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LRP Long Range Planning 37 (2004) 351–366 long range planning www.lrpjournal.com Implementing the Balanced Scorecard in Greece: a Software 5 Firm’s Experience Alexandros Papalexandris, George Ioannou à and Gregory P. Prastacos The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a relatively new approach to strategic management and performance measurement and control, which has generated substantial interest in the academic and industrial communities. This paper presents the experience from the implementation
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People Elements in Global Operation EMBA 36 EPEC 1. Summary of the Paper Global economic development, especially the growth in emerging market, brings tremendous business opportunities and significant challenges to oilfield service companies (OFSCs). The challenges are mainly coming from the following aspects: * Global projects and global presents require global operation in recruiting, talent management and retention; * Inadequate supply from qualified talent and high turnover ratio;
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process of designing and maintaining an environment in which individuals working together in groups, accomplish efficiently selected objectives. It is concerned with: 1.2.1. identifying the aims and objectives of an organization 1.2.2. implementing policies by setting procedures, programmes and strategies to help in the achievement of organizational aim and objectives; 1.2.3. brining together all the various factors of production (People, money, materials, machinery, methods, and activates); 1.2.4
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The Corporate Planning Process Corporate planning is a practise used in business in planning out a strategy that will result in a surge in revenues and increased profits (Hill, B. No date). The corporate strategic planning process is a distinct and well-organised organizational effort aimed at the thorough description of corporate strategy (Stock and Lambert, 2001). The subsequent steps are followed in the corporate planning process before a corporate logistics plan can be created. 1. Evaluation
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Elements of OM 3 Need to produce or deliver goods or services as per specification: 4 How OM helps achieving strategic objectives: 4 WH Smith: Systems Analysis: 5 Task 2: 6 Three ‘E’s in WH Smith: 6 Cost minimization and quality maximization for WH Smith: 6 Importance of the five performance objectives of WH Smith: 7 Task 3 9 The Importance of operational planning and control: 9 Linear programming for WH Smith: 10 Critical Path Analysis in WH Smith: 10 Defining quality and maintaining
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NPO-watch—Iran Reports from NIPO 11th anniversary celebration productivity; Mr. Reza Ashraf Semnani, Vice Chairman, Planning, Development and Technology Department, Ministry of Industry and Mines: productivity in industry and mines and national productivity; and NIPO Supervision and Planning Director Faghihi: NIPO’s mission. The National Iranian Productivity Organization (NIPO) celebrated its 11th anniversary on 24 May 2004 with a national conference on productivity growth and sustainable
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Starbucks also sells coffee and tea products and licenses its trademark through other channels such as licensed retail stores and through certain of its licenses and equity investees, they produces and sells a variety to drink beverages. The company objective is to maintain Starbucks as one of the most recognized and respected brands in the world. Its mission statement is: “ To inspire and nature the human spirit-one person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a time.” Currently Starbucks has spread its
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INTRUDUCTION Planning (also called forethought) is the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve a desired goal. Planning involves the creation and maintenance of a plan. As such, planning is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior. This thought process is essential to the creation and refinement of a plan, or integration of it with other plans; that is, it combines forecasting of developments with the preparation of scenarios of how to react to them. An important
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during the hardest economic periods and still manages to remain profitable during this time. The plan that a company follows throughout with plenty room for upgrades or change is strategic planning. Riordan is company that has benefited from a strategic plan to keep the company goals at the forefront and maintain company values as the company matures and adapts to the ever changing competitive market. As a group, we will focus on explaining different aspects of strategic planning while explaining the
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