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Gidelines of Executing the Petroleum Industry Vision in Iran (N.I.O.C)
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Sharifian, Mohammad Ali (Supervisor) ; Mobini Dehkordi, Ali (Supervisor)
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Iran is a country with bright cultural and historical background, and rich natural resources. It is also one of the important oil and gas exporters with a special geographical situation. The world energy needs are increasing rapidly and that requires higher oil production. On the other hand, oil is Iran’s most important source of revenue and the country is highly dependent on oil export. Islamic republic of Iran’s (I.R.I) 1404 program is visioning the country to be the first producer of material in the region, the second producer of oil in OPEC, and the third producer of gas in the world. Although critical conditions can slow down the process to achieve the vision, implementing this vision...
Developing BIM Vision and BIM Strategic Plan for Municipalities
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Alvanchi, Amin (Supervisor)
Abstract
The municipality is an administrative, public and non-state institution that falls into the city district of the most countries’ administrative divisions. This institution has relatively autonomy and independent power. Municipalities are trying to apply the best approaches (Such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) as a procedure contributing the project management) to save time and money, as well as to satisfy the citizens in the implementation of civil projects. This study examines and evaluates the readiness of municipalities to modify the construction projects based on BIM. In addition, a pattern for identifying BIM applications, evaluating the organization readiness and the needs of...
BIM Strategic Plan & Vision Development for Transportation Infrastructure Projects in Iran
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Alvanchi, Amin (Supervisor)
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Transportation infrastructures are vital components of economy, security and welfare of a country. Construction projects of transportation infrastructures in our country are of great importance. Therefore, such projects have always faced with challenges and obstacles on their path to progress. In order that BIM to be accepted and implemented in the Department of Roads and Urban Development of Tehran Province (DRUT), as an organization that supervises and carries out construction projects over Tehran, the organization and its projects have been studied. BIM is defined as a mean to design and create different industrial tasks through modeling technology, interconnected groups of processes and...
Development of Airport Capacity Management Model Based on Decision Support System
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Pourtakdoust, Hossein (Supervisor)
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Airports are one of the most important elements of the aviation system that provide the ground infrastructure that is required for enabling or flight across the globe. Master Planning is currently the dominant approach to airport strategic planning. However, history shows that this approach can often result in costly mistakes. Because there are many stakeholders with conflicting objectives, deep uncertainty about the future, and many potential strategies, planners often narrow their scope by using a single forecast for the future, leaving out alternative strategies, and excluding stakeholders, resulting in a Master Plan that quickly becomes obsolete and may be opposed by some stakeholders....
Method Developing of National Technology Roadmap for Heavy Turbofan Engine Industry based on Conceptual design
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Mazaheri, Karim (Supervisor)
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In this thesis, a method developed for producing technology roadmap to identify technologies needed in design, construction and testing of turbofan engines. In the first phase and in scoping step, 10 years’ time horizon is determined. Then project organization and the role required are intended and after that the second phase that is technology roadmap formation is begun. Market identification, product identification by key success factors forms and experts are steps of this phase and determination of three generations of engine are results of product identification step. After that, the technology identification step is begun but simultaneously the technology mapping drawing steps for...
A Study of Factors Influencing the Startup Marketing Strategy
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Karami, Naser (Supervisor)
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Small and medium-sized businesses in all countries are an important part of the economy, but are strongly affected by rapid changes in the external environment, especially demographic and economic. These rapid changes are affecting the marketing of these businesses to meet customers' needs and expectations in order to maintain a competitive position in the market. Startups, as a group of small and medium-sized businesses, are no exception and are affected by the changes. To respond to these changes startups need to have a proper marketing strategy in order to survive failure in this dynamic environment. The marketing strategy of these organizations is different from the marketing strategy...
Examining Factors Influencing Top Managers' Decisions about Conducting Strategic Planning: a Case Study in Two Iranian Companies
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Alavi, Babak (Supervisor) ; Arasti, Mohammad Reza (Co-Advisor)
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Despite the profound impact of formal strategic planning on the performance of companies, there have been a few researches on the factors that influence the starting phase of strategic planning process. This research tries to identify these factors and clarify the decision process of conducting strategic planning. In other words, the main purpose of this study is to identify the rationales of companies for initiation of strategic planning. Regarding limited previous studies on this topic, especially about the decision process about conducting strategic planning in Iranian companies, the case study methodology is used. The study is conducted in two phases. In the first phase, five companies...
Proposing a Framework for IT Strategic Planning in Iranian Public Universities
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Kermanshah, Ali (Supervisor) ; Isaai, Mohammad Taghi (Supervisor)
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Information Technology Strategic Planning (ITSP) is performing strategic planning in Information Technology in alignment with overall goals' of organizations. An ITSP framework is consisted of stages, instructions, and models that should be used during an ITSP project. In this research an appropriate framework for public universities which are under supervision of Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran, is proposed –and not selected nor presented. Process, models, methodology and altogether framework of ITSP projects (in case of out-sourcing or doing in-house), have a vital role in the success of project. Therfore, Iranian public universities and also other educational and...
Toward A Framework For Business Activity Monitoring Based On Enterprise Service Bus
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Habibi, Jafar (Supervisor) ; Abtahi, Ebrahim (Co-Advisor)
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Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is a method for evaluating current condition of organization from the viewpoint of reaching to its strategic objectives and helps man-agerstobe informed straight forwardly about thecurren tstatu sofeach Key Performance Indicator (KPI). Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is an infrastructure for transferring web services between some software components that performs in Service Oriented Archi-tecture (SOA) domain and its goal is improving interoperability between components.As BAM needs to interact with other systems to receive event flow and ESB assists this interaction, there is a need to define a general framework to establish communication between them and...
Strategic Approach to Operational one in Supply Chain by Real Option Method
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Modarres Yazdi, Mohammad (Supervisor)
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Nowadays, considering intense competition and the need for continuous improvement in organizations, research and development projects have attracted the attention of many organizations. Due to the intense competition and turbulence in the competitive market, there is a need for flexibility in the strategic decisions. In this thesis, we introduce a systematic framework for executive decision making within a strategic planning framework using the real options valuation method. This two-stage model first takes value of strategic projects in different periods considering the market effects of using the real options opportunity approach. Then the effect of this selection on all the options is...
Providing a New Framework for Assessment and Performance Management Consistent with the Organization's Strategic Planning
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Fatahi Valilai, Omid (Supervisor)
Abstract
Staff assessment in a performance management system is the formal process for measuring and providing feedback to employees about the performance and the required actions to accomplish their responsibilities as well as understanding their abilities to plan and empower their future career path development. Enhancing the recovery of organizations creates a massive force that can drive growth and development programs and create organizational opportunities. For this reason, the hypothesis of this research is also given in this regard, which can be used to assess and evaluate the performance of social organizations by determining the criteria for evaluating performance and designing an...
An Approach to Align Business Process with Business Strategies
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Najafi, Mehdi (Supervisor)
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Todays, organizations are in a competitive global environment. Therefore, strategic planning followed by strategy implementation is critical for business success more than ever. The ability of organizations to implement strategies is important and useful for the organization’s success in the market and gives them a competitive advantage. Implementation is the process of turning strategies and plans into action in order to accomplish strategic objectives and goals. This research suggests an approach to align business processes with organizational strategies. This approach intends on managing processes based on using resources to achieve goals. The proposed model consists of three cycles which...
Strategic Planning of Emergency Departments and Prioritizing Patients by Different Capacity Allocation
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Kianfar, Farhad (Supervisor)
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Health care systems are among most important service centers in every society because they directly deal with human's life. Among manifold different kinds of health care systems, emergency services are the most significant ones. Increasing costs of the system is the most important problem of emergency services all over the world. These high costs have resulted in low quality of the service. So, proposing an effective plan for decreasing the costs is severely needed.
In this research, initially a long term and strategic plan is offered for emergency capacity in a determined period of time. In this plan, total costs of system including capacity as well as waiting time of patients are...
In this research, initially a long term and strategic plan is offered for emergency capacity in a determined period of time. In this plan, total costs of system including capacity as well as waiting time of patients are...
Presentation of a Model and Solving the Problem of Project Portfolio Selection Based on Project Scheduling using Two-Level NSGAII
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Shadrokh, Shahram (Supervisor)
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This project aims to study a situation in which several projects must be selected. The decision makers should select a subset of these projects taking into account the limitation of resources and scheduling. Project selection models generally do not consider schedule of project activities as part of selection process. On the other hand, except the cases where only one project is under process in each period, prioritizing the selected projects is not optimal not considering their scheduling. Projects scheduling in project activities level may increase the complexity of decision making for portfolio selection and expand the area of search for selection of projects portfolio. Therefore, all the...
Analysis and Study the Effect of Knowledge Management Implementation on Productivity Case Study: Tehran Regional Electric Company
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Mostafavi, Mostafa (Supervisor)
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The successful development and implementation of a knowledge management system requires principles and instructions compatible with the organization. In the absence of essential and domestic components of a given organization, the process of knowledge management implementation will fail to be successfully completed. There are now various models for the implementation of knowledge management; however, these models only recommend general strategic guidelines, hardly offering any specific strategic plans as to how organizations can successfully and effectively implement knowledge management. Since the promotion of productivity is the ultimate goal of knowledge management, the present research...
Design of Business Processes for a Company that Offers IT Products and Services
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Shadrokh, Shahram (Supervisor)
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Small and medium companies generally start with a technical idea and usually without any specific strategy and mission . Commonly at this time short-term goals determine activities and current processes of company. As the time after time that the company grows it faces great problems because of the lack of strategy and long-term goals and also lack of correct definition of business processes. In this thesis with selecting one of these companies that provides products and services in information technology fields, after investigating current situation and problems we will redefine the mission and objectives with strategic approach. Then we offer a suitable business model that fits company...
Developing a model for integrating decisions in technology roadmapping by fuzzy PROMETHEE
, Article Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems ; Volume 26, Issue 2 , 2014 , Pages 625-645 ; ISSN: 10641246 ; Daneshmand Mehr, M ; Arasti, M. R ; Sharif University of Technology
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Roadmapping, a tool of strategic planning, visualize where and how an organization will be in the future. Visualization of strategic programs assists people in the organization to understand the strategy which is a key for implementing strategy successfully. A generic roadmap is included of three main layers such as; market, product and technology. Decision making in each layer are done separately because of the nature of each layer. Therefore, decisions in roadmapping can be done with different tools. Whiles, decisions in each layer of the roadmap cannot be done without considering the upper or lower layer decisions. In this study we propose Fuzzy PROMETHEE method for integrating decisions...
Determining proper strategies for health, safety, security and environmental (HSSE) management system
, Article Work ; Volume 45, Issue 3 , 2013 , Pages 399-406 ; 10519815 (ISSN) ; Nasiri, P ; Taghdisi, M ; Abbaspour, M ; Arjmandi, R ; Kalatipor, O ; Sharif University of Technology
2013
Abstract
Today, managing an organization is concerned with many problems. Adopting proper strategies can promote an organization's survival. This study aimed at developing an appropriate HSSE Strategy for regional operation associated companies of Iran National Gas Company (INGS) using SWOT analysis. The analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of HSSE was carried out and according to the results suitable strategies were recommended. In this regard, senior and junior managers, supervisors, and experts active in regional operation associated companies of Iran National Gas Company participated in SWOT analysis from HSSE angle. Then, they selected the most applicable SWOT...
Evolutionary learning methodology: A case study of R&D strategy development
, Article Technological Forecasting and Social Change ; Volume 80, Issue 5 , 2013 , Pages 956-976 ; 00401625 (ISSN) ; Arasti, M. R ; Hounshell, D. A ; Sahebzamani, S ; Sharif University of Technology
2013
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This article concerns the notion of methodology in strategic management of R&D/technology. Though development of new tools and methods has received much attention during the recent decades, attention to understanding methodologies has remained disproportionally low. In this study we distinguish two methodologies that are used in strategic management of R&D/technology: planning methodology and evolutionary learning methodology. We mainly focus on defining and describing the origins, nature, and characteristics of the latter. We propose a framework for methodology selection by investigating context, content, and process factors. Using this framework, we provide supportive evidence for...
A strategic management model for evaluation of health, safety and environmental performance
, Article Environmental Monitoring and Assessment ; Volume 184, Issue 5 , 2012 , Pages 2981-2991 ; 01676369 (ISSN) ; Toutounchian, S ; Roayaei, E ; Nassiri, P ; Sharif University of Technology
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Strategic health, safety, and environmental management system (HSE-MS) involves systematic and cooperative planning in each phase of the lifecycle of a project to ensure that interaction among the industry group, client, contractor, stakeholder, and host community exists with the highest level of health, safety, and environmental standard performances. Therefore, it seems necessary to assess the HSE-MS performance of contractor(s) by a comparative strategic management model with the aim of continuous improvement. The present Strategic Management Model (SMM) has been illustrated by a case study and the results show that the model is a suitable management tool for decision making in a contract...