Strategic level

At the strategic level, boiler water treatment practice is essentially the planned, actioned, and documented management of the waterside of pre-boiler, boiler, and post-boiler plant equipment and systems. A key objective is to identify, obtain, and maintain operational and economic benefits for the plant owners, including maintaining the cleanliness and structural integrity of the boiler, its various water-steam cycle auxiliaries, and other components for a specified (long-term) period and to some quantifiable standard. 

Moreover, while analysing the accidents and their precursors it was shown that often accidents are inadvertently caused by the higher control levels (i.e. the tactical and strategic level) in organizations, as had already been observed in the first experiment of the small company. The second experiment reconfirmed the strength of the developed 7-stage protocol. 

The three hierarchical levels are interconnected by information flowing from the strategic level via the tactical level to the operational level, and the other way around. From upper to the lower level, the information flow is related to the environment on the strategic level, which is the organizational values and norms. However, as Thompson (Thompson, 1967) identified, the tactical control level can allow the operational level to operate as a relatively closed system. The tactical level provides a buffer between the uncertain environment and stability of resources required for uninterrupted production on the operational level. In this way the influences from the external environment on the operational level will be reduced to a minimum. The information flow going from lower to upper level is related to the operational process or transformations. The top down flow provides the restrictions and conditions for the transformation, while the bottom up flow provides information about the status of inputs, outputs, and resources of the transformations. The horizontal information flows are between different control elements on one hierarchical control level. 

X. Chemistry is not only relevant on the operational level in the chemical process industry. Also on tactical and strategical level it plays an important role in all types of industries. 

Global models are focused mainly on global network design, transfer price and tax optimization on a more strategic level. 

At a strategic level of personal planning, value statements lead to mission statements, but to actualize the lofty aims of die mission statement, it is important to visit and revisit your goals. Goal setting feeds your to-do list with activities that are worth doing—with activities that help you accomplish your life s mission. 

The above-described contributions address the tactical/strategic levels of the decisionmaking process in centralized FISCs. However, such models are not appropriate as operational decision support tools, which need be able to capture the real dynamic behavior of the system to effectively aid in the operational instance of the FISC. FISCs possess particular operational features as compared with typical chains, that makes... 

Following the example set by the Fifth Fleet, each operational fleet commander should get started with an operational net assessment that provides a vision of both mission failure—at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels— and the essential ingredients of mission sustainment and success. 

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