Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1983.

Disruptive technologies. Revolutionary products. Innovative services. Unpredictable change. Ever-shifting markets. Today's complex, entropic and volatile business environment poses a daunting challenge for organisations like the South African Post Office: how to create - and sustain - strategic advantage and customer value in the midst of such entropy (chaos). Most organisations respond to this challenge with more entropy-inducing mechanisms - endlessly elaborate rules, laborious processes and convoluted business, functional and technical systems to guide their strategic planning and decision-making. But this bogs organisations down, hindering business growth instead of spurring it; and ultimately restricting the organisation's ability to navigate shifting market terrain. The last few years have seen the Post Office grappling with such issues. In search of a muchneeded turnaround it has found itself engaging in, amongst others, initiatives such as the socalled strategic management partnerships than have left it worse off than it was in the first place. From an Information Management (lM) point of view, ill conceived Information Technology (IT) strategies were pursued which instead of bringing measurable value and benefits have turned out to be nothing more than mere exercises in "fire fighting". All the above issues have, if nothing else, highlighted the difficulty of doing business in the new economy, an economy that is fundamentally characterised by unpredictability, volatile markets, and disruptive technologies. Whilst this may, on the surface, point to limited value of using traditional business methods and strategies, this is in fact not so. Others may argue that the traditional business model is fast losing sustainability; this could not be further from the truth. As will be evidently demonstrated in this report, "brick" and "click" business models can be successfully implemented side by side in a complimentary manner, resulting in better competitiveness for the Post Office. Indeed, there has to be shifts in speed of thinking and planning, but the fundamentals of business remain to a large extent the same. This research looks at the Post Office's IT function in detail and provides specific competitive Information Management Strategies (lMS's) the aims of which are to enable the Post Office to effect a human-centered - instead of an IT-centered - approach to using technology in helping the organisation to navigate entropic environments and to realise its larger strategic turnaround goals and objectives. However, as is mostly the case, the proof of the proverbial pudding is still in the tasting as strategy is both hard thinking and doing. / Thesis(MBA)-University of Natal, 2003.

In this study, we consider the Turkish postal delivery system and develop an effective solution approach for the combined hub location and routing problem where the location of hub nodes are determined, the nonhub regional postal offices are allocated to the hubs, and the optimal set of routes are determined for each hub. Since the realized post-routing distances between origin-destination pairs are different from those used in the hub-location model, we develop an algorithm that finds the route-compatible hub configuration and allocation paths. The algorithm is the one that iterates between the hub-location phase and a routing phase. Our strategy consists of updating the distances used in the first phase in order to produce a solution that contains the cognition of routes. Some special structures in the routed network are also identified and used for improving the solution. Computational experience is reported.

Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 147-151).

Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 147-151). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1985. / Also available in print.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-17T20:48:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0Bitstream added on 2014-09-25T16:01:28Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 171682.pdf: 33415405 bytes, checksum: 244b0f9b7c4adffea8b216a05cc7b7a8 (MD5) / O presente trabalho acadêmico tem por objetivo desenvolver uma reflexão sobre os "Pressupostos Básicos para o Estabelecimento de um Código de Identificação Cadastral". Inicialmente trata-se da necessidade da informação referenciada através da parcela cadastral. Depois é feita uma avaliação dos tipos de Cadastros utilizados em diferentes países, bem como estuda aspectos da realidade brasileira e considera elementos fundamentais para definir um Código de Identificação Cadastral, apresentando um estudo piloto. A Conclusão indica a necessidade imediata da integração dos diferentes órgãos do sistema com o objetivo de estabelecer um único identificador para a parcela cadastral , bem como aponta para a possibilidade de utilizar o CEP como base para o estabelecimento de um Código Identificador Cadastral.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, 2004 / Inclui bibliografia / Este trabalho propõe um método para a localização do CEP no bloco do endereço de envelopes postais manuscritos e avalia diferentes estratégias para a modelagem das informações que compõem o bloco do endereço. O método proposto consiste na segmentação do b

Dissertação (mestrado) - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, 2005 / Inclui bibliografia / Com o aumento do desempenho e da eficiência dos equipamentos atuais de computação, os desafios de informatizar e modernizar a Automação Postal estão se tornando cada vez mais uma realidade. As ferramentas computacionais herdadas da Área de Processamento e

FERREIRA, Edilton Teixeira. Transformando ameaças em oportunidades: uma análise das estratégias de implantação de um serviço de internet - estudo de caso nos Correios do Ceará. 2005. 145 f. Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Ceará, Faculdade de Economia, Administração, Atuária, Contabilidade e Secretariado, Fortaleza-CE, 2005. / Submitted by Dioneide Barros (dioneidebarros@gmail.com) on 2016-03-17T19:00:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2005_dis_etferreira.pdf: 956692 bytes, checksum: d19a41deb6ab28a3ce9e91491f164d04 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Dioneide Barros(dioneidebarros@gmail.com) on 2016-03-17T19:46:58Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2005_dis_etferreira.pdf: 956692 bytes, checksum: d19a41deb6ab28a3ce9e91491f164d04 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-17T19:46:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2005_dis_etferreira.pdf: 956692 bytes, checksum: d19a41deb6ab28a3ce9e91491f164d04 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / The present work search to evaluate strategic actions of implantation of the service of Public Access to Internet adopted by the Brazilian Company of Mail and Telegraphs - ECT to the light of the theoretical revision about formulation of strategies protected for several studious authors of the subject. Customers, managers of agencies of ECT and technicians of the area of computer science of the company were interviewed, to understand the threats and opportunities that the internet can make possible and which the possible managerial strategies that the Mail could adopt to create opportunities, being followed theoretical models that turn on the subject. Electric outlet of strategic decision is the central object of that dissertation, the study of strategic actions for application of that new service of access terminal to the internet intended by the Mail, it finds in the several strategic models presented by some authors as Porter, Mintzberg, among other, some resonance that guides your development and application better. The study is limited to the strategic analysis of the use of the new service as competitive advantage for the company, have seen, that the research demonstrated that there is field for installation of the service, transforming the possible threat of the internet for the conventional mail in opportunity for a company of correspondences. / O presente trabalho busca avaliar ações estratégicas de implantação do serviço de Acesso Público à Internet adotadas pela Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos – ECT à luz da revisão teórica sobre formulação de estratégias defendida por vários autores estudiosos do assunto. Foram entrevistados clientes, gerentes de agências da ECT e técnicos da área de informática da empresa, para compreender as ameaças e oportunidades que a internet pode possibilitar e quais as possíveis estratégias empresariais que os Correios poderiam adotar para potencializar as oportunidades, seguindo-se modelos teóricos que versam sobre o assunto. Tomada de decisão estratégica é o objeto central dessa dissertação, o estudo de ações estratégicas para aplicação desse novo serviço de terminal de acesso à internet pretendido pelos Correios, encontra nos diversos modelos estratégicos apresentados por alguns autores como Porter, Mintzberg, dentre outros, alguma ressonância que oriente melhor seu desenvolvimento e aplicação. O estudo está limitado à análise estratégica do uso do novo serviço como vantagem competitiva para a empresa, haja vista, que a pesquisa demonstrou que há campo para implementação do serviço em pauta, transformando a possível ameaça da internet para o correio convencional em oportunidade para uma empresa de correspondências.