Journal of Management Future Research
Year:2013 | Volume:24 | Issue:98|Papers Count:9

Strategic accordance is defined as proper and timely implementation of information technology in accordance with business strategies, points and needs.Review of literature shows a positive interaction between competitive strategies, information technology and proper function of the organization. Managers, who succeeded to integrate these strategies, emphasize on the vital role of this integration.This study examines the effect of congruity between organizational and marketing strategies, based on miles –snow classification (defensive, analytical and prospective strategies). After this classification, ideal profiles for each of these strategies are proposed.10 top ranking companies in the field of food industry comprise the study population, which were analyzed via 60 questionnaires.Two main questionnaires including 15 and 18 questions were designated to test theories in surveillance section. Cronbach's alpha co efficient for reliability of result was 0.786. Pierson test was used to evaluate factors involving data process. Finally relationship between strategic accordance and proper function of the organization was evaluated.

Decision trees technique as one of the data mining techniques, is used in credit scoring of bank customers to classify them in order to offer credit facilities. The main problem is in complexity of decision trees, excessive size, lack of flexibility and low accuracy in classification. The purpose of this paper is to propose a compound model in the optimization of decision trees by using genetic algorithm technique. It appears that genetic algorithm can choose appropriate features and build decision trees to reduce complexity and increase flexibility in decision trees. In the proposed compound model, the credit data is initially divided into two clusters by Simple means clustering technique. On the next step, the important credit scoring features in the data set are selected using genetic algorithm and the five feature selection algorithm based on Filter, Wrapper and Embedded approaches. Subsequently, five decision trees based on C4.5 algorithm in each cluster are constructed with a set of the selected features.The best decision trees in each cluster, are selected and combined based on the desired optimality criteria, mentioned in this paper, to construct the final decision tree. WEKA machine learning tool and GATree software were used to in this purpose. Results show that using the proposed compound model in building decision trees leads to increased classification accuracy, compared to other algorithms in this paper. However the algorithm complexity of the proposed compound model is more than some of the classification algorithms compared in this paper.

Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to compare the characteristics of male and female librarians in the public universities located in Tehran.Method: A descriptive survey method was used for this study. Sample population for the study was 56 managers and 104 staff in the libraries Kharazmi University, Science and Technology University, Amir Kabir University and Tehran University.Results: In the performance of the managers, only control and evaluation as components of management were different among males and females. Other components were found to have no meaningful difference. In performance. Also, motivation and management styles were different among the male and female staffs. Job satisfaction showed to be higher among male managers.Library managers on the whole believe that they are performing their tasks in a good level, but the staffs believe they are performing in a medium level.

The Balanced Scorecard is widely adopted performance management framework first introduced in the early 1990s. More recently it has been proposed as the basic for a strategic management system. Strategy mapping is the most important task in building a Balanced Scorecard system. Strategy mapping is the process for visually making cause and effect relationships between all possible strategic objectives in an organization. The process for building and constructing a strategy map is a human centric activity which could be considered as the combination and integration of all knowledge and preferences of the managerial boards.From the view point of strategic decision making in an organization, the process for building a strategy map, could be viewed in a general body of a unified group decision making context. If we see the strategy map, as a structural modeling framework for making the cause and effect relationships among the strategic objectives, it is possible to deploy Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) as a framework for structural modeling approach subject to the problem. The DEMATEL method gathers collective knowledge to capture the causal relationships between strategic criteria. The model is especially practical and useful for visualizing the structure of complicated causal relationships with matrices or digraphs. In this process, the integrated structure can be offered for the macro level balanced scorecard and in addition to the mathematic modeling of cause and effect relationships, a decision support system could be presented in the execution frame that may increase the efficiency of the balanced scorecard management system.

The present research assesses the performance of the National documentation Organization & Library of the IRI by using EFQM model of organizational excellence. The objective of the present research is to investigate the level of quality management of this organization based on the criteria and basic standards of EFQM model (European Foundation of Quality Management).In this case study, analytical survey is used to navigate through and compare results with the EFQM model assessment. The research society includes 23 top managers and also the staff of the National Documentation Organization & Library of the IRI. The samples of 300 staff are chosen according to Julie Jonin and Michael Mark pattern (1983).The questionnaire has 50 questions which are distributed among the samples. Information collected is analyzed by Statistical inference and the relationship between variables is analyzed by SPSS. Results showed that the Documentation organization& NLI is achieved to national rate of 643.87 total points, which in comparison to 1000 points is in preliminary level among selected award winners. And there is a significant statistical difference between achieved scores of statistical groups and the model of EFQM criteria.

IS strategic planning towards realizing organizational is one of the most important topics among Executive managers of companies. It is known as strategic alignment. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the maturity of strategic alignment in Irans Port and sailing organization. the alignment factors identified in Luftman strategic alignment maturity model form the basis of the present study. Luftman model is comprised of five levels, each consisting of six factors. The statistical population of this study consists of CEOs, CIOs and IT experts of port and sailing organization who are 55 people and were chosen by cases and samples. The data was collected using an eight parts questionnaire to determine organization's current status.The result of the analysis of data indicates that according to the idea of manager, the port and sailing organization is at the third level of strstegic alignment maturity (stablished focused).the perspective of the improvement is toward forth level of the strategic alignment maturity.

In this article, a model has been provided in order to help to develop the selection and evaluation process of research and development projects in multi-projects organizations. This research is multi-criteria method for evaluation of R& D projects based on the integration of two different management methodologies. Concepts of balanced scorecard (BSC) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) which each is a useful tool in measurements and analysis of organization work, has been taken and combined in DEA-BSC model.This approach is based on data envelopment analysis, development of weight restriction, balanced scorecard and is following to secure three regular organization goals which are effectiveness, efficiency, and balance (in use of inputs and outputs).In this article, two techniques of BSC in work index design part, and DAE technique in evaluation of decision making units part according to design indexes has been studies.At the end, DEA-BSC technique for evaluation of 25 projects in automobile part making industry has been used.