Strategic Planning Procedures Research Articles

УПРАВЛЕНИЕ КОМАНДОЙ ВНУТРИКОРПОРАТИВНОГО СТАРТАПА: ПРОЦЕССНОЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ ДИНАМИКИ РАЗВИТИЯ

Innovative development of the Russian economy is impossible without increasing the efficiency of small innovative enterprises (startups), including those created within companies. The problems of managing internal startups and especially startup teams have been relatively poorly studied by modern science. The high dynamics of startups causes high variability and intensive transformations in team management practices. To create a highper formance startup team, it is necessary to understand the internal logic of change in the parameters of teams and team management. The article studies the dynamics of changes in team characteristics and team management within the startup development process. The research methodology is based on process research and case studies. The work investigates the dynamics of the startup team a cloud gaming service. The startup was organized within one company but was then sold to a large IT corporation. The article examines certain characteristics of the team in their development including management methodologies, team composition, communications, culture, motivation, operational and strategic planning pro cedures.

The Efficacy of the Strategy Planning Process Criteria based on the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process

This study investigated the strategic planning procedure used by the University of Jeddah to determine which of its efficacy criteria are the most significant for future development. A university's performance is founded on its ability to capitalize on its specialization and set of skills obtained through meticulous planning and development and involves setting goals using analysis tools to compare options and prioritize constructs. Evaluation approaches to strategic planning lack adaptability and durability. Thus, a high-level deductive instrument that aggregates trade-offs and prioritizes the most essential aspects is needed. This study used the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchical Procedure (FAHP) to examine whether the University of Jeddah's strategy formulation process improves strategy and planning. This study defined the objectives and criteria, established pairwise comparisons based on the owners of the strategic plan and the faculty and administration questionnaire responses, assigned weights to each criterion, verified their consistency, and ranked them in importance order. This study showed that FAHP can help groups make strategic planning decisions in universities.

НАПРЯМИ ІННОВАЦІЙНО-ІНВЕСТИЦІЙНОГО РОЗВИТКУ СІЛЬСЬКОГОСПОДАРСЬКОГО ПІДПРИЄМСТВА В СИСТЕМІ ПІДВИЩЕННЯ ЙОГО КОНКУРЕНТОСПРОМОЖНОСТІ

The current state of development of agricultural production in Ukraine is characterized by a low level of development and use of the innovative potential of domestic enterprises. Strengthening the innovation potential and effective management of all innovative activities of an agricultural enterprise requires a combination of its human, financial and logistical resources, as well as scientific, technical and intellectual capabilities. The directions of development of innovation and investment activity of agrarian enterprises are determined, among which creation of an effective mechanism of innovative management activity of agricultural production at regional level, realization of technical and technological re-equipment of enterprises, application of small and medium business entities of integration tools management, increase of efficiency of scientific researches that has allowed to substantiate perspective vectors of modernization of the existing organizational and economic mechanism of development of innovation and investment activity of the enterprises of agricultural branch. Formation of measures for effective implementation of certain areas requires taking into account the current level of scientific and technological progress and the state of innovation potential, the specifics of economic development and features of agricultural activities in the regional aspect, the state of production and financial infrastructure, prospects for integration processes and others. Elaboration and observance of innovative orientation of investment activity of agricultural commodity producers causes necessity of application of strategic planning procedures. At the same time, the choice of further development strategy should be adequate to the existing investment potential of the enterprise and its ratio with the available ways of innovative development. The introduction of such restrictions and the application of the necessary management procedures of strategic planning allows to form the most rational investment portfolio of the enterprise and provide conditions for further implementation of production and technological, commercial and marketing and organizational and managerial innovations. Keywords: innovation and investment development, agricultural enterprises, competitiveness, innovation potential, strategic planning.

ОТРАЖЕНИЕ ПРИНЦИПОВ ПРОЕКТНОГО И ПРОГРАММНОГО УПРАВЛЕНИЯ В БЮДЖЕТНОМ ЗАКОНОДАТЕЛЬСТВЕ РОССИИ

Introduction: the article is devoted to the analysis of normative acts regulating the application of project and program management principles in the budget planning process in Russia. Objectives: to assess the regulatory framework of project and program management for its integrity, consistency and compliance with budget legislation and international standards of program and project management; to formulate the areas to optimize program and project budgeting in Russia. Methods: the research uses methods of comparative legal and system analysis. Results: the main issues in legal regulation in the field of research are identified, including: non-compliance of the actual strategic planning procedure with the requirements of the federal law; excessive number and mutual duplication of the content of project and program documents in the absence of their clear hierarchy; non-compliance in the Russian legislation with such basic principles of project and program management as the limited time of the goals and objectives in program documents, concentration of powers to manage projects (programs) and responsibility for their results in the same position; the actual withdrawal of the legislative power and the Russian Government from participation in program and project management; dual power in industry management. Conclusions: to overcome the above shortcomings the following measures, among all, are advisable: to fix the status of national projects in the Federal Law “On strategic planning in the Russian Federation” as the fundamental planning documents; to include data on the volume of their financial support and main activities in national projects, excluding current costs and measures already listed in the state programs; to restore the powers of the Russian Government to give approval on the national projects content (passports) as well as the federal projects outside the national ones; to bridge the gap between the powers and responsibilities of program (project) managers.

Development of a Model of the Regional Economic System of the Subject of the Russian Federation

Purpose: development of an economic-mathematical model for quantifying the economic processes of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation as part of the implementation of regional strategic planning procedures as an instrument for solving the problems of modernizing the Russian economy. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were solved: requirements for the model were formulated; composition fixation and categorization of economic processes completed; the layout of numerical indicators; justified the use of the modeling method; the proof of model performance.Methods: in the study of the problem, the search and development of solutions, methods of comparative analysis, economic and mathematical modeling (regression analysis, correlation analysis, factor analysis, index methods), statistical data processing methods, as well as specially developed application software were used. The regional economic system is considered as a structure that includes a number of autonomous subsystems, each of which is characterized by certain objectively measurable indicators.Results: an economic-mathematical model of the regional economic system of the subject of the Russian Federation has been developed, the functionality of which is sufficient to justify causal relationships between indicators characterizing its current state. Seven systemic economic processes are formalized, the corresponding pairs of «factor-indicator» are arranged, where the factor is an indicator directly controlled by regional authorities, and the indicator mainly shows the macroeconomic quality and dynamics of the process. The proof of the model’s performance was carried out by the experimental method, including in the calculations the indicators of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation that are part of the North-West, Volga and North Caucasus federal districts.Conclusions and Relevance: applying the developed methodological and practical approaches in practice, it is possible to reasonably solve the problems of regional strategic planning, that is, to form a system of priority long-term guidelines that can be achieved using the appropriate set of measures. It is assumed that the applied solution developed for the purposes of this study, subject to its refinement and adjustment to the tasks of a particular region, can become the core of a development management decision support system.

A SYSTEM APPROACH TO ASSESSMENT AND GOAL SETTING WITHIN ENERGY SECURITY SPHERE

In the paper are explored the problems of energy security description (as an object of control and regulation) as well as assessment parameters definition. The review of the existing theoretical approaches to the description of energy security is conducted; the modern tendencies of the development of theoretical models in this field are shown. The evolution of the development of conceptual approaches to the study of energy security has been supplemented by projecting transition to an open interacting systems (ecosystems) concept.
 There is proposed the new model for energy security description, based on systematic approach methodology. There have been proposed the approach to designate a set of parameters for energy security assessment which reflects «integrity», «structure», «functions», «relationships»,
 «processes», «material» of the system. The proposed approach to description of a country’s energy security provides an option to assess the state (as a set of static parameters that reflect the perception of the system by external observer) and the ability of the system to develop and respond to threats (as a set of indicators that reflect the functions and processes within the system).
 Emphasis is made on the need to separate a goal setting in energy security (as an object of control and regulation) as a process and stage of strategic planning procedure within the national security framework. The importance of taking into account the subject’s outlook (public management values that reflect the political and economic model of governance) in the process of goal setting was emphasized. The model of subjectivism reduction in goal setting is proposed, due to the incorporation of the energy security system into the larger system.

Development of Supply Chain Strategy in Iranian Automotive Industry Based on System Dynamics and Game Theory

Supply chain is a system involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. Since the supply chain in a company includes all responsibilities and operations of the company, its designing is necessarily a complete part of strategic planning procedure of the company. This paper intends to develop supply chain strategy through such tools as system dynamics and game theory. In this research, we have first identified key and principal variables of the supply chain to draw the causal diagrams with feedback loops. Then the layer and rate variables were identified, layer and flow models were created and by writing equations the simulation model is implemented for 10 years. The review of automotive industry, four main aspects is selected for programming. The issue of selecting best combination of strategy as a game with four players is considered in which each player can select three strategies. Then, the Shapely Value is used, the influence of each player in creating desirability is measured and by creation of the decision tree the best strategy combination is achieved. The results of this study showed that automotive part makers will have the greatest impact on the future of the automotive industry in Iran.

Planeación estratégica en la Pyme de Bogotá. Orientación al futuro y evasión de la incertidumbre

El futuro genera sentimientos y establece patrones de comportamiento organizacional que son realizados por las pequeñas y medianas empresas; estos comportamientos ya han sido investigados en lugares como Michigan o Australia. El propósito de este artículo es aportar en el conocimiento del tema en un contexto específico: la localidad de Chapinero en la ciudad de Bogotá, Colombia. <br /><br />La investigación analiza cualitativamente cómo se realizan los procesos de planeación estratégica; para ello, se efectúan mediciones culturales cuantitativas que, teóricamente, pueden relacionarse con la planeación estratégica. Los resultados nos muestran que el comportamiento organizacional de estas empresas utiliza marcos espacio temporales a corto plazo, formas emocionales de tomar decisiones, desconocimiento de herramientas de mercadeo, además de altos niveles de incertidumbre, los que motivan la adopción de herramientas de gestión y administración para realizar procesos de planeación estratégica, aun cuando no se tenga una comprensión completa de lo que significa.

Stand der strategischen Planung in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) in der BRD

Verfolgt man heute die Berichterstattung zum Thema strategische Unternehmensplanung in den Medien wie auch in der offentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Diskussion, so wird zumeist uber Grosunternehmen berichtet. Auch im Fokus der betriebswirtschaftlichen Forschung im deutschsprachigen Raum nimmt die Erforschung strategischer Unternehmensplanung in Grosunternehmen breiten Raum ein. Andererseits werden Fragen der Strategiefindung und -entwicklung kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen bisher nur wenig beleuchtet, obwohl kleine und mittlere Unternehmen einen wichtigen Wirtschaftsfaktor in der BRD wie auch in Europa bilden. Dieser Sektor gewinnt auch in der betriebswirtschaftlichen Forschung zunehmend an Bedeutung. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird auf Basis einer empirischen Untersuchung der aktuelle Entwicklungsstand und die Entwicklungstendenzen der strategischen Planung kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen in der BRD beschrieben sowie relevante Unterschiede zwischen kleinen und grosen KMU’s sowie inhabergefuhrten und nicht-inhabergefuhrten KMU’s analysiert. Nicht zuletzt ist es Ziel der vorliegenden Studie, Anhaltspunkte zur Verbesserung der strategischen Planungsqualitat in KMU’s zu generieren.

General decision assurance principles and procedures for strategic planning

This paper addresses two perceived inadequacies in traditional approaches to strategic planning the paucity of well-articulated theoretical assumptions underlying strategic planning procedures, and an insufficient emphasis on the importance to the quality of the final outcome, of robust, group decision management processes in which to embed the planning procedures. A set of principles and procedures to address these short-comings are proposed.

Strategic planning in large tourism firms: an empirical analysis

It has been suggested that tourism businesses lag behind manufacturing firms in the use of strategic planning. Since tourism firms are no less vulnerable to environmental threats than manufacturing firms, it is hypothesized that strategic planning procedures adopted by tourism firms are of equal sophistication to those used by manufacturing firms. This hypothesis was tested on data from a small sample of large Australian firms. The results support the view that tourism firms have well-developed strategic planning processes. The implications of the results are discussed.

Building up the longer-term context for project and program appraisal: dynamic strategic analysis

Long-term planning in too many organizations is flawed by being too rooted in the present and recent past: too little attention is paid to possible major changes in the future economic, technical, etc environments. Thus both the main strategic plan, and any contingency plans, can be sunk by the unexpected. This article outlines a strategic planning procedure which encourages a range of future possibilities to go on die agenda. Future scenarios are developed in conjunction with simple mathematical models (cross-impact models). The steps are repeated to build up an idea of what factors, policies and events most need monitoring and managerial thought. The result should be a strategy—and thus a context for individual projects, programs and activities—which is more robust against future shocks.

Strategic Planning in Japan

The American business community has recognized the importance of strategy as a determinant of corporate success. Academics, consultants, and executives themselves have studied the subject in depth and have written extensively on it. Any corporation with pretensions of being well‐managed has installed a strategic planning procedure to improve its prospects of long‐term success.

Technical investment planning of flexible manufacturing systems—The application of practice-oriented methods

Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) exhibit a high degree of automation of the machining system and of the workpiece, and for the information flow systems. Therefore, these systems are amongst the most complex production installations and their technical investment planning must be undertaken with great care. This paper introduces a strategic planning procedure and describes auxiliary aids for the selection of the components and for structuring of the overall system. Computer programs for the selection of machine tools and for the simulation of the manufacturing process sequence are part of this procedure. The application of the methods is illustrated by means of several problem situations arising from industrial production companies; the examples show the practical usefulness of the developed auxiliary techniques. The planning accuracy possible by these methods reduces the investment risk associated with the use of these complex manufacturing systems. Also described is an integrated system for the technical investment planning of flexible manufacturing systems which comprises both existing methods and new auxiliary means for planning the machining systems and the technical/organizational overall concept.

The incorporation of management development in strategic management

AbstractIn view of the increasing demands on managers and the corresponding scarcity of managers of high quality, management planning and development begins to emerge as one of the most important management techniques. In this paper, the authors advocate a procedure which incorporates the establishment of dynamic function profiles (based on the future function requirements) and dynamic manager profiles (based on the likely and desired development of the managers). The future gap in the quality and quantity of the company's management is found by comparing the two sets of profiles. The description of this gap is the basis for recruitments and other MPD actions. The procedure is closely synchronized with the strategic planning procedure and can therefore be considered as part of the strategic management concept. Experiences with the procedure in a multinational company show that it can be successful provided that the system is open to the managers and non‐bureaucratic. Furthermore, it should not affect the normal powers of line managers with respect to their team formation.Despite all the attention it attracts, management planning and development (MPD) is still an underutilized management tool in many companies. Procedures are often either lacking or too bureaucratic. Reasons for this are the inherent limitations to planning with human beings and, on the other hand, the availability of a safety net in the form of a market of managers.

Strategic planning for multinationals—The views of governments and scientists

The purpose of the project described in this paper was to study the environmental changes that influence the strategic planning of multinational firms. The environment of any business or government consists of all things external to an organization which influence it, such as political climate, social situation, international economics, etc. The changes in the strategic planning procedures of firms have been reported elsewhere. This article concentrates on the role that three governments in north-western Europe play in multinational business planning and the views of a number of scientists concerning the interaction of environmental conditions and the strategic planning of multinational firms.