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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... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

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.... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

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...