market position in relation to its competitors • Small businesses formulate its marketing strategies mentally rather than having a formal written strategy. • Small businesses mainly choose to segment the market by using geographic and demographic factors. • Small businesses opt out the use of price leadership as their competitive strategy. Instead small businesses try to stand out from their competitors in some unique way and their focus lies on quality rather than quantity. • Small businesses are working diligently to retain existing customers because it is a cheaper approach than trying to attract new customers. • Small businesses can benefit from being apart of a network with other active small, but the study also shows that most benefits can be drawn from startups that not yet enhold a solid knowledge about the market.Småföretag är Sveriges största arbetsgivare och sysselsätter flest människor på arbetsmarknaden och anses vidare vara en av de viktigaste komponenterna för en ekonomisk tillväxt. Trots det har småföretag problem gällande lönsamhet och överlevnad på marknaden. Det är även svårt att bedriva verksamhet för mindre företag, där bland annat brist på resurser är en återkommande kritisk faktor. Syftet med studien är att, baserat på en kvalitativ metod och genom ett producentperspektiv, ta hjälp av fem stycken semistrukturerade intervjuer för att kartlägga huruvida och på vilket sätt småföretag använder sig av marknadsföringsstrategier i sitt planeringsarbete. Detta genom att besvara forskningsfrågan: “I vilken bemärkelse implementerar småföretag marknadsföringsstrategier i sitt arbete med marknadsföring?” Följande slutsatser kunde dras av studien: • Småföretag implementerar marknadsföringsstrategier i sitt vardagliga arbete i den bemärkelsen att nästan alla av de småföretag som deltog i studien funderat kring faktorer som rör val av målgrupp och företagets egen position på marknaden i relation till dess konkurrenter • Småföretag formulerar marknadsföringsstrategier mentalt i huvudet, snarare än att ha en formell nedskriven strategi. • Småföretag väljer att segmentera marknaden utefter geografiska- och demografiska faktorer. • Småföretag väljer bort användandet av ett prisledarskap som konkurrensstrategi. Istället väljer småföretag att försöka utmärka sig från sina konkurrenter på något unikt sätt och fokus ligger på ett kvalitetstänk snarare än kvantitet. • Småföretagen arbetar flitigt med att behålla befintliga kunder då det är billigare än att försöka attrahera nya kunder. Dock pågår det ett ständigt arbete att försöka locka till sig nya kunder samtidigt. • Småföretag kan dra nytta av att involveras i nätverk med andra verksamma småföretag, men studien visar på att mest fördelar finns att dra nytta av för nystartade småföretag som ännu inte besitter en gedigen kunskap om marknaden.
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Sölgén, Samuel, and Daniel Wiklund. "Customer Relationship Management Strategy in Swedish Football Clubs." Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-6071.
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Aim of the Thesis: To investigate the practice of using a CRM strategy in football clubs by comparing earlier successful and unsuccessful CRM implementations by football clubs and study fan relationship theories in a large Swedish football club, thereby presenting guidelines on how to further develop a CRM strategy in a Swedish football club.
Methodology: A quantitative approach and a qualitative approach have been used, first collecting empirical data on supporter views through a questionnaire further strengthened by gathering empirical data through an interview. The quantitative data has been presented with descriptive statistics and the qualitative data has been analyzed using a realist approach.
Theoretical Perspectives: A literature review has been conducted and resulted in a theoretical framework illustrating the concepts of benefits and risks with CRM, fan relationship marketing, CRM implementation process, CRM systems in football clubs, and supporter loyalty. A research model, “FRM implementation process” has been developed from the theoretical findings.
Empirical Data: The quantitative empirical data has been collected by distributing a questionnaire to supporters of AIK Fotboll. The qualitative empirical data has been collected through interviews with the head of sales and marketing within AIK Fotboll AB.
Conclusion: A CRM strategy can benefit Swedish football clubs in areas such as to better capture customer data, better communication between the club and its supporters and provide customized offers as long as the supporters are informed about the changes in strategy. In order for Swedish football clubs to successfully implement a CRM strategy they need to ensure adequate financing and management commitment since an unsuccessful implementation can be devastating to a Swedish football club’s finances.
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Giacomelli, Adilson Lu?s. "Modelo de gest?o da informa??o aplicado ao ambiente empresarial : um estudo do setor sucroalcooleiro." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas, 2003. http://tede.bibliotecadigital.puc-campinas.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/829.
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Previous issue date: 2003-12-16The proposal of an information management model is characterized as a capable way of supporting and directing the enterprise management system. For the study of this subject, it was chosen a sector of the Brazilian economy that was out of the patterns of the new products and businesses enterprises, classified as dot.com and, at the same time globalized, with high fluctuation of prices and demand, requiring integrated information. According to this, it is important to consider that the way of sustaining the basic columns of enterprise management, named statistical, economical and behavioral, needs supporting of the information management. In this way, some information models have been developed, according to the management techniques, to make possible a dynamic process for the maximization of the performance indicators of the organization. Nevertheless, in these models, it is considered that the communication of information is closely related to the individual performance and, therefore, related to the human subjectivity. Thus, the relationship between the information management and the segments of enterprise management systems, aligned with the strategy of the undertaking, incite competitive differential, assuring the increasingly improvement of the organization process.
A proposta de um modelo de gest?o da informa??o caracteriza-se como um meio capaz de sustentar e direcionar o sistema de gest?o empresarial. Para o estudo deste assunto, escolheu-se um setor da economia brasileira que estivesse fora dos padr?es das empresas de novos neg?cios e produtos, categorizados como dot.com, mas que, ao mesmo tempo, estivesse globalizado, com alta volatilidade de pre?os e demanda, por conseguinte, requerente de informa??es integradas. Diante disso, urge considerar que a forma de sustenta??o dos pilares b?sicos da gest?o empresarial, denominados como estat?sticos, econ?micos e comportamentais, necessita do apoio da gest?o da informa??o. Neste sentido, foram desenvolvidos alguns modelos informacionais que, em conformidade com as t?cnicas de gest?o, venham possibilitar um processo din?mico de maximiza??o dos indicadores de desempenho da organiza??o. Todavia, nestes modelos, considera-se que a comunica??o da informa??o est? condicionada ? atua??o de cada indiv?duo, portanto, associada ? subjetividade humana. Desta forma, a rela??o entre a gest?o da informa??o e os segmentos do sistema de gest?o empresarial, alinhados com a estrat?gia do empreendimento estimulam diferenciais competitivos, assegurando, assim, a melhoria cont?nua dos processos da organiza??o.
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Huang, Yu-Fang, and 黃于芳. "A Preliminary Study of the Relationship between Narrative Strategy Story and Strategy Process Research." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82968258864098458146.
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Strategic content research mostly belong to a analysis of static state and single layer, and study method also use quality research. But strategy content research become much popular than strategy process research, no mater at the academic theories or industries field of complex and variety strategic studies. We think strategy is not only a conclusion of choice, but it is a dynamic linkage of chain that combined by many single strategy events, its essence is difference and link, and we name this concept as Narrative Strategic Story. In this paper, we uses HTC Corporation to be an example to explain Strategic Selection and Strategic Change. In addition, this study tries to build a theory of Narrative Strategic Story to confirm an academic position of Strategic Process Research by empirical research. In the meantime, we wants to explore strategic studies by Narrative Strategic Story and provide some advice for the development of Strategic Process Research.
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Congden, Steven Wayne. "An empirical examination of the relationship between competitive strategy and process technology in the tooling and machining industry." 1991. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9132832.
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A considerable segment of the business literature has espoused the importance of appropriately using process or manufacturing technology to support competitive strategy. This literature implicitly and explicitly suggests the importance of "fit" between a firm's business level strategy and its process technology. Three gaps remain with respect to the "fit" assertion: (1) The nature of fit is insufficiently specified. (2) No empirical research has attempted to statistically validate the existence of fit within an industry. (3) No empirical research has attempted to statistically link fit to firm performance. To address these issues, this dissertation surveys firms in the U.S. tooling and machining industry to test hypotheses on the nature, existence, and impact on performance of fit. Strategy is assessed as membership in one of six strategic groups derived from clustering eight strategy factors. Factor analysis results in four technology factors, Dedicated Automation, Non-Dedicated Automation, Range of Capabilities, and Computer Aided Design. Performance comprises ROS and average annual sales growth. Findings regarding the nature of fit suggest: (1) Dedicated and non-dedicated automation relate positively to new and existing product stability. Broad product range (products very different from each other) relates negatively to dedicated automation, but does not relate to non-dedicated automation. (2) Linkages may be obscured because multiple capabilities are often bundled in a given technology so that different strategies use the same technology for different reasons. (3) Process technology appears to relate primarily to strategic dimensions concerning physical product characteristics, and very little to service dimensions. The existence of fit is demonstrated by highly significant differences in technology between groups, combined with the qualitative plausibility with which these differences appear to correspond to each strategic group. Although insufficient support was found for fit linked to performance (technology moderating strategic group membership's impact on performance), results suggest that performance advantage from a technology is gained not in the group where it is most appropriate or a given, but in a group where it is also appropriate, but less widespread.
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Huang, Chung-I., and 黃中怡. "The relationship between organizational strategy, HR strategy, the involvement degree of HR department in organizational decision making process, core competency, country culture, and organization performance." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03887514227953381678.
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國際企業研究所碩博士班
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The content of this research can be divided into two parts. In the first part, we investigate the influences of both “the involvement degree of HR department in organizational decision making process” and “organizational strategy” to “HR strategy”. Then, in the second part, we try to examine if the consistency between “HR practices” and “HR strategy” affects “organization performance”. Meanwhile, how the congruence of both “core competency” and “organizational strategy” to “HR strategy types” affects “organization performance” also been discussed. We got the data by mailing questionnaires, both to Taiwanese companies and the foreign companies in Taiwan. 800 questionnaires had been mailed, and 166 of them were collected. Through hierarchical regression, ANOVA analysis, and MANOVA analysis, the empirical study shows that:（1）The higher the HR department involves in organizational decision making process, the more possibility the company adopts internal system HR strategy, and vice versa.（2）Companies which adopt defender organizational strategy will be more likely to assume market type HR strategy, and vice versa.（3）Both “Training” and “involvement” HR practices are found to be beneficial to the firm’s performance.（4）Companies which adopt “internal system” HR strategy will enjoy better organization performance.（5）The match between “organizational strategy” and “HR strategy” will produce better impact on organization performance.（6）The fitness of “core competency” and “HR strategy” will impact favorably on organization performance.（7）Country culture will directly affect organization performance. It’s influence on HR strategy however is very limited. Furthermore, the effect of the consistency relationships on organization performance will be moderated by the country culture. The main contribution of this study is that, firstly, we provide evidence, which shows that both “universalistic perspective” and “contingency perspective” are not conflict. On the contrary, they both could co-exist at the same time. Secondly, we proposed two variables, which were seldom used, “the involvement degree of HR department in organizational decision making” and “the fitness of core competency and HR strategy types”.
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Li, Yong-Hui, and 李勇輝. "The Mediating Effects of New Venture Strategy and Knowledge Creation Process on the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Performance." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17141043834301063009.
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博士國立成功大學
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Entrepreneurial orientation has been considered to be a driving force of both economic growth and increased job creation, and it plays a critical role in contemporary world economies. There are various empirical studies that have examined the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance. Many studies have found a significantly positive relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance, but some studies have found no significant relationship. Therefore, the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance appears inconsistent. To explain the complicated relationship, this research proposes a theoretical framework to examine the roles of new venture strategy and knowledge creation process in the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance. Using data collected from 165 firms in Taiwan's new ventures, this study utilize statistical analysis methods to test the proposed hypotheses of this research, including descriptive statistics, multivariate analysis of variance, reliability analysis, validity analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equation modeling. Overall, the model fit of proposed framework is acceptable. This empirical result supports the relationships between entrepreneurial orientation, new venture strategy, knowledge creation process, and firm performance. This study finds that the entrepreneurial orientation-firm performance relationship is mediated by new venture strategy and knowledge creation process. The research results suggest the need for consideration of new venture strategy and knowledge creation process as mediators in the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance.
Books on the topic "Process-strategy relationship"
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Conroy, Ciaran. IT infrastructure capability and its relationship to strategy formation process and change management in the aviation maintenance and supply industry. Dublin: University College Dublin, Graduate School of Business, 1998.
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Holt, Robin. The Judge. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199671458.003.0012.
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The judge is the singular source of authority, the figure in whose action judgment is embodied. Using Georges Rouault’s painting, The Judges, this chapter discusses the relationship between law, spectating, and feeling. Taking up a refrain from Walt Whitman, a poetic form of judging is argued for. Poetic judgment brings about a world framed by the creation of forms by which we can educate ourselves in the collective business of living. Strategy, understood as the presentation of an organization to itself and others, becomes a judgmental condition of bringing together general sensibility and particular experience to re-frame the places in which we live and work. This chapter introduces a reversal of visionary forms of strategy. With poetic judgment, strategy becomes an aesthetic process of creating organizational forms and we become increasingly and collectively aware of the vulnerable ordinary and its panoply of elusive and sometimes strange occurrences.
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Markwica, Robin. Inferring Actors’ Emotions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794349.003.0003.
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The empirical study of phenomena as evanescent and elusive as emotions raises thorny methodological challenges. Chapter 3 proposes a methodological strategy for inferring emotions from their external representations and for gauging their influence on decision-making. Borrowing techniques from linguistics, psychology, and sociology, the chapter combines qualitative sentiment analysis with an interpretive approach to infer actors’ emotions and their intensity from textual sources. It delineates a number of methodological steps for recovering the cultural, strategic, and individual context of emotions. Moreover, the chapter uses process philosophy to develop a process form of explanation as an alternative to conventional causal and constitutive analysis, neither of which is suitable for theorizing the relationship between emotions and decision-making. This process account is not only able to grasp the dynamic nature of emotions; it is also better suited to trace the influence of emotions on choice behavior.
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Nyberg, Anthony J., Donald J. Schepker, Ormonde R. Cragun, and Patrick M. Wright. Succession Planning. Edited by David G. Collings, Kamel Mellahi, and Wayne F. Cascio. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198758273.013.2.
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Creating a strong talent-development plan is essential to strengthening and sustaining the most important organizational resource, its talent. Succession planning, as part of a broad talent-management strategy, has long been considered a key tool for ensuring talent replacement. Although there is an increasing understanding of the relationship between talent and organizational performance, we still know little about the process involved in replenishing and sustaining talent. In this chapter, we lay out what we know, what we do not know, and what we speculate regarding the succession-planning process. This provides direction for academics and practitioners to think about how to maximize talent management by extending prior research and embarking toward stronger, more robust, systematic, succession-planning processes. We use a brief literature review to identify the current knowledge concerning succession research. Finally, we present findings from recent surveys on the succession-planning process.
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Verschure, Paul F. M. J., and Tony J. Prescott. A Living Machines approach to the sciences of mind and brain. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199674923.003.0002.
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How do the sciences of mind and brain—neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence (AI)—stand in relation to each other in the 21st century? This chapter proposes that despite our knowledge expanding at ever-accelerating rates, our understanding of the relationship between mind and brain is, in some important sense, becoming less and less. An increasing explanatory gap can only be bridged by a multi-tiered and integrated theoretical framework that recognizes the value of developing explanations at different levels, combining these into cross-level integrated theories, and directly contributing to new technologies that improve the human condition. Development of technologies that instantiate principles gleaned from the study of the mind and brain, or biomimetic technologies, is a key part of the validation process for scientific theories of mind and brain. We call this strategy for the integration of science and engineering a Living Machines approach. Following this path can lead not only to better science, and useful engineering, but also a richer view of human experience and of relationships between science, engineering, and art.
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Ford, Matthew. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190623869.003.0001.
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There are many ways of thinking about guns. Guns can be seen through the lens of gender or identity, as a matter of personal rights or from the perspective of the engineer interested in design features and standardization. This book considers firearms from the perspective of military innovation and seeks to map socio-technical change from the battlefield to the back-office: from soldiers and engineers to scientists and bureaucrats, from alliance partners to industry. In the process this book describes the distribution of power within the military industrial complex and asks us to reflect on the relationship between technology and strategy and democratic control over weapon selection.
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Saussy, Haun. Death and Translation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812531.003.0003.
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The first translation of a Baudelaire poem into Chinese, a 1924 version of “A Carcass” by Xu Zhimo, offers an example of creative adaptation in translation: in his version and preface Xu assimilates Baudelaire to the early Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi. This is a strange choice on general grounds, but reflects the translator’s strategy of creating a recognizable identity for the Flowers of Evil, and for modernist poetics generally, within the world of Chinese thought. Furthermore, the content of Baudelaire’s poem, the changes made to it in Xu’s translation, and the relationship Xu devises with the works of Zhuangzi together outline a different theory of translation: not the creation of equivalents, but the chewing, digestion, and assimilation of a previous text, whether native or foreign, as part of the life-process of a literary tradition. Xu’s version of “A Carcass” enacts what Baudelaire’s poem describes, thereby displacing the ground of translational equivalence.
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Ferris, John. Intelligence in War. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.405.
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A large literature has emerged on intelligence and war which integrates the topics and techniques of two disciplines: strategic studies and military history. The literature on intelligence and war is divided into theory and strategy; command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I); sources; military estimates in peace; deception; conventional operations; strike; and counter-insurgency and guerilla warfare. Sun Tzu treats intelligence as central to all forms of power politics, and even defines strategy and warfare as “the way of deception.” On the other hand, C3I combines signals and data processing technology, command as thought, process and action, the training of people, and individual and bureaucratic modes of learning. Since 1914, the power of secret sources has risen dramatically in peace and war, revolutionizing the value of intelligence for operations, especially at sea. The strongest area in this study is signals intelligence. Meanwhile, the relationship of intelligence with war, and with power politics, overlaps on the matter of military estimates during peacetime. The literature on operational intelligence is strongest on World War II. However, analysts have particularly failed to differentiate the effect of intelligence on operations, from that on a key element of military power since 1914: strike warfare. In counter-insurgency, many types and levels of war and intelligence overlap, which include guerillas, conventional and strike forces, and politics in villages and capitals.
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Berry, John W. Theories and Models of Acculturation. Edited by Seth J. Schwartz and Jennifer Unger. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190215217.013.2.
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This chapter reviews the core meanings of the process of acculturation and its consequences for groups and individuals. At the cultural group level, acculturation involves changes in social structures and institutions and in cultural norms. At the individual psychological level, it involves changes in people’s behavioral repertoires and their eventual adaptation to these intercultural encounters. Three key issues are examined: how people choose to acculturate, how well they adapt to intercultural living, and whether there are any systematic relationships between how people acculturate and how well they adapt. The most common finding is that pursuing the integration strategy is related to higher levels of well-being. This chapter attends in particular to the health outcomes of acculturation, and seeks to outline the key features of this process that may permit the achievement of positive health and social outcomes following intercultural contact.
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Tazzara, Corey. Livorno and the Science of Commerce in Enlightenment Tuscany. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791584.003.0008.
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Chapter 7 shows how commercial crisis in Livorno, combined with debates over its distinctive institutions and problematic role in the policy process, helped introduce scientific political economy to Tuscany. The strength of foreigners in Livorno and the city’s inability to promote Tuscan industry convinced elites of the need for an economic strategy focused on domestic agriculture and industry, marking a sharp turn in the direction of political economy in the grand duchy. In the course of struggle between Livorno and the central government, Livorno succeeded in defending its status as an enclave of free trade while nonetheless regularizing relationships between merchants and officials through the application of abstract norms of governance.
Book chapters on the topic "Process-strategy relationship"
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KNOX, S. "The strategy development process." In Customer Relationship Management, 42–100. Elsevier, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-7506-5677-1.50007-6.
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"The strategy development process." In Customer Relationship Management, 58–116. Routledge, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780080490854-9.
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Shubik, Martin, and Eric Smith. "Process, Strategy, and Behavior." In The Guidance of an Enterprise Economy. The MIT Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262034630.003.0012.
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The previous chapters have developed structure and provided proofs in principle as to how to build and analyse multistage models with simple assumptions about behavior. The hyper-astronomical explosion of special cases is to be welcomed as indicating that the initial timeless tight system, when converted to a loosely coupled process model, calls for both the specification of ad hoc questions and the supply of ad hoc model building of the detail needed to make it feasible to provide useful answers in any applications. We summarize the five dynamic models we analysed; but stress that in application there is no substitute for knowing both the relevant details and the behavioral considerations of the situation at hand. The dynamics of the steel industry requires details concerning both structure and behavior, as these are contrasted for example with selling high end art. In this chapter we examine the functioning of the double auction market and comment on trading mechanisms. Finally we discuss the relationship among solutions, structure and behaviour, closing with observations on dynamics and complexity and the false dichotomy between “Rational” or “Behavioral Agents”. For most individuals without deep psychological problems “context rationality” may provide a reasonable description.
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"The Relationship Between US Strategy and the Aid Process." In Afghanistan Aid, Armies and Empires. I.B.Tauris, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780755607440.ch-007.
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Agrawal, Hari Om. "An Approach to Business Strategy." In Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services, 154–82. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0143-5.ch009.
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This chapter introduces role of activity based costing system in the present business environment where businesses are under threat from corporate restructuring, technological innovations, customer expectations, de-regulations, and opportunities by way of collaboration, outsourcing and integration. Strategies of a business provide road map to organization and have multiple options. In a business, cost is the basic attribute in decision making process and drawing strategy. ABC provides a better approach to understand business process in relation with cost incidence. A business process is made up of activities which are performed by resources. These resources are responsible for expenditure and contain cost. ABC uses two stage cost assignment system for accurate and informative cost. ABC allows a better visualization of use of resources and explanation to understand where, why and how costs are being incurred. ABC is dynamic in nature, provide real cost and proactive in approach to simulate quantitative and qualitative measures of the process.
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Almunawar, Mohammad Nabil, and Muhammad Anshari. "Social Customer Relationship Management." In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition, 5255–62. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch519.
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Customer Relationship Management (CRM) can be used by an organization as a tool and strategy in meeting the expectations of their customers. The term Social CRM is an approach that allows intensive interactions between customers, customers and organizations, and customers' interaction with the systems by utilizing Web 2.0. Social CRM offers new capabilities of social networks that provide powerful new approaches to surpass the traditional CRM. The fundamental changes offered by Social CRM are in terms of empowerment, connection, and value generated. An example of Social CRM in healthcare is extending healthcare services through social networks where many kinds of interaction can be supported. The main goal of this chapter is to introduce a promising future research direction, which may shape the future of integrative customer relationship. In this chapter, we examine customers' expectation concerning the process of empowerment, social networks, and participation to make customers more proficient in dealing with their own issues. This chapter also discusses and demonstrates how Social CRM will help customers have greater control in controlling the process of interaction (empowerment) with organizations and among themselves.
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Al-Rabayah, Wafaa A. "Using Social Strategy to Retain Customers." In Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services, 246–63. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1686-6.ch013.
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Customer retention is the process of keeping your current customers' set satisfied and loyal to your product, successful customer retention is not only related to the applied product or services, but strongly related to how the organization provide the services and the reputation it creates within and across the marketplace. This chapter mentions four different cases of using social media to achieve customer retention. Cases will be named based on services provided by the firm, theme park, personal care business, food business, and suppling athlete tools. Also set of tips and guidelines about planning social strategy presented, finally suggested tools support different platforms were mentioned.
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Shaqrah, Amin A. "A Conceptual Model of Customer Innovation Centric." In Successful Customer Relationship Management Programs and Technologies, 115–30. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0288-5.ch009.
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Customer innovation centric is not only an important perspective on value-creation, but also a new strategy discipline that IT software companies in Jordan should embrace if they are pursue to enlargement successfully. Furthermore, customer experience, customers’ community, customer knowledge, and customer innovation are influential variables for improving organizational learning from customer. In order to study this impact, the author uses cognitive fit theory to develop a model that describes how these variables will affect the success of organizational learning process to enhance products and/or services development, quality, and internal process improvement.
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Madhavaram, Sreedhar, and Radha Appan. "Marketing Strategy." In IT-Enabled Strategic Management, 142–59. IGI Global, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-908-3.ch008.
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Because of (1) the boundary-spanning nature of the marketing function, and (2) marketing’s evolution toward a dynamic, evolutionary process, and service-centered view, marketing strategy has come to be a core element of the firm’s business strategy. That is, in an information-intensive, competitive marketplace, marketing strategy is responsible for ensuring that all aspects of a firm’s marketing activities are focused on delivering superior value to customer. Further, recognizing information/knowledge and information technology (IT) as potential sources of competitive advantage, this chapter explores various IT-enabled capabilities that influence the firm’s marketing strategy. In doing so, specific IT-enabled capabilities that correspond to Market Orientation Strategy, Relationship Marketing Strategy, Market Segmentation Strategy, and Brand Equity Strategy are presented and discussed. Finally, this chapter concludes with a call for strategically oriented research for exploring, conceptualizing, developing, and measuring IT-enabled capabilities that influence marketing strategy.
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Dianová, Markéta. "Nation Branding in the Context of State Administration Agenda." In Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services, 46–64. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0214-3.ch003.
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The chapter focuses on relationships, structures, and processes that fundamentally influence the implementation of the nation branding strategy, the scope of activities carried out by institutional actors, and the extent of involvement of these actors in the process of nation branding. It studies the activities the official actors carry out in the nation branding scope and identifies what their priorities are in the integrated state presentation. It identifies the sources of double-track activities processes in the distribution of the roles and extent of involvement of public diplomacy actors, as well as institutions responsible for presentation of a country. Without attempting to initiate changes in legislation or hierarchy of the state actors involved in nation branding, it brings insight into informal layer of formal relationships and interactions and brings a proposal on how to formally simplify the process of implementation of the nation branding strategy in the Czech Republic.
Conference papers on the topic "Process-strategy relationship"
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Wei, Wen-chuan, Li Li, and Jing Zhang. "The research on relationship among customers, capital providers and strategy making process." In 2009 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering (ICMSE). IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icmse.2009.5317387.
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Guo, Weina, and Weihua Liu. "Notice of Retraction: Business Process Reengineering based on customer relationship management strategy." In 2010 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information Management and Engineering (ICIME 2010). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icime.2010.5477895.
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Wang, Lan, and Mian Liu. "Study on the Relationship of Process-Oriented Servitization Strategy, Hierarchical Network Structure and Innovation Performance." In 2022 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (ICAIBD). IEEE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icaibd55127.2022.9820225.
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Karami, Azhdar. "An investigation on environmental scanning and growth strategy in high tech small and medium sized enterprises." In 16th Annual High Technology Small Firms Conference, HTSF 2008. University of Twente, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.3990/2.268580687.
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The idea that environmental scanning can be a key factor to sustained competitive advantage calls for the integration of business strategy and environment. Not surprisingly, environmental scanning is widely viewed as the first step in the process linking strategy and environment. The main debate in strategy and environment is nowadays concerned with the primary importance of environmental scanning to strategy formulation and implementation. More specially, effective scanning of the environment is seen as necessary to the successful alignment of competitive strategies with environmental requirements and the achievement of outstanding performance in SMEs. This paper explores the above relationship in the British electronic manufacturing industry. It is based on the empirical evidence and the findings of a survey of 132 Chief Executive Officers’ (CEO) views on environmental scanning and strategy in SMEs. It is concluded that, there is a significant relationship between increasing the environmental scanning of the firm, and the success of the firm’s performance in small and medium sized manufacturing firms in electronic industry. Accordingly, because of dynamic aspect of electronic industry, obtaining information on several aspects of environmental sectors facilitates alignment between business strategy and environment.
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Wang, Pan, Yuan Li, Jie Zhang, and Jianfeng Yu. "Probabilistic Description of the Function-Structure Relationship in Products." In ASME 2016 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2016-66041.
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Providing the designers with the relationship between functions and structures is an effective way to accelerate the design process. Currently, the function-structure relationship is usually obtained by theoretically analyzing the transformation from function to structure, such as the FBS model. Though these methods have provided the reasonable explorations of the function-structure relationship, they are complicated and not easy to achieve. Since the function-structure relationship in the existing products also follows the design pattern described by the existing studies, extracting the function-structure relationship from these products instead of the theoretical analysis could also transfer the significant information that what structures could satisfy the required function. Therefore, this paper presents an estimation approach to obtain the probabilistic description of the function-structure relationship in products. First, the product, structure and the functions contained by a product are described with product vector, structure vector and function vector, respectively. Meanwhile, the relationship between them is also defined. Then, a statistical strategy is proposed that treats all the products as the population and the products we gather as the sample, and defines the function-structure relationship as the conditional probability of the appearance of a structure given a function in the gathered products. Afterwards, the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is employed to estimate the conditional probability. Compared with other methods, the proposed approach replaces the theoretical analysis with discovering the products, which avoids the complicated modeling and description of the function-structure relationship. In case study, some experiments have been carried out, and a plug-in tool is developed to implement the application of the extracted function-structure relationship in product design. The results have shown the feasibility of the proposed approach and demonstrated the practical value in engineering.
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Voronova, Irina, Vladimirs Shatrevich, Mihails Gavrilovs, and Viktorija Skvarciany. "PRIORITISING COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES BASED ON THE ANP APPROACH: A CASE OF THE LATVIAN TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY." In Business and Management 2018. VGTU Technika, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/bm.2018.10.
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The present study provides a comparative analysis of development strategy selection and presents an overview of multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) in strategic management. The main aim of the paper is to use the analytic network process (ANP) as one of MCDA methods for determining the best strategy. Based on expert opinions and analytic hierarchy process (AHP), the authors have identified and evaluated SWOT analysis factors used for the development of a company strategy. To investi-gate the interaction of external and internal environment, the authors have used the ANP that allows obtaining relative measurement of the influence of SWOT elements. The ANP is useful with regard to interdependent relationship between multi-objectives and multi-stakeholders’ environment. The algo-rithm of quantitative evaluation of telecommunication company strategies is also presented in the paper.
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BORCAN, Ioana, and Ionuț Cătălin NICA. "THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: A PREMISE OF AGILE ORGANIZATIONS." In International Management Conference. Editura ASE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.24818/imc/2021/03.14.
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The paper aims to underline the influence that the gender and age of employees have on the strategy of digital transformation in organizations. The research was conducted between September and December 2020 on a sample of 185 respondents from various organizations in the field of vehicles whose organizations have started a process of digital transformation. The results of our research have shown that there is a direct relationship between digital transformation and the agility of the organization and that the gender and age of employees partially influence the digital transformation strategy in organizations. Moreover, the organization's vision and mission must be at least one-step ahead of the digital transformation strategy. Thus, vision and mission must be the key components that underline the particularities of the digital strategy and not the other way around.
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Zhao, Yu, Ping Li, Kunpeng Tian, and Xingwei Fei. "Maintenance Strategy Optimization Based on AP-913 in Relay Protection Field." In 2022 29th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone29-93089.
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Abstract AP-913 (Equipment Reliability Process Description) describes an equipment reliability process offered to assist member utilities to maintain high levels of safe and reliable plant operation in an efficient manner. This document based on AP-913 process document, this paper generally describes its determination by logic and analysis method. Combining with the types of failure and consequences in the actual problems, it created a more simplified maintenance strategy optimization mind maps (including the system stability, the design necessity, the economic efficiency, the equipment reliability four factors, refining the equipment and benefit related factors, its relationship and influence between the four are clarified), that can raise efficiency of maintenance and enhance the stability of the system. Through its application in the maintenance cases, it takes some cases for example: Increase the PM project of replacing the power board card of the transformer group, shorten the PM project cycle of the transformer group power transmitter, and change the control operation mode of the main transformer cooler;cancel the design of outdated manual working frequency excitation equipment and its PM items, cancellation of electric disk cabinet timer, etc. It is proved that the reliability of the equipment is improved after the implement of the maintenance strategy optimization. Time costs and labor costs are saved, and the cost of equipment procurement is decreased too. Responding to control the company’s cost positively, some ideas at the same time also can provide reference for other similar plant maintenance work.
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Milaat, Fahad, Paul Witherell, Martin Hardwick, Ho Yeung, Vincenzo Ferrero, Laetitia Monnier, and Matthew Brown. "STEP-NC Compliant Data Representations for Powder Bed Fusion in Additive Manufacturing." In ASME 2022 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2022-90673.
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Abstract Powder bed fusion (PBF) is an additive manufacturing (AM) technology that uses powerful beams to fuse powder material into layers of scanned patterns, thus producing parts with great geometric complexity. For PBF, process parameters, environmental control, and machining functions play critical roles in maintaining fabrication consistency and reducing potential part defects such as pores and grain growth. However, a major contributor to such defects can be attributed to poor data representations in the form of tessellated geometry and incoherent process plans. To address this issue, the Standard for the Exchange of Product model data Numerical Control (STEP-NC) recently added standardized data elements, entities, and attributes specifically for AM applications. Yet, the current STEP-NC data representations for AM lack definitions of process parameters and scan strategies that are commonly used in PBF processes. Therefore, characterization of the relationship between joint features, especially for PBF in AM, is missing. To bridge this gap, in this paper, an amended STEP-NC compliant data representation for PBF in AM is proposed. Specifically, the characteristics of the interlayer relationships in PBF, along with beam technology and AM strategy controls, are defined. Simulation results demonstrate the feasibility of granular process planning control, and the potential for producing high-quality parts with exact geometry and tolerance.
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Khorasani, Sasan T. "Design-Driven Integrated-Comprehensive Model CDFS Strategic Relationships." In ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2014-34194.
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Measuring quality in design-driven innovation is part of the larger subject of product design, supply chain management and new product development (NPD). In other words, better design and supply chain integration increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the production development process. In this work, I have studied the role of understanding the needs of customers and design approaches for new products through a combination of customer feedback and participation of designers in the first phase of new product development. Furthermore, I discuss why the incorporation of both designers and customer needs is important to design-driven innovation. In the second phase of this study, I present several case studies in terms of supplier-buyer relationships in order to find a solution that achieves a long-term relationship (the alliance-star model) in new product development, which is a crucial problem in the Blue Ocean Strategy. Finally, by presenting the CDFS (Customer-Designer-Firm-Supplier) strategic model, we show schematically the integrated-comprehensive process approach for creating a new innovative product from the concept phase through to the end of Product life cycle. This model presents the process of new innovation, which can ensure added value during Product life cycle.
Reports on the topic "Process-strategy relationship"
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Fang, Mei Lan, Lupin Battersby, Marianne Cranwell, Heather Cassie, Moya Fox, Philippa Sterlini, Jenna Breckenridge, Alex Gardner, and Thomas Curtin. IKT for Research Stage 8: Dissemination. University of Dundee, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.20933/100001255.
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In 2020, the University of Dundee initiated the development of an Open Research strategy. As part of this initiative, in February 2021 the University’s Library and Learning Centre together with Open Research Champions from the Schools of Health Sciences and Dentistry, formed an Open Research Working group. To build on the University’s open research policy and infrastructure, the purpose of the group was to facilitate ongoing research and development of best practice approaches for our interdisciplinary environment to make outputs, data and other products of our research publicly available, building on University of Dundee’s Open Research policy and infrastructure. Through informal consultations with academic staff and students, the Open Research Working Group found that: → access and reach of research findings can be amplified through effective knowledge mobilisation, and stakeholder and patient and public involvement; and → there was a need for guidance and resources on how-to implement knowledge mobilisation activities with and for stakeholders throughout the entire research process – from proposal development to project completion. In June 2021, the Open Research working group, in partnership with Simon Fraser University’s Knowledge Mobilization Hub began the development of an Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) Toolkit, with funding support from the University of Dundee’s Doctoral Academy and Organisational Professional Development. IKT is an approach to knowledge translation that emphasises working in an engaged and collaborative partnership with stakeholders throughout the research cycle in order to have positive impact. The aim was to co-produce evidence-informed, best practice learning materials on how-to: → maintain ongoing relationships between researchers, community stakeholders and decision-makers in research development and implementation; and → facilitate an integrated, participatory way of knowledge production whereby researchers, practitioners and other knowledge users can collaborate to co-generate new and accessible knowledge that can be utilised in contexts ranging from supporting community development to policy guidance for practice. The IKT Toolkit was informed by a focused evidence review and synthesis of published peer-reviewed and grey literature and consists of 8 knowledge briefs and a slide deck co-produced for use in any discipline or sector. Each knowledge brief provides practical guidance and resources to support an IKT process in each of eight key research stages: (i) Partnership Building; (ii) Generating Priorities and Ideas; (iii) Proposal development; (iv) Study Design; (v) Data Collection; (vi) Data Analysis; (vii) Reporting and (viii) Dissemination. The current knowledge brief provides IKT guidance on Research Stage 8: Dissemination.
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Fang, Mei Lan, Lupin Battersby, Marianne Cranwell, Heather Cassie, Moya Fox, Philippa Sterlini, Jenna Breckenridge, Alex Gardner, and Thomas Curtin. IKT for Research Stage 1: Partnership Building. University of Dundee, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.20933/100001248.
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In 2020, the University of Dundee initiated the development of an Open Research strategy. As part of this initiative, in February 2021 the University’s Library and Learning Centre together with Open Research Champions from the Schools of Health Sciences and Dentistry, formed an Open Research Working group. To build on the University’s Open Research policy and infrastructure, the purpose of the group was to facilitate ongoing research and development of best practice approaches for our interdisciplinary environment to make outputs, data and other products of our research publicly available. Through informal consultations with academic staff and students, the Open Research Working Group found that: → access and reach of research findings can be amplified through effective knowledge mobilisation, and stakeholder and patient and public involvement; and → there was a need for guidance and resources on how-to implement knowledge mobilisation activities with and for stakeholders throughout the entire research process – from proposal development to project completion. In June 2021, the Open Research working group, in partnership with Simon Fraser University’s Knowledge Mobilization Hub began the development of an Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) Toolkit, with funding support from the University of Dundee’s Doctoral Academy and Organisational Professional Development. IKT is an approach to knowledge translation that emphasises working in an engaged and collaborative partnership with stakeholders throughout the research cycle in order to have positive impact. The aim was to co-produce evidence-informed, best practice learning materials on how-to: → maintain ongoing relationships between researchers, community stakeholders and decisionmakers in research development and implementation; and → facilitate an integrated, participatory way of knowledge production whereby researchers, practitioners and other knowledge users can collaborate to co-generate new and accessible knowledge that can be utilised in contexts ranging from supporting community development to policy guidance for practice. The IKT Toolkit was informed by a focused evidence review and synthesis of published peer-reviewed and grey literature and consists of eight knowledge briefs and a slide deck co-produced for use in any discipline or sector. Each knowledge brief provides practical guidance and resources to support an IKT process in each of eight key research stages: (i) Partnership Building; (ii) Generating Priorities and Ideas; (iii) Proposal development; (iv) Study Design; (v) Data Collection; (vi) Data Analysis; (vii) Reporting and (viii) Dissemination. The current knowledge brief provides IKT guidance on Research Stage 1: Partnership Building.
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Fang, Mei Lan, Lupin Battersby, Marianne Cranwell, Heather Cassie, Moya Fox, Philippa Sterlini, Jenna Breckenridge, Alex Gardner, and Thomas Curtin. IKT for Research Stage 3: Proposal Development. University of Dundee, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.20933/100001250.
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In 2020, the University of Dundee initiated the development of an Open Research strategy. As part of this initiative, in February 2021 the University’s Library and Learning Centre together with Open Research Champions from the Schools of Health Sciences and Dentistry, formed an Open Research Working group. To build on the University’s open research policy and infrastructure, the purpose of the group was to facilitate ongoing research and development of best practice approaches for our interdisciplinary environment to make outputs, data and other products of our research publicly available, building on University of Dundee’s Open Research policy and infrastructure. Through informal consultations with academic staff and students, the Open Research Working Group found that: → access and reach of research findings can be amplified through effective knowledge mobilisation, and stakeholder and patient and public involvement; and → there was a need for guidance and resources on how-to implement knowledge mobilisation activities with and for stakeholders throughout the entire research process – from proposal development to project completion. In June 2021, the Open Research working group, in partnership with Simon Fraser University’s Knowledge Mobilization Hub began the development of an Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) Toolkit, with funding support from the University of Dundee’s Doctoral Academy and Organisational Professional Development. IKT is an approach to knowledge translation that emphasises working in an engaged and collaborative partnership with stakeholders throughout the research cycle in order to have positive impact. The aim was to co-produce evidence-informed, best practice learning materials on how-to: → maintain ongoing relationships between researchers, community stakeholders and decision-makers in research development and implementation; and → facilitate an integrated, participatory way of knowledge production whereby researchers, practitioners and other knowledge users can collaborate to co-generate new and accessible knowledge that can be utilised in contexts ranging from supporting community development to policy guidance for practice. The IKT Toolkit was informed by a focused evidence review and synthesis of published peerreviewed and grey literature and consists of 8 knowledge briefs and a slide deck co-produced for use in any discipline or sector. Each knowledge brief provides practical guidance and resources to support an IKT process in each of eight key research stages: (i) Partnership Building; (ii) Generating Priorities and Ideas; (iii) Proposal development; (iv) Study Design; (v) Data Collection; (vi) Data Analysis; (vii) Reporting and (viii) Dissemination. The current knowledge brief provides IKT guidance on Research Stage 3: Proposal Development.
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Fang, Mei Lan, Lupin Battersby, Marianne Cranwell, Heather Cassie, Moya Fox, Philippa Sterlini, Jenna Breckenridge, Alex Gardner, and Thomas Curtin. IKT for Research Stage 5: Data Collection. University of Dundee, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.20933/100001252.
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In 2020, the University of Dundee initiated the development of an Open Research strategy. As part of this initiative, in February 2021 the University’s Library and Learning Centre together with Open Research Champions from the Schools of Health Sciences and Dentistry, formed an Open Research Working group. To build on the University’s open research policy and infrastructure, the purpose of the group was to facilitate ongoing research and development of best practice approaches for our interdisciplinary environment to make outputs, data and other products of our research publicly available, building on University of Dundee’s Open Research policy and infrastructure. Through informal consultations with academic staff and students, the Open Research Working Group found that: → access and reach of research findings can be amplified through effective knowledge mobilisation, and stakeholder and patient and public involvement; and → there was a need for guidance and resources on how-to implement knowledge mobilisation activities with and for stakeholders throughout the entire research process – from proposal development to project completion. In June 2021, the Open Research working group, in partnership with Simon Fraser University’s Knowledge Mobilization Hub began the development of an Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) Toolkit, with funding support from the University of Dundee’s Doctoral Academy and Organisational Professional Development. IKT is an approach to knowledge translation that emphasises working in an engaged and collaborative partnership with stakeholders throughout the research cycle in order to have positive impact. The aim was to co-produce evidence-informed, best practice learning materials on how-to: → maintain ongoing relationships between researchers, community stakeholders and decision-makers in research development and implementation; and → facilitate an integrated, participatory way of knowledge production whereby researchers, practitioners and other knowledge users can collaborate to co-generate new and accessible knowledge that can be utilised in contexts ranging from supporting community development to policy guidance for practice. The IKT Toolkit was informed by a focused evidence review and synthesis of published peerreviewed and grey literature and consists of 8 knowledge briefs and a slide deck co-produced for use in any discipline or sector. Each knowledge brief provides practical guidance and resources to support an IKT process in each of eight key research stages: (i) Partnership Building; (ii) Generating Priorities and Ideas; (iii) Proposal development; (iv) Study Design; (v) Data Collection; (vi) Data Analysis; (vii) Reporting and (viii) Dissemination. The current knowledge brief provides IKT guidance on Research Stage 5: Data Collection.
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Fang, Mei Lan, Lupin Battersby, Marianne Cranwell, Heather Cassie, Moya Fox, Philippa Sterlini, Jenna Breckenridge, Alex Gardner, and Thomas Curtin. IKT for Research Stage 2: Generating Priorities and Ideas. University of Dundee, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.20933/100001249.
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In 2020, the University of Dundee initiated the development of an Open Research strategy. As part of this initiative, in February 2021 the University’s Library and Learning Centre together with Open Research Champions from the Schools of Health Sciences and Dentistry, formed an Open Research Working group. To build on the University’s Open Research policy and infrastructure, the purpose of the group was to facilitate ongoing research and development of best practice approaches for our interdisciplinary environment to make outputs, data and other products of our research publicly available. Through informal consultations with academic staff and students, the Open Research Working Group found that: → access and reach of research findings can be amplified through effective knowledge mobilisation, and stakeholder and patient and public involvement; and → there was a need for guidance and resources on how-to implement knowledge mobilisation activities with and for stakeholders throughout the entire research process – from proposal development to project completion. In June 2021, the Open Research working group, in partnership with Simon Fraser University’s Knowledge Mobilization Hub began the development of an Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) Toolkit, with funding support from the University of Dundee’s Doctoral Academy and Organisational Professional Development. IKT is an approach to knowledge translation that emphasises working in an engaged and collaborative partnership with stakeholders throughout the research cycle in order to have positive impact. The aim was to co-produce evidence-informed, best practice learning materials on how-to: → maintain ongoing relationships between researchers, community stakeholders and decisionmakers in research development and implementation; and → facilitate an integrated, participatory way of knowledge production whereby researchers, practitioners and other knowledge users can collaborate to co-generate new and accessible knowledge that can be utilised in contexts ranging from supporting community development to policy guidance for practice. The IKT Toolkit was informed by a focused evidence review and synthesis of published peer-reviewed and grey literature and consists of eight knowledge briefs and a slide deck co-produced for use in any discipline or sector. Each knowledge brief provides practical guidance and resources to support an IKT process in each of eight key research stages: (i) Partnership Building; (ii) Generating Priorities and Ideas; (iii) Proposal development; (iv) Study Design; (v) Data Collection; (vi) Data Analysis; (vii) Reporting and (viii) Dissemination. The current knowledge brief provides IKT guidance on Research Stage 2: Generating Priorities and Ideas.
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Fang, Mei Lan, Lupin Battersby, Marianne Cranwell, Heather Cassie, Moya Fox, Philippa Sterlini, Jenna Breckenridge, Alex Gardner, and Thomas Curtin. IKT for Research Stage 6: Data Analysis. University of Dundee, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.20933/100001253.
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In 2020, the University of Dundee initiated the development of an Open Research strategy. As part of this initiative, in February 2021 the University’s Library and Learning Centre together with Open Research Champions from the Schools of Health Sciences and Dentistry, formed an Open Research Working group. To build on the University’s open research policy and infrastructure, the purpose of the group was to facilitate ongoing research and development of best practice approaches for our interdisciplinary environment to make outputs, data and other products of our research publicly available, building on University of Dundee’s Open Research policy and infrastructure. Through informal consultations with academic staff and students, the Open Research Working Group found that: → access and reach of research findings can be amplified through effective knowledge mobilisation, and stakeholder and patient and public involvement; and → there was a need for guidance and resources on how-to implement knowledge mobilisation activities with and for stakeholders throughout the entire research process – from proposal development to project completion. In June 2021, the Open Research working group, in partnership with Simon Fraser University’s Knowledge Mobilization Hub began the development of an Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) Toolkit, with funding support from the University of Dundee’s Doctoral Academy and Organisational Professional Development. IKT is an approach to knowledge translation that emphasises working in an engaged and collaborative partnership with stakeholders throughout the research cycle in order to have positive impact. The aim was to co-produce evidence-informed, best practice learning materials on how-to: → maintain ongoing relationships between researchers, community stakeholders and decision-makers in research development and implementation; and → facilitate an integrated, participatory way of knowledge production whereby researchers, practitioners and other knowledge users can collaborate to co-generate new and accessible knowledge that can be utilised in contexts ranging from supporting community development to policy guidance for practice. The IKT Toolkit was informed by a focused evidence review and synthesis of published peer-reviewed and grey literature and consists of 8 knowledge briefs and a slide deck co-produced for use in any discipline or sector. Each knowledge brief provides practical guidance and resources to support an IKT process in each of eight key research stages: (i) Partnership Building; (ii) Generating Priorities and Ideas; (iii) Proposal development; (iv) Study Design; (v) Data Collection; (vi) Data Analysis; (vii) Reporting and (viii) Dissemination. The current knowledge brief provides IKT guidance on Research Stage 6: Data Analysis.
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Fang, Mei Lan, Lupin Battersby, Marianne Cranwell, Heather Cassie, Moya Fox, Philippa Sterlini, Jenna Breckenridge, Alex Gardner, and Thomas Curtin. IKT for Research Stage 7: Reporting. University of Dundee, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.20933/100001254.
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In 2020, the University of Dundee initiated the development of an Open Research strategy. As part of this initiative, in February 2021 the University’s Library and Learning Centre together with Open Research Champions from the Schools of Health Sciences and Dentistry, formed an Open Research Working group. To build on the University’s open research policy and infrastructure, the purpose of the group was to facilitate ongoing research and development of best practice approaches for our interdisciplinary environment to make outputs, data and other products of our research publicly available, building on University of Dundee’s Open Research policy and infrastructure. Through informal consultations with academic staff and students, the Open Research Working Group found that: → access and reach of research findings can be amplified through effective knowledge mobilisation, and stakeholder and patient and public involvement; and → there was a need for guidance and resources on how-to implement knowledge mobilisation activities with and for stakeholders throughout the entire research process – from proposal development to project completion. In June 2021, the Open Research working group, in partnership with Simon Fraser University’s Knowledge Mobilization Hub began the development of an Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) Toolkit, with funding support from the University of Dundee’s Doctoral Academy and Organisational Professional Development. IKT is an approach to knowledge translation that emphasises working in an engaged and collaborative partnership with stakeholders throughout the research cycle in order to have positive impact. The aim was to co-produce evidence-informed, best practice learning materials on how-to: → maintain ongoing relationships between researchers, community stakeholders and decision-makers in research development and implementation; and → facilitate an integrated, participatory way of knowledge production whereby researchers, practitioners and other knowledge users can collaborate to co-generate new and accessible knowledge that can be utilised in contexts ranging from supporting community development to policy guidance for practice. The IKT Toolkit was informed by a focused evidence review and synthesis of published peer-reviewed and grey literature and consists of 8 knowledge briefs and a slide deck co-produced for use in any discipline or sector. Each knowledge brief provides practical guidance and resources to support an IKT process in each of eight key research stages: (i) Partnership Building; (ii) Generating Priorities and Ideas; (iii) Proposal development; (iv) Study Design; (v) Data Collection; (vi) Data Analysis; (vii) Reporting and (viii) Dissemination. The current knowledge brief provides IKT guidance on Research Stage 7: Reporting.
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Fang, Mei Lan, Lupin Battersby, Marianne Cranwell, Heather Cassie, Moya Fox, Philippa Sterlini, Jenna Breckenridge, Alex Gardner, and Thomas Curtin. IKT for Research Stage 4: Study Design. University of Dundee, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.20933/100001251.
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In 2020, the University of Dundee initiated the development of an Open Research strategy. As part of this initiative, in February 2021 the University’s Library and Learning Centre together with Open Research Champions from the Schools of Health Sciences and Dentistry, formed an Open Research Working group. To build on the University’s open research policy and infrastructure, the purpose of the group was to facilitate ongoing research and development of best practice approaches for our interdisciplinary environment to make outputs, data and other products of our research publicly available, building on University of Dundee’s Open Research policy and infrastructure. Through informal consultations with academic staff and students, the Open Research Working Group found that: → access and reach of research findings can be amplified through effective knowledge mobilisation, and stakeholder and patient and public involvement; and → there was a need for guidance and resources on how-to implement knowledge mobilisation activities with and for stakeholders throughout the entire research process – from proposal development to project completion. In June 2021, the Open Research working group, in partnership with Simon Fraser University’s Knowledge Mobilization Hub began the development of an Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) Toolkit, with funding support from the University of Dundee’s Doctoral Academy and Organisational Professional Development. IKT is an approach to knowledge translation that emphasises working in an engaged and collaborative partnership with stakeholders throughout the research cycle in order to have positive impact. The aim was to co-produce evidence-informed, best practice learning materials on how-to: → maintain ongoing relationships between researchers, community stakeholders and decision-makers in research development and implementation; and → facilitate an integrated, participatory way of knowledge production whereby researchers, practitioners and other knowledge users can collaborate to co-generate new and accessible knowledge that can be utilised in contexts ranging from supporting community development to policy guidance for practice. The IKT Toolkit was informed by a focused evidence review and synthesis of published peerreviewed and grey literature and consists of 8 knowledge briefs and a slide deck co-produced for use in any discipline or sector. Each knowledge brief provides practical guidance and resources to support an IKT process in each of eight key research stages: (i) Partnership Building; (ii) Generating Priorities and Ideas; (iii) Proposal development; (iv) Study Design; (v) Data Collection; (vi) Data Analysis; (vii) Reporting and (viii) Dissemination. The current knowledge brief provides IKT guidance on Research Stage 4: Study Design.