This paper examines connections between data-driven models for analyzing a firm's strategic plans, which use activity-based costing and mathematical programming, and the resource-based view of the firm. After brief reviews of the three disciplines, extensions of activity-based costing methods to mathematical programming models for strategic resource planning are discussed. Applications of these...

First developed by Kaplan and Norton [Kaplan R. S., & Norton D. P. (1992). The balance scorecard – measures that drive performance. Harvard Business Review, 70(1), 71–79], balanced scorecard (BSC) provides an integrated view of overall organizational performance and strategic objectives. BSC integrates financial measures with other key performance indicators to create a perspective that incorpo...

To help bridge the gap between the emergent and rational school of strategy formation, I analyze the role of alternative generation and information integration as two process-based characteristics of the strategy process in the relationship between strategic planning and decision quality. Based on a survey of 155 top executives from German small and medium-sized companies, I show that the degre...

Background_______________________________ 1 Previous approaches________________________ 2 Beginnings of a new approach to robust forecasting ________________________ 2 Dual-faceted predictive process for informing strategic planning_____________ 2 Environmental analysis ______________________ 3 Alignment with the strategic planning cycle___________________ 3 Environmental analysis framework____...

Abstract Purpose: This research was conducted to identify future scenarios in the field of media literacy and explore alternative futures this Iran. Research methodology: The method scenario planning or design with an exploratory futuristic approach. In method, several steps from identifying factors affecting exploring uncertainties, creating logic scenarios, describing narrative strategically ...

Defining strategic position of the organizations within the industry environment is one of the basic and most important phases of strategic planning to which extent that one of the fundamental schools of strategic planning is the strategic positioning school. In today’s knowledge-based economy and dynamic environment, it is essential for universities as the centers of education, knowledge creat...