STRATEGIC PLANNING UNDER UNCERTAINTY: BUILDING THE METAMODEL

The rate of changes in an organization \u27s environment has increased significantly since the beginning of the information age. The traditional strategic planning process is not sufficient any more for a leading of the organization over time. SWOT analysis and residual uncertainty determining methods have appeared and they are helpful tool when overcoming the insufficiencies of traditional strategic planning. The beginning of the strategic planning cycle is one milestone where these methods should be implemented. Furthermore, they should be implemented at the beginning of each significant activity within strategic plan. Strategic planning, SWOT analysis, and residual uncertainty determining are considered as a whole, which is prerequisite for gathering all three of these methods into one methodology. A methodology is developed step by step through the definition of the metamodel, which is built by following the phases of strategic planning cycle. The proposed metamodel represents the data from the perspective of the strategic planning process, white the process and dynamic perspectives are not considered. The proposed metamode/ makes il easier to understand the strategic planning process, and at the same time logically connects all data the that has been generated through the strategic planning cycle. Furthermore, the data perspective of the metamodel can be used as a basis for the database schema development, in which the data generated by this process could be kept and updated. The proposed metamodel is not necessarily the final product. It could be further developed by adding more entities that will keep some other data, e.g. the results obtained by using some analytical tools for dealing with uncertainty

THE MODEL OF THE DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR

Modern solutions regarding the use of unstructured information are based on the concept of Content Management (CM), [08] and [09]. This is a good solution for those document contents that will be generated once the CM is in place, but the question remains of what to do with hundreds of millions of documents that have been generated over the course of many years in the public sector. This article analyzes some of the features of the existing document systems in the public sector, and then discusses the needs of business processes reengineering, which are concerned with generating official decisions of relevance for both individual and business end-users. Furthermore, we propose a practically feasible model for the Document Management Systems (DMS) design, based on modern information and communication technologies that can manage and support the use of documents already in the system. In the end, this article takes a look at a general model for the calculation of costs and benefits associated with an introducton of a new DMS

Digital Maturity of Higher Education Institution: A meta model of the Analytical Network Process (ANP) and Decision EXpert (DEX)

Digital maturity of higher education institutions (HEI) becomes more and more important as the influence of ICT grows. In this paper, the methods Analytic Network Process (ANP) and Decision EXpert (DEX) are presented and demonstrated in the example of domains for digital maturity of HEIs. The ANP is a quantitative method, DEX is a qualitative method and digital maturity level (DML) is a two-component combination of results for the two methods’ application. Additionally, the ERA model of those methods combined to calculate two-component DML of HEIs is designed, and its process will be specified and evaluated in future researc

Digital Maturity of Higher Education Institution: A meta model of the Analytical Network Process (ANP) and Decision EXpert (DEX)

Digital maturity of higher education institutions (HEI) becomes more and more important as the influence of ICT grows. In this paper, the methods Analytic Network Process (ANP) and Decision EXpert (DEX) are presented and demonstrated in the example of domains for digital maturity of HEIs. The ANP is a quantitative method, DEX is a qualitative method and digital maturity level (DML) is a two-component combination of results for the two methods’ application. Additionally, the ERA model of those methods combined to calculate two-component DML of HEIs is designed, and its process will be specified and evaluated in future researc

Analytical Approach in Solving Specific Queuing Theory Problem

Problems from the area of queuing theory can be solved by different methods. If the problem is so simple, that it is possible to find the corresponding classic model of queuing theory, we can simply use the existing expressions defining the main parameters of classic model. More complicated problems, which are not classic and look like real practical problems, need deeper analysis. There are two ways of solving them. One is simulation, which means statistical analysis of the results of a few times repeating simulation. If the real system we are trying to describe is so complex that it has a lot of possible states, simulation method can be used. Otherwise, if we are able, while solving a queuing problem, to make some presumptions not destroying the real picture of the problem, analytical method is recommended. In this work we present such analytical solution

Analytical Approach in Solving Specific Queuing Theory Problem

Problems from the area of queuing theory can be solved by different methods. If the problem is so simple, that it is possible to find the corresponding classic model of queuing theory, we can simply use the existing expressions defining the main parameters of classic model. More complicated problems, which are not classic and look like real practical problems, need deeper analysis. There are two ways of solving them. One is simulation, which means statistical analysis of the results of a few times repeating simulation. If the real system we are trying to describe is so complex that it has a lot of possible states, simulation method can be used. Otherwise, if we are able, while solving a queuing problem, to make some presumptions not destroying the real picture of the problem, analytical method is recommended. In this work we present such analytical solution