This thesis deals with the management approach in performance management, today known world by the concept of Corporate Performance Management. CPM describes the relationship to Business Intelligence and methodologies, processes, metrics and technologies that together form the concept. There is also a description of CPM applications which cover the five most commonly deployed areas. The second part is devoted to what-if analysis that is one of several methodologies which are part of the CPM package. It also contains the list of competing tools that cover this area. The following hypothetical example of putting what-if analysis, aimed at resolving issues of fictitious company, related to costs, revenue and profit. Example is based on technology developed at IBM Cognos TM1. During the example solutions are presented with all the basic functionality that this technology offers.

This work demonstrates specific ways that the design of computer user interfaces can influence how individuals structure the problem solving process. In particular, an observational study of expert users of an image manipulation application indicates that current user interfaces make it difficult to explore sets of alternatives in parallel, despite this being a common problem solving practice. As a consequence, individuals tend to engage in highly linear problem solving processes. To address this problem, this work introduces the concept of a set-based interface, or an interface that facilitates the generation, manipulation, evaluation, and management of sets of alternative solutions. The concepts of a set-based interface are demonstrated in two tools, Side Views and Parallel Pies, both designed for use in the domain of image manipulation. Side Views automatically generates sets of previews for one or more commands and their parameters, enabling side-by-side comparison of alternatives. Parallel Pies streamlines the process of forking, or the act of creating new, standalone alternatives, and provides a visualization to evaluate results. Two controlled laboratory studies and a third think-aloud study reveal that these tools lead to users more broadly exploring the solution space and developing more optimal solutions for some types of tasks. These studies also show that the ability to broadly explore can initially be overused, adversely affecting solution quality if not enough time is spent maturing a single solution instance. This enthusiastic use of exploration tools is especially notable because such features are entirely optional to developing a solution. As such, these results suggest the need to further research ways user interfaces can support individuals in rapidly generating sets of alternative solutions. To support future research in this direction, this work contributes a set of metrics for quantifying breadth and depth of exploration; backtracking; and dead-ends in the problem solving process. A visualization called a process diagram aids in communicating these concepts.

The diploma thesis deals with risk assessment during personal bankruptcy and risks resulting from frequent borrowing and indebtedness. The aim is to propose measures to reduce the risks.

Dissertation "Risk assessment in selected municipality with extended powers with precautions suggestion to eliminate losses and damages to public assets" deals with analyses and assessment of the current situation at the selected municipality with extended powers. Vision of the first part of the thesis is to analyse current status of the analysis issues and risk assessment on the territory of the municipality. The second part of the thesis contains methods to achieve the risk assessment, evaluation of the current threats in the municipality and will provide a draft measure for the targeted risk management.

Skrivprojektet Tillfälligheter består av sju texter som på olika sätt binds ihop av tematiken i ordet tillfälligheter. Jag har haft intentionen att utforska hur jag i mitt skrivande kan närma mig genren science fiction. Genren är bred och ger stora möjligheter till variation och användning av fantasin utan begränsningar. Eftersom man gärna skriver det man själv gillar att läsa är det mjuk sf, alternativa världar, tidsresor och dystopier samt så kallad New Weird jag främst har fokuserat på. Science fiction försöker ofta besvara frågan "What if?" och jag har anammat den utgångspunkten i mitt arbete med projektet och utgått från att det är just tillfälligheter som har fått styra händelserna i de sju berättelserna. De sju texternas genreanpassning och stil kan kortfattat beskrivas som följer: Equinox – tidsresor; uppbyggd som en vetenskaplig uppsats och med ett retrospektivt berättande utifrån ett förstapersonsperspektiv Kalejdoskop – New Weird; hur namnens betydelser får personifiera karaktärerna 22:43 – en alternativ värld; skriven endast med dialog utan sägeverb Brunnen – dystopisk saga med stark verklighetsförankring och några stänk av skräck CCTV – teknologi, AI; om ett inanimat objekts upplevelse och tolkning av mänskligt beteende Tom Taylor – dystopi, mjuk sf (psykologi, ekologi) och samhällskritik; retrospektivt blandat med rak kronologi och cirkelrörelse Eschatos – en dystopisk omvänd travesti på Första Moseboks skapelseberättelse skriven som en dikt

Master of Regional and Community Planning / Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning / Claude A. Keithley / Planning Support Systems allow planners to create alternative development scenarios to forecast a more accurate and precise future trend of development in their communities. The software What If?™ has been developed and introduced in the planning profession since its first release in the 1990’s. This report evaluates the software What If?™ based on the planning decision-making process. The report provides three aspects of evaluation: technical, empirical, and subjective. In addition, the paper will be also providing an overall understanding of the analytical capability of What If?™, and an overview of its operating procedures.

The thesis deals with the design and implementation of Business Intelligence solution for evaluation of cash flow in organization. In the theoretical part, author introduces the reader with theoretical knowledge of Business Intelligence, cash flow and analysis of enterprise information system Helios Green. In the practical part is description of the design and implementation of data warehouse and ana-lytic database. In the part of implementation is explained strategic planning of cash flow, enabled using writeback to the data warehouse. Next chapter is about building financial reports. Thesis is finished by evaluating of the solution in terms of its benefits in comparison with the previous situation.

Time series data has become a ubiquitous and important data source in many application domains. Most companies and organizations strongly rely on this data for critical tasks like decision-making, planning, predictions, and analytics in general. While all these tasks generally focus on actual data representing organization and business processes, it is also desirable to apply them to alternative scenarios in order to prepare for developments that diverge from expectations or assess the robustness of current strategies. When it comes to the construction of such what-if scenarios, existing tools either focus on scalar data or they address highly specific scenarios. In this work, we propose a generally applicable and easy-to-use method for the generation of what-if scenarios on time series data. Our approach extracts descriptive features of a data set and allows the construction of an alternate version by means of filtering and modification of these features.

The difficulty of projecting ecological impacts, as well as the increasing familiarity of planners with Geographical Information Systems and other software technology has led to an increase in the use of Planning Support Systems (PSS) by city and regional planners. Due to their newness and rapid development, there is, of yet, a lack of a comprehensive peer-reviewed literature on the design and implementation of these systems. This thesis proposes and applies a rating framework for PSS in order to facilitate accessibility to and critical investigation of PSS. The rating framework’s criteria are based on the “seven sins” of comprehensive land use models identified by Douglass Lee’s 1973 article “Requiem for Large-Scale Models." / text

This diploma thesis deals with an analysis and evaluation of risk in the freight transport company – Doprava Vícha s. r. o. The thesis describes the current situation in a freight transport industry, an applicable legislation, and risk analysis methods FMEA and WHAT-IF. Further the thesis analyses risks of a freight transportation and describes the company Doprava Vícha s. r. o. in detail. The thesis proposes a set of actions in order to minimize identified risks. The handbook with most important actions and advices for drivers is attached.