1,720,975 research outputs found
Proposed Strategy Formulation and The Implementation for PT. XYZ
Full text linkIndonesian paint market is one of the fastest growing markets in the world (CAGR 2009-2011 at 8.3 %) and the market still has huge potency to grow due to the paint consumption per capita (PCP) still low at 2.8 kg/person (world PCP at 6-7 kg/person). On the other side, paint companies currently faced pressure on profit margin due to the more strict competition and increase of the key raw materials price (eg. TiO2 and binder). PT.XYZ, a paint company, has established in Indonesia since 1983. By 2010, its sales just accounted for 2.2 % market share, and just use 48.3 % of its total production capacity. From the external and internal environmental analysis concluded that the main problems (weaknesses) faced by XYZ are the lack of advertising programs that cause low brand awareness of its products, and lack of high skills marketing human resources. The root cause of the problems is the absence of strategic management processes at PT. XYZ. The purpose of this research is to propose the strategy formulation and the implementation plan for PT. XYZ to improve its performance through strategic management processes. The corporate strategy generated from SWOT matrix is “concentration (horizontal) growth strategyâ€. The alternative strategies to accomplish the growth strategy are generated through Ansoff matrix that include: market penetration, product development, market expansion to new geographical markets, and enter into industrial paint segment. The proposed business strategy is “differentiation†strategy via its distribution, products, and services. The functional strategy generated via TOWS matrix are categorized into marketing strategy, operation strategy, financial strategy, and human resources strategy. A Focused Group Discussion (FGD) was performed to evaluate, select, and make prioritizing of the selected strategies. The selected strategies and the priority are: market penetration strategy, product development strategy, and market expansion to other geographical markets. The implementation of the selected strategies are through developing integrated programs and actions plan at each functional departments. The marketing programs are focused to increase its product brand awareness and increase sales via advertising, sales promotion and more focus in project channels. The operation programs are increase actual production capacity and establish efficient operation. The human resources programs are to provide the HR needed to execute the selected strategies and establish good HR management practices at SCI for the long-run program. Then, the financial program is raising external funds and manage funds efficient and effectively. Key words: strategic management, corporate strategy, business strategy, functional strategy, program and action pla
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
- …
