The aim of this thesis is to provide a SWOT analysis of the Via Foundation through which is detected potential opportunities and threats for the organization and its current strengths and weaknesses. The theoretical part explains the basic concepts, theoretical knowledge and the process itself concerning the creation of a SWOT analysis. The described methods are then used in the practical part on the example of the Via Foundation. To identify potential opportunities and threats from the external environment is used PEST analysis supported by time series analysis. For discovering potential of the organization in terms of strengths and weaknesses is used the evaluation of selected parameters of the organization as compared to the analogous organizations. In conclusion, the thesis summarizes important information obtained by this analysis and there are proposed recommendations for the organization.

The aim of this thesis is to outline the process of setting up a new small business. The theoretical part is focused on definition of basic concepts, analysis of the legal environment of business in the Slovak Republic and the specification of small and medium enterprises. Subsequently, it reveals the essential assumptions for success and defines the steps to be performed before starting the business. The practical part consists of three circles - a brief introduction of own business idea, analysis of the external business environment and practical establishment of the company.

The target of diploma thesis is to perform a strategic analysis of the company Jihočeské letiště České Budějovice, a.s.

The Diploma thesis deals with process improvements in project management in Alstom Power s.r.o.. The thesis is divided into three basic parts - theoretical, analytical and proposal part. The theoretical part focuses on the description of the analytical methods for examining the business environment, which will afterwards be used to analyse the current state of a company's position in the second part, analytical part, of this work. In the analytical part are identified the same errors during the project implementation. In the last part of the own proposals are presented measures that could eliminate errors and streamline process of the project implementation.

Background: In the last few years, many of the risks of operating in a global supply chain or an offshore manufacturing strategy have become evident as they have been disrupted by accidents, pandemics, and conflicts. Multiple parties in global trade have also increased their talks about autonomy in strategic sectors or production of strategically important components. The theoretical problem of current literature is that there is a lack of research on the strategies of the manufacturing bases that are of strategical importance of nations. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to fill the theoretical gap by studying the factors behind the location decision which battery manufacturers consider when they decide to relocate production. Moreover, the study will explain the opportunities and implications that reallocating the production entails. Method: The approach of the study will be a comparative case based on qualitative data to explore and create an understanding and explanation to the research purpose. The design of the research has been based on and inspired by thematic analysis and the cases has been chosen through a purposeful sampling technique. The main form of data collection of this research will be secondary data. Conclusion: This study is increasing the understanding of reallocating battery manufacturing to Sweden. It adds to the existing literature in the field of IB and OSCM by the discovery of two new factors of opportunities behind locational decision. The first one was seeking municipalities with low permit process complexity in the due diligence process, and the second one was choosing a location that has possibilities for attaining more regional autonomy in material supply, as a strategic internal consideration.

Approved for public release; distribution in unlimited. / The purpose of a United States Army Directorate of Contracting (DOC) is to award or execute contracts for supplies or services and perform post-award contract administration functions for the Army installation and Army units stationed at the installation. The DOC accomplishes its purpose within the context of the Federal Acquisition System's Vision, which is to deliver on a timely basis the best value product or service to the customer, while maintaining the public's trust and fulfilling public policy objectives. A DOC must consider many external stakeholders to achieve its purpose. The basic premise of this thesis research is to improve a DOC's organizational effectiveness through the examination of its external environment, particularly, external stakeholders. The concept of stakeholder management concentrates on an organization's need to consider its relationships with specific stakeholder groups. An organization's ability to satisfy the desires of key stakeholders, meeting the stakeholders' criteria, is the key to an effective organization. Data were gathered from 15 government stakeholders and 14 contractors using a questionnaire that addressed such questions as: What are your organizations expectations and requirements of the DOC? How well did the DOC meet your needs and expectations? Does your organization control a resource needed by the DOC? The thesis summarizes findings and provides recommendations. The overall benefit of this thesis research is improved environmental awareness, which enables the DOC to become more effective in achieving its mission and meeting the desires of its external stakeholders. / Major, United States Army

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T18:38:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 12 / Nenhuma / O objetivo deste trabalho é o de analisar as estratégias dos terminais privados de contêineres que participam da indústria de terminais da Região Sul do Brasil, a partir da identificação das principais características do ambiente externo e interno dessas empresas. A análise dá-se mediante utilização do modelo das cinco forças competitivas e das estratégias genéricas. Adicionalmente, utilizam-se conceitos sobre a estrutura de monopólio natural, de modo a viabilizar entendimento complementar sobre o ambiente de competição. O trabalho tem caráter qualitativo, e faz-se uso do estudo de casos múltiplos como estratégia de pesquisa, que foi dividida em duas etapas. A primeira, que contou com entrevistas semi-estruturadas e estruturadas, tem como objetivo identificar as principais características do ambiente competitivo dos terminais privados da Região Sul do Brasil, assim como as estratégias adotadas pelos terminais participantes da indústria, TCP, TECONVI e TECON. Na segunda etapa, desenvolvida no Porto de Hamburgo / This dissertation aims the analysis of the strategies adopted by container private terminals that are part of southern Brazilian terminals industry, taking as standpoint, the identification of the main characteristics of the external and internal enviroment of these firms. The analysis makes use of the theorical Five Forces Model, as well as of the generic strategies framework. Additionally, it has been used concepts concerning the idea of natural monopolies, in order to provide further understanding around the competitive structure of the analysed industry. The research is classified as a qualitative one. Case study method has been chosen, and the whole research process is divided in two different parts. The first one, uses semi-structured and structured enterviews, with the objective to identify the characteristics of the competitive enviroment of Southern Brazil container terminals industry, and also the strategies selected by the private terminals TCP, TECONVI and TECON. The second part of the research wa

O estudo realizado numa indústria transformadora de papéis teve por objetivo contribuir para a evidenciação da importância do monitoramento das variáveis macroeconômicas nos sistemas de informação. Existem ferramentas tecnológicas para processar esse tipo de informação e a literatura oferece suporte para a necessidade desse monitoramento, no entanto, esta prática tem sido objeto de um número limitado de trabalhos empíricos e tem recebido relativamente pouca atenção no ambiente empresarial. Uma possível justificativa, talvez seja a complexidade e o dinamismo dos dados que, além de estarem em constante oscilação per si, interagem entre si e podem ter impactos distintos em cada um dos produtos de uma mesma empresa. A pesquisa que deu origem a esta dissertação, foi realizada como um estudo exploratório descritivo, utilizando-se métodos estatísticos para processar variáveis internas e externas para analisar a importância das variáveis macroeconômicas no gerenciamento de informações de uma empresa selecionada. Escolheu-se uma só empresa com um leque diversificado de produtos e sua relação com seu ambiente externo. Na complexidade interna do negócio foram escolhidos os produtos mais representativos da empresa e cada um deles foram explorados através de duas ferramentas de análise multivariada de dados. Primeiro, fez-se uso da correlação canônica para escolher as variáveis macroeconômicas que possuíam relação mais forte com os produtos selecionados e, em seguida, utilizou-se a regressão linear múltipla para identificar as elasticidades dos produtos em relação a cada uma das variáveis macroeconômicas. Os resultados obtidos, evidentemente, não esgotam o estudo da prática apontada, mas os objetivos propostos e alcançados pela pesquisa, evidenciaram a importância do monitoramento das variáveis macroeconômicas para o caso estudado. / The study formulated in a paper transforming industry intends to contribute in the demonstration of the importance of monitoring macroeconomic variables in Information Systems. There are technological tools to process those data and the literature offers support to this need, nevertheless the subject has receive little attention in the corporate background and was the object of few empiric papers. One reason may be the complexity and the dynamism of the data which besides being in constant oscillation interact among each other and may have distinct impacts in different products of the company. The research performed in this dissertation is categorized as a descriptive exploratory study, using statistical methods to process internal and external variables in order to analyze the importance of the macroeconomic variables in the information management in a firm of choice. It was chosen a single firm with a wide range of products and its relation with the external environment. In the internal complexity of the business it was chosen the most representative products and each one of them were analyzed trough two different multivariate data analysis. First the Canonic Correlation in order to select the macroeconomic variables with the strongest relation to the selected products, subsequently the Multiple Linear Regression with the intention of pinpointing the elasticity of the same products to each variable. The results clearly do not exhaust the subject, however corroborate with the proposed and reached objectives highlighting the importance of monitoring macroeconomic variables for the case studied.

This diploma thesis deals with analysis of the crisis management of chosen organization and it is focused on current threats to the company and possible crisis scenarios.

O estudo realizado numa indústria transformadora de papéis teve por objetivo contribuir para a evidenciação da importância do monitoramento das variáveis macroeconômicas nos sistemas de informação. Existem ferramentas tecnológicas para processar esse tipo de informação e a literatura oferece suporte para a necessidade desse monitoramento, no entanto, esta prática tem sido objeto de um número limitado de trabalhos empíricos e tem recebido relativamente pouca atenção no ambiente empresarial. Uma possível justificativa, talvez seja a complexidade e o dinamismo dos dados que, além de estarem em constante oscilação per si, interagem entre si e podem ter impactos distintos em cada um dos produtos de uma mesma empresa. A pesquisa que deu origem a esta dissertação, foi realizada como um estudo exploratório descritivo, utilizando-se métodos estatísticos para processar variáveis internas e externas para analisar a importância das variáveis macroeconômicas no gerenciamento de informações de uma empresa selecionada. Escolheu-se uma só empresa com um leque diversificado de produtos e sua relação com seu ambiente externo. Na complexidade interna do negócio foram escolhidos os produtos mais representativos da empresa e cada um deles foram explorados através de duas ferramentas de análise multivariada de dados. Primeiro, fez-se uso da correlação canônica para escolher as variáveis macroeconômicas que possuíam relação mais forte com os produtos selecionados e, em seguida, utilizou-se a regressão linear múltipla para identificar as elasticidades dos produtos em relação a cada uma das variáveis macroeconômicas. Os resultados obtidos, evidentemente, não esgotam o estudo da prática apontada, mas os objetivos propostos e alcançados pela pesquisa, evidenciaram a importância do monitoramento das variáveis macroeconômicas para o caso estudado. / The study formulated in a paper transforming industry intends to contribute in the demonstration of the importance of monitoring macroeconomic variables in Information Systems. There are technological tools to process those data and the literature offers support to this need, nevertheless the subject has receive little attention in the corporate background and was the object of few empiric papers. One reason may be the complexity and the dynamism of the data which besides being in constant oscillation interact among each other and may have distinct impacts in different products of the company. The research performed in this dissertation is categorized as a descriptive exploratory study, using statistical methods to process internal and external variables in order to analyze the importance of the macroeconomic variables in the information management in a firm of choice. It was chosen a single firm with a wide range of products and its relation with the external environment. In the internal complexity of the business it was chosen the most representative products and each one of them were analyzed trough two different multivariate data analysis. First the Canonic Correlation in order to select the macroeconomic variables with the strongest relation to the selected products, subsequently the Multiple Linear Regression with the intention of pinpointing the elasticity of the same products to each variable. The results clearly do not exhaust the subject, however corroborate with the proposed and reached objectives highlighting the importance of monitoring macroeconomic variables for the case studied.