Set Of Management Tools Research Articles

Global Challenges as Opportunity to Transform Business for Good

Using insights from Peter Drucker’s Theory of the Business framework, the authors show that global challenges such as pandemics and climate change are contributing to a critical misalignment between businesses and their increasingly complex external environments, leading to a growing malaise in many organizations. Central to this misalignment are seven legacy assumptions which no longer serve businesses effectively. Seven new assumptions better reflect today’s external environment and point to how businesses can thrive (“Do Well”) by making a positive difference in society (“Do Good.”) The authors propose a set of change management methods and tools along with specific steps that leaders and organizations can take to transform their businesses into what they define as Positive Institutions.

Implementing a Data Mining Solution Approach to Identify the Valuable Customers for Facilitating Electronic Banking

<p class="0abstract">Nowadays, the banking system is known as one of the inherent sectors of customer relationship management systems. Its main advantage is to redesign a more responsive organization to satisfy the customers. The banking system aims to improve the structure of organizations to provide a better customer service through a set of automated and integrated processes. The final goal is to collect and reprocess the personal information of customers. To handle this dilemma, a number of new techniques in data mining provide a powerful tool to explore customers’ information regarding a set of data and tools for customer relationship management. Accordingly, the customers’ classification and coordination of banking system are the main challenging issues of today's world. These reasons motivate the attempts of this study to apply a composition of neural network by considering the C4.5 decision tree and the k-closest neighbor method as a variant of core boosting methodology with maximal strategy. To validate the proposed solution approach, a case study of Ansar Bank in Iran is utilized. From the results, it is observed that the proposed method provides a competitive output with the rate of 95% for the customers’ classification. It also outperforms other existing methods with the rate of C4.5 decision tree, neural network, Naive Bayes and KNN with the rate of 1.04%. The main finding of this research is to propose an algorithm with the error rate of 1.9% and error squared of 0.72% as the best performance among other methods from the literature.<strong></strong></p>

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Organizational Framework of Construction Cost Management in the Context of the Implementation of Targeted Investment Programs (Through the Example of Moscow)

Currently, there is an excess of public investment allocated for the implementation of targeted investment programs related to construction in Moscow compared with the estimated limit, which requires a set of organizational tools for cost management (algorithms, models, methods, tools, etc.) aimed at improving the accuracy and reliability of the estimated construction cost.Aim. The presented study aims to develop a methodological approach to the organization of construction cost management in the context of public investment, with allowance for the enhanced interaction of executive authorities – both with one another and with other participants of the investment-construction process.Tasks. The authors analyze the activities of an executive authority in the development, coordination, and implementation of investment programs for the construction of facilities at the territorial level under modern conditions and develop a methodological approach to construction management with allowance for the enhanced interaction of executive authorities – both with one another and with other participants of the investment-construction process.Methods. The theoretical and methodological basis of this study includes fundamental provisions of management theory, economic theory, cost engineering, pricing in construction, mathematical modeling, project and risk management, practical experience and scientific works of Russian and foreign experts on the problem under consideration.Results. An organizational framework for construction cost management makes it possible to optimize the interaction of executive authorities – both with one another and with other participants of the investment-construction process – and to use methodological approaches to the formation of a reliable maximum limit of public investment for the purpose of implementing investment programs in construction in accordance with the set limit by establishing an Information Monitoring Center and a database to justify the estimated construction cost, creating and maintaining a database (information resource) containing all information about similar objects in accordance with economic efficiency criteria, monitoring implemented objects to update the database of construction projects.Conclusions. A methodological approach to the organization of construction cost management in the context of public investment is developed with allowance for the enhanced interaction of executive authorities - both with one another and with other participants of the investment-construction process.

User-Related Issues in Design and Use of Smartgrids Seen as Complex Sociotechnical Systems: Example of the VERTPOM Project

The impact of human activities on the environment is no longer to be demonstrated today and concerns many fields. With a view to environmental protection, applied to global warming limitation and fossil fuels preservation, Smartgrids are currently emerging, especially, under the impetus of European and French legislation. In emerging technologies, end-user-related issues, articulated with the design process, continue to raise conceptual, methodological and operational questions. The perspective of complex sociotechnical systems is useful for Smartgrids and to underline the necessary multidisciplinary approach to design. Yet raised for decades, the articulation of multidisciplinary approaches in the design of complex systems still questions fundamental problems today. These questions are all more unresolved in the context of innovative technologies such as Smartgrids. The objective of this paper is to propose 1) a conceptual reflection applied to the design of these Smartgrids seen as emerging sociotechnical systems, and 2) a case study by illustrating with the VERTPOM project. On the one hand, we discuss four fundamental points in user-centered design of Smartgrids: we describe the legislative impulses for the rollout of smart metters and the emergence of Smartgrids, we highlight the supplier/consumer synergy that is essential for efficient energy management, we explain the importance of adapting systems to the wide public in domestic, professional and public situations in the context of consumer control of energy demand, and we address the issue of the more traditional field of supervision and control of complex dynamic processes by operators. On the other hand, we present the VERTPOM project aiming at developing a set of digital tools for energy management and energy efficiency in order to make a positive energy territory that produces more energy than it consumes by introducing the project and its actors and explaining how design acceptable Smartgrids for consumers and operators of energy suppliers.

Комунікативний механізм реалізації гендерної політики в Національній поліції Украї­ни

The article examines the practice of using the latest information technologies by the National Police of Ukraine in the process of implementing gender policy; The forms of attracting public attention and involvement in gender initiatives, their importance for the implementation of reforms and the advantages of their application in modern public administration practice in comparison with traditional mechanisms of public administration are described.Problem statement in general and its connection with important scientific or practical tasks. The communicative mechanism in the field of public administration is very important in the context of Ukraine's implementation of the European integration policy. In public administration, the communicative mechanism can be considered as a set of effective management tools for the formation, development and implementation of public administration goals. For public institutions, communication activities in public space require strategic planning and proper control. In central executive bodies, the communication mechanism should be considered as a basic and necessary part of planning various activities and a tool that allows for effective management decisions.The purpose of the article is a theoretical analysis of domestic experience in the use of communicative mechanisms for the gender policy implementation by the National Police of Ukraine.Conclusions. The publication describes the structure of communication, in particular professional, by highlighting three interrelated components: perceptual, communicative and interactive.Establishing communicative relations with public organizations, whose activities are based on the ideas of equality - including gender - is one of the priorities of the National Police of Ukraine.It should be noted that the use of social networks in the interaction of executive authorities with the public should be based primarily on the responsibility of all active actors in this communication mechanism, aimed at effective communication and transparent and collegial management decisions based on gender.

How do industry 4.0 technologies influence organisational change? An empirical analysis of Italian SMEs

PurposeThis article aims to investigate the organisational implications of adopting Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies, giving specific attention to operations. The paper addresses these implications in two directions: organisational prerequisites for, and consequences of, I4.0 technologies.Design/methodology/approachThe research is based on a multiple case study of Italian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in manufacturing. Ten case studies have been developed through interviews, company visits and secondary data collection.FindingsThe multiple case study results show that: (1) a lean organisational structure supports effective adoption of I4.0 technologies; (2) introducing such technologies is linked to developing a new kind of job profile (i.e. the “Autonomous Operative Job Profile”); and (3) higher levels of technology adoption create a higher need for non-technical competences.Research limitations/implicationsA limitation of this research relates to the highly heterogeneous maturity levels of the sampled companies, due to the relative newness of the I4.0 paradigm. Future research could, therefore, longitudinally analyse the technology integration process within organisations.Practical implicationsThis research provides preliminary evidence about how organisations and technologies co-evolve, thus suggesting that managers should co-design these areas. It also demonstrates the extreme importance of designing a structured process and a clear set of human resource management tools to favour SME organisational development.Originality/valueThe study is built upon a conceptual framework derived from the sociotechnical perspective that analyses the interconnections between technology implementation and organisational change. From the results, three research propositions are derived to be tested on a larger scale.

Smart Work Injury Management (SWIM) System: Artificial Intelligence in Work Disability Management.

This paper aims to illustrate an example of how to set up a work injury database: the Smart Work Injury Management (SWIM) system. It is a secure and centralized cloud platform containing a set of management tools for data storage, data analytics, and machine learning. It employs artificial intelligence to perform in-depth analysis via text-mining techniques in order to extract both dynamic and static data from work injury case files. When it is fully developed, this system can provide a more accurate prediction model for cost of work injuries. It can also predict return-to-work (RTW) trajectory and provide advice on medical care and RTW interventions to all RTW stakeholders. The project will comprise three stages. Stage one: to identify human factors in terms of both facilitators and barriers RTW through face-to-face interviews and focus group discussions with different RTW stakeholders in order to collect opinions related to facilitators, barriers, and essential interventions for RTW of injured workers; Stage two: to develop a machine learning model which employs artificial intelligence to perform in-depth analysis. The technologies used will include: 1. Text-mining techniques including English and Chinese work segmentation as well as N-Gram to extract both dynamic and static data from free-style text as well as sociodemographic information from work injury case files; 2. Principle component/independent component analysis to identify features of significant relationships with RTW outcomes or combine raw features into new features; 3. A machine learning model that combines Variational Autoencoder, Long and Short Term Memory, and Neural Turning Machines. Stage two will also include the development of an interactive dashboard and website to query the trained machine learning model. Stage three: to field test the SWIM system. SWIM ia secure and centralized cloud platform containing a set of management tools for data storage, data analytics, and machine learning. When it is fully developed, SWIM can provide a more accurate prediction model for the cost of work injuries and advice on medical care and RTW interventions to all RTW stakeholders. The project has been approved by the Ethics Committee for Human Subjects at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and is funded by the Innovation and Technology Commission (Grant # ITS/249/18FX).

Managing conservation values of protected sites: How to maintain deciduous trees in white-backed woodpecker territories

Successional and other temporal habitat changes may also affect conservation areas and reduce their conservation value. Active management to promote vulnerable habitat features may be an effective, but controversial, solution. Old deciduous trees and deciduous dead wood in boreal forest reserves are examples of habitat features that may be lost during succession, yet several threatened species, including the white-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos), are dependent on them. Encroaching spruce have been removed from white-backed woodpecker territories to promote the regeneration of deciduous trees and to preserve habitat quality, although the efficiency of this treatment is unclear. In this study, we measured the canopy tree potential (integrating the number, height and condition) of aspen, birch and spruce saplings, and the number and basal area of mature trees in control and treatment sites 2–12 years after spruce removal. The canopy tree potential of aspen saplings increased on treated sites, along with a decrease in the number of spruce saplings and mature spruce trees. We found no evidence that spruce removal would benefit birch saplings. For both aspen and birch saplings, the abundance of mature trees of the same species increased their canopy tree potential more than spruce removal. Overall, our results indicate that spruce removal facilitates aspen regeneration, particularly in areas where large mature aspen trees are present. The lack of birch regeneration, however, indicates that maintaining a full array of important habitat characteristics in white-backed woodpecker territories may require a more comprehensive set of management tools than simply removal of spruce.

ЭФФЕКТИВНОЕ ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ ИНСТРУМЕНТОВ КОНТРОЛЛИНГА В СИСТЕМЕ И В ПРОЦЕССАХ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЙ БЕЗОПАСНОСТЬЮ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ

In this article, the authors clarify that the economic security of the Russian Federation directly depends on the dynamics of socio-economic development of the subjects, and on the level of their economic security, therefore, it becomes objectively obvious the need to switch to the most advanced and effective tools for managing the economy and society at the meso-level. One of such progressive methodological and in-strumental approaches is controlling, which is a decision support system at various levels of management. To the greatest extent, controlling, as a set of management tools, is in demand by corporations. But it should be understood that the subjects of the state or, as in our case, the subjects of the federation are, in essence, quasi-corporations that have many corporate characteristics, which means that the experience of strategic corporate management can be implemented into the management and management of such entities to solve the most important tasks, including ensuring dynamically sustainable and economically secure development at the meso-level. The results of the activities carried out by the state external control bodies show that at the meso-level, i.e. at the level of the subjects of the federation, there are constant violations both in the disposal of budgetary funds, and in the exercise of authority in the field of disposal of federal and municipal property, and within the framework of strategic planning of territorial development.

Formation of the mechanism of strategic development of telecommunication enterprises

The article is devoted to the analysis of scientific achievements in defining the concept of "development mechanism"; study of leading approaches to the interpretation of the management mechanism of enterprise development; identification of tasks facing the company in the process of forming a mechanism for managing strategic development; substantiation of the management mechanism of strategic development of telecommunication enterprises in the conditions of digital transformations, which is the most active part of the management system. It provides an opportunity for purposeful development of enterprises and is a set of management tools that include tools and levers that meet the benchmarks, expected consequences, selection and evaluation criteria, limitations and requirements of the enterprise development process; organizational and economic management methods, which are methods and technologies for the implementation and use of resources.

Safety at LCs in Italy: evidence from the Safer-LC Project

In railways one of the most critical point is represented by the intersections with road, especially at level crossings, where the interaction between road users (cyclists, pedestrians, motorcyclists, drivers, etc.) and train users might generate conflicts and risk situations. Level crossing accidents represent 24% of all significant railway accidents when railway suicides are excluded according to the European Union Agency for Railways statistics. There is a complex interaction among the components that makes this kind of intersection dangerous, depending on the road users’ behaviour, the unsafe layout of the infrastructure and the response of the various type of users with regard to the different conditions (traffic, weather, design, etc.).Starting from these considerations, the SAFER-LC Project has the objective of upgrading safety and minimising risks at and around level crossings by developing a fully integrated cross-modal set of innovative solutions and tools for the proactive management and new design of level-crossing infrastructure.This paper presents the results of the first phase of this project with special attention about the results of the Italian level crossings conditions. With regard to the first phase of the project, the paper proposes a comparative analysis between Italy and seven European countries (Greece, Finland, France, Italy, Norway, Spain and Turkey), carrying out an in-depth Level Crossing accident analysis with data and reports from the railway operators and the national accident investigation bodies. The analysis focuses the attention on specific variables such as details on collision, victim, road and railway environment, level crossing characteristics and circumstances. The analysis highlights the existence of some critical issues for safety with important differences in terms of characteristics and intensity in each country and especially for the Italian case.

Building up a national network of applied R&D institutes in an emerging innovation system

Abstract Paper aims This paper aims at answering the research question “How to successfully build up and strategically manage a new network of applied R&D in Brazil?” Originality The paper is based on a unique experience of a strategic partnership, transferring the experiences of managing the largest network of applied research in Europe to the Brazilian National Innovation System (NIS). Research method The research described in this paper follows an action research approach, using a participative process of rapid prototyping, pilot tests and continuous revision and adaptation. Main findings The paper presents a comprehensive and consistent set of management models, procedures and tools for the planning, implementation and evaluation of applied R&D institutes. Implications for theory and practice The paper’s findings contribute to the empirical research on methodologies to manage knowledge-based networks and innovation actors at the interface between research and industry.

Cycle-oriented approach to building a model of production costs

Modern science and practice does not have a sufficient set of cost management tools, taking into account the duration of the production cycle, characteristic of agricultural activity. The implementation of a cycle-oriented approach to building a model of production costs was based on studying the existing options for classifying production costs, which were supplemented with features from the perspective of managing long production cycles. As a result of the study, a model of production costs was built from the point of view of a cycle-oriented approach, as well as a model of production costs from the standpoint of features of a long production cycle. The model can serve as the basis for the formation of the information space of cost management, control and cost analysis in the economy of agricultural enterprises.

Системне управління пріоритетними напрямами розвитку фермерських господарств і сільськогосподарських підприємств

У статті досліджено сутність системного управління пріоритетними напрямами розвитку фермерських господарств і сільськогосподарських підприємств. При цьому як система з певним набором підвидів, функцій, інструментів розглядається управління та як системні утворення – суб’єкти господарювання. Важливими складниками системного управління визначені функціональне, процесне й управління за центрами відповідальності. Їх залучення є найбільш перспективним щодо пріоритетних напрямів розвитку фермерських господарств і сільськогосподарських підприємств. Вони дозволяють використовувати спеціальні інструменти, методи та прийоми, адекватні змісту пріоритетних напрямів. При цьому в інформаційно-аналітичному забезпеченні управлінських рішень велика увага приділяється моніторингу та обліку господарської діяльності.

Coral bleaching patterns are the outcome of complex biological and environmental networking.

Continued declines in coral reef health over the past three decades have been punctuated by severe mass coral bleaching-induced mortality events that have grown in intensity and frequency under climate change. Intensive global research efforts have therefore persistently focused on bleaching phenomena to understand where corals bleach, when and why-resulting in a large-yet still somewhat patchy-knowledge base. Particularly catastrophic bleaching-induced coral mortality events in the past 5years have catalyzed calls for a more diverse set of reef management tools, extending far beyond climate mitigation and reef protection, to also include more aggressive interventions. However, the effectiveness of these various tools now rests on rapidly assimilating our knowledge base of coral bleaching into more integrated frameworks. Here, we consider how the past three decades of intensive coral bleaching research has established the basis for complex biological and environmental networks, which together regulate outcomes of bleaching severity. We discuss how we now have enough scaffold for conceptual biological and environmental frameworks underpinning bleaching susceptibility, but that new tools are urgently required to translate this to an operational system informing-and testing-bleaching outcomes. Specifically, adopting network models that can fully describe and predict metabolic functioning of coral holobionts, and how this functioning is regulated by complex doses and interactions among environmental factors. Identifying knowledge gaps limiting operation of such models is the logical step to immediately guide and prioritize future experiments and observations. We are at a time-critical point where we can implement new capacity to resolve how coral bleaching patterns emerge from complex biological-environmental networks, and so more effectively inform rapidly evolving ecological management and social adaptation frameworks aimed at securing the future of coral reefs.

On a tool-supported model-based approach for building architectures and roadmaps: The MegaM@Rt2 project experience

MegaM@Rt2 is a large European project dedicated to the provisioning of a model-based methodology and supporting tooling for system engineering at a wide scale. It notably targets the continuous development and runtime validation of such complex systems by developing a framework addressing a large set of engineering processes and application domains. This collaborative project involves 27 partners from 6 different countries, 9 industrial case studies as well as over 30 different software tools from project partners (and others). In the context of the MegaM@Rt2 project, we elaborated on a pragmatic model-driven approach to specify the case study requirements, design the high-level architecture of a framework, perform the gap analysis between the industrial needs and current state-of-the-art, and plan a first framework development roadmap accordingly. The present paper describes the generic tool-supported approach that came out as a result. It also details its concrete application in the MegaM@Rt2 project. In particular, we discuss the collaborative modeling process, the requirement definition tooling, the approach for components modeling, as well as the traceability and document generation. In addition, we show how we used the proposed solution to specify the MegaM@Rt2 framework’s conceptual tool components centered around three complementary tool sets: the MegaM@Rt2 System Engineering Tool Set, the MegaM@Rt2 Runtime Analysis Tool Set and the MegaM@Rt2 Model & Traceability Management Tool Set. The paper ends with a discussion on the practical lessons we have learned from this work so far.

Birds of the World: A global reference for avian life histories and a case study of incompatible taxonomies

Life history accounts and taxonomic monographs are a series of publications covering a higher taxonomic group where each account is a compilation of existing knowledge detailing many aspects of a species life history. These life history accounts are extensively used by researchers, ornithologists and conservationists as a main source for the current state of knowledge of a species. Birds, being one of the more easily seen and studied taxa, have a number of specialized life history accounts where data from a wide variety of disciplines are combined into a single easily accessible resource. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology (CLO) currently manages two of these series focused on different regions of the world, Birds of North America (BNA) and Neotropical Birds (NB). Lynx Edicions has published the Handbook of Birds of the World (HBW), an extensive set of avian monographs covering every species of bird in the world. A recently announced collaboration between CLO and Lynx Edicions provides us with the opportunity to bring together the extreme detail of the life history accounts from Birds of North America with the global coverage of HBW to produce a global, in-depth treatment of every species of bird in the world. The integration of life history information from these existing projects with different underlying taxonomies presents a variety of real-world examples of the challenges to be overcome to bring these life history accounts into alignment and provide the scientific and lay communities with taxonomically accurate and up to date information. The Handbook of Birds of the World currently follows the HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v3 (with 11,126 species recognized) while Birds of North America and Neotropical Birds both follow the eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018 (with 10,585 species recognized). Of the roughly 11,000 species of birds, nearly 9,500 are direct matches between HBW/BirdLife and Clements at the species or species to subspecies levels. The remaining concept mismatches fall into several basic categories including lump and split differences as well as differences in which subspecies are included or excluded. In this talk we will discuss the challenges we have faced with managing and merging life history accounts where the underlying taxonomies are fundamentally different. With a requirement to ensure that life history accounts remain accurate when the underlying concepts of the original sources differ, we employ a variety of processes, some very labor intensive and some requiring in-depth taxonomic knowledge to produce consolidated species accounts. Existing resources are integral to these type of integrations and in addition to the taxonomies themselves, cross-taxonomy mapping databases such as Avibase are key. Working through this process of consolidating life history accounts highlights the basic need for taxonomic management and publication toolsets built on underlying taxonomic and life history standards. Cross institutional collaboration to produce these toolsets will be key to their development and successful adoption across the biodiversity and taxonomic communities. I will also discuss and propose a set of taxonomic management tools based on taxonomic concepts, some which already exist and are used by bird taxonomists to annually update the Clements Checklist and some which need to be implemented before we can accurately manage and consolidate biodiversity information and the evolving taxonomies on which those data are based.

Methodological Approaches to Managing a Tourism Company’s Strategic Development

This paper is devoted to the development of approaches to managing a tourism company’s strategic development. It is established that in present-day conditions the most crucial stage in strategic management in a tourism company is strategic analysis, which helps gather, evaluate, and systematize information that is needed to make strategic decisions. The availability of internal resources and external potential in a tourism company is the subject of strategic management, aimed at transforming them into real factors for success. The authors establish that a tourism company’s focus on resolving issues of long-term planning and sustainable development may require employing a set of methods, methodologies, models, and tools for strategic management and utilizing the market- and resource-based approaches. It is proven that the use of concepts which underpin these approaches could help make quality use of the tools for strategic management in present-day conditions.

Classification of entrepreneurial risks in order to define business-processes of the business owner

Owned business management inevitably implies the availability of tools for its implementation. The set of tools for such management is effective, when it can be integrated into the overall system of business processes. The problem lies in the selection of those managerial business processes, where the participation of the owner is necessary. Justification of the definition of such business processes is possible on the basis of systematization and identification of the risks, that must be assumed by the business owner. In theory and practice of management, the focus is on the management of the organization, which is implemented by hired specialists-managers. The role of business owners is rarely seen as an independent activity. Meanwhile, the goals and the role of business owners are far from adequate to the goals and roles of managers. This circumstance makes the problem of ownership business management urgent. Currently, the terms “owner contro”l and “ownership management” are used in literary sources. These terms do not coincide in their meaning. Ownership management includes ownership control and occurs when the owner solves the problems of strategic development. If strategic development goals are not set for any reason, the owner remains to develop a system of ownership control over the current state of the business. Ownership business management should be built on the development and control of the organization's business processes. The owner can not physically control all business processes, and this is not necessary. There is a need to highlight those business processes, that he must control necessarily. In our opinion, the solution of this problem can be built on the basis of an appropriate classification of entrepreneurial risks.