scholarly journals Data Warehouse Design with Kimball Method: Case Study of Fahrenheit Manufacturing Systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 604
Author(s):  
Widianty Widianty
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Core System ◽  
Business World ◽  
The Right

Competition in the business world that increasingly stringent requires management to make decisions accurately and quickly. It is also felt by Farhenheit as entrepreneurs. To achieve thier forte in competing in theglobal competition, he needs systems like strategic decision makers which is up-to-date reliable and fast. Then the solution of area manufatur datawarehouse design is necessary to support the above objectives,i.e. : the right and fast decisions. However, Fahrenheit only has ERP as their core system currently and they do not have management support system. They have some difficulty to understand some problems and do better analysis. There are some datawarehouse development methodologies. Methods that will be used for the development of datawarehouse design is Kimball Method. Kimball method was chosen because of its development process that follows the business process is very suitable for the development of datawarehouse gradually to a company.Kimball's method gives a mart for the related business processes.This study is conducted by interview and survey from several senior managers and directors in Fahrenheit to know about their requirement and how they do analysis currently.

Selection of lean manufacturing systems using the PROMETHEE

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Anand ◽  
Rambabu Kodali
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Computer Integrated Manufacturing ◽  
Preference Ranking ◽  
Manufacturing Strategy ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Content Type

PurposeIn recent years, many manufacturing companies are attempting to implement lean manufacturing systems (LMS) as an effective manufacturing strategy to survive in a highly competitive market. Such a process of selecting a suitable manufacturing system is highly complex and strategic in nature. The paper aims to how companies make a strategic decision of selecting LMS as part of their manufacturing strategy, and on what basis such strategic decisions are made by the managers.Design/methodology/approachA case study of a small‐ and medium‐sized enterprise is presented, in which the managers are contemplating on implementing either computer integrated manufacturing systems (CIMS) or LMS. To supplement the decision‐making process, a multi‐criteria decision making (MCDM) model, namely, the preference ranking organisation method for enrichment evaluations (PROMETHEE) is used to analyse how it will impact the stakeholders of the organisation, and the benefits gained.FindingsAn extensive analysis of PROMETHEE model revealed that LMS was the best for the given circumstances of the case.Research limitations/implicationsThe same problem can be extended by incorporating the constraints (such as financial, technical, social) of the organisation by utilising an extended version of PROMETHEE called the PROMETHEE V. Since, a single case study approach has been utilised, the findings cannot be generalized for any other industry.Practical limitations/implicationsThe methodology of PROMETHEE and its algorithm has been demonstrated in a detailed way and it is believed that it will be useful for managers to apply such MCDM tools to supplement their decision‐making efforts.Originality/valueAccording to the authors’ knowledge there is no paper in the literature, which discusses the application of PROMETHEE in making a strategic decision of implementing LMS as a part of an organisation's manufacturing strategy.

scholarly journals Hydropower Future: Between Climate Change, Renewable Deployment, Carbon and Fuel Prices

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Ranzani ◽  
Mattia Bonato ◽  
Epari Patro ◽  
Ludovic Gaudard ◽  
Carlo De Michele
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Smooth Transition ◽  
Hydropower Plant ◽  
Distributed Hydrological Model ◽  
Fuel Prices ◽  
New Energy ◽  
The Right

Hydropower represents an interesting technology: affordable, renewable, and flexible. However, it must cope with climate changes and new energy policies that jeopardize its future. A smooth transition to sustainability requires decision makers to assess the future perspectives of hydropower: about its future revenue and related uncertainty. This investigation requires a multidisciplinary approach as both streamflow and energy mix will evolve. We simulated future streamflow based on eight climate scenarios using a semi-distributed hydrological model for our case study, the Tremorgio hydropower plant located in southern Switzerland. Next, using a hydropower management model we generated income according to these streamflows and twenty-eight electricity price scenarios. Our results indicate that climate change will modify the seasonality of inflows and volumes exploitable for hydropower generation. However, adaptive strategies in the management of reservoirs could minimize revenue losses/maximize revenue gains. In addition, most market scenarios project an increase in revenues, except in the case of high wind and solar energy penetration. Markets do not provide the right incentive, since the deployment of intermittent energy would benefit from more flexible hydropower.

Strategic Decision Making for Outsourcing Information Systems with a Fuzzy Multi-criteria Decision-Making Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Modiri ◽  
Mohammad Dashti
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Analytic Network Process ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Service Support ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Network Process ◽  
Selection Of

Today, IS supplier selection is one of the most critical steps in the outsourcing process; the success of outsourcing is highly dependent on the selection of IS suppliers. This paper proposes a new hybrid fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model, which uses decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) technique, analytic network process (ANP), and Vlse Kriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje(VIKOR) to evaluate four potential suppliers using seven factors and five decision makers using a realistic case study. the results showed that Service support is importance for outsourcing. The proposed model can help practitioners improve their decision making process.

scholarly journals Surviving or flourishing? Integrating business resilience and sustainability

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Winnard ◽  
Andy Adcroft ◽  
Jacquetta Lee ◽  
David Skipp
Keyword(s):  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Competitive Environments ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
The Right

Purpose – Businesses are always seeking resilient strategies so they can weather unpredictable competitive environments. One source of unpredictability is the unsustainability of commerce's environmental, economic or social impacts and the limitations this places on businesses. Another is poor resilience causing erroneous and unexpected outputs. Companies prospering long-term must have both resilience and sustainability, existing in a symbiotic state. The purpose of this paper is to explore the two concepts and their relationship, their combined benefits and propose an approach for supporting decision makers to proactively build both characteristics. Design/methodology/approach – The paper looks at businesses as complex adaptive systems, how their resilience and sustainability can be defined and how these might be exhibited. It then explores how they can be combined in practice. Findings – The two qualities are related but have different purposes, moreover resilience has two major forms related to timescales. Both kinds of resilience are identified as key for delivering sustainability, yet the reverse is also found to be true. Both are needed to deliver either and to let businesses flourish. Practical implications – Although the ideal state of resilient sustainability is difficult to define or achieve, pragmatic ways exist to deliver the right direction of change in organisational decisions. A novel approach to this is explored based on transition engineering and robustness engineering. Originality/value – This paper links resilience and sustainability explicitly and develops a holistic pragmatic approach for working through their implications in strategic decision making.

scholarly journals Identifying Clusters of Regions in the European South, based on their Economic, Social and Environmental Characteristics

REGION ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Athanasios Angelis-Dimakis ◽  
Katerina Dimaki
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The European Union ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Basic Image ◽  
The Right

<p>Regional development has been in the centre of interest among both academics but also decision makers in the central and local governments of many European countries. Identifying the key problems that regions face and considering how these findings could be effectively used as a basis for planning their development process are essential in order to improve the conditions in the European Union regions. For a long period of time a country’s or a region’s development has been synonymous with its economic growth. Over the last years, however, economies and societies have been undergoing dramatic changes. These changes have led to the concept of sustainable development, which refers to the ability of our societies to meet the needs of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Measuring sustainable development means going beyond a purely economic description of human activities; requires integration of economic, social and environmental concerns. New techniques are required in order to benchmark performance, highlight leaders and laggards on various aspects of development and facilitate efforts to identify best practices. Furthermore, new tools have to be designed so as to make sustainability decision-making more objective, systematic and rigorous. The growth or decline of a country or region depends on its power to pull and retain both business and the right blend of people to run them. Working in this context, we have so far defined a variable which is called the Image of a region and quantifies this pulling power. The region’s Image is a function of a multitude of factors physical, economic, social and environmental, some common for all potential movers and some specific for particular groups of them and expresses its present state of development and future prospects. The paper examines a number of south European countries and focuses on their NUTS 2 level regions. Its objective is to:</p><ul><li>Estimate the Basic Image values of those regions.</li><li>Group those regions into different clusters on the basis of the values of the various factors used to define their respective Basic Images.</li><li>Present and discuss the results.</li></ul>

scholarly journals GEOSPATIAL TOOLS FOR PREVENTION OF URBAN FLOODS CASE STUDY: RIVER OF EL MALEH (CITY OF MOHAMMEDIA &ndash; MOROCCO)

2017 ◽  
Vol IV-4/W4 ◽  
pp. 295-301
Author(s):  
M. S. Chaabane ◽  
N. Abouali ◽  
T. Boumeaza ◽  
M. Zahouily
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Return Periods ◽  
Urban Floods ◽  
Geospatial Tools ◽  
Risk Areas ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Today, the prevention and the risk management occupy an important part of public policy activities and are considered as major components in the process of sustainable development of territories. Due to the expansion of IT processes, in particular the geomatics sciences, decision-makers are increasingly requesting for digital tools before, during and after the risks of natural disasters. Both, the geographic information system (GIS) and the remote sensing are considered as geospatial and fundamental tools which help to understand the evolution of risks, to analyze their temporality and to make the right decisions. <br><br> The historic events (on 1996, 2002 and 2010) which struck the city of Mohammedia and having caused the consequent damage to vital infrastructure and private property, require a thorough and rational analyze to benefit from it and well manage the floods phenomena. This article present i) the contribution of the geospatial tools for the floods simulation of Oued of el Maleh city at various return periods. These tools allow the demarcation of flood-risk areas and so to make floods simulations in several scenarios (decadal flood, 20-year flood, 50-year flood, 100-year flood, 500-year flood &amp; also millennial flood) and besides (ii) present a synthesis map combining the territorial stakes superposed on the flood scenarios at different periods of return.

scholarly journals SCANNING LINGKUNGAN EKSTERNAL DAN INTERNAL LEMBAGA PENDIDIKAN ISLAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Anisa Febriyanti
Keyword(s):  
Private Schools ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Internal Environment ◽  
The Right

Education was always faced with the problem of the complex, start from the competition in the management of education institutions, leadership, finance staffing, curriculum community support and the level of trust. Adult private schools is growing rapidly along with the needs of the community will be better quality education. Private schools based on Islam is currently has become a trend by the users of education along with the demands and changes of the age.The changes occur in the environment education institutions requires a paradigm shift in respect of the environment around. In order to achieve their aims and various mission of an educational institution, then the interaction between stakeholders that there must be intertwined with one another. External and internal environment in the educational institution must be understood by all the stakeholders. The introduction of the internal and external environment in the right educational institutions, then will affect the strategic decision makers about the direction that will be taken and the action to be taken in order to make the innovation of education institutions which they manage.

A FRAMEWORK FOR ACHIEVING ECO-EFFICIENCY IN NEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS

2001 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 195-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
JACQUELINE M. PETT ◽  
RITA VAN DER VORST
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Environmentally Sound ◽  
The Uk

The technologies for building environmentally sound homes are well known and have been demonstrated in numerous projects, but are yet to be adopted as standard in the UK. Local authority development plans now include "sustainability" within their principles, but this is applied mainly in the social context. One barrier to achieving sustainable new housing is the lack of a framework to combine the objectives and policies of the urban environment, environmental impacts, resource use, and the design and construction of the houses themselves. This paper describes a framework designed for use by decision-makers (i.e. housing developers and planning officers) to help them address one part of "sustainability", namely eco-efficiency. The theoretical framework is then applied to a case study. Both the development process and the application of the framework reveal interesting points to be considered in the progress towards sustainable housing.

scholarly journals Dogs at the Workplace: A Multiple Case Study

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Elisa Wagner ◽  
Miguel Pina e Cunha
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Business World ◽  
Organizational Policies ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Multiple Case Studies ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

As the work environment is increasing in competitiveness and stressfulness, more and more companies try to increase employee well-being. One option is allowing employees to bring their dogs to work, building on the considerable evidence that dogs have a positive influence on people’s well-being. However, little is known about how a dog’s presence influences the employees and the companies in offices. Therefore, we empirically scrutinize the presence of dogs in organizations and the impact of pet-friendly organizational policies, with multiple case studies with semi-structured interviews as their foundation. Based on an inductive approach for the data analysis, we found that organizational members consider that dogs can lower their stress, improve communication, and foster social cohesion when a flexible organizational culture is in place. This includes the following: Problems in the company are openly addressed; employees have job autonomy, with flexibility to take breaks; and mistakes and errors are allowed to be made by employees and their companions alike, and room to find solutions is given. The inflexible permission of pets at work can, on the contrary, create pressure and stress in employees. For the business world, this implicates that this kind of incentive only leads to success if the right framework and culture is in place, and it cannot only be seen as an instrument to increase employee well-being.

scholarly journals How Technology Intelligence is Applied In Different Contexts?

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-118
Author(s):  
Leandro Rodrigues Gonçalves ◽  
Fernando Carvalho De Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Petrochemical Industry ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Know How ◽  
Technology Intelligence ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Right

Technology Intelligence is one of the many ways of applying Competitive Intelligence. As CI, TI intends to detect and process weak signals in order to identify opportunities and threats and provide actionable information. There is still a gap in reported cases of companies actually applying Technology Intelligence. This article intends to answer the research question: How companies build an actionable technology intelligence project? Case Study and Action-research approaches were applied for this research. The article describes two application cases: a research institute with a petrochemical industry as a client; and a private petrochemical industry. Companies seem to not know how to deal with Technology Intelligence. When outsourcing, they are more willing to pay for an extremely comprehensive project that not necessarily needs to be so deep and complex. When doing it internally, decision makers are not willing to wait and give the TI analysts resources to conduct a project in the right deepness and complexity. It seems like a “goldilocks problem” applied to Technology Intelligence.

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