In today's fast pace society, analysts are expected to make quick educated decisions out of very complex situations. This is not an easy task to achieve but, if equipped with the proper decision tools, it can be effectively accomplished. Cognitive Maps have been commonly used in the past for this purpose but they lack a certain precision. Recently the use of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) has been proposed as an alternative for representing and analyzing complex systems that create outcomes that are not always easily definable. This thesis will introduce its readers to this versatile decision analysis tool and its many uses in a diversity of fields. More precisely, it will help analyze and determine how Internet transforms relationships between car parts suppliers and automobile manufacturers.
With the help of the Car Internet Research Program (CIRP), 17 semi-structured interviews of executive heads belonging to upstream suppliers in the automotive sector were considered as means of this research. Summarized and analysed through the help of FCMs, these exchanges give an approximate picture of the state of current events in the automotive industry, more precisely in regards to supplier and manufacturer connectivity issues.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/26642 |
| Date | January 2004 |
| Creators | Georganas, Nikita |
| Publisher | University of Ottawa (Canada) |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 138 p. |
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