No / While managers use a variety of tools, they overwhelmingly continue to use those that are well established and focus on the management of internal and external resources, whereas tools aimed to foster more innovative, dynamic, and ‘blue ocean’ strategies are not widely applied in practice.

This diploma thesis deals with the analysis of the current state of company. Subsequently, based on the obtained data, it designs and implements a software development management system. The diploma thesis describes the theoretical basis of the work, the requirements of the company. When choosing a system, it takes into account the individual needs of the selected company. Part of the diploma thesis is a description of the implementation and deployment of the system in the company together with the time analysis.

Over the last few years the ASA determined KM as a priority to assist with reducing knowledge loss, realising information assets and reducing work duplication by attempting to implement IKM tools and strategies. This research employed a pragmatic viewpoint, using a mix of both quantitative and qualitative methods to check reliability, to ensure validity while undertaking the task of implementing the IKM tools. Using a case study strategy and action research was justified, as to be pragmatic the researcher needed to understand the extent of the problem within a specified context. The research discussed in this thesis, provides a new framework for implementing KM tools; focusing on the NSO category, which the case study organisation falls into. The literature agrees enlisting influential members onto the project is vital for success; however, the findings suggested that success was not only tied to this buy-in alone, but also to the organisation s ability to retain these members for the duration of the project. The research proposed the use of a newly developed tool within the new framework, as an approach to reduce the time it takes to undertake traditional social network analysis of the organisation, as it became clear that there was a need for a method of producing updated results of the SNA, which would span the length of long projects within organisations with significantly high staff turn-over rates. Privacy was given as a factor to consider the in literature; however, the findings from this study indicated that a majority of the participants were comfortable with the system. Email knowledge extraction, and email social network systems are not new concepts, however this research presents EKESNA; a novel tool that combines both concepts in a way that allows for the continuous discovery, visualisation, and analysis of knowledge networks around specified topics of interest within an organisation; linking conversations to specific expert knowledge. EKESNA s continuous discovery of the organisation s knowledge network affords members up-to-date data to inform business process reengineering. This is a potentially ground breaking new tool that has the possibility of transforming the KM landscape in NSOs as well as a whole range of other kinds of enterprises.

Este trabalho utiliza indicadores de energia para caracterizar unidades consumidoras da Universidade de São Paulo pelo comportamento no uso da eletricidade e estabelecer prioridades de atuação para gestão dos recursos e ações de eficiência energética. Os indicadores foram aplicados na base de dados de consumo de energia extraídos da ferramenta de gestão da USP, o SISGEN, juntamente com as informações físicas, de ocupação, principais usos finais e custos de utilização da energia, em 48 unidades da Cidade Universitária Armando de Sales Oliveira. Os resultados foram utilizados para elaborar listas de prioridades de atuação para cada um dos indicadores e, a partir da análise desses resultados foi possível identificar tendências e semelhanças de comportamento no uso da energia elétrica no campus. Visando auxiliar na análise dos resultados, utilizou-se de uma classificação prévia por especialidades de ensino ou atividades desenvolvidas e, dois períodos distintos, cujo comportamento tende a sofrer alterações, ou seja, letivo e férias escolares. De posse de todas as informações e resultados elaborou-se uma classificação final no intuito de auxiliar os gestores na priorização das ações de gestão dos recursos e eficiência energética. / The work here presented uses indicators to classify energy consumption units at Universidade de São Paulo by consumption behavior and also to prioritize actions on resources management and establish energy efficiency actions. Such indicators have been applied to the energy consumption data base from the USP management tool, called SISGEN, together with current information on: occupation; main final uses and energy use costs gathered from 48 consumption units at Cidade Universitária Armando de Sales Oliveira. The results have been used to elaborate action priority lists to each one of the mentioned indicators. Besides, based on the analysis of these results, it has been possible to identify tendencies and similarities on the electric energy use at the campus. In order to support the results analysis, units have been previously classified in education specialties or activity developed, and also in two different periods of the year, when their behavior tend to vary: school vacation and teaching period. With all results and necessary information in hands a final classification has been established which goal was to support managers on prioritizing manage resources and establish energy efficiency actions.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-22T22:11:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Paula.pdf: 562305 bytes, checksum: 4d45fcaefda037e6577f067eeca7c25e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-12-21 / Global connections have contributed to expand the companies horizons improving the relationship between clients and suppliers. The survival in a competitive world demands a constant exercise of establishment objectives and goals defined in the strategic planning that shall be shared by the whole organization and monitored constantly. In this environment, the decision to use an integrated system and sophisticated internal controls related to financial management and its tools in order to provide reliable information preferably in real time are seen as competitive advantages, essential to speed up the decision process. The aim of this work is to analyze aspects of the strategic and financial management, their integration and the connections established between them. References to tools and information systems used by the financial management are made and the extension they add value to strategic management is also analyzed. As materials and methods, a case study has taken place in a company that produces electro electronic parts located in the Industrial Pole of Manaus. Three executives directly involved with the strategic and financial planning processes were interviewed. The state of art mentioned in this work admits that, among the different definitions of business strategy, all schools agree concerning the necessity of generating actual and sustainable competitive advantages and defining measurable goals. The integration of strategic and financial management occurs due to the necessity of defining the sources which will allow the achievement of the established goals, also confirmed by the executives who took part in the case study. Based on this approach, this work contributes to reinforce the academic connections between strategy and finance and helps to understand the relationship between them, the importance of the financial tools and information systems. / A globalização tem contribuído para expandir os horizontes das empresas intensificando as relações entre clientes e fornecedores. A sobrevivência em um mundo cada vez mais competitivo demanda um exercício constante de fixação e acompanhamento de objetivos e metas traçadas em seu planejamento estratégico que devem ser compartilhado por toda a organização. Neste contexto, a opção pela adoção de sistemas integrados e a sofisticação do controle interno relacionado a gestão financeira e suas ferramentas a fim de proporcionar informações confiáveis preferencialmente em tempo real são vistos como diferenciais para agilizar o processo decisório. O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar aspectos da gestão estratégica e financeira, sua integração e as relações que se estabelecem entre elas. São ainda levantadas referências a ferramentas e sistemas de informação utilizados pela gestão financeira e até que ponto os dados gerados auxiliam o planejamento estratégico agregando valor. Como materiais e métodos foi realizado um estudo de caso em uma empresa de componentes do segmento eletroeletrônico do Pólo Industrial de Manaus que contou com o depoimento de três executivos diretamente envolvidos com o planejamento estratégico e financeiro da companhia. O estado da arte abordado admite que, dentre as diversas definições de estratégia empresarial, todas as escolas citadas convergem sobre a necessidade de geração de vantagens competitivas atuais e sustentáveis e a fixação de objetivos e quantificá-los. Constata-se a integração da gestão estratégica com a financeira através da necessidade de definição da origem dos recursos que irão viabilizar o alcance das metas estabelecidas para o negócio, ratificada pelas afirmações dos executivos que participam do estudo de caso. Desta forma este trabalho contribui para estreitar os laços acadêmicos entre estratégia e finanças além de auxiliar na compreensão da relação entre elas, a utilização de suas ferramentas e a crescente importância dos sistemas de informação.

Este trabalho utiliza indicadores de energia para caracterizar unidades consumidoras da Universidade de São Paulo pelo comportamento no uso da eletricidade e estabelecer prioridades de atuação para gestão dos recursos e ações de eficiência energética. Os indicadores foram aplicados na base de dados de consumo de energia extraídos da ferramenta de gestão da USP, o SISGEN, juntamente com as informações físicas, de ocupação, principais usos finais e custos de utilização da energia, em 48 unidades da Cidade Universitária Armando de Sales Oliveira. Os resultados foram utilizados para elaborar listas de prioridades de atuação para cada um dos indicadores e, a partir da análise desses resultados foi possível identificar tendências e semelhanças de comportamento no uso da energia elétrica no campus. Visando auxiliar na análise dos resultados, utilizou-se de uma classificação prévia por especialidades de ensino ou atividades desenvolvidas e, dois períodos distintos, cujo comportamento tende a sofrer alterações, ou seja, letivo e férias escolares. De posse de todas as informações e resultados elaborou-se uma classificação final no intuito de auxiliar os gestores na priorização das ações de gestão dos recursos e eficiência energética. / The work here presented uses indicators to classify energy consumption units at Universidade de São Paulo by consumption behavior and also to prioritize actions on resources management and establish energy efficiency actions. Such indicators have been applied to the energy consumption data base from the USP management tool, called SISGEN, together with current information on: occupation; main final uses and energy use costs gathered from 48 consumption units at Cidade Universitária Armando de Sales Oliveira. The results have been used to elaborate action priority lists to each one of the mentioned indicators. Besides, based on the analysis of these results, it has been possible to identify tendencies and similarities on the electric energy use at the campus. In order to support the results analysis, units have been previously classified in education specialties or activity developed, and also in two different periods of the year, when their behavior tend to vary: school vacation and teaching period. With all results and necessary information in hands a final classification has been established which goal was to support managers on prioritizing manage resources and establish energy efficiency actions.

The decisions taken during the aircraft conceptual design stage are of paramount importance since these commit up to eighty percent of the product life cycle costs. Thus in order to obtain a sound baseline which can then be passed on to the subsequent design phases, various studies ought to be carried out during this stage. These include trade-off analysis and multidisciplinary optimisation performed on computational processes assembled from hundreds of relatively simple mathematical models describing the underlying physics and other relevant characteristics of the aircraft. However, the growing complexity of aircraft design in recent years has prompted engineers to substitute the conventional algebraic equations with compiled software programs (referred to as models in this thesis) which still retain the mathematical models, but allow for a controlled expansion and manipulation of the computational system. This tendency has posed the research question of how to dynamically assemble and solve a system of non-linear models. In this context, the objective of the present research has been to develop methods which significantly increase the flexibility and efficiency with which the designer is able to operate on large scale computational multidisciplinary systems at the conceptual design stage. In order to achieve this objective a novel computational process modelling method has been developed for generating computational plans for a system of non-linear models. The computational process modelling was subdivided into variable flow modelling, decomposition and sequencing. A novel method named Incidence Matrix Method (IMM) was developed for variable flow modelling, which is the process of identifying the data flow between the models based on a given set of input variables. This method has the advantage of rapidly producing feasible variable flow models, for a system of models with multiple outputs. In addition, criteria were derived for choosing the optimal variable flow model which would lead to faster convergence of the system. Cont/d.

<p>Problem:   What are the most useful techniques to indicate the stocks that will outperform the market 12 month post the recession period?  Purpose:  The purpose is to find out which method(s): P/B, EV/EBIT, level of debt and so on, will offer investors the highest returns on the investments post the recession period based on the example of the IT crisis of 2000/2001.  Method:  Quantitative study, covering the Swedish OMX Index from 2001 until December 2002.  Conclusions:  Three variables should be reconsidered when making an investment decision post the recession period. These variables were earlier 12 months returns, dividend yield and P/E ratios. However, it is crucial to understand that these three tools should not be viewed all together.</p><p> </p>

Problem:   What are the most useful techniques to indicate the stocks that will outperform the market 12 month post the recession period?  Purpose:  The purpose is to find out which method(s): P/B, EV/EBIT, level of debt and so on, will offer investors the highest returns on the investments post the recession period based on the example of the IT crisis of 2000/2001.  Method:  Quantitative study, covering the Swedish OMX Index from 2001 until December 2002.  Conclusions:  Three variables should be reconsidered when making an investment decision post the recession period. These variables were earlier 12 months returns, dividend yield and P/E ratios. However, it is crucial to understand that these three tools should not be viewed all together.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:51:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissMRS.pdf: 2404732 bytes, checksum: fdcaf8adcf90eda2f62755874b55222a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-02 / Historically, one verifies the appropriation of management tools for the attainement of plusvalue. Among them, the ones related to the organization and the processes of work stand out. However, it is noted that the appropriation of these management tools is carried out not only by capitalist enterprises, but by enterprise of solidary economy (ESE) as well. This master´s degree dissertation purpose is to analyze the common and specific characteristics of the organization and the processes of work in their different models in the capitalist enterprises and ESE. So, it was used a theoretical-empirical research through bibliographic review to characterize the two variables in both social structures, and, through the case study and the participative methodology, identify the specific characteristics of a type of ESE, a cooperative of land reform, in this case, the Cooperativa de Produção Agropecuária Vitória LTDA (COPAVI). In the bibliographic review, it was found that, for the attainment of the plus-value in the capitalist economy, the organization and the processes of work are subjected to constant changes, starting from the development of the method of capitalist production, and among them, simple cooperation, manufacturing, machinery and microelectronic automation, besides the taylorist, fordist, Italian, Swedish and Japanese models, among others. In the EESs, changes also occur, but in the perspective of selfmanagement and the subordination of the technical rationality to the social rationality, through the cooperativism. In the comparative analysis performed, it was found that cooperation is a commom factor for the two types of organization. The capitalist enterprises use the concept of cooperation as simplification and parceling of work activities of each worker for the complementation of the productive process, that is, the cooperation comes through a management imposition. This kind of cooperation is alienating and subordinate, and produces evolution and improvement as time goes by, through corporate competitiveness. To the ESE, cooperation has the meaning of democratic management, collective participation in the processes of work, of collective management and decision making, that, as for the capitalist enterprises, undergo changes for a better insertion of their products in the market. So, at COPAVI, the analysis focused the way changes occur in the organization and work processes, oriented to the implementation of integrated arrangements of productive chains, keeping the characteristics of cooperation as a proposition of non-alienation of the worker. It should be emphasized that this dissertation has not the purpose of creating a model, but show that it is possible to create and develop alternatives for organization and work processes on the basis of self-management. / Historicamente verifica-se a apropriação de ferramentas de gestão para a obtenção de maisvalia. Entre elas destaca-se as relacionadas à organização e aos processos de trabalho. No entanto, é notado que a apropriação dessas ferramentas de gestão não é só feita por empresas capitalistas, mas também por empreendimentos de economia solidária (EESs). Esta dissertação de mestrado tem por finalidade analisar as características comuns e específicas da organização e dos processos de trabalho em seus diferentes modelos nas empresas capitalistas e nos EESs. Para tanto, utilizou-se da pesquisa teórico-empírica por meio de revisão bibliográfica para caracterizar as duas variáveis nas duas estruturas sociais, e ainda, por meio do estudo de caso e da metodologia participativa, identificar as características específicas de um tipo de EES, uma cooperativa de reforma agrária, no caso, a Cooperativa de Produção Agropecuária Vitória LTDA (COPAVI). Na revisão bibliográfica observou-se que para maior obtenção da mais-valia na economia capitalista, a organização e os processos de trabalho sofrem constantes mudanças a partir do desenvolvimento do modo de produção capitalista, dentre eles pode-se destacar: cooperação simples, manufatura, maquinaria e automação microeletrônica, além dos modelos taylorista, fordista, italiano, sueco e japonês, entre outros. Já nos EESs ocorrem mudanças, porém na perspectiva da autogestão e a subordinação da racionalidade técnica à racionalidade social, através do cooperativismo. Na análise comparativa realizada, verificou-se como fator comum para os dois tipos de organização a cooperação, porém com significados e propostas diferenciadas em cada um dos tipos de organização. As empresas capitalistas utilizam-se do conceito de cooperação como simplificação e parcelamento das atividades de trabalho de cada operário para a complementação do processo produtivo, ou seja, é uma cooperação via imposição da gerência. Este tipo de cooperação é de forma alienante e subordinada, que tem evoluções e melhorias ao longo do tempo via competitividade empresarial. Para os EESs cooperação tem o sentido de gestão democrática, participação coletiva nos processos de trabalho, de gestão e tomada de decisão coletiva, que do mesmo modo que as empresas capitalistas, sofrem mudanças para melhor inserção de seus produtos no mercado. Desta forma, foi analisado na COPAVI, como ocorrem as mudanças na organização e nos processos de trabalho orientados para a implementação de arranjos integrados de cadeias produtivas, mantendo-se as características de cooperação como proposta de não alienação do trabalhador. Destaca-se que esta dissertação não tem a finalidade de criar um modelo, mas mostrar ser possível criar e desenvolver alternativas de organização e de processos de trabalho a partir da autogestão.