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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Performance based contracting: A concept for cost-effective operation and maintenance of wind power plants

Dibennardo, Maurizio January 2011 (has links)
No description available.
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Indicadores de mensuração de desempenho em pequenas e médias empresas (PMEs): estudo no setor calçadista de Santa Catarina / Indicators of performance measurement in small and medium enterprises (SMEs): a study in the shoe sector de Santa Catarina

Souza, Antonia Egidia de 23 September 2011 (has links)
Para competir em um mercado global as organizações precisam, além de formular e implementar estratégias, adotar ferramentas de gestão para monitorar e controlar o desempenho do negócio e comunicar suas ações junto aos seus stakeholders. Diante disso, nos últimos 20 anos, os pesquisadores passaram a examinar e propor sistemas de mensuração de desempenho, considerando os parâmetros financeiros e não financeiros, para auxiliar os gestores na implemtação de planejamento estratégico, na tomada de decisão e no controle das ações. Mas, causa surpresa, os poucos trabalhos dirigidos às Pequenas e Médias Empresas (PMEs), sobre esse tema. Sabe-se que as PMEs têm características organizacionais e de desempenho que as tornam diferentes das grandes empresas, porém não se pode negligenciar o importante papel dos sistemas de mensuração de desempenho para qualquer tipo de empresa ou forma de gestão. Com isso em mente, a intenção desta tese foi responder a duas perguntas importantes, a saber: as Pequenas e Médias Empresas (PMEs) empregam indicadores de mensuração de desempenho? As características organizacionais influenciam no emprego de indicadores de mensuração de desempenho? As questões principais podem ser subdivididas nos seguintes questionamentos: Quais tipos de indicadores de desempenho são adotados pelas PMEs? Os indicadores são financeiros ou não financeiros? Quais dimensões não financeiras dos sistemas de mensuração de desempenho são aplicadas nas PMEs? Quais as motivações para empregar medidas de desempenho? Empresas que adotam práticas de gestão estratégicas e de pessoas, também adotam sistema de mensuração de desempenho? Para melhor compreender essas questões, em um primeiro momento realizou-se um levantamento dos referenciais teóricos sobre sistemas de mensuração de desempenho e as características das PMEs. Na sequência, aplicou-se uma pesquisa de campo com uma amostra não probabilística por conveniência com 87 empresas do setor calçadista de Santa Catarina. O método privilegiado foi o quantitativo, para a coleta dos dados utilizou-se a survey autoadministrada enviada por internet para a análise dos dados aplicou-se técnicas estatísticas (frequência, média, cruzamentos e correlações\\associações) com o auxílio do SPSS. Os resultados revelam que as empresas pesquisadas adotam indicadores financeiros e não financeiros, porém os indicadores financeiros são mais utilizados que os não financeiros. Dentre os não financeiros, os mais utilizados são os de processos seguidos pelos de pessoas. Os menos utilizados são os sociais. A pesquisa indica que existe relação entre práticas organizacionais e emprego de indicadores. Empresas que utilizam poucas práticas organizacionais utilizam poucos indicadores financeiros e não financeiros e empresas que empregam mais práticas organizacionais tendem a utilizar um número maior de indicadores financeiros e não financeiros e empresas com maior número de empregados tendem a empregar mais indicadores financeiros e não financeiros. / In order to compete in a global market, besides formulating and implementing strategies, corporations need to adopt management tools to monitor and control the business performance and communicate their actions to their stakeholders. Facing that, in the last 20 years, researchers began to examine and propose performance measurement systems, considering the financial and non-financial parameters to assist managers implementing strategic planning, decision making, and actions controlling. However, it is surprising the small number of studies concerning Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) on that topic. It is known that SMEs have management and performance features that make them different from large companies; however one cannot neglect the important role of performance measurement systems for any kind of company, or type of management. Having that in mind, the intent of this thesis was to answer two important questions, namely: Do Small and Medium Enterprises employ indicators to measure performance? Do the organizational characteristics influence the use of indicators to measure performance? The main issues can be divided into the following questions: What kind of performance indicators are adopted by SMEs? Are the indicators financial or non-financial? What non-financial dimensions of performance measurement systems are implemented in SMEs? What are the motivations to use performance measures? Do companies that adopt people and practices strategic management, also adopt performance measurement system? In order to better understand these issues, a study and compilation of theoretical frameworks was carried out related to the performance measurement systems and the characteristics of SMEs. Following that, an applied field research with a non-probabilistic sample by convenience with 87 companies from the footwear industry in Santa Catarina was done. The chosen method was the quantitative one, for the data collection it was used the self-administered survey sent by the Internet and for the data analysis statistical techniques were applied (frequency, average, crossings and correlations\\associations) with the aid of SPSS. The results reveal that the companies surveyed have adopted financial and non-financial indicators, but the financial indicators are more used than the non-financial ones. Among non-financial, the most used are the processes followed by people. The least used are the social ones. The research indicates that there is a relationship between organizational practices and indicators employment. Companies using few management practices use fewer non-financial and financial indicators, and, companies that use more organizational practices tend to use a greater number of financial and non-financial indicators, and companies with a larger number of employees tend to employ more financial end non-financial indicators.
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ANÁLISE DE INDICADORES DE DESEMPENHO PARA INDÚSTRIAS DE EMBALAGENS FLEXÍVEIS.

Medeiros, Alessandro Araújo 10 September 2013 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T10:40:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ALESSANDRO ARAUJO MEDEIROS.pdf: 2454802 bytes, checksum: d8f8ec98bf26f15e624e8fbf4aa62488 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-09-10 / In last few years the industry has become a lot more competitive, forcing companies to improve their productive performances. The study shows how a production process of a Flexible Packaging Industry can improve it using the performance indicators. The research developed several performance indicators to various departments. Adopting the methodology of research-action study has taken interventional actions and continuous in whole research process. The result improvements has concentrated on reduces waste, overtime and production increase. So, this work consolidates a methodology implementation and performance indicators developing that support obtain better performances in a flexible packaging industry. / Nos últimos anos, a indústria se tornou muito mais competitiva, obrigando as empresas melhorarem seus desempenhos produtivos. Este trabalho apresenta uma análise de indicadores de desempenho para uma indústria de embalagens flexíveis. O estudo mostra como um processo produtivo de uma indústria de embalagens flexíveis pode melhorar, por meio da utilização de indicadores de desempenho. Na pesquisa foram desenvolvidos vários indicadores de desempenho para os departamentos de extrusão e pintura da organização submetida ao estudo, mediante a adoção de uma abordagem investigativa de pesquisa-ação. A melhoria dos resultados se concentrou em redução de desperdícios, horas extras e aumento da produtividade. Nesse sentido, o trabalho consolidou uma metodologia de implantação e desenvolvimento de indicadores de desempenho que podem auxiliar na obtenção da melhoria de desempenho em uma indústria do setor de embalagens plásticas.
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Technologies for better utilisation of production process resources

Ingwald, Anders January 2009 (has links)
Most companies today are working in a global environment where competition is hard. In order to be able to survive it is essential that the companies utilise their resources as much as possible in order to keep the production cost low. Maintenance plays a crucial role because of its impact on availability, reliability, quality and life cycle cost (LCC). However, being able to use maintenance proactively so as to increase the utilisation of the production process resources requires access to proper tools and methods for deciding on what maintenance to use and to follow up maintenance impact. Consequently, the overall research problem discussed in the thesis is: How to select a maintenance policy and follow up its performance with respect to cost-effectiveness in order to improve company profitability. In order to solve this overall research problem it has been broken down into four research questions R1: How can different approaches intended for maintaining or improving production process performance assist in the identification, analysis, elimination and prevention of recurrence of problems in a production process?, R2: How should maintenance be selected on the basis of cost-effectiveness?, R3: How should the technical and financial performance of maintenance be measured in order to enable cost-effective improvements? and R4: How to access relevant data required for cost-effective decisions in maintenance?. The philosophical basis applied in the work presented in this thesis is systems theory. When looking at maintenance, it is necessary to have a wide perspective and also see the interaction between maintenance and other relevant working areas. The major contributions that have been achieved and reported in the thesis are: 1. A literature review regarding current approach abilities to identify, analyse and prevent the recurrence of problems, 2. The development of a conceptual model for measuring the maintenance impact through a set of key performance indicators indicating where and how much to invest in maintenance., 3. The development of a maintenance support system for measuring the economic/financial impact of maintenance on both operative and strategic levels, 4. The development of a model for selecting and improving maintenance policies based on cost-effectiveness. The model presented is characterised by being flexible, in the meaning that it is possible to make a selection among any types of maintenance policies., 5. The definition and description of a common database containing relevant data for maintenance management and 6. Results from an exploratory study regarding IT maturity within maintenance management in Swedish industry are presented. The main conclusion of the thesis is that the tools and methods described in this thesis can represent important elements in a system to continuously and cost-effectively improve maintenance performance and thereby better utilise the resources in the production process.
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Indicadores de mensuração de desempenho em pequenas e médias empresas (PMEs): estudo no setor calçadista de Santa Catarina / Indicators of performance measurement in small and medium enterprises (SMEs): a study in the shoe sector de Santa Catarina

Antonia Egidia de Souza 23 September 2011 (has links)
Para competir em um mercado global as organizações precisam, além de formular e implementar estratégias, adotar ferramentas de gestão para monitorar e controlar o desempenho do negócio e comunicar suas ações junto aos seus stakeholders. Diante disso, nos últimos 20 anos, os pesquisadores passaram a examinar e propor sistemas de mensuração de desempenho, considerando os parâmetros financeiros e não financeiros, para auxiliar os gestores na implemtação de planejamento estratégico, na tomada de decisão e no controle das ações. Mas, causa surpresa, os poucos trabalhos dirigidos às Pequenas e Médias Empresas (PMEs), sobre esse tema. Sabe-se que as PMEs têm características organizacionais e de desempenho que as tornam diferentes das grandes empresas, porém não se pode negligenciar o importante papel dos sistemas de mensuração de desempenho para qualquer tipo de empresa ou forma de gestão. Com isso em mente, a intenção desta tese foi responder a duas perguntas importantes, a saber: as Pequenas e Médias Empresas (PMEs) empregam indicadores de mensuração de desempenho? As características organizacionais influenciam no emprego de indicadores de mensuração de desempenho? As questões principais podem ser subdivididas nos seguintes questionamentos: Quais tipos de indicadores de desempenho são adotados pelas PMEs? Os indicadores são financeiros ou não financeiros? Quais dimensões não financeiras dos sistemas de mensuração de desempenho são aplicadas nas PMEs? Quais as motivações para empregar medidas de desempenho? Empresas que adotam práticas de gestão estratégicas e de pessoas, também adotam sistema de mensuração de desempenho? Para melhor compreender essas questões, em um primeiro momento realizou-se um levantamento dos referenciais teóricos sobre sistemas de mensuração de desempenho e as características das PMEs. Na sequência, aplicou-se uma pesquisa de campo com uma amostra não probabilística por conveniência com 87 empresas do setor calçadista de Santa Catarina. O método privilegiado foi o quantitativo, para a coleta dos dados utilizou-se a survey autoadministrada enviada por internet para a análise dos dados aplicou-se técnicas estatísticas (frequência, média, cruzamentos e correlações\\associações) com o auxílio do SPSS. Os resultados revelam que as empresas pesquisadas adotam indicadores financeiros e não financeiros, porém os indicadores financeiros são mais utilizados que os não financeiros. Dentre os não financeiros, os mais utilizados são os de processos seguidos pelos de pessoas. Os menos utilizados são os sociais. A pesquisa indica que existe relação entre práticas organizacionais e emprego de indicadores. Empresas que utilizam poucas práticas organizacionais utilizam poucos indicadores financeiros e não financeiros e empresas que empregam mais práticas organizacionais tendem a utilizar um número maior de indicadores financeiros e não financeiros e empresas com maior número de empregados tendem a empregar mais indicadores financeiros e não financeiros. / In order to compete in a global market, besides formulating and implementing strategies, corporations need to adopt management tools to monitor and control the business performance and communicate their actions to their stakeholders. Facing that, in the last 20 years, researchers began to examine and propose performance measurement systems, considering the financial and non-financial parameters to assist managers implementing strategic planning, decision making, and actions controlling. However, it is surprising the small number of studies concerning Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) on that topic. It is known that SMEs have management and performance features that make them different from large companies; however one cannot neglect the important role of performance measurement systems for any kind of company, or type of management. Having that in mind, the intent of this thesis was to answer two important questions, namely: Do Small and Medium Enterprises employ indicators to measure performance? Do the organizational characteristics influence the use of indicators to measure performance? The main issues can be divided into the following questions: What kind of performance indicators are adopted by SMEs? Are the indicators financial or non-financial? What non-financial dimensions of performance measurement systems are implemented in SMEs? What are the motivations to use performance measures? Do companies that adopt people and practices strategic management, also adopt performance measurement system? In order to better understand these issues, a study and compilation of theoretical frameworks was carried out related to the performance measurement systems and the characteristics of SMEs. Following that, an applied field research with a non-probabilistic sample by convenience with 87 companies from the footwear industry in Santa Catarina was done. The chosen method was the quantitative one, for the data collection it was used the self-administered survey sent by the Internet and for the data analysis statistical techniques were applied (frequency, average, crossings and correlations\\associations) with the aid of SPSS. The results reveal that the companies surveyed have adopted financial and non-financial indicators, but the financial indicators are more used than the non-financial ones. Among non-financial, the most used are the processes followed by people. The least used are the social ones. The research indicates that there is a relationship between organizational practices and indicators employment. Companies using few management practices use fewer non-financial and financial indicators, and, companies that use more organizational practices tend to use a greater number of financial and non-financial indicators, and companies with a larger number of employees tend to employ more financial end non-financial indicators.
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Marketingo veiklos efektyvumo vertinimas / Measuring marketing performance

Stankūnas, Andrius 06 June 2013 (has links)
Teorinėje darbo dalyje analizuojama marketingo įtaka įmonės veiklai, jos vertinimo poreikis ir problemos bei išanalizuojama subalansuotų rodiklių sistema ir jos naudojimas įmonės veiklos vertinimui. Analitinėje baigiamojo darbo dalyje pateikiama ir analizuojama antrinių informacijos šaltinių - tyrimų, atskleidžiančių subalansuotų rodiklių sistemos galimą pritaikomumą finansines paslaugas teikiančių institucijų Lietuvoje marketingo veiklai vertinti bei tokio vertinimo naudą, apžvalga. Šioje dalyje taip pat pateikiami ir analizuojami atlikto kokybinio tyrimo – giluminio ekspertų interviu rezultatai, kuomet siekiant išsiaiškinti egzistuojančią marketingo veiklos efektyvumo praktiką finansines paslaugas teikiančiose institucijose Lietuvoje, buvo kalbinti keturi tokias organizacijas atstovaujantys specialistai. Projektinėje darbo dalyje pateikiamas subalansuotų rodiklių sistemos pagrindu sukurtas marketingo veiklos efektyvumo vertinimo modelis skirtas finansines paslaugas teikiančioms organizacijoms Lietuvoje, aprašomi jo įgyvendinimo etapai, pateikiamas konkrečių rodiklių sąvadas, o pabaigoje įvardinamos galimos modelio pritaikomumo problemos. / The theoretical part analyzes how marketing actions influences proceeding of the enterprise, the need of evaluating marketing performance and there’s an analysis of the balanced scorecard and it’s usage for firm performance measuring given. Analytical part of this paper represents and analyzes the secondary repository – researches that reveal posible balanced scorecard adaptability for marketing performance measuring ir the financial services enterprises of Lithuania and what‘s the benefit of doing that. This part of the paper also presents and analyzes the results of the qualitative research that was accomplished by the author - in-depth interviews with the experts, when seeking to find out the existing practise ir todays finanacial services enterprises ir Lithuania four professionals that represents this kind of organizations were interviewed. In the project part of this paper a model for marketing performance measuring is offered. Proposed model is created on the ground of balanced scorecard and designed for financial services enterprises in Lithuania. The steps of implementing the model are described in detail with a given set of particular measures and there are possible application problems named in the end.

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