Virtual Organisation Breeding Environments (VBEs) are known as an enterprise network creating virtual organisations (VOs) on occurring business opportunities. Whereas a VO is created dynamically with a limited time horizon, such a VBE is created for medium or long-term existence. Thus, a VBE needs besides operational also strategic planning.Strategic planning for organisations is a topic since ...

nowadays balanced scorecard has a critical role in implementing strategies for many organizations. strategy map as the 3rd generation of bsc by inverting mission and vision into strategic objectives is the linkage between formulating and implementing strategies. however, the methodology of developing strategy maps has many ambiguities. this study with inspiring by other authors and exploring li...

A framework was developed to address long term strategic thrust areas. Specific objectives were called out as near term priorities. The objectives were folded into the framework to form a coherent planning view. On April 8-9, 2003, the LACSI Executive Committee and Principal Investigators met with senior LANL personnel to revise the framework, priorities, and strategies established at the plann...

In my president’s message in Computer’s January 2012 issue (“Creating Our Future,” pp. 6-7), I provided an overview of the Computer Society’s Strategic Plan (SP7), the three-year plan that outlines strategies reflecting the Society’s values and core competencies and offers clearly defined measures and targets delineating the various ways volunteers can assist in achieving the Society’s strategi...

In today’s rapidly changing healthcare industry, U.S. hospitals and health systems are contending with tightening margins that conflict with an ever-expanding list of capital needs. Given competing demands on scarce capital resources, an organization’s long-term success and sustainability hinges on its ability to make smart strategic investment decisions today. The alignment of capital decision...

Constantly changing economic conditions require companies to design their production to be more economical, innovative, and flexible. Since workers have a decisive influence on cost, time, and quality, e.g. by monitoring indicators that determine quality, by developing processes more resistant to disturbances, or by monitoring environmental standards, a focus on personnel as a production factor...

John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern formulated extensive games in their book: "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior" (1944). A few years later, Kuhn (1953) gave a simpler description of an extensive game, which we will follow here. The description has proved very beneficial for analysing strategic situations with several players. It is general enough to incorporate differences in: the infor...