Strategic planning purpose

Within each plant class to be considered the production process consists of a number of chemical and/or physical tasks. While the type and/or quantity of input factors such as raw materials and utilities might differ significantly between products, the characteristics of the production process within a single plant class are usually similar (except for multi-purpose plants). Therefore, the activities taking place within a single plant class can normally be combined for strategic planning purposes. The overall capacity of a plant is then determined based on the "bottleneck" (usually the ma-... 

Describe the purpose of strategic planning, and illustrate the specific steps to develop a strategic plan. 

Having no real management training or experience, Ted recognized the need to learn more about the purpose of strategic planning and the process that will be required to develop the departmental strategic plan. 

As noted earlier, the mission statement creates a sense of purpose for both the employees and customers of the organization. Employees of Kerr Drug know that their customers will expect reliable and comprehensive services and therefore that they should strive to provide that each day. This chapter later discusses how pharmacies such as Kerr Drug that have well-defined missions and that engage in strategic planning are more likely to be successful. 

Finally, the individual elements of the plan are put together and the strategic plan is readjusted to a more exact time schedule. The revised strategic plan which summarizes the major project parts can now serve as a useful master plan and project overview to present and justify the project in general. Reference to the sub-plans should be made to allocate the resources and for progress monitoring purposes. 

In April 2000, ACPE developed a Web-based survey as part of a strategic planning initiative. The purpose of the Web-based survey was to ... 

Reaction Retrieval Systems - A classical application of computers in chemistry is information retrieval, and chemical reactions are amenable to this type of treatment.34 when a strategic plan for synthesis has been established, there is still a need for detailed consideration of reagents and reaction conditions - and a Theilheimer type system may be best for this purpose. Such a file of reactions is typically searched by type of starting material, type of product, type of reaction, or conditions. Such a system usually contains very specific reactions of... 

Principal Risk Drivers For purpose of strategic planning, site classification data may also be analyzed to identify the risk drivers of greatest importance to the total program risk score. For example, if air impacts were identified as the largest contributor to the total risk score,... 

Corporate compatibility What is the probability that the two organizations will mesh smoothly in terms of (1) culture, for example, both firms place a value on keeping commitments, constancy of purpose, employees valued as long-term assets, and external stakeholders considered important, and (2) business, for example, strategic plans and objectives consistent, commitment to partnership ideas, and wUlingness to change ... 

It is important that a laboratory does not concentrate on simple task automation, such as sample preparation, but develops an overall strategic plan for automating the whole laboratory environment. The reason for this is that analysis is not performed for its own sake, except for educational purposes, but to provide information upon which decisions are made. The purpose of an analytical laboratory is to provide reliable information in a cost-effective and timely manner. To concentrate solely on automating bench-level tasks is inappropriate. The data generated by automated systems have to be interpreted and the resultant information distributed to the organization where decisions will be made. 

Another drawback that has to be taken into consideration is the significance and the relative importance of the different factors in the whole process with respect to the environmental impact, which involves life cycle assessment (LCA) for strategic planning and marketing purposes (ISO, 1998). This study is used to compare the performance of a product against several competing products and to search for hot spots in the life cycle that might require performance improvements (Shonnard et al., 2003 Vink et al., 2003). 

The purpose of this research was to explore the representation, manipulation, and utilization of strategic knowledge in organic synthesis planning. The method we decided to explore was to create an axiomatic theory to replace our intuitive theory about chemical synthesis. This formal method of reasoning is very powerful in that it completely eliminates any questions about the method used to reach a conclusion. Since any conclusions reached would be theorems of the axiomatic theory, the acceptability of the conclusions rests completely on the acceptability of the postulates and not upon the method of reasoning. We are then free to focus on the chemical principles which are provided as postulates. 

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