Query: Strategic planning evaluation

Candidate papers:

abstract: The semiconductor manufacturing technologies have been evolving continuously since their invention. The semiconductor foundry industry, whose core business is contract semiconductor manufacturing service, is greatly influenced and shaped by the flow of these newly arriving technologies. This research applies the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model to evaluate the strategic impact of new manufacturing technologies in the semiconductor foundry industry in Taiwan where the industry is in a global leadership position. The model incorporates the levels of overall competitive success, competitive goals, technology strategies, and emerging technologies. Relative impacts of elements in one level on its upper level are obtained by utilizing the inputs from experts of Taiwan semiconductor foundry industry. The results show the relative importance of competitive goals in the semiconductor foundry industry. Each competitive goal is aligned to the technology strategies as well as emerging technologies in the prioritized orders.
author_names: Jonathan C Ho
title: Strategic Planning: Evaluation of Emerging Technologies in the Taiwan Semiconductor Foundry Industry
year: 2016

author_names: Hemati Mohammad

Samandizadeh Koroush
title: STRATEGIC PLANNING EVALUATION IN MANUFACTURING COMPANIES THROUGH FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (FAHP)
year: 2009

abstract: Abstract The importance of strategic planning to small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) iswidely acknowledged by many practitioners and academiciansin SouthAfrica and the world over, yet there seems to be a paucity of research in thisfield. To address this dearth of published studies, the current study attempts to examine the influence of strategic planning aspects, namely employee participation, implementation incentives, and evaluation and control on business performance. The conceptualised modeland three hypotheses areempirically validated using a sample of 200 SMEs in Gauteng, South Africa. The findings indicate that strategic planning, in the form of employee participation, implementation incentives, and its evaluation and control, influences business performance in a significant way. In addition, managerial implications of the research findings and avenues for future research are provided.
author_names: Job Dubihlela

Maxwell Sandada
title: Impact of Strategic Planning on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises' (SMEs)Performance: The Role of Employee Participation, Implementation Incentives and Evaluation and Control
year: 2014

abstract: Technology developments are ushering in the introduction of smart manufacturing (SM) systems, unmanned production lines and sustainable production. SM will minimize human intervention and allow systems to control sites intelligently. To realize such an era, many global manufacturers are trying to develop different SM methods. The virtual factory is a digital manufacturing based SM system that predicts, solves (improves) and manages (controls) problems with overall production tasks by linking them to the actual sites, in a virtual environment. This paper proposes a strategic plan and a systematic design for the efficient implementation and application of the virtual factory to real manufacturing companies. In addition, an efficient and systematic means of introducing the virtual factory is presented via diagnosis, analysis and establishment of the strategy, implementation plan and system design case with an electronic parts manufacturing company.
author_names: Sangmin Choi

Bo Hyun Kim

Sang Do Noh
title: A diagnosis and evaluation method for strategic planning and systematic design of a virtual factory in smart manufacturing systems
year: 2015

abstract: Aim Background: Strategic planning has been presented as an important management practice. However, evidence of its deployment in healthcare systems in low income and middle income countries (LMICs) is limited. This study investigated the strategic management process in Iranian hospitals. Methods: The present study was accomplished in 24 teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran from September 2012 to March 2013. The data collection instrument was a questionnaire including 130 items. This questionnaire measured the situation of formulation, implementation, and evaluation of strategic plan as well as the requirements, facilitators, and its benefits in the studied hospitals. Results: All the investigated hospitals had a strategic plan. The obtained percentages for the items "the rate of the compliance to requirements" and "the quantity of planning facilitators" (68.75% attention to the stakeholder participation in the planning (55.74% attention to the planning components (62.22% the status of evaluating strategic plan (59.94% and the benefits of strategic planning for hospitals (65.15% were in the medium limit. However, the status of implementation of the strategic plan (53.71% was found to be weak. Significant statistical correlations were observed between the incentive for developing strategic plan and status of evaluating phase (P=0.04) and between status of implementation phase and having a documented strategic plan (P=0.03) Conclusion: According to the results, it seems that absence of appropriate internal incentive for formulating and implementing strategies led more hospitals to start formulation strategic planning in accordance with the legal requirements of Ministry of Health. Consequently, even though all the investigated hospital had the documented strategic plan, the plan has not been implemented efficiently and valid evaluation of results is yet to be achieved.
author_names: Jamil Sadeghifar

Mehdi Jafari

Shahram Tofighi

Hamid Ravaghi

Mohammadreza Maleki
title: Strategic Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation Processes in Hospital Systems: A Survey From Iran
venue: Global journal of health science
year: 2014

author_names: David R Arendale

Hilda Barrow

Kathy A Carpenter

R Hodges

Jane McGrath

Pat Newell

Janet Lynn Norton
title: Strategic Planning Evaluation of Creating a New Professional Association.
year: 2007

abstract: These nine guides address fundamental components of planning and implementing a comprehensive underage drinking prevention program. The guides are designed to be brief, easy to read, and easy to use. Each guide contains a resource section to assist readers in obtaining additional and detailed information about the topics covered in that guide. The appendices include useful tools for each topic area that provide coalitions and organizations a jump start in their planning and implementation activities. Topics covered in the guides include: coalition building; needs assessment and strategic planning; evaluation; prevention and education; underage drinking enforcement; public policy advocacy; media relations; self sufficiency; and resources.
author_names: Pamela Beer

Thomas L Leonard
title: UNDERAGE DRINKING PREVENTION: COMMUNITY HOW TO GUIDE ON. COALITION BUILDING, NEEDS ASSESSMENT STRATEGIC PLANNING, EVALUATION, PREVENTION EDUCATION, ENFORCEMENT, PUBLIC POLICY, MEDIA RELATIONS, SELF SUFFICIENCY, AND RESOURCES
year: 2001

abstract: Abstract Decision making process in selecting the most suitable technological solutions for electricity power generation in terms of strategic planning comprises a rather complex procedure with several contradicting factors involved. In this context, development of an appropriate evaluation methodology that will provide decision makers with a useful tool is the aim of the specific study. To achieve this, the Delphi method is used in order to compare a number of alternative technologies with respect to several characteristics, e.g. cost, environmental impacts, social impacts and technological status. According to this method, a properly formed questionnaire is sent to a number of experts, currently related to the power generation sector. After the evaluation of results, weight factors are determined, so that the different technologies can be ranked according to both their scoring in each criterion category and their global scoring, independently of categories, on the basis of a multi criteria analysis. Emphasis is currently given on the electricity generation sector of Greece, with application of the developed methodology carried out for Crete, i.e. the biggest Greek island.
author_names: John K Kaldellis

Alexandros Anestis

Irene Koronaki
title: Strategic planning in the electricity generation sector through the development of an integrated Delphi based multi criteria evaluation model
year: 2013

abstract: In response to market pressures, manufacturers have adopted different approaches to provide flexibility regarding several aspects. In this paper, we suggest a model for the evaluation of the flexibility of the manufacturing supply chain, based on graph theory techniques. This model defines maximum excess demand that may be met using flexibility. Recourse to flexibility enablers is determined based on cost minimisation. Such enablers are volume flexibility, mix flexibility and safety stocks. The proposed model is solved using a two step Mix Integer Linear Programme; the first step consists in defining maximum demand that may be met while the second step concerns minimising cost. The main benefit of our model is to deal with realistic problems in a rather short time. Therefore, it can be used in a wide 'what if' design process. It means evaluating various contemplated flexibility configurations in multiple demand scenarios in order to choose the best option. It can be also used during operational supply chain planning in order to face to an unbalanced situation. This paper ends with a numerical example illustrating our model's efficiency.
author_names: S Kemmoe

Pierre-Alban Pernot

Nikolay Tchernev
title: Model for flexibility evaluation in manufacturing network strategic planning
year: 2014

abstract: Abstract Urban strategic planning and urban vulnerability assessment have increasingly become important issues in both policy agenda and academia. However, a comprehensive review of the advances made in urban vulnerability, emphasizing their shared aspects, has yet to be performed. The aiming of this paper is to addresses the latter by conducting an evaluation on assessment methods disclosed in this decade. Once their common evolutive pathway is traced, the review follows an analytical framework, based on the above, evaluating the research requirements from both a quantitative and qualitative point of view. Our findings indicate that the robustness, cognitive and participatory research lines are those in which most advancement has been made, while those of urban dynamics and multi scale progressed the least. Our analysis also demonstrates that methods integrating more lines of research, as well as the employment of comprehensive approaches, promotes advancing the developmental stage. We conclude that the focusing of research lines should be shifted, in order to bridge the qualitative gap identified without demanding an improbable, quantitative increase.
author_names: Jorge Salas

Victor Yepes
title: Urban vulnerability assessment: Advances from the strategic planning outlook
year: 2018