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Walrath, Bryan James. "A Project Planning Guide for Healthcare Facility Owners." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/14557.
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According to a recent study, about 30 percent of U.S. real estate projects are canceled midstream, while more than half run up to 190 percent over budget and 220 percent over the initial time estimate. The reasons for this are
manifold but poor decisions during the initiation and early planning of the project can be pointed to as main causes. Most poor decisions stem from lack of information, bad judgment, and lack of communication and transparency between what the client expects and what the project team can deliver. Proper
project planning procedures and methods will lead to proper contingency planning, management of partner relationships and contracts, management of dynamic change and associated risks that can, and most probably will, occur in
the course of the project.
The role of the owner cannot be overstated in all of these targets. Historically, the owners of healthcare facilities have a once in a lifetime involvement in the planning, design and construction (or major renovation) of
their facility. The interaction with planners, public bodies, architects, engineers, and other entities is a daunting prospect for which an owner will seek help from specialized firms that represent the owner.
This guide may serve as a healthcare project planning guide for owners, and in particular CEOs, to navigate the process. It will prepare the owner to recognize the major tasks and decision steps throughout project planning,
while keeping the focus on the desired outcome. Any owner should recognize that the slogan: if you dont know what you want, you will not get what you need is as true today as it ever was. This guide will include research, best practices from industry experts, and a case study on the New Orleans public healthcare planning process post-Hurricane Katrina.
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Rich-Mahadkar, Sameedha. "Strategic asset management for improved healthcare infrastructure planning in English NHS Trusts." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/16782.
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The management of physical healthcare assets is vital for efficient delivery of healthcare services along with improving quality and productivity, amidst significant structural and funding re-organisation within the NHS. Capital allocations are under pressure and advanced strategic planning of healthcare infrastructure is required to maintain services. In doing so, the complexity of multiple interacting systems and mixed stakeholder expectations and competencies need to be addressed. The relationship between stakeholder public consultation and estates strategy development in theory and practice is poorly understood and further theoretical development is required to advance our knowledge in Strategic Asset Management (SAM). This thesis adopts an interpretivist paradigm, and an abductive approach with a case study design methodology. Data were collected from six case studies comprising 91 participants (focus groups and workshops); 6 unstructured interviews; 907 questionnaires; and observations resulting in over 30 hours of transcribed data, along with web-based document analyse (desk studies) within 149 NHS Trusts. The data were further analysed using thematic analyses. Findings reveal how localised conditions within individual healthcare Trusts influence the ways in which national initiatives are interpreted and incorporated; these impact existing ways of developing an estates strategy and in some cases, have implications on the usability of associated healthcare infrastructure spaces. This had clear implications on existing SAM practice, which were diverse, driven by individual project team competencies and associated project management practice. In practice, more focus was given to technical competencies (knowledge of SAM datasets and tools) and behavioural competencies were downplayed. Thus, the integrative Strategic Asset Management (iSAM) framework developed in this research, established a unique baseline to develop SAM plans from a complex interaction of care, estates and transport, providing a valuable resource for healthcare planning teams. Stakeholder consultation should be selective (representative sample) and the content of consultation should be appropriate at various SAM stages. Trusts should clearly indicate how their plans have been influenced, given the feedback from stakeholder consultation. Thus, moving it from a tick box exercise, to one that adds value in the decision making process. Empirical findings revealed that although literature promoted tools and methods to facilitate SAM, in practice, these were hardly used and most teams within English healthcare Trusts were not aware of best practice tools and solutions. Structuration theory was further used as a heuristic device to theoretically triangulate the empirical findings and contribute to a nuanced understanding of SAM within healthcare Trusts. In doing so, a middle range theory for integrative SAM (iSAM) was developed. It revealed that a dynamic system of individual action and organisational structure both constrained and enabled SAM. It was evident that the process of SAM is an open, emergent process of sense making rather than a pre-determined and closed process following prescriptive rules. This thesis has advanced knowledge in SAM and has raised the importance of front end project management within English healthcare Trusts. The new integrative and interdisciplinary iSAM framework facilitates the development of estates strategy and stakeholder consultation decision-making within healthcare Trusts.
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Werker, Gregory Robert. "Strategic resource planning in healthcare under uncertainty : British Columbia Cancer Agency and Vancouver's Downtown Eastside." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43735.
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In two very different healthcare settings we demonstrate the benefits of long term planning using operations research (OR) tools. We present models that handle considerable variability using solutions based on relatively simple approximations.
In the first setting we present a mixed integer program (MIP) with a goal programming (GP) formulation for strategic workforce planning at the British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA). Our model considers experience, minimum and maximum durations, and redundancy in staffing to guard against unanticipated employee leaves. We evaluate the model parameters using simulation, and analyze the simulation output with logistic and Poisson regression. The core model can be generalized to other workforce planning applications in healthcare or to other human resource intensive industries; the full BCCA model illustrates a real-world implementation.
This research introduces to the workforce planning literature a technique for building robustness into the plan, together with experience and duration constraints. In the second setting we study a marginalized population for which myriad organizations provide healthcare and other services in the absence of system-level quantitative planning. We use a queueing network to model clients with complex concurrent disorders (CCD) flowing through services in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). We perform sensitivity analysis on the input parameters, validate our solution against a simulation model, and conduct scenario comparisons to evaluate potential procedural and policy changes to the system.
To analyze this network we present a novel approximation technique—-called a linearized closed queueing network (LCQN)—-for solving closed queueing networks. By using an open queueing network with the fixed population mean (FPM) approach, and by including a trick for dealing with capacitated stations, we create a network representation that is solved with a linear program (LP). This method scales to much larger systems. We derive the approximation ratio between this approximation and the exact solution for a small network, and use simulation to show that this gap is of no practical significance for the full network.
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Yeung, Yee-hung Stella, and 潘怡紅. "Sustainable healthcare delivery in Hong Kong: organizational initiatives and strategic financing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3196669X.
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Byington, Randy Lee. "Healthcare Strategic Management: The Impact of State and Federal Funding Levels on the Implementation of Strategic Plans at Tennessee Hospitals." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2003. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0819103-152940/unrestricted/ByingtonR090203f.pdf.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--East Tennessee State University, 2003.Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-0819103-152940. Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.
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Junqueira, Cristina Helena Zingaretti. "Proposta de modelo de planejamento estratégico para serviços profissionais - um estudo de caso em serviços odontológicos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3136/tde-09032007-165535/.
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O objetivo desse trabalho foi elaborar uma proposta de modelo de planejamento estratégico aplicável à realidade das empresas de serviços profissionais, especialmente no setor odontológico. Para isso, foram estudados os aspectos teóricos relevantes ao tema, as características da indústria de serviços profissionais com foco em Odontologia, e o caso de uma empresa representativa do setor. A proposta elaborada, fundamentada pela extensa pesquisa realizada, propõe a reunião dos aspectos teóricos de planejamento estratégico às características tão particulares desse setor e das empresas que o compõem. O resultado desse trabalho é uma contribuição à limitada literatura existente sobre gestão de serviços odontológicos, à própria comunidade odontológica brasileira, devido ao profundo diagnóstico apresentado para o setor e também para a produção acadêmica e científica da Escola Politécnica e da Universidade de São Paulo.The goal of this work was to develop a proposal of a strategic planning model that fits the reality of professional service firms, especially in the Dentistry sector. With that purpose, it studied the concepts related to the topic, the main characteristics and particularities of professional service firms, with emphasis on Dentistry and developed a case study of a firm representative of the sector. The developed model, based on an extensive research, proposes joining the theoretical features of strategic planning with the very particular characteristics of this sector and its companies. The result of this work is a contribution to the limited literature about management of Dentistry services, to the Brazilian Dentistry community, because of the deep diagnosis presented for the sector, and to the academic and scientific production of the Escola Politécnica and of Universidade of São Paulo.
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Bosch, Rafeeq. "Charting a preferred future for healthcare in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/18189.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2011.The objectives of this research report on a scenario planning exercise for the SA healthcare sector were to prepare the material that would feed into such a exercise, to document some ideas about how the planning workshops would run, and identify some possible role players in the process. Several items of research regarding the SA healthcare environment are presented, including economic research data and an environmental scan of recent developments in the healthcare arena. In addition, primer material on various futures studies techniques has been prepared. These are deemed to hold the potential to shift the prevalent thinking within the SA healthcare environment. The list of techniques includes scenario planning, systems thinking and causal layered analysis. The set of data presented confirms that there are several critical issues facing the SA healthcare environment. These need to be tackled in a unified way by all players in the industry if the prevailing dynamics that give rise to these issues are to change. Scenario planning is proposed because it creates a forum within which to do so. The effectiveness of futures studies problem solving techniques in addressing these challenges is demonstrated. This is achieved by recognising, for example, that the problems besetting the current industry are, in one sense, structural (from systems thinking) or that perceptions about the issues are seated in mental models which are not necessarily universally-held (from causal layered analysis). Scenario planning is a first step to imagining an alternative future for SA healthcare which is different from the one toward which it is heading by default. As a collaborative planning technique, it also starts to shift the mode of interaction of the various sectors that make up the SA healthcare environment. Instead of the de facto conflict-based adversarial modes of interaction designed to maximise individual interests (e.g. law suits and competitive dynamics), the scenario planning exercise creates a fresh space for co-operation and holistic thinking designed to optimise collective interests. The relationships formed in this safe space often survive well beyond the duration of the scenario planning workshop (as was the case with the Montfleur scenario exercise), thereby adding a new dimension to the systemic operation of the healthcare environment.
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Lawings, Michael Anthony. "Business continuity operational strategies for national healthcare insurance companies." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21804.
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Crane, Jeffrey S. "Assessment of the community healthcare providers' ability and willingness to respond to a bioterrorist attack in Florida." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001034.
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Elahi, Behin. "Integrated Optimization Models and Strategies for Green Supply Chain Planning." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1467266039.
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Schwartz, Howard A. "Strategic urban planning /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10800.
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Boothe, Barbara. "Linking assessment, strategic planning, and budget planning." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2002. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
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Loh, Soo Ching. "A strategic analysis of a healthcare IT provider /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/3684.
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Conner-Boyd, Joyce Collette. "The Role of Strategic Leadership in Healthcare Profitability." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7281.
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The failure rate of leadership achieving profitability targets is estimated to be as high as 60%. Many organizations fail to meet profitability targets due to a lack of expertise and insight into strategic leadership skills. The objective of this single case study was to explore the role of strategic leadership in healthcare organization profitability in the United States. Five senior healthcare executives from Georgia with at least 15 years of expertise in the healthcare sector and 10 years in senior leadership were chosen to participate in the study. Purposeful sampling was used to identify the participants. The resource-based view framed the discussion on strategic leadership skills needed to stimulate healthcare profitability. Data were collected using semistructured interviews with open-ended questions to elicit in-depth responses from the study participants. Social media and company websites were also reviewed as additional data sources. Thematic analysis was used in the data analysis. Seven themes emerged from the analysis of data: leadership factor, human capital development, flexibility, managing financial resources, market expansion, customer satisfaction, and standardization. These findings may benefit senior healthcare leaders in Georgia and be the catalyst to social change by improving healthcare profitability in the United States, stimulating a growth in employment, and creating employment opportunities.
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Wilkes, Christopher. "Strategic management and strategic planning at Ruskin College." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/8812.
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The thesis explores strategic management and strategic planning at Ruskin College, an adult education college with a long history of contributing to lifelong learning and social inclusion. It has been written during a period of turbulence in the college - the collapse of a property strategy, the departure of a Principal, a failed inspection, the appointment of a new Principal and a successful re-inspection. Turbulence is a theme of the thesis and underpins some of the models for understanding strategy provided in the literature- The thesis reviews the literature, particularly that relating to further and higher education, on strategic thinking, strategic planning, strategic intent, organisational culture, mission and vision, governance, quality and inspection and how these relate to strategic management. These themes generate the research questions, which are explored using a triangulation of methods - documentary analysis, questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and observations - and respondent triangulation, involving all levels of staff and governors. The research findings show the strategy development process operates within a strong cultural dimension, but is subject to strong external forces. Internal and external perspectives of the college's experience of strategic planning are largely negative. Staff and governors take a cultural perspective on strategy and recognise how concepts of strategic management, such as strategic thinking and strategic conversations, might link to vision and mission. The culture of the governing body and its' changing role in strategic management are identified as significant. The research shows that the relationship between quality and strategic management is unclear and varies according to the definitions of these concepts. It shows that the inspectorate has sought to influence strategic management but the inspection framework does not recognise culture. The conclusion proposes a way forward for strategic processes and approaches in the college as well as for future research on strategic leadership.
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Foss, Sharon Lee McCarthy John R. "Strategic planning in nursing education." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1989. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p8918612.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1989.Title from title page screen, viewed October 3, 2005. Dissertation Committee: John R. McCarthy (chair), Robert L. Arnold, Ronald S. Halinski, Rodney P. Riegle, David L. Tucker. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-99) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Elijah, J. J. "A strategic financial planning model." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49669.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This report contains a strategic management model to assess the impact on the EVA тм of the individual business units and the consolidated group total of a Company, when manipulating any of the key business drivers. The model has been designed to deliver a solution to the end-user that is simple to operate and presents graphical outputs to enhance understanding and interpretation. The sensitivity analysis, the EVA тм tree and the financial statements are presented in Excel. A simulation technique is used to forecast NOPAT values from a set of key drivers. The theories used to construct the model are explained and a hypothetical example is provided. The appendices also provide the concept of EVA тм, simulation techniques, list of assumptions and model instructions. The report is comprehensive enough to allow the reader to develop, implement and test a model of this nature. Opportunities for further research are also provided.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie bevat 'n strategiese bestuursmodel om die impak van individuele besigheidseenhede op ekonomiese waardetoevoeging (Engels: EVA тм) en die gekonsolideerde groeptotaal van 'n maatskappy, wanneer enige een van die sleutel besigheidsdrywers gemanipuleer word, te bepaal. Die model is ontwerp om 'n eenvoudige oplossing vir die eindgebruiker te verskaf en verskaf grafiese uiteensettings om verstaanbaarheid en interpretasie te vergemaklik. Die sensitiwiteitsanalise, ekonomiese waardetoevoegingsontleding en die finansiële state word in Excel weergee. 'n Simulasie tegniek is gebruik om NOPAT waardes van 'n stel sleutel drywers te voorspel. Die teorieë wat gebruik is om die model saam te stel, word aan die hand van 'n hipotetiese voorbeeld wat voorsien word, verduidelik. Die aanhangsels voorsien die konsep EVA тм, simulasie tegnieke, 'n lys van aannames en instruksies vir die model. Die verslag is volledig genoeg om die leser in staat te stel om 'n model van hierdie aard te ontwikkel, te toets en te implementer. Voorstelle vir verdere navorsing word voorsien.
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James, Hakeem Kolawole. "Strategic planning : theory and practice." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282936.
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Shaw, Lucy Nicola. "Strategic planning in public transport." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70260.
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Capuzzi, Angelo Michael. "Strategic planning for LEED certification." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59160.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division; in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-51).
Intel Corporation has recently implemented a "green building" policy, which states that Intel will design all new facilities to achieve a minimum LEED-Silver certification. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a voluntary, consensus-driven rating system used to distinguish high performance, sustainable buildings. Buildings earn "points" in different environmental categories, and the total number of points achieved determines the certification level (Certified, Silver, Gold, or Platinum). While LEED certification has been successfully applied to many residential and commercial buildings, and occasionally to manufacturing facilities, it has not been applied to many wafer manufacturing facilities (fabs), which house the manufacturing and production of Intel's microprocessors. Wafer fabs have much higher energy and water consumption levels than typical buildings due to their strictly controlled temperature, humidity, and particulate requirements, making LEED certification more challenging for a fab than for a typical building. The objective of this study was to develop a planning strategy case study for Intel to achieve LEEDSilver certification for the construction of a hypothetical new wafer fab. The case study identified the main barriers to achieve LEED certification, including cost, risk, process, acceptance and alignment barriers, and outlined means to overcome them. The LEED criteria were then analyzed to determine the costs, benefits, and risks of pursuing each individual credit. The resulting "portfolio planning" model was then used to optimize a portfolio of credits for Intel to pursue. The final results indicated that for the optimized scenario, LEED-Silver certification could be achieved for a positive NPV of over $130,000. Significant cost savings were achieved through the avoidance of the credits related to energy efficiency and on-site renewable energy generation, credits that pose a significant risk to Intel due to the high energy consumption of a fab. Finally, process improvement recommendations were made for the planning, design, and construction of a LEED certified fab.
Angelo Michael Capuzzi.
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Catacora, Flores Cristina Celedonia, Ogata Claudia Eliana Kanamori, Bocangel Evelyn María del Carmen Maldonado, and Medina Marco Augusto Vizcardo. "Strategic planning for Real Plaza." Master's thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/14486.
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The purpose of this thesis was to formulate a five year Strategic Plan for Real Plaza,
covering the period 2019 to 2024. Real Plaza is the largest chain of shopping centers in Peru,
an industry where many different trends are modifying the external environment, such as the
increasing importance of e-commerce and environmental conservation, which are changing
the whole industry and also demanding changes in the strategy of the company while
reinforcing the importance of strengthening Real Plaza’s competitive advantage to compete
through a differentiation strategy in the industry. The Sequential Model of the Strategic
Process was used to formulate this Plan (D’Alessio, 2013). The main result of the Strategic
Process shows the need for Real Plaza to develop a differentiation strategy to achieve the
proposed vision for 2024 in eight major areas: (a) Financial performance, (b) Market
penetration, (c) Brand recognition, (d) Mix of tenants, (e) Innovation, (f) Corporate Social
Responsibility, (g) Digital transformation, and (h) Organizational Culture. Eleven strategies
were retained (a) Increase penetration, (b) Increase market share, (c) Augment the quality and
variety of stores, (d) Position the brand as entertainment centers for the family, (e) Create an
omni-channel strategy, (f) Increase productivity of employees, (g) Brand loyalty, (h) Be
environmentally and social responsible, (i) Diversify offering, (j) Transform shopping centers
to entertainment centers, and (k) Strategic alliances to support the community.Tesis
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Miranda, Francis L. (Francis Louis). "Strategic Planning in Dental Education." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331643/.
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The extent of the application of the strategic planning process on dental education institutions was the problem in this descriptive study. The specific purpose was to describe the status of strategic planning based on the perceptions of the respondents. The organization, the characteristics and the impact of the strategic planning process would be investigated and described by this research. The total population of the doctoral and post-doctoral dental education institutions were included in the study. A specifically developed research instrument was used to elicit the perceptions of the respondents, both experts and chief executive officers (deans). All the experts (100 percent) completed and validated the research instrument and 65 percent of the dental education institutions completed the research instrument. The research instrument evaluated three areas of strategic planning: organization, characteristics, and the impact of strategic planning on their institutions. It was concluded that all dental education institutions participate in the strategic planning process and that the organization in the strategic planning process and that the organization and characteristics are generally similar to those in higher education institutions. The application of the strategic planning process has been proven beneficial in higher education institutions and there are perceived benefits in dental education. The study also concluded that there were conflicting perceptions that showed differences between dental and higher education institutions. These differences demonstrated that the dental education^institutions were not using the strategic planning process at the same functioning level as higher education institutions.
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Gehrking, Gene C. (Gene Clarence). "Strategic Planning: Process and Evaluation." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279126/.
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Strategic planning practices and superintendents' opinions regarding the effectiveness of strategic planning are different among small, medium, and large Texas independent school districts. This study sought to find areas of agreement and areas of disagreement among school district superintendents relating to the practice and effectiveness of strategic planning. Strategic planning practices examined include the development of a mission statement, operating plan, and budget; involvement of stakeholders, and strategic planning logistics. A stratified random sample of 96 superintendents each from small, medium, and large school districts was selected from a population of 1,042 school districts. Data was also collected and reported from the 7 mega school districts. Questionnaires were sent to 295 superintendents and 246 (83.4%) were returned. The questionnaire contained nine questions relating to 19 strategic planning practices and a five-part question relating to the effectiveness of strategic planning. The data was analyzed using Crosstabs, Chi-square, and one-way ANOVA statistics. The level of significance was established a priori at .05. School district size was an independent variable for six strategic planning practices of small, medium, and large school districts. Significant differences were found regarding (a) whether outside consultants were employed to assist with the district's strategic planning, (b) whether central office administrators participated in the district's planning process, (c) whether a sequence of steps was followed with a time frame for each step in the district's planning process, (d) whether someone other than the superintendent was responsible for the district's planning, (e) whether school district support staff participated in the district's planning process, and (f) whether students participated in the district's planning process. Also, a significant difference was found between large school district superintendents' and small school district superintendents' ratings of the effectiveness of strategic planning for improving management effectiveness. Finally, a correlation was observed between superintendents' ratings of strategic planning effectiveness and professional skill sets.
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Spee, A. Paul. "Strategic planning as communicative process." Thesis, Aston University, 2009. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/15389/.
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This thesis looks at the construction of a strategic plan within a British university (Unico). After a change in leadership, the well-known strategic planning sequence was adopted to set directions according to Unico’s three Missions, followed by the development of respective goals and measures. The evolving strategic content coincided with the development of Unico’s strategic plan. I was able to follow Unico’s planning efforts over 10 months, from first planning meeting to completion of its strategic plan. The main data source provided non-participant observation (n = 25) and ten versions of Unico’s strategic plan. Additionally, seventy-six interviews were held with participants at various points. In order to examine the strategic plan’s construction, I reconceptualised strategic planning as a communicative process consisting of oral talk and written text. Through this interplay strategic planning activities come in to being. Such reconceptualisation provided a conceptual framework to study the in situ interactions without neglecting contextual characteristics embedding the communicative process. Strategic plans are currently seen as promoting inflexibility and reinforcing the institutional nature of formal strategic planning. Adopting dialogism, as advocated by Bakhtin and Ricoeur, this research provides novel insights into the dialogic of strategy talk and strategy text, such as a strategic plan. Findings illustrated that a strategic plan production cycle provided a meaning making platform for its participants. Through recurrently amending the plan, its content became increasingly specific while at the same time reflecting agreed terminology. This thesis offers an alternative view on strategic planning, elaborates on the strategy-as-practice perspective, focusing on the under-explored area of individuals’ interactions at the micro level, and elaborates on the dialogic of text and agency/conversation, distinguishing between talk and text.
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Kinley, Chad A. "Healthcare Technology: A Strategic Approach to Medical Device Management." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1434.
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The constant evolution of medical technology has increased the demand for managing medical devices to ensure safety and effectiveness. In this paper I will investigate how biomedical engineering has addressed the issue of equipment management and identifies strategies to successfully maintain an inventory of medical devices. Through research, on-the-job experience, and in-depth discussions with various biomedical engineering managers, I have been able to document possible equipment strategies and best practices for managing medical devices. There is really no "one size fits all" to medical equipment management due to the various clinical environments, but there are many aspects that remain necessary to ensure proper equipment safety and function while meeting or exceeding various regulatory requirements.
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Mucheleka, M. (Martin). "Enterprise Resource Planning systems in healthcare sector." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2015. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201504021292.
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The purpose of this thesis work was to find out how Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP) have been used in the healthcare sector and how ERP systems could be used to improve the healthcare services. Some findings were discussed and recommendations were made about how ERP systems could be used in the healthcare sector.
The thesis was written using literature review research method. Literature is the study that involves gathering and studying earlier knowledge about a specific topic of interest. Various documents were studied regarding the use of ERP in healthcare institutions. Literature review was used to show how ERP systems have been used previously in some healthcare institutions and organisations.
Based on the literature used in this study, ERP systems have not been widely reported to have been used in the healthcare sector. On the other hand, other findings showed that ERP systems could be used in the healthcare sector to improve their quality of services.
Therefore, if ERP systems were successfully implemented in a healthcare organisations, it was suggested that it would bring about significant change especially in finance, human resources, and capacity, revenue and admission resource functions. ERP systems could also improve profitability and services in the healthcare organisations.
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Jin, Huan. "Workforce planning in manufacturing and healthcare systems." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5784.
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This dissertation explores workforce planning in manufacturing and healthcare systems. In manufacturing systems, the existing workforce planning models often lack fidelity with respect to the mechanism of learning. Learning refers to that employees’ productivity increases as they gain more experience. Workforce scheduling in the short term has a longer term impact on organizations’ capacity. The mathematical representations of learning are usually nonlinear. This nonlinearity complicates the planning models and provides opportunities to develop solution methodologies for realistically-sized instances. This research formulates the workforce planning problem as a mixed-integer nonlinear program (MINLP) and overcomes the limitations of cur- rent solution methods. Specifically, this research develops a reformulation technique that converts the MINLP to a mixed integer linear program (MILP) and proposes several techniques to speed up the solution time of solving the MILP.
In organizations that use group work, workers learn not only by individual learning but also from knowledge transferred from team members. Managers face the decision of how to pair or team workers such that organizations benefit from this transfer of learning. Using a mathematical representation that incorporates both in- dividual learning and knowledge transfer between workers, this research considers the problem of grouping workers to teams and assigning teams to sets of jobs based on workers’ learning and knowledge transfer characteristics. This study builds a Mixed- integer nonlinear programs (MINP) for parallel systems with the objective of maximizing the system throughput and propose exact and heuristic solution approaches for solving the MINLP.
In healthcare systems, we focus on managing medical technicians in medical laboratories, in particular, the phlebotomists. Phlebotomists draw specimens from patients based on doctors’ orders, which arrive randomly in a day. According to the literature, optimizing scheduling and routing in hospital laboratories has not been regarded as a necessity for laboratory management. This study is motivated by a real case at University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, where there is a team of phlebotomists that cannot fulfill doctors requests in the morning shift. The goal of this research is routing these phlebotomists to patient units such that as many orders as possible are fulfilled during the shift. The problem is a team orienteering problem with stochastic rewards and service times. This research develops an a priori approach which applies a variable neighborhood search heuristic algorithm that improves the daily performance compared to the hospital practice.
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Dillard, Robin Ford. "Healthcare Executive Leadership Development and Succession Planning." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4212.
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Business leaders face leadership crises as executives from the baby boomer generation retire, creating a shortage of experienced and knowledgeable leaders. Some business leaders are unprepared for the replacement of retiring senior-level executives and lack strategies for succession planning. The findings of this study indicate succession planning and leadership development play a significant role in preparing future healthcare leaders in their ability to improve the quality of patient care and improve the strategic and financial health of the organization. Guided by the human capital theory the purpose of this multiple case study was to explore the strategies used by healthcare leaders for succession planning. The study consisted of interviewing the chief executive officers of 3 separate hospitals operating under a multihospital system located in south-central Texas. The data collection process included semistructured interviews and review of relevant organizational documents related to leadership development. Through methodological triangulation and employing Yin's 5-step data analysis technique of design, prepare, collect, analyze and share, several themes emerged as strategies for succession planning. The themes of executive coaching, leadership dyads, and leadership pipelines, ensure a new generation of emerging leaders have access to experienced leaders through coaching opportunities and allow physicians to co-lead a hospital and maintain a meaningful presence in patient care. Social implications of the study include prepared leaders to implement the ongoing healthcare reform in the United States, trained to improve the quality of care provided to patients.
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Hatherill, Jessica L. "Planning for Change| Engaging University Staff in Strategic Planning." Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10666709.
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Universities are under pressure from multiple directions with accrediting bodies requiring increased focus on institutional planning efforts. University staff who manage programs, provide student services, and serve in other specialized roles are at the forefront of this changing environment. These employees may have difficulty understanding how their daily work relates to institutional planning efforts and resist change imposed from the top.
While researchers have examined employee engagement during change efforts, staff participation in strategic planning in higher education constitutes an overlooked topic. The aim of the study was to address three questions: 1) How and to what extent have university leaders communicated the strategic plan and the steps in the planning process to staff? 2) How and to what extent have staff responded to the strategic planning process? 3) What are the perceptions of middle managers involved in implementing strategic initiatives?
The study occurred at Mid-Atlantic University (MAU), a public research university located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. MAU began a strategic planning process and instructed schools and administrative units to align their strategic plans with the MAU plan before entering the implementation phase.
Study participants included eight middle managers, individuals who direct programs, supervise other staff, and are in the middle of the institution’s hierarchy. A 45-minute semi-structured interview elicited information on staff reactions to the strategic plan, communication of strategic initiatives at the university and school level, and interactions between supervisors and employees. The researcher collected and analyzed documents from the university’s strategic planning website, the staff governance association, and university publications.
Several themes emerged in the areas of communication, staff responses, and perceptions of implementation. These themes included: 1) communication of the strategic planning process did not permeate the organization; 2) staff members responded in three main ways: searching for understanding, getting excited, or becoming disillusioned or resigned to the ongoing changes; and 3) a disconnection between the planning process and implementation. This paper adds to the current body of literature and includes implications for practice and recommendations for future research in the area of staff involvement in planned change initiatives in higher education.
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Brands, Christian. "Scenario-based strategic planning and strategic management in family firms." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-125931.
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This cumulative dissertation covers the concepts of scenario-based strategic planning and strategic management in family firms over five articles. The first article gives an overview of the cumulative dissertation explaining the research gap, approach and contribution of the dissertation.
The paper highlights the two research areas covered by the dissertation with two articles focusing on scenario-based strategic planning and two on strategic management in family firms.
The second article is the first of two focusing on scenario-based strategic planning. It introduces and describes a set of six tools facilitating the implementation of scenario-based strategic planning in corporate practice. The third paper adapts these tools to the financial management and
controlling context in private companies highlighting the tools’ flexibility in managing uncertain and volatile environments. The fourth article is the first of two focusing on strategic management in family firms. It analyzes organizational ambidexterity as a factor explaining family firm performance. The article shows that a high level of organizational ambidexterity in family firms leads to a higher family firm performance. The final paper concludes the dissertation examining the tendency of family firms to focus on capability exploration or resource exploitation over different generations managing the family firm.
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Bradley, Randy V. Byrd Terry Anthony. "Strategic valuation of enterprise information technology architecture in healthcare organizations." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Summer/Dissertations/BRADLEY_RANDY_34.pdf.
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Pokela, S. (Saara). "Strategic management of personnel productivity:case study in Finnish healthcare organization." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2016. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201606072418.
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The modern management theories show that workers perform best when they are happily engaged in what they do. The management of human productivity is all about advancing human factors which cause the employees’ welfare and reasonableness at work. These factors combine the context of work suction: the gumption, devote and getting absorbed in work. Single human competencies and human resource development of employees have strong connection not only to the organizational business performance, but also the quality of working life and organizational development, organizational creativity and innovations. The aim of developing personnel management lay in the deepest heart of organizational productivity and business efficiencies. The way in which an organization manages its human resources is also one of the centrally important factors to execution of its business strategy. When optimizing working life and organization’s productivity, the look turns to qualified management.
The strategic management of personnel management includes the deep understanding of grounds and consequences of human behavior amongst working context. In optimal circumstances, human will be effective and innovative employee, when the demands and responsibilities as human being, as a family member and as a team member will be in optimal balance with working life. Opportunities for personal and occupational development and experience of success will cause work productivity, product quality and working flow. In my research I have tried to find means to improve the performance of Caritas Palvelut Corporation so, that the corporation’s vision settled for the future can be reached. I’ve tried to find out what are the effective human resources development processes, that focus on the development of organization specific ambition and intrinsic motivation drivers. I have research the aspects of lived workplace experiences including motivation drivers and every day welfare, cognitive participation like ambition stimulus, group coherence and management aspects related.
I have found out, that good organizational culture verifies individuals’ willingness and talents to success together, I’ve noticed that workplace stimuli does not cause any occupational ambitions. Ambition and intellectual curiousness seem to be related more on working joy and inner reward of working tasks, than any kind of managerial approach or external factor. My research evidences, that belonginess to a group does not correlate to working joy, but rather management satisfaction and experience of knowledge leverage inside the organization. My research also verifies that the workers of target organization are willing to carry out responsibilities without too much guiding. On the other hand, working demands are seen to be adequate low. Positive managerial approach seems to correlate most favourable outcomes, but according to previous academic studies the level of managerial demands also matter. The occupational self-esteem and preciousness of one’s work relate to knowledge of one’s role in the team and organizational entity. These factors together correlate strongly with expressions of rewarding and gladness among work. Since the spirit of instrinsic motivation seems to be stemming from personal traits, the quality of working life will have only limited means for the enhancement. Still, person’s social environment and organizational culture can have a significant effect on person’s level of intrinsic motivation. In organizational context very small push and moves to the desirable direction may have remarkable outcomes. Therefore, management should be aware of the motivational drivers and existing values among working contexts.
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Harrison, Donald Lee 1956. "Strategic planning by institutional pharmacy administrators." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277297.
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The extent and quality of strategic planning by institutional pharmacy directors was assessed. Also examined was how the extent and quality of strategic planning, institutional characteristics, pharmacy characteristics, and pharmacy director characteristics might be associated with the pharmacy's overall level of performance in selected areas. The majority of institutional pharmacy directors reported utilizing strategic planning for their departments. The global quality of strategic planning reported by pharmacy directors was average. However, directors conducting strategic planning reported a high level of strategic planning. The directors' rated time available, knowledge, and importance of strategic planning were found to be significantly associated with pharmacy directors' rated quality of strategic planning. Additionally, pharmacy directors' rated quality of strategic planning was found to be significantly associated with pharmacy performance for clinical, distributive, and administrative services.
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Kahen, Goel. "Strategic planning systems in technological development." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336467.
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Hafey, John Richard. "A theory of naval strategic planning." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/23424.
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This study proposes a theory of naval strategic planning for programming. It identifies and describes those factors which should influence how the Navy determines its future force requirements and eventual capabilities. The work is premised upon the following hypothesis: Within the context of national military strategy, naval long-range planning for future forces should be based on an in-depth understanding of three factors: (1) the future role of the sea in national military strategy; (2) the missions naval forces will be required to perform; and (3) future trends in naval warfare. The first task of planning is to guide the organization into an uncertain future. It must identify those factors which can be used to determine future requirements. The resultant concepts can then be further developed as required by the organization's overall needs. Strategic planning is first and foremost a frame of mind for conceptualizing those requirements. This study proposes a theory to establish that framework. Keywords: Naval planning; Military strategy; Theses. (sdw)
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Msheliza, Samuel Kaku. "Strategic planning in Nigerian insurance companies." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.281062.
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Conant, Tamara L. (Tamara Lynn). "Modeling variability for biologics strategic planning." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/53311.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and, (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2009.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 46).
Making strategic decisions about resource capabilities in the uncertain business of drug development is a challenging task. Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, is expanding from its success in small molecule therapeutics into the attractive area of biologic therapeutics, both monoclonal antibody and microbial forms. While Novartis has experience developing these types of therapeutics, they have not fully-developed the quantity that the Research group expects to source the pipeline with in the next few years. Therefore the Development group needs to grow. Determining the right number and type of scientists and technicians to hire is difficult due to the variability in the portfolio. The long development timelines, low and variable success rates impact how projects progress through the pipeline. A Monte Carlo simulation model forecasts variability and displays a numerical range of projects and headcount requirements expected for several years. This data is essential for project managers, function heads, and operations leaders to develop the five-year strategic plan for biologic development. This model quantifies the uncertainty of input variables to deliver a calculated risk of output variables, which provides useful and important information for making strategic business decisions.
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Taketomi, Tametsugu. "Comparative analysis of corporate strategic planning." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14271.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1990.Title as it appears in the M.I.T. Graduate List, Feb. 1990: Comparative analysis of corporate planning.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-109).
by Tametsugu Taketomi.
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Guerriero, Donald A. "Strategic Planning For A Special Library." NSUWorks, 1987. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/555.
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STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR A SPECIAL LIBRARY
The Technical and Management Information Center of the U.S. Defense Communications Agency is a special library providing worldwide library and information services in the subject fields of communications, electronics, command and control, and computer sciences. A project was designed with the objective of developing a strategic plan for this library. Long-range and strategic planning methods commonly used in business organizations were used. An extensive review of the literature on strategic planning was done to determine the best methods available for use in a special library environment. The methods used to develop the strategic plan included: writing a plan-to-plan, four factor strategic analysis, WOTS-UP analysis, vulnerability assessment, capability profile, vulnerability analysis, key results analysis, and hierarchy of values analysis. The result of the project was a written strategic plan that included a summary statement, mission statement, background information, assumptions, objectives and strategies, schedules and evaluation, and contingency plans. The conclusion was reached that strategic planning methods used in business can be applied successfully to special libraries, although the process can be time-consuming. The literature review, methods used, and final plan provide a model for managers of special libraries interested in developing their own strategic plans. The major difficulties encountered were the amount of time necessary for the planning and the difficulty of integrating staff and management in the process. The motivated manager of a special library should, nevertheless, be able to plan strategically using methods discussed in this project.
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Hamel, Sherdon. "Strategic business plan: Senior Planning Solutions." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1875.
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Minatra, Rodger W. (Rodger Walton). "Strategic Planning for Texas Community Colleges." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279346/.
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Over the past three to four decades the community college has experienced some tremendous periods of growth and success. Much of this has been due to a growing economy and a growing population. However, the future of the community college may be in for some changes. The effects these changes are having can mean opportunity or disaster depending on the readiness of the institution. The change occurring today requires future insight, swifter action, and a proactive response. Community colleges cannot afford to leave planning for crisis situations. A proactive stance must be taken and tough questions must be asked. In 1991 the Seventy-second Texas Legislature tasked the Legislative Budget Board of Texas with the assignment of developing a long-range strategic plan for state government based on individual agency plans. The passing of House Bill No. 2009 required that all agencies of Texas State Government, including community colleges, develop a strategic plan. The purpose of this study was to determine the significance of certain independent variables towards the perceived importance of three dependent variables - statements of purpose, statements of direction and statements of impact - found in the Legislative Budget Board Strategic Planning Template. Research shows that there are a number of planning paradigms which contain some form of strategic planning. Independent variables such as administrative levels of involvement, levels of experience, levels of strategic planning training, and college location could all be significant factors in determining the success of strategic planning. The results of this study may provide community colleges in Texas with information for better understanding characteristics influencing strategic planning, for identifying strategic planning program barriers, and for evaluating strategic planning program models and outcomes throughout the state.
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Krause, Beth Breitzig. "Strategic planning in Colleges of Pharmacy /." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487848078450467.
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Pal, Rudrajeet. "Organizational resilience through crisis strategic planning." Doctoral thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Textilhögskolan, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-3669.
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Resilience, in an organizational sense meaning the ability to withstand crises and disturbances, has become a keyword during the last ten years. It is associated with established activities like risk and crisis management and business continuity planning or with strategic management, but it allows for new perspectives and insights into the conditions for doing business. Applied to the whole supply chain it also provides tools for managing and aligning the logistics flows in an appropriate way. But why is resilience essential for success or survival? In context to the Swedish textile and clothing (T&C) industry, the average number of firms that went bankrupt during the recent crisis (2007-09) escalated twofold compared to the average over 2000-10 due to tremendous pressure on the Swedish credit system. The structural industrial statistics also plummeted in these crisis years aggravating other inherent or internal problems as a ’ripple effect’. The small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) were the most affected of all, facing major threats to their financial performance and ultimately to their survival, at times of economic crises. In such a context, study of organizational resilience (ORes), to survive and thrive becomes increasingly significant. To address this issue the thesis concentrates on understanding the resilience development process through crisis strategic planning in context to Swedish textile-related SMEs amidst economic crises. It investigates and answers how resilience development can be considered as a precursor for business success, how to develop and monitor resilience, and identifies its antecedents and key strategic initiatives and their differential degrees of influence. No prior studies describing organizational resilience and crisis strategic planning in an integrated processual approach using both short-term and long-term strategies through planning and adaptation were found in the literature. The thesis adopts a critical realist-grounded theory (CR-GT) approach along the metaphysical level as the structure for the resilience development process follows a causal relationship between the object (the organization), its structure (competences and strategies), the causal power (crisis strategic planning) for attaining an event/outcome (resilience) in a particular context (economic crisis). For addressing this issue of devising an outcome-based processual approach, a multivariate financial indicator called the Altman’s Z-score (used basically for calculating bankruptcy potential in firms) was used for quantifying resilience. For investigating the causal mechanism epistemological relativism along the grounded theory approach was chosen for theory generation. A mixed methodology was adopted based on quantitative statistical analyses, at first, followed by a detailed qualitative work based on surveys, interviews, case studies and secondary data for data triangulation. Analysis of data was conducted through certain thematic coding principles. A four-step hermeneutic spiral was followed by systematically combining the pre-understanding, empirics and extant literature to develop a theoretical framework through constant modification. Overall, the resilience development was highlighted along a processual framework adopted along the CR-GT view of causation. The findings are manifold. Firstly there is a need to develop economic resilience in SMEs to shift from just component-view to a more holistic systemic view of organizations, upheld by an integrated crisis strategic planning (CSP) approach, for facing dynamic environments. Secondly, the CSP process prescribed in the thesis is quite integrated and holistic, taking a view from all angles, viz. organizational structure (capabilities and strategies), processual approach etc. Such a resilience development process through CSP is based on a six-step process: (i) identification of environmental context, (ii) impact analysis, (iii) leadership analysis, (iv) capability analysis, (v) formulation/selection and implementation of strategies, and (vi) evaluation and review of strategic options, utilizing a suite of strategic tools and techniques and is particularly simple for application in an SME setting. Third, operationalization of such a causal mechanism based upon implementation of strategic tools is based upon using a multivariate financial indicator like Altman’s Z-score to outline the relation between ORes and business ‘health’, thus quantifying it. Finally, in order to develop a resilient organization it is important to engage and utilize effectively the key resources and assets (financial, material, social, networks) by developing dynamic capabilities (strategic and operational flexibilities, redundancy, robustness) and organizational learning (culture, employee wellbeing, attentive leadership and decision-making). These competences must be employed for the appropriate strategy development (selection, implementation, and evaluation) framed on both growth and continuity strategies, both planned and adaptive in nature. The research develops a holistic analytical framework of organizational structure for resilience development based on these two criteria. It also tests this framework for Swedish textile-related SMEs amidst economic crises. The findings in this contextual delimitation suggest that the resilient SMEs possess better financial resources, relational networks, operational & strategic flexibilities. The economically resilient firms mostly showed planned resilience in economic crises based on long-term strategies through business continuity planning (BCP) and in terms of growth strategies through market penetration, diversification and transformational initiatives. These firms also showed better short-term crisis management (CM) through higher operational flexibility while the less resilient ones lacked in strategic readiness due to resource scarcity. This is beneficial for firms to understand the key areas in which to invest and develop a multistrategic CSP model, categorizing firms along different resilience types – planned or adaptive.Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Science in Technology to be presented with due
permission for public examination and criticism in Festia Building, Auditorium Pieni Sali 1, at Tampere University of Technology, on the 11th of October 2013, at 12 noon.
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Villarreal, Monica Cecilia. "Capacity planning and scheduling with applications in healthcare." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54855.
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In this thesis we address capacity planning problems with different demand and service characteristics, motivated by healthcare applications. In the first application, we develop, implement, and assess the impact of analytical models, accompanied by a decision-support tool, for operating room (OR) staff planning decisions with different service lines. First, we propose a methodology to forecast the staff demand by service line. We use these results in a two-phase mathematical model that defines the staffing budget for each service line, and then decides how many staff to assign to each potential shift and day pair while considering staff overtime and pooling policies and other staff planning constraints. We also propose a heuristic to solve the model's second phase. We implement these models using historical data from a community hospital and analyze the effect of different model parameters and settings. Compared with the current practice, we reduce delays and staff pooling at no additional cost. We validate these conclusions through a simulation model.
In the second application, we consider the problem of staff planning and scheduling when there is an accepted time window between each order's arrival and fulfillment, with the goal of obtaining a balanced schedule that focuses on on-time demand fulfillment but also considers staff characteristics and operational practices. Hence, solving this problem requires simultaneously scheduling the staff and the forecasted demand. We propose, implement, and analyze the results of a model for staff and demand scheduling under this setting, accompanied by a decision-support tool. We implement this model in a company that offers document processing and other back-office services to healthcare providers. We provide details on the model validation, implementation, and results, including a 25\% increase in the company's staff productivity. Finally, we provide insights on the effects of some of the model's parameters and settings, and assess the performance of a proposed heuristic to solve this problem.
In the third application, we consider a non-consumable resource planning problem. Demand consists of a set of jobs, each job has a scheduled start time and duration, and belongs to a particular demand class that requires a subset of resources. Jobs can be `accepted' or `rejected,' and the service level is measured by the (weighted) percentage of accepted jobs. The goal is to find the capacity level that minimizes the total cost of the resources, subject to global and demand-class-based service level constraints. We first analyze the complexity of this problem and several of its special cases, and then we propose a model to find the optimal inventory for each type of resource. We show the convergence of the sample average approximation method to solve a stochastic extension of the model. This problem is motivated by the inventory planning decisions for surgical instruments for ORs. We study the effects of different model parameters and settings on the cost and service levels, based on surgical data from a community hospital.
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Maldonado, Jaime 1958. "Strategic planning--an approach to improving airport planning under uncertainty." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13635.
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Nordell, Emelie. "Strategic Planning in Japanese Companies : A qualitative study on strategic planning with a focus on cultural aspects." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-60442.
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Japanese companies have been said to rarely have strategies that resemble the ones that can be seen in literature from the Western world. However, even though Japanese companies do not show the same kind of strategy as can be found in the west, it does not necessarily mean they have no strategy at all. Recent studies have shown that Japanese companies do show clarity in their approach to strategy. Still, not much research can be found on this subject. When the world is becoming more globalized and multinational, it is of interest for both the companies’ stakeholders and shareholders to know how they operate, and their strategic planning process is one part of this. The research question therefore becomes: How does the process of strategic planning in Japanese companies work and in what way is the Japanese culture an influence? The main purpose of this master thesis is to provide a deeper understanding concerning the concept of strategic planning in Japanese companies. It also has two sub purposes. Firstly, this research aims towards understanding the current strategic planning process, in what way it is used in Japanese companies. Secondly, it will try to understand if the Japanese culture influences the strategic planning process and if so, in what way.The thesis is based on a qualitative study with semi structured interviews where five respondents were divided into two categories (based in the respondents’ background), two respondents with a Japanese view and three with an international view. A constructionist ontological position, interpretivism epistemological position and an inductive scientific approach have been adopted.The theoretical framework is divided into two parts; the first concerns the strategic planning process and the second Japanese business culture.Analysis was done across the two different categories of respondents’ and from my research I have found that the strategic planning process in Japan is different from company to company but that they all tend to share one important step, consensus. I have also found that Japanese culture has had a great impact on the strategic planning process although there seem to be a shift towards becoming more streamlined and more international to be able to compete on the global market.The practical implications of my findings are that since Japanese companies seem to incorporate their culture into their strategic planning, it is important that the field of strategic planning research take into consideration the culture and its effect on the strategic planning process. Japanese companies also need to assess if strategic planning should be used as a way towards becoming more globalized, and if so, in what way.
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Young, Lester, Thomas Lee II Harris, and Thomas E. Reynolds. "Organizational strategic planning and execution: should governmental organizations rely on strategic planning for the success of the organization." Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/10230.
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Joint Applied ProjectStrategic planning in both Government and private organizations is a standard practice for improving the organization's overall performance. However, there are several studies that indicate the effectiveness of the strategic planning and execution process in private industry is questionable in many cases and for various reasons. At times, the utilization of this tool yields positive results in many companies and organizations. On the other hand, the strategic plan is not utilized and becomes a costly paperweight on a table in the executive suite. Nonetheless, Government agencies have embraced the private sector's ideology of employing the strategic plan and have plowed headlong into the use of this methodology. The goal is to provide the organization with a tool that could help change or improve the direction of the organization. This project examines the implementation of strategic planning in several Government organizations that lacked the requisite direction and vision necessary to improve their performance. Accordingly, this research uncovers difficulties that some Government (Federal) agencies experienced before the implementation of strategic planning. We made note of the strong leadership and visioning that was key in guiding some of the organizations through the development of the strategic planning process. Overall, this project focuses on factors that led to new directions for Government organizations that were in dire need of this tool. It also focuses on the relationship between these factors and the degree of publicness of the agencies, and points out and describes techniques used by Federal agencies to overcome those difficulties and improve their performance.
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Kurstedt, Pamela S. "A model for colleges of engineering to select a strategic planning methodology and implement a strategic planning process." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44119.
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This research operationalizes the theory and recommendations from academic and business strategic planning sources. The desired research outcome is to improve academic strategic planning for colleges of engineering.
My contribution to the academic planning body of knowledge is a model to select a strategic planning methodology and implement a planning process for colleges of engineering. The model's design is based on the logical conclusion that choice of planning methodology should be matched to desired planning outcomes.
The model uses a preplanning instrument, a planning template, and a Gantt Chart. I designed the preplanning instrument based on six success/fail criteria identified from the research, desired outcomes and outputs of the planning process, and selected planning steps from the Virginia Productivity Center (VPC) Planning Methodology. Answers to questions on the preplanning instrument are then summarized on the planning template. The template requires the planner to consider the sequence of the selected planning steps and prepare an agenda to accomplish them. Finally, the model requires the scheduling of this agenda on a Gantt Chart. The Gantt Chart becomes a timetable for a plan to plan for the college of engineering.
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Yeung, Yee-hung Stella. "Sustainable healthcare delivery in Hong Kong : organizational initiatives and strategic financing /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23295776.
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Agerberg, Anton, and Sydow Yllenius Trolle von. "Creating Shared Value through Strategic Biobanking : Public-Private Partnerships in Healthcare." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-264066.
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Societies are plagued by growing healthcare expenditures and budgetary constraints. The strategy for solving the issue has been heavily debated, with proposed solutions such as Valuebased healthcare (VBHC), Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) and improved medical treatments. A novel concept that aims to improve medical treatment is strategic biobanking. Strategic biobanking is the act of saving biological samples and clinical data for future research. Access to strategic samples can speed up future clinical trials and studies, provide researchers with more useful research material, enable more thorough analyses of biomarkers, facilitate faster drug development, and increase the power of both retrospective analyses and precision medicine. This thesis studies the shared value effects of a strategic biobanking PPP by drawing on the theoretical fields of VBHC, PPP and Creating Shared Value (CSV). Specifically, the effects of hospital organisational structure, regulatory framework and public interest on strategic biobanking PPPs was studied. The research was carried out through a single holistic case study of Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden and multiple pharmaceutical companies, and data was collected through semi-structured interviews. Data analysis was carried out in accordance with the grounded theory framework. The researchers find that regulatory structure can limit the options when crafting the business model and the industry value proposition for a strategic biobanking PPP. Some strategies on how to deal with these restraints are outlined. Furthermore, the research highlights the importance of longitudinal data-sets and how a hospital organised according to the VBHC principles is more suitable for implementation of longitudinal sampling routines. Finally, the research shows that that the concept of CSV can act as guidance for private partner decision making to increase public interest. By adopting principles of transparency regarding financial incentives and motivations, an industry partner can garner increased trust with the general public as well as their public partner. The shared value effects are pronounced, and the study finds that a strategic biobanking PPP moves the boundary for what is scientifically possible for all stakeholders in the healthcare domain.Samhällen plågas av skenande sjukvårdskostnader och budgetåtstramningar. Vilken strategi som kan lösa problemet har debatterats flitigt. Lösningar så som Value-based Healthcare (VBHC), Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) och mer avancerad vård har alla föreslagits som alternativ. Ett nytt koncept som ämnar att förbättra sjukvården är strategisk biobankning. Strategisk biobankning innebär att spara biologiska prover och klinisk data inför framtiden. Detta kan snabba på framtida kliniska prövningar och studier, förse forskare med mer användbart forskningsmaterial, möjliggöra mer grundliga analyser av biomarkörer, snabbare utveckling av mediciner, samt öka potensen hos både retrospektiva studier och precision medicine. Denna uppsats studerar gemensamma värdeeffekter hos ett PPP inom strategisk biobanking genom att använda sig av de teoretiska fälten VBHC, PPP och Creating Shared Value (CSV). Mer specifikt studeras hur PPP inom strategisk biobankning påverkas av sjukhusets organisationsstruktur, rådande regelverk och allmänintresse. Forskningen utfördes genom en enkel, holistisk, fallstudie av Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset i Stockholm, Sverige. Data samlades genom semi-strukturerade intervjuer och analyserades senare enligt ramverket för Grounded Theory. Forskarna finner även att rådande regelverk begränsar möjligheten för utveckling av affärsmodell och värdeerbjudande gentemot privata partners. Några strategier för att hantera dessa begränsningar tas upp i uppsatsen. Vidare belyses vikten av longitudinella dataset, och att ett sjukhus vars organisation är strukturerad enligt VBHC-principer är mer lämpligt för implementation av longitudinell provsamling. Slutligen finner forskarna att privata CSV-conceptet utgör bra vägledning för privata partners för att skapa allmänintresse. Genom att anamma principer som premierar transparans gentemot sina ekonomiska och strategiska incitament så kan förtroende byggas gentemot allmänheten. De gemensamma värdeeffekterna är tydliga, och forskarna finner att tillgång till en strategisk biobank flyttar gränsen för vad som är vetenskapligt möjligt för alla aktörer i det sjukvårdsrelaterade ekosystemet.