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Todd S Braver - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Strategic Insight and age related goal neglect influence risky decision making
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2012Co-Authors: Andrew Westbrook, Bruna Martins, Tal Yarkoni, Todd S BraverAbstract:Maximizing long-run gains often requires taking on some degree of risk, yet decision-makers often exhibit risk aversion (RA), rejecting risky prospects even when these have higher expected value than safer alternatives. We investigated whether explicit strategy instruction and practice can decrease prepotent RA, and whether aging impacts the efficacy of such an intervention. Participants performed a paired lottery task with options varying in risk and magnitude, both before and after practice with a similar task that encouraged maximization of expected value and instruction to use this strategy in risky decisions. In both younger and older adults, strategy training reduced RA. Although RA was age-equivalent at baseline, larger training effects were observed in younger adults. These effects were not explained by risk-related (i.e., affective) interference effects or computation ability, but were consistent with a progressive, age-related neglect of the strategy across trials. Our findings suggest that strategy training can diminish RA, but that training efficacy is reduced among older adults, potentially due to goal-neglect. We discuss implications for neural mechanisms that may distinguish older and younger adults’ risky decision-making.
Biswajit Mahanty - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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India’s national food security programme: a Strategic Insight
Sādhanā, 2018Co-Authors: Maheswar Singha Mahapatra, Biswajit MahantyAbstract:Indian National Food Security Programme, with a goal to provide highly subsidized food grains to more than 800 million people in every nook and corner of the vast country, faces Strategic challenges related to production, procurement, storage, transportation, distribution, finance, and organization. While the production issues are related to low yield, small farm size, and lack of financial support, the procurement process is skewed and lacks integration with the markets. The storage facilities are inadequate and are non-optimally located. Transportation facilities lack coordination leading to multiple loading and unloading of the food grains. Leakage and improper distribution of food grains are also big challenges. Very high subsidy, inefficient processes, and a large work force have brought to the fore the question of financial viability of the programme. There are also organizational issues related to payment disparity and resistance to labor reforms. The paper has also given a framework for efficient implementation of the programme using cloud system with effective procurement and stock management policy measures.
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india s national food security programme a Strategic Insight
Sadhana-academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, 2018Co-Authors: Maheswar Singha Mahapatra, Biswajit MahantyAbstract:Indian National Food Security Programme, with a goal to provide highly subsidized food grains to more than 800 million people in every nook and corner of the vast country, faces Strategic challenges related to production, procurement, storage, transportation, distribution, finance, and organization. While the production issues are related to low yield, small farm size, and lack of financial support, the procurement process is skewed and lacks integration with the markets. The storage facilities are inadequate and are non-optimally located. Transportation facilities lack coordination leading to multiple loading and unloading of the food grains. Leakage and improper distribution of food grains are also big challenges. Very high subsidy, inefficient processes, and a large work force have brought to the fore the question of financial viability of the programme. There are also organizational issues related to payment disparity and resistance to labor reforms. The paper has also given a framework for efficient implementation of the programme using cloud system with effective procurement and stock management policy measures.
Monique Ueltschy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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green lean and global supply chains
International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 2010Co-Authors: Diane Mollenkopf, Hannah Stolze, Wendy L Tate, Monique UeltschyAbstract:Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship among green, lean, and global supply chain strategies as found in the literature, with emphasis on the concurrent implementation of these three Strategic initiatives, in order to develop a research agenda to guide theoretically based future research that informs managerial decision making.Design/methodology/approach – An extensive literature review is conducted to examine research and practice with respect to the concurrent implementation of green, lean, and global supply chain strategies.Findings – An in‐depth examination of the literature revealed drivers, barriers, converging, and contradictory points across the three supply chain strategies. Future research opportunities fall into four major themes: the need for theoretically grounded research, the need for a multi‐functional approach, the need for a systems approach that adds Strategic Insight, and the need for integrated measurement application. Managerial aspects are highlighted in ...
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Green, lean, and global supply chains
International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 2010Co-Authors: Diane Mollenkopf, Hannah Stolze, Wendy L Tate, Monique UeltschyAbstract:Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship among green, lean, and global supply chain strategies as found in the literature, with emphasis on the concurrent implementation of these three Strategic initiatives, in order to develop a research agenda to guide theoretically based future research that informs managerial decision making. Design/methodology/approach – An extensive literature review is conducted to examine research and practice with respect to the concurrent implementation of green, lean, and global supply chain strategies. Findings – An in-depth examination of the literature revealed drivers, barriers, converging, and contradictory points across the three supply chain strategies. Future research opportunities fall into four major themes: the need for theoretically grounded research, the need for a multi-functional approach, the need for a systems approach that adds Strategic Insight, and the need for integrated measurement application. Managerial aspects are highlighted in the discussion of the metrics across the three Strategic interfaces and integrated life cycle management is suggested as a framework for measurement application across the three supply chain strategies. Originality/value – Separate literature streams have arisen to address issues in green, lean, and global supply chain management, but research has largely neglected the intersection of these three strategies practiced by multinational organizations. The current research synthesizes the literature addressing the intersections of green, lean, and global supply chain management, and suggests a research agenda to redress gaps in the literature.
Andrew Westbrook - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Strategic Insight and age related goal neglect influence risky decision making
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2012Co-Authors: Andrew Westbrook, Bruna Martins, Tal Yarkoni, Todd S BraverAbstract:Maximizing long-run gains often requires taking on some degree of risk, yet decision-makers often exhibit risk aversion (RA), rejecting risky prospects even when these have higher expected value than safer alternatives. We investigated whether explicit strategy instruction and practice can decrease prepotent RA, and whether aging impacts the efficacy of such an intervention. Participants performed a paired lottery task with options varying in risk and magnitude, both before and after practice with a similar task that encouraged maximization of expected value and instruction to use this strategy in risky decisions. In both younger and older adults, strategy training reduced RA. Although RA was age-equivalent at baseline, larger training effects were observed in younger adults. These effects were not explained by risk-related (i.e., affective) interference effects or computation ability, but were consistent with a progressive, age-related neglect of the strategy across trials. Our findings suggest that strategy training can diminish RA, but that training efficacy is reduced among older adults, potentially due to goal-neglect. We discuss implications for neural mechanisms that may distinguish older and younger adults’ risky decision-making.
Carina Seidel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Strategic Insight in the capacity efficiency with hospital data
2015Co-Authors: Carina SeidelAbstract:This research focuses on the Strategic Insight of operational business capacity and volume of the patient care process. The reason for this research was to generate new Insights on how to monitor, report and measure the operational business capacity and volume of a hospital. The approach is problem oriented and conducted at the Radboudumc in the Netherlands. The design science research methodology from Pfeffers, Tuunanen, Rothenberger, and Chatterjee (2007)was used. This is an approach which focuses on the development of information systems. The objective of the solution is to gather information from the hospital systems to give Insight in the operational business capacity. In the literature there was no solution found which deals with the same problem. Therefore literature study about strategy, management information systems, Balanced Scorecard, business capacity were conducted to create a theoretical concept. This results in an ideal BSC for the healthcare and indicators for the perspective; internal process. In the design and development phase the design construct was created, which represents the development from the organisation strategy to the internal process perspective. Based on the design construct the testable construct is developed which includes the measures. The indicators within the testable construct are based on the literature. Therefore interviews have been hold to gather information. The testable construct emphasises the outcome and performance drivers according to Kaplan and Norton (1996). For the demonstration of the testable construct a prototype in Tableau was developed, which visually presents the indicator with hospital data. The validation was conducted in two phases. The first phase was to transform the desired abstract; the testable construct, to the actual abstract; the prototype. In this phase the availability of the data was checked and the current reports were considered. The second phase was the iteration process which was used to develop the prototype. There were eleven interviews hold with ten internal experts and one external on the topic of operational business capacity and volume. During the first phase the availability of the data was a concern. There is only one performance driver available of a total of nine. The performance drivers are crucial to the construct. They report the measures and give the critical Insight to determine the efficiency of the patientcare process. In the second phase the interviewees agreed that the current report holds insufficient information about the operational business capacity and volume. The experts confirmed that the testable construct identified the information which is needed to monitor the operational business capacity and volume. The performance drivers are identified by the experts as relevant. The prototype cannot provide Strategic Insight, due to the lack of data about performance drivers and that the Strategic goals cannot (current formulation) not be direct related to the operational business capacity and volume. Yet the prototype was seen as an improvement, which gave them more information and new Insights. The contribution of this research is the model on how to develop an information system (Tableau) for hospitals about the Strategic Insight in operational business capacity and volume. This model is applied to the Radboudumc and the measurements are validated by experts. The BSC model can be used to develop information and indicators for the other perspectives. This will need further studies to gather information. The current prototype can be used to develop targets and generate Strategic goals. If the information about the realised capacity and the available capacity can be gathered, the historical data can be used to forecast the information.
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Strategic Insight in the Capacity & Efficiency with Hospital data
2015Co-Authors: Carina SeidelAbstract:This research focuses on the Strategic Insight of operational business capacity and volume of the patient care process. The reason for this research was to generate new Insights on how to monitor, report and measure the operational business capacity and volume of a hospital. The approach is problem oriented and conducted at the Radboudumc in the Netherlands. The design science research methodology from Pfeffers, Tuunanen, Rothenberger, and Chatterjee (2007)was used. This is an approach which focuses on the development of information systems. The objective of the solution is to gather information from the hospital systems to give Insight in the operational business capacity. In the literature there was no solution found which deals with the same problem. Therefore literature study about strategy, management information systems, Balanced Scorecard, business capacity were conducted to create a theoretical concept. This results in an ideal BSC for the healthcare and indicators for the perspective; internal process. In the design and development phase the design construct was created, which represents the development from the organisation strategy to the internal process perspective. Based on the design construct the testable construct is developed which includes the measures. The indicators within the testable construct are based on the literature. Therefore interviews have been hold to gather information. The testable construct emphasises the outcome and performance drivers according to Kaplan and Norton (1996). For the demonstration of the testable construct a prototype in Tableau was developed, which visually presents the indicator with hospital data. The validation was conducted in two phases. The first phase was to transform the desired abstract; the testable construct, to the actual abstract; the prototype. In this phase the availability of the data was checked and the current reports were considered. The second phase was the iteration process which was used to develop the prototype. There were eleven interviews hold with ten internal experts and one external on the topic of operational business capacity and volume. During the first phase the availability of the data was a concern. There is only one performance driver available of a total of nine. The performance drivers are crucial to the construct. They report the measures and give the critical Insight to determine the efficiency of the patientcare process. In the second phase the interviewees agreed that the current report holds insufficient information about the operational business capacity and volume. The experts confirmed that the testable construct identified the information which is needed to monitor the operational business capacity and volume. The performance drivers are identified by the experts as relevant. The prototype cannot provide Strategic Insight, due to the lack of data about performance drivers and that the Strategic goals cannot (current formulation) not be direct related to the operational business capacity and volume. Yet the prototype was seen as an improvement, which gave them more information and new Insights. The contribution of this research is the model on how to develop an information system (Tableau) for hospitals about the Strategic Insight in operational business capacity and volume. This model is applied to the Radboudumc and the measurements are validated by experts. The BSC model can be used to develop information and indicators for the other perspectives. This will need further studies to gather information. The current prototype can be used to develop targets and generate Strategic goals. If the information about the realised capacity and the available capacity can be gathered, the historical data can be used to forecast the information.