Increasing interest in sustainability has led to a growing number of initiatives directed at environmentally sustainable operations. However, a systems perspective with hierarchically structured principles is often not a prerequisite to these action-oriented efforts. While the linkage between overall guiding principles and the definition of successful outcomes has been addressed in other areas,...

Corruption is one of the main challenges in governments. According to many international reports, corruption in developing countries is more than developed countries. On the other hand, one of the advantages of e-government is accountability and transparency. Therefore e-government can be introduced as a solution to reduce corruption in government activities. This paper studied the effect of e-...

This study analyses how strategic management is integrated with budgeting in the cities using the Balanced Scorecard approach, which provides a general framework to communicate and implement strategies. The approach is useful in accomplishing the strategic objectives, measures, and targets decided by city councils. It is important to align the strategic plans of various units at the different o...

“Strategy implementation” is an inseparable part of strategic management process. Transformation strategies to typical operations and daily functions of staff exert a significant role in organization success. Balanced scorecard (BSC) and strategy map help senior managers to perfectly implement and monitor the accomplishment of the strategies by transforming strategies into operational programs....

The forming process of road safety strategy is quite complex because it implies a system approach that consists of several more or less complex steps. The analysis of the existing situation, defining the problem and creating a strategic document are the basic steps in forming road safety strategy. Each one of the mentioned steps involves several activities that must be carried out. Implementati...

Airport Strategic Planning (ASP) focuses on the development of plans for the mediumand long-term development of an airport. In general, airports do not have a good track record for making good long-term decisions, primarily because they fail to take uncertainties about the future into account in a proper way. With the recent dramatic changes occurring in the context in which an airport operates...

The goal of this interdisciplinary paper is to show that an existing modeling language, Integration Definition for Function Modeling (IDEF0), is applicable for use in strategy modeling and for automation of strategic plan development and implementation. We will show how utilization of the systems modeling language IDEF0 simplifies strategic plan development, and moves strategic planning and man...

The application of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis to formulation of strategy concerned with the safe carriage of bulk liquid chemicals in maritime tankers was examined in this study. A qualitative investigation using SWOT analysis has been implemented successfully for ships that are designed to carry liquid chemicals in bulk. The originality of this study lies ...

The paper explores the diffusion of information and communications technology (ICT) in the country of Jamaica, and within the context of the national strategic plan for information technology. Further it discusses some policies and initiatives undertaken in support of the plan. Moreover it seeks to give a footprint of the steps taken by the Government of Jamaica since the conceptualization of t...

AI planning systems have traditionally operated as stand-alone blackboxes, taking a description of a domain and a set of goals, and automatically synthesizing a plan for achieving those goals. Such designs severely restrict the in uence that users can have on the resultant plans. This paper describes an Advisable Planner framework that marries an advice-taking interface to AI planning technolog...