data is a necessity in not only formulating a business strategy‚ but in monitoring the execution of that strategy. The use of data for effective decision making is not a new concept‚ but since the introduction of the balanced scorecard by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in 1996‚ the use of data to support decision making has taken off. In addition‚ the adoption of enabling technologies has accelerated the use of data-driven decision making. Whether it’s an operations manager monitoring key operational
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are diverse in different regions around the world in reference to the prolific writer Caren Kaplan and her essay: Scattered Hegemonies. In Kaplan’s Introduction: Transnational Feminist Practices and Questions of Postmodernity‚ Kaplan along with her research group “were looking for ways to broaden and deepen the analysis of gender in relation to a multiplicity of issues that affect women’s lives” (Kaplan‚ 1). The collaborated effort that was formulated to work across differences in culture‚ discipline
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1987‚ by Robert Kaplan and Robin Cooper as a chapter in their book Accounting and Management: a Field Study Perspective. Kaplan and Cooper’s focus was on manufacturing environments where increasing technology and productivity improvements have decreased the percentage of costs represented by direct labor and materials (Weiner). “Traditionally cost accountants had arbitrarily added a broad percentage of expenses into the direct costs to allow for the indirect costs‚” states Robert Kaplan‚ a Baker Foundation
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Implementation: ADNOC Distribution Case Study”‚ Proceedings‚ 9th ADIPEC‚ Abu Dhabi‚ UAE. Kaplan R.S. and Norton D.P. (1992). “The Balanced Scorecard - Measures That Drive Performance”‚ Harvard Business Review‚ Vol.70‚ Jan-Feb Kaplan R.S. and Norton D.P. (1993). “Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work”‚ Harvard Business Review‚ Sept-Oct Kaplan R.S. and Norton D.P. (1996). “Translating Strategy into Action”‚ HBS Press‚ USA Kaplan R.S. and Norton D.P. (2000). “The Strategy Focussed Organisation”‚ HBS Press‚ USA
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has‚ in part‚ focused on their historic nature‚ which ensures that they reveal a great deal about the company’s past actions but nothing about its future alertness (Merchant‚ 1985; Chakravarthy‚ 1986; Schoenfeld‚ 1986; Dearden‚ 1987; AICPA‚ 1994; Kaplan and Norton‚ 1996). Accounting figures do not emphasize the elements
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non-financial measures of performance‚ allowing the firm to pinpoint its strategic objectives via balancing four perspectives – financial‚ customers‚ internal business processes‚ and learning and growth – to measure firm performance (Kaplan and Norton‚ 1992; Kaplan and Norton‚ 1996b)‚ the paper sought to explore how balanced business scorecards were designed and to what extent of success they were implemented at Rang Dong Plastic Joint-Stock Company (RDP) in terms of its organizational structure
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Part 1 - Kaplan ’s Goal and Rationale in Adopting TPSDr. Gary Kaplan very much believed in the corporate culture of Virginia Mason Medical Center (VMMC) and in the case study states that it was the collaborative team approach that attracted him to VMMC. However‚ when he took over as CEO in 2000‚ the medical center was losing money for its first time in history. Kaplan had to move VMMC to become a learning organization that could be lean‚ and compete within a very competitive industry during a period
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where Anderton makes his way to Kaplan at the rally for a greeting before murdering him. Through the wide use of metaphorical language and other carefully chosen descriptors such as adjectives and adverbs‚ Dick conveys how autocratic power suffocates a population of free will and imposes extreme influence on the people. Since there is no presence of any kind of personality or individuality‚ the very thing exercising
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thinks that Witwer somehow put his name on the card so he would murder him and lose his job. When John tells his wife about this‚ she proves him wrong by showing him that the victim’s name on the card is not Witwer’s. The name on the card was Leopold Kaplan; a man John had never even heard of before. This led him to become even more paranoid than before. If it wasn’t Witwer who set him up‚ then who was it? And why did they set him up to kill a man he didn’t even know? Later on in the novella‚ John becomes
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diagnosis and last follow-up alive (or other death) was treated as a censored observation. The KAPM procedure was invoked to produce a Kaplan-Meier survival analysis. Annotated outputs of the procedure are shown below and on the next several pages between the horizontal lines. A graphical representation of exactly the same output appears in figure 7 as the corresponding Kaplan-Meier survival curve. Keep in mind‚ however‚ that any MR patients who were cured by the intervention would show
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