2 3 " If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. "-Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) " The only certainty is that everything is uncertain. "-Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) A riddle about decisions under uncertainty A minister of transport had to choose between two major railway designs, both of which had a v...

Analysts predict impending shortages in the health care workforce, yet wages for healthcare workers already account for over half of U.S. health expenditures. It is thus increasinglyimportant to adequately plan to meet health workforce demand at reasonable cost. Using infinitelinear programming methodology, we propose an infinite-horizon model for health workforceplanning in...

Defining a brand is not something that is generally left to chance. A brand is a construct and not a living and breathing organism, as some would have us believe, and as much of the language employed in branding, including some of the terminology in this book, suggests. Brands are created, stimulated and applied by people working in organizations seeking to create worthwhile experiences for the...

Dynamic Strategic Planning is an effective method for the development of rational policies for the intelligent, effective development of technology or large-scale engineering projects. It is: • Dynamic in that it explicitly recognizes the risk and uncertainties necessarily associated with any forecast about the future performance and acceptance of any technology, and thus the need to build flex...

Airport Strategic Planning (ASP) focuses on the development of plans for the long-term development of an airport. The dominant approach for ASP is Airport Master Planning (AMP). The goal of AMP is to provide a detailed blueprint for how the airport should look in the future, and how it can get there. Since a Master Plan is a static detailed blueprint based on specific assumptions about the futu...

1. Multiple objectives: When dealing with complex tasks usually there is more than one objective. This is due to the fact that a global one may be very hard to design or unknown. It is often much easier to decompose the task in smaller possibly conflicting objectives. For example, it is common to have in operating systems two, or more, processes cooperating to provide different parts of a funct...

Although numerous case studies and a body of theoretical work have addressed the open strategy topic (opening the strategy process to wider stakeholders groups) in the literature, approaches to implement open strategic planning has been less studied. In this study, the principles of design science research are employed, and pragmatic presuppositions from Habermas’ theory of discourse and the re...

introduction: cleaner productions in textile industry is achieved by reducing water and chemicals’ consumption, saving energy, reducing production of air pollution and solid wastes, reducing toxicity and noise pollution through many solutions. the purpose of the present research was to apply strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (swot) and quality systems planning matrix (qspm) techniqu...