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Strategy
Published in Wanda Grimsgaard, Design and Strategy, 2023
Participants: Who participates in the strategic workshop is decisive for the outcome. Overall goals and strategies for a company are decided by the owners, the board and the management. It is therefore crucial that some of these participate. There should always be decision-makers among the participants so that the process will not need to be approved at a later stage by someone who was not present. In addition, it is often an advantage to have employees from different parts of the company who can contribute knowledge and experience that is useful for the process, such as people in marketing, production, or IT. An important synergy is that employees gain ownership of the strategy process and can contribute to the result that is developed.
Introduction
Published in Eberhard Lucke, Edgar Amaro Ronces, Leveraging Synergies Between Refining and Petrochemical Processes, 2020
Eberhard Lucke, Edgar Amaro Ronces
Consequently, there is no synergy in mathematics. 2 + 2 will always be 4. There is no case to be made in which 2 + 2 may result in a value greater than 4. Luckily for us, this logic doesn’t apply to all disciplines, and especially when it comes to humans and human behavior, other rules apply. In a more contemporary definition, synergy is the interaction of two or more entities, for example, individuals, substances, or organizations, to produce a combined effect or outcome greater than the sum of their separate effects or outcomes. Based on this definition, synergy can be used as a synonym for collaboration, cooperation, or teamwork and vice versa.
Conducting and Analyzing Group Sessions
Published in Karen L. McGraw, Karan Harbison, User-Centered Requirements: The Scenario-Based Engineering Process, 2020
Karen L. McGraw, Karan Harbison
Synergy is the creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. It enables groups to accomplish more than the total of their members' individual capabilities. Part of this is due to the fact that groups tend to take more risks than individuals working alone. Synergy also is believed to help well-managed group sessions yield more creative, innovative solutions than an individual does (Schermerhorn, Hunt, & Osborn, 1991).
Business process management success framework for transition economies
Published in Information Systems Management, 2018
Renata Gabryelczyk, Narcyz Roztocki
According to ISO 9001 standards, process approach refers to managing interrelated processes and constitutes the quality management principle as the starting point for building a quality management system (Fonseca, 2015). From the results of many comparative studies on total quality management or lean management and BPM, it can be concluded that they share the same fundamental approach to organizational change with business processes with their improvement a common basis. Furthermore, an integrated approach to the implementation of mentioned concepts and BPM can allow a company to achieve synergy in performance improvement (Martonova, 2013; Naslund, 2008). Similarly, knowledge management implementation occurs under a process management umbrella. Identification, acquisition, presentation, and documentation of knowledge are not independent tasks in isolation from the process management and should be carried out within the processes (Bitkowska, 2015). In addition, the application of activity-based costing provides information on the costs of processes and resources, of particular interest to BPM practitioners (Cannavacciuolo, Illario, Ippolito, & Ponsiglione, 2015), and should be taken into account in the context of BPM implementation.
Human–robot interaction in industrial collaborative robotics: a literature review of the decade 2008–2017
Published in Advanced Robotics, 2019
Abdelfetah Hentout, Mustapha Aouache, Abderraouf Maoudj, Isma Akli
An industrial cobotic system may include one/several robot(s) and one/several human(s) collaborating in synergy to accomplish tasks. As indicated in [62], to characterize a cobotic system, it is necessary to pay attention to humans, tasks, robots and system interactions.