This research assessed the concept of future-proofing (FP) as a proactive initiative for enterprise asset management is an urgent need against uncertainty, particularly in health care due to unforeseeable demographic shifts and rapid advances in medical technology. Building information modelling (BIM) is a data-driven initiative but a rigorous analysis will indicate that a synergy exists. A multiphase design methodology was adopted to cover as much breadth and depth around the synergies that exist between future-proofing and BIM both in terms of delivery (supply chain) and in an enterprise context (organisational structures). In the first phase, an exploratory survey was conducted. The exploratory data were gathered to include responses of industry experts. The findings provide valuable insights regarding the integration of flexibility and design standardisation and whether this integration can improve change-readiness in designing future-proof healthcare facilities. Then, a first round of primary and secondary case study data were gathered from a major public asset owner organisation. The findings focused on the governance of BIM and FP in an enterprise context. As such three agendas emerged, namely government, strategic management and, due to the opportunities that BIM brings, information management. Then, a second round of primary qualitative data were collected and a series of interviews were conducted. The interviews targeted the opinion of leading industry experts across all phases of a project. At this phase the aim was to develop a classification ontology of the interactions between FP and BIM during project delivery. Finally, the findings were triangulated. As such, a reference model was developed, concentrating on the functional and organisational aspects of the core business of a service organisation. Finally, the three types of findings were connected to give a deployment plan for future-proofing asset management taking into account adoption of innovation which service providers can use to manage their assets across an enterprise.

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A large number of studies suggest that the content of strategy becomes more multifaceted and elaborate and characterised by progressive development over time. Recently, a growing number of researchers argue that strategy can become simple, stable and inert over time. This study investigates how changes of sociocognitive processes at individual, group and organisational levels influence organisational processes and strategic decisions. It adopts configurational approach to strategy development and its concepts (configurations, transformations, archetypes) as a framework. Thus, the purpose is to provide a characterisation of strategy development by analysing the integration of four key research dimensions (social, cognitive, organisational performance and contextual) into one coherent theoretical structure - the model of organisational archetypes. This four-dimensional model is developed from the analysis of fifty one Ukrainian organisations using quantitative and qualitative research methods (questionnaire, interview and group interview) according to the logical structure of configurational research (modelling the sociocognitive basis, modelling the "fit between research dimensions and modelling configurations and archetypes). Following on from this, the model of organisational archetypes is validated in four other organisations through the development of a test of organisational internal creative environment in order to identify their configurations (current conditions) and archetypes (strategic perspectives). The procedure of this test includes the following sequence of actions: identifying sociocognitive characteristics of organisational members and the organisational internal creative environment, identifying periods of transformation and configuration in the process of organisational development, researching characteristics of the business-environment, and identifying appropriate organisational archetypes. The model of organisational archetypes developed in this thesis allows the identification of current and prospective organisational conditions and making relevant strategic decisions that reflect and anticipate changes in organisational internal and external environments. Thus, changes in the organisational internal creative environment (sociocognitive characteristics of organisational members) reflect changes in the business-environment and organisational performance and transform the characteristics of strategic decisions from multifaceted and elaborate to simple and inert and vice versa.

Atualmente, vivemos em um contexto de alta competitividade entre as empresas no Brasil e no mundo. Devido ao intenso ritmo de mudanças tecnológicas, às transformações socioeconômicas, ao aumento dos riscos internos e externos e outros fatores, surgiu a necessidade das empresas buscarem o aperfeiçoamento de seus produtos e de seus processos de negócios para assegurarem os seus lucros e as suas sobrevivências. A gestão estratégica da informação, ferramenta necessária em resposta a estas mudanças, utiliza informações encontradas no ambiente interno da empresa para a formação de uma estratégia a fim de estabelecer o rumo a ser seguido de uma maneira rápida e precisa. Para tanto, esta ferramenta deve considerar tanto as potencialidades como as dificuldades da pequena empresa que influenciam no processo de gestão estratégica. Para este fim, as informações devem ser coletadas de uma maneira organizada e planejada, pois as mesmas são consideradas recursos tão importantes quanto os recursos de capital, mão-de-obra e tecnologia. As informações possibilitam a diminuição do grau de incerteza, permitindo melhoria na qualidade das decisões. Este trabalho apresenta propostas de melhoria da gestão estratégica das informações para pequenas empresas neste ambiente de alta competitividade. Para fundamentar estas propostas, é apresentada uma revisão bibliográfica que abrange os temas de planejamento estratégico, ambiente interno da empresa, informações estratégicas, sistemas de informação e conceitos e especificidades da pequena empresa. Após a revisão bibliográfica e a fundamentação teórica, o trabalho apresenta a comparação de casos de três empresas de desenvolvimento de software na região metropolitana de São Paulo, em que se conclui que as mesmas necessitam de melhorias na gestão estratégica das informações para organizar as informações internas que circulam e que são armazenadas de uma maneira dispersa dentro da empresa, o que dificulta sua recuperação e utilização para fins estratégicos. / Now, we lived in a context of higher competitiveness among the companies in Brazil and in the world. Due to the intense rhythm of technological changes, to the socioeconomic transformations, to the increase of the internal and external risks and other factors, grows up the need of the companies look for the improvement of their products and of their processes of businesses to assure their profits and their survivals. The strategic information management is the necessary tool in response to these changes that it uses strategic information of values found in the internal environment of the company for the formation of a strategy to establish it heading for being following by a fast and necessary way, considering the potentialities and the difficulties of the company, and the specific characteristics of the small company that influence in the process of strategic management. For this end, the information should be collected in an organized way and drifted, therefore the same ones are considered resources as important as the capital resources, labor and technology. The information makes possible the decrease of the uncertainty degree, allowing improvement in the quality of the decisions. This work presents proposed of improvement of strategic information management for small companies in this adapts of high competitiveness after a bibliographical revision that it included the themes of strategic planning, internal atmosphere of the company, strategic information, systems of information and concepts and specificities of the small company. The work presents the comparison of cases of three companies of software development in the metropolitan area of São Paulo, where it is concluded that the same ones need improvements in the strategic information management to organize the internal information that circulate and they are stored in a way disperses inside of the company hindering the recovery and its use for strategic ends.

Orientador: Antonio Batocchio / Dissertação (mestrado profissional) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T11:30:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SalgadoNeto_JoseBello_M.pdf: 1010526 bytes, checksum: d837ab2c5701bc9272fa93309365eada (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Resumo: O presente trabalho foi elaborado com o objetivo de realizar o processo de Administração Estratégica do Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas da UEMA, segundo um modelo previamente definido, que deu origem a uma pesquisa através de questionário que avaliou 03 dimensões: organização didático-pedagógico, corpo docente e instalações. O modo de investigação que caracterizou essa pesquisa fundamentou-se no estudo de caso, já que se considerou o CCT como unidade de análise. A população alvo constituiu-se de professores, funcionários e alunos dos cursos de engenharia civil, engenharia mecânica e arquitetura e urbanismo. A pesquisa desenvolveu-se no mês de outubro de 2003. Os resultados indicaram que os aspectos vinculados à dimensão organização didático-pedagógico são incipientes para os cursos de engenharia civil e engenharia mecânica. A dimensão corpo docente também recebeu avaliação negativa nos referidos cursos. Entretanto, o aspecto mais negativo da avaliação foi a dimensão instalações, sendo que a biblioteca e os laboratórios acentuaram esse resultado. Em função desses resultados foram propostas estratégias para solucionar os problemas apontados na pesquisa, além da elaboração do planejamento e controle para implantação dessas estratégias. Também foram analisadas às ações já implantadas e seus resultados. Finalmente, foram sugeridas novas pesquisas sobre temas específicos e a discussão do processo de gestão estratégica na UEMA / Abstract: The present work was elaborated with the objective of previously accomplish the process of Strategic Administration of the Center of Technological Sciences of UEMA, second a model defined, that created a research through questionnaire that evaluated 03 dimensions: didacticpedagogic organization, professors and installations. The investigation way that characterized that research was based in the case study, as the CCT is considered an analysis unit. The target population was constituted of teachers, employees and students of the courses of civil engineering, mechanical engineering and architecture and urbanization. The research was developed in the month of October of 2003. The results indicated that the aspects linked to the dimension organization didactic-pedagogic are incipient for the courses of civil engineering and mechanical engineering. The professors dimension also received negative evaluation referred us courses. However, the aspect more negative of the evaluation was the installations dimension. The library and the laboratories accentuated that result. In function of those results strategies were proposed to solve the pointed problems in the research, besides the elaboration of the planning and control for implantation of those strategies. They were also analyzed to the actions already implanted and your results. Finally, they were suggested new researches on specific themes and the discussion of the process of strategic administration in UEMA / Mestrado / Planejamento e Gestão Estrategica da Manufatura / Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica

A estratégia organizacional tem sido um importante campo de pesquisa, com destaque para o tema da elaboração das estratégias. Para compreender tal processo, é preciso levar em consideração as forças que influenciam essa construção. O conceito de formação das estratégias indica a interação entre o processo deliberado e formal de planejamento estratégico e o conjunto de influências (cognitivas, culturais e políticas, ambientais, entre outras) que condicionam tanto o processo de elaboração das estratégias quanto a sua eventual execução. A presente pesquisa enfoca o processo formal de elaboração de estratégias, em organizações nas quais este é claramente definido; e exclui expressamente a questão da execução. O autor entende que, nas organizações pesquisadas: (a) o conceito de formação de estratégias se aplica à etapa de planejamento formal, ampliando a ideia de formulação de estratégias; (b) o conceito de estratégias emergentes se manifestaria apenas na etapa de execução, portanto, encontra-se além do escopo do presente estudo. Este estudo parte do modelo descritivo de formação de estratégias, desenvolvido por Barbero (2008) a partir da sua pesquisa em empresas industriais no estado de São Paulo. Tal modelo traz dez elementos, que estabelecem cinco dimensões de análise do processo de formação de estratégias organizacionais. Na presente pesquisa, o instrumento de pesquisa desenvolvido e utilizado por Barbero (2008) é adaptado a uma abordagem qualitativa, com ênfase aos executivos envolvidos no processo de elaboração de estratégias de organizações que apresentam processos formalizados de planejamento estratégico. Esta pesquisa se justifica pela importância da aplicação do modelo conceitual de Barbero (2008), em outro contexto organizacional específico, e por adotar uma abordagem qualitativa. Espera-se, assim, contribuir para a compreensão da elaboração de estratégias organizacionais, em especial no que tange ao papel da deliberação, vista em confronto com as forças que exercem influências sobre tal processo. O resultado mostra que nas organizações estudadas, no momento formal de formação de estratégias suas características marcantes são desenvolvidas de forma visionária, discricionária, política, racional e deliberada. A política e a intuição se apresentam como potência e moldam o processo de múltiplas formas e consequências, permanecendo em aberto a antiga questão de como são efetivamente formadas as estratégias organizacionais, as quais, aparentemente, dependem das particularidades de cada organização e seu ambiente de atuação. / The organizational strategy has been an important field of research, especially on the area of strategy formulation. In order to understand such a process, one must take into account the forces that influence this construction. The strategy formation concept indicates the interaction between the deliberate and formal process of strategic planning and a set of influences (cognitive, cultural and political, environmental, among others). They condition both the strategy elaboration process and its eventual execution. The present research focuses on the formal strategic development process in organizations in which the process is clearly defined and expressly excludes the issue of enforcement and implementation. The author understands that at the organizations researched: (a) the concept of strategy formation applies to the formal planning stage, broadening the idea of strategy formulation; (B) the concept of emergent strategies would manifest itself only in the execution stage, therefore, it is beyond the scope of the present study. This study is based on the descriptive model of strategy formation developed by Barbero (2008) and on his research which is applied to industrial companies in the state of São Paulo. This model brings ten elements establishing five dimensions of analysis of the process of forming organizational strategies. In the present research, the research tool developed and used by Barbero (2008) is adapted to a qualitative approach with an emphasis on the executives involved in the strategy elaboration process of organizations that present formalized processes of strategic planning. This research is justified by the importance of applying the conceptual model of Barbero (2008) in another specific organizational context and by adopting a qualitative approach. Therefore, it is expected to contribute to the understanding of the elaboration of organizational strategies, especially regarding the role of deliberation, analysed in comparison with the forces exerting influence on this process. The result shows that in the organizations studied, in the formal moment of strategy formation, its defining characteristics are developed in a visionary, discretionary, political, rational and deliberate way. Politics and intuition are presented as powerful and shape the process in multiple forms and consequences. The question of how are effectively formed the organizational strategies still remains open and apparently depends on the particularities of each organization and its operating environment .

Com suas origens há mais de meio século atrás e um auge experimentado nos últimos 20 anos, \"Modelo de Negócios\" é um termo frequentemente presente nas conversas tanto acadêmicas quanto corriqueiras. Apesar deste uso massivo, parece existir pouca clareza na compreensão do seu significado em ambas as esferas, dando-se este como subentendido em muitos casos. Referências na literatura falam sobre a falta de consenso sobre questões básicas na sua definição até poucos anos atrás. Outros autores citam uma situação paradoxal devido a sua grande popularidade em domínios relacionados à prática junto a seu uso em inúmeras publicações acadêmicas, e certa relutância por alguns setores na Academia. Por fim, vários autores se mostram esperançados com os avanços atingidos na procura de estabelecer o constructo de modelo de negócios como robusto e passível de progressos na direção de seu uso em pesquisa. Ante este panorama, a presente investigação se propôs, por uma parte, fazer uma revisão das principais abordagens discutidas até a data, com o intuito de se aproximar de melhor forma a sua compreensão, e por outra, explorar em campo os temas identificados na revisão, realizando estudos de caso múltiplos em três empresas relacionadas ao setor de tecnologia no Brasil. Valendo-se de uma busca bibliográfica sistemática em bases científicas como são as da Web of Science, Scopus, Google Acadêmico e portal CAPES de periódicos, apresenta-se uma aproximação do Estado da Arte sobre o assunto e se propõe um constructo sobre modelo de negócios. Como resultado se identificou que os elementos \"Valor\", \"Atividades\" e \"Modelo de lucro\" são importantes para a definição do conceito. Funções como alinhamento; análise e formulação estratégicas; e exploração, foram identificadas. Propriedades como mutabilidade, dinamismo e imitabilidade são apresentadas e discutidas. Pela sua importância, uma seção é dedicada à discussão da relação entre estratégia e modelo de negócios. Aplicando o método de estudo de caso e suas técnicas específicas de análise, respondemos algumas questões. De forma geral, pode-se dizer que os estudos realizados em campo corroboraram com muitas das ideias propugnadas na teoria revisada, porém, diferenças e novos insights também surgiram. No fim, são apresentadas todas as considerações decorrentes da interpretação dos dados na pesquisa, as limitações desta, e as sugestões de pesquisa futura. Considerando que aportes nesta direção permitem esclarecer ainda mais a compreensão sobre modelo de negócios, ao explorar seus fundamentos teóricos e suas conceitualizações na prática, espera-se que o estudo contribua ao debate e linha de pesquisa empreendidas globalmente e, por sua vez, aporte com os seus resultados a pesquisas futuras na área de Administração Estratégica e a outras linhas de pesquisa relacionadas. / With its origins almost a half century ago and a heyday experienced during the last 20 years, \"Business model\" is a term frequently present in academic and commonplace talks. Despite this massive use, it seems that not much clarity exists on its understanding in both circuits, in many cases taken it for granted. References in literature speak about lack of consensus about basic issues in its definition, until not long ago. Other authors speak about a paradoxical situation due its huge popularity in domains related to practice, together with its use in countless academics publications, and some kind of reluctance by some scholarly sectors. Finally, some authors manifest themselves as hopeful with the achieved advances in the search of a business model construct as robust and susceptible of progress on its use in research. Facing this panorama, the present study propose to itself, on one side, to do a review about the main approaches discussed until today, with the intention of getting closer, in the best manner, to its comprehension, and by other side, to explore in field, the topics identified on the review, conducting multiple-case studies in three organizations related to Brazil\'s technology sector. Resorting to a systematic bibliographic search in scientific bases as Web of Science, Scopus, Scholar Google and CAPES journals portal; an approximation to State of Art about the topic is presented and a construct about business model is proposed. As a result, it was identified that elements as \"Value\", \"Activities\", and \"Revenue model\" are important to define the concept. Functions as alignment, strategic formulation and analysis, and exploration-exploitation, were identified. Properties as mutability, dynamism and imitability are presented and discussed. Because of its importance, a section is devoted to the discussion about the relationship between strategy and business model. Applying the case study method and its specific analytical tools, we answered some questions. In general, it can be said that the studies conducted in field corroborate many of the ideas stated in the theory reviewed, although some differences and new insights also appeared. In the end are presented all the considerations derived from the data interpretation in the research, its limitations, and future research suggestions. Regarding that contributions in this direction, allow to clarify even more the understanding about business model, by exploring their theoretical underpinnings and their conceptualizations in practice, we hope that the study will contribute to the debate and research line undertaken globally, and also, subsidize with its findings to future research in Strategic Management and other related research streams.

Originating in, and framed by, warfare, the term strategic management first appeared in the business literature in the 1950s (Carter et al., 2008). The term then started to gain more importance as organisations’ needs for implementing strategic changes increased significantly. Despite this importance, the concept is still considered to be under-developed, with complications arising from a wide variety of disciplines. In the early literature two major schools of thought could be identified: Porter’s economic deliberate content (Porter, 1979), and Mintzberg’s emergent process view (Mintzberg, 1979). The literature has shown that the majority of studies have mainly focused on large organisations, taking the traditional Porter’s content approach. However, relatively few cases have considered smaller organisations and/or explored cases from the contemporary process view, which is considered more realistic in today’s dynamic world, where extra flexibility and speed are paramount. This thesis builds on the work of Pettigrew (1987), who viewed strategy implementation (SI) as a process. His work is extensively analysed and some recommendations are made to strengthen his ‘Triangle Model’. These recommendations allow for the development of a primitive framework for SI. The framework provides a deeper understanding of contemporary SMEs and their surrounding contexts, and can be useful for future exploratory studies of undiscovered contexts and/or for organisations of differing sizes. The paucity of research on SI in SMEs in general, and particularly in the non-Western context (e.g. Middle East, and Gulf Cooperation Council), is the major motivation for this research adopting an interpretive, qualitative and exploratory approach. Using inductive semi-structured interviews, data have been collected on the SI process of SMEs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). SMEs represent 96% of the country’s enterprises and contribute to almost one third of the national economic activity (Bokhari, 2013). Their development is a major concern of the Saudi government, which aims to reduce the dependency on the oil sector (Bokhari, 2013; Sfakianakis, 2014; McKinsey Global Institute, 2015). In addition, SMEs have the potential to contribute to reducing the accelerating unemployment rate among the ever increasing youth population (Bokhari, 2013).Theoretically, this thesis contributes to a deeper understanding of SI and its enablers/ barriers in the SME sector. Following the approach suggested by Stacey (1996a), Mintzberg et al. (1998), and Okumus (2001), this research provides a more holistic understanding of the SI process. It sheds light on the individual dynamics of strategy implementation, as well as the organisational and external environment perspectives. By exploring these factors over the longitudinal process of SI (including initiation, process, and outcome), this research contributes a SI framework based on Mintzberg’s (1979) and Pettigrew’s (1985a) emerging process view. In so doing, this research adds to the SI process literature at the individual level, as an epistemological tool, and does so in order to consider the dynamic nature of SMEs and the impact that non-controllable events have on their daily routines, on ontological ground (Hart, 1992). At the methodological level, evidence from multiple cases in different Saudi industries is provided, reflecting a developing country context, rather than the dominant Western views (Okumus, 2003; Van der Maas, 2008). From the empirical research, lessons are identified to inform owners of SMEs, policy makers and future research.

Abstract The thesis consists of the summary and eight refereed articles presenting the national, regional and institutional levels of strategic planning and quality assurance. National or regional networks may have either general or functional strategies. An organisation may have an overall strategy and its support services may have functional strategies. Quality assurance typically takes constantly smaller steps to develop processes. Strategic planning produces strategic objectives for a better future, while the purpose of a quality assurance system is to safeguard that these objectives can be achieved. This interpretation thus integrates strategic planning into quality assurance in internal processes and information systems. The higher education institutions can and should be managed to attain a better future and ensure high quality, but the management of higher education institutions need a framework. The objective of this study is to provide a common framework of strategic planning and quality assurance for higher education institutions. The framework does not only help management communicate and implement the strategies, but also to plan strategies in the strategy process, evaluate the performance and achievement of desired objectives and provide a structure for quality assurance and management information system. The framework is also rigorously tested in practice. At the national level, the study presents a network strategy of the universities of applied sciences (formerly polytechnics) and the functional strategic plans of their libraries. At the regional level, the study presents a network strategy of higher education institutions and the strategy of the Turku University of Applied Sciences as part of the strategy of the City of Turku. At the institutional level, the study presents competitive strategies, which are applied in continuing education. Finally, the study analysed the importance of various measures in process control to improve the quality of education.

This study has addressed a central issue, a gap in our existing knowledge, literature, analysis, an understanding of the role of state in resource seeking. Whilst the role and operations of the firm, has long been a primary focus of research in Strategic Management, analysis of the role and influence of the state with respect to firms has been relatively under-researched. To investigate this core research question, the study identified and applied the well-established theoretical and methodological approach, the Resource Based View of the ‘firm’ (RBV), developing it further to incorporate and mainstream the factor of the state and elaborating a fresh analytical approach, termed the resource-based view of the ‘state’ (RBS). The new RBS conceptual framework has been proposed by extending the central proposition of the RBV of the firm- that a firm must acquire and control valuable and non-substitutable resources and capabilities, into a multidisciplinary integration of both the institution based view (IBV) approach and the role of the contemporary state in providing resources and capabilities to firms. The central problematic this research is seeking to explore is the new resource-based approach of the Indian state. The state is seeking the acquisition of energy assets overseas, using institutional support mechanisms and the deployment of specific state capabilities and resources. Using an in-depth case analysis of the Indian state, this thesis provides evidence of the resource-based approach, in which the state provides a strategic intent for its firms, creates strategic markets for the firms to compete in as well as providing intangible resources. The state is also presented as a source of new intangible resources that provide competitive advantage and insulate firms from competition in specific markets. Insights from elite interviewees representing a cross-section of institutional actors such as academics, ambassadors, senior government officials, policy planners, advises the state, personnel from state-owned and private resource seeking firms as well as from the fourth estate, in the thesis has provided a rich contextual information to evidence resource seeking in the contemporary Indian state. The key contribution of the new conceptual framework, the RBS model has been in integrating a multidisciplinary approach to the traditional resource based view theory of the firm. Using the institutional context of the Indian state, this thesis has provided an appropriate context for the validation of the RBV of the firm.