Over the past fteen years a variety of interactive IDA systems have been developed to support strategic reasoning for data analysis. We present an AI framework, hierarchical task network planning, that provides a unifying view of these e orts. We describe a taxonomy of strategic approaches to IDA, based on the planning framework, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses associated with each app...

The paper presents the results of the survey on the strategic IS planning practices of Slovene large organizations. The survey was based on the questionnaire previously developed in Singapore, and the results of both countries, one developed and the other in transition, are compared. It highlights the participation, critical success factors, initiators and the main benefits of the strategic IS ...

The continued development of strategic planning processes in electric utilities is of utmost importance, given their increasingly complex, dynamic markets. Development will be blocked unless electric utilities begin developing and integrating other organization systems within their strategic planning processes to create "strategic support ·systems". This article describes three dimensions for a...

This paper investigates the integration of strategic and tactical decisions in the supply chain network design (SCND) considering assembly line balancing (ALB) under demand uncertainty. Due to the decentralized decisions, a novel bi-level stochastic programming (BLSP) model has been developed in which SCND problem has been considered in the upper-level model, while the lower-level model contain...

Article history: Received 14 January 2013 Received in revised form 15 August 2013 Accepted 29 December 2013 Available online 19 January 2014 Scenario-based technology roadmapping offers a strong capability for strategic planning to respond to increasingly volatile environments. However, previous studies cannot guide organisations towards making robust decisions against complex future conditions...

having a full understanding of the world’s social-economic situation is the success key for industries automotive manufacturing industry is an extremely competitive one usually there is no clear guideline among automotive companies about technological causes behind their success and failure. this research provides an investigation about the world’s economic situation and the environmental situa...

Marketing and R&D strategies need to be aligned to increase the return from investment in new technologies. Various portfolio techniques have been widely used to support strategic planning. A new portfolio approach integrating market and technology portfolios to support market-oriented R&D planning is developed. The integrated portfolio is based on objective market and patent data and empirical...

Strategic planning in each organization identifies its orientation and coming priorities as all decisions to be adopted respect to the ensuing outcomes. Strategic decisions considering crucial and irreversible results should not be based on experience and judgments. This paper uses analytic network process (ANP) method for prioritization in strategic planning. ANP is mostly analogous to analyti...

Introduction: Universities play a key role in creating a knowledge-based society and its sustainable development. Strategic planning by strategically analyses internal and external environments of the organization, forecast its future, identifying its strategic direction, and strengthening organizational structures, processes, and outcomes, creates and sustains competitive advantages. This stud...