Objective Long-term strategic planning is necessary if an organization intends to go beyond its customers’ expectations and remain competitive. A balanced scorecard is considered as a mere scorecard without a strategic plan. Therefore, it will only report the important measures not a clear understanding of leading the whole organization towards success. Strategic planning as the rationale behi...

Media planning consists of (1) establishing a desired market; (2) finding media (in particular, periodicals and television shows) which reach that market; and (3) allocating advertising funds to these media. This paper discusses the design, implementation and operation of an interactive, terminal -based computer system which manages a large data base and provides models that aid the advertising...

Intensified industrialization in developing countries has recently resulted in huge electric power demand growth; however, electricity generation in these countries is still heavily reliant on inefficient and traditional non-renewable technologies. In this paper, we develop an integrated game-theoretic model for effective power systems planning thorough balancing between supply and demand for e...

In traditional sales planning models, planning activities typically are based on a range of disjointed and nonstandard business processes. That fragmentation creates longer implementation cycle times, with resulting plans misaligned with real-time/unfolding market and regulatory dynamics. Targets are not precise, data is difficult to collect and distribute, and sales professionals are not as ef...

Many authors have contributed to the idea that financial markets are dynamically unstable. Much of this line of thinking suggests that bubbles and crashes will be a generic feature of most any speculative market, and that removing them would be difficult, if not impossible. Hyman Minsky is probably the one of the earlier contributors to this area, and recently his work has been looked at with n...

In this paper a day-ahead planning algorithm for a multi-reservoir hydropower system coordinated with wind power is developed. Coordination applies to real situations, where wind power and hydropower are owned by different utilities, sharing the same transmission lines, though hydropower has priority for transmission capacity. Coordination is thus necessary to minimize wind energy curtailments ...

This paper presents a multi-year scenario-based methodology for transmission expansion planning (TEP) in order to enhance the available transfer capability (ATC). The ATC is an important factor for all players of electricity market who participate in power transaction activities and can support the competition and nondiscriminatory access to transmission lines among all market participants. The...

In this research, a new method for market-product strategic planning is presented. In this method, an expert system is designed on the basis of identifying important factors that are effective in a firm and analyzing the logical relations between them. The objective is to develop a decision support system (DSS) for helping managers to make strategic decisions. DDS can serve as suitable replacem...