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Book of abstracts of 13th International May Conference on Strategic Management – IMKSM17
Book of abstracts of 13th International May Conference on Strategic Management – IMKSM17
The paper analyzes strategic planning of supply chains of contemporary companies. Strategic planning process is viewed in context of its relationship with other planning levels. Typical goals and tasks of strategic supply chain planning are formalized. Key methods of strategic modeling including heuristic, simulation, and mathematical programming are analyzed in terms of their strengths and weaknesses. Author proposes basic classification of models and formalizes structure of a typical supply chain model. Systematic overview of popular mathematical and business software in the research area is provided. It is highlighted that presented in the paper systemized results of analysis of strategic supply chain planning domain were used in developing corresponding methodological principles and strategy for a number of leading international companies.
The article addresses the economic complex of Saint Petersburg. It evaluates the current state of the economic affairs in Russian Federation in connection with support programmes, measures and instruments, developed to counter the economic growth slowdown. In particular, it analyzes anti-crisis programme mechanisms in Saint Petersburg and other regions of North-West Federal District. The article suggests the directions for further development of these regions, based on the draft of Spatial development strategy of Russian Federation until 2025, which is aimed at reducing the gap between the levels of socio-economic development of the regions. The article discusses the outcomes of the implementation of Saint Petersburg General development plan and the future of Saint Petersburg aglomeration in connnection with strategic planning acts.
This chapter provides information about the origin, establishment and development of strategic planning in Russia. St. Petersburg was the first city in Russia to adopt a strategic plan in 1997, whereupon strategic planning found its way to other Russian cities and regions. Strategic planning was initially initiated at the grassroots level rather than at the top levels of public authority. It was only in 2014 that strategic planning processes were regularized and formalized in legislation in Russia. In Russia, strategic planning has become an important tool of public and municipal governance. Not only public authority bodies, but also scientific, community-based and political organizations, the business community and civic activists contribute to the development and implementation of strategic planning documents. Strategic planning involves coordinating the interests of the key stakeholders in the development territory. There are a number of complex problems in the area of strategic planning. These are, first of all, due to the lack of consistency between strategic planning documents adopted at different levels of public authority. Another group of problems is related to the lack of consistency between provisions and parameters of documents relating to different types of planning. The final part of the chapter presents the main findings regarding the improvement of approaches to strategic planning in Russia.
This is a comparative international study of thr patterns od planning in local governments. WEhile strategic planning has been a field of interest for public management and administrative science for over half a century there are very few cross-national studies of the specifics of planning in local governmenets. The book analyses the planning activities of local authorities in 7 diverse countries: France, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Spain, Turkey and USA. Altough theoretical models of strategic planning are used, the book's findings point to a very diverse and interesting environment with cultural, political and legal factors playing a significant role in shaping how planning is done in each country.
Roadmapping is a useful instrument for developing strategic measures. Despite the importance of customizing roadmaps to firm/industry specific managerial needs and environmental conditions, the existing literature has focused on the simplified roadmapping process. Little attention has been paid to the customization of roadmaps. Our proposed methodological approach, suggested through a case study, brings together several targeted roadmaps and integrates them into one overarching roadmap — the umbrella roadmap as a new flexible systemic tool. The integrated umbrella roadmap delivers a framework of the industry/company's overall expectations (trends, etc.), whereas targeted roadmaps focus on local targets for a specific product/technology.
Purpose
This paper aims to provide a detailed case study of a corporate foresight for innovation (CFI) project done by the Higher School of Economics’ (HSE) (Moscow, Russia) corporate foresight (CF) unit for a large state-owned Russian service company. It demonstrates how CFI methods lead to recommendations and how these recommendations result in decisions.
Design/methodology/approach
Drawing from being part of the project team, review of the project documents and interviews, the case describes a multi-phased CFI project which incorporated several CF methods. Techniques used for the project itself included grand challenges and trend analysis, analysis of best practices through use of benchmarking and horizon scanning, interviews, expert panels, wild card and weak signals analysis, cross impact analysis, SWOT and backcasting. The project used a broad-base of secondary information, expert panels consisting of company experts and HSE CF team personnel, interviews with senior management and an extensive literature review using HSE’s propriety iFORA system.
Findings
In all 17 CFI recommendation and over 100 implementation recommendations were made; 94 per cent of the CFI recommendations were accepted with most implemented at the time this case was written. The case also identifies five enabling factors that collectively both helped the CFI project and led to a high rate of recommendation acceptance and one factor that hindered CFI project success.
Practical implications
The case study provides detailed information and insight that can help others in conducting CF for innovation projects and establishes a link between CF methods and innovation-based recommendations and subsequent decisions.
Originality/value
In-depth case studies that show academe and practitioners how CFI leads to recommendations and is linked to subsequent decisions have been identified as a gap in the literature. This paper therefore seeks to address this need by presenting a detailed CF case for a corporate innovation project.
The article addresses the economic complex of Saint Petersburg. It evaluates the current state of the economic affairs in Russian Federation in connection with support programmes, measures and instruments, developed to counter the economic growth slowdown. In particular, it analyzes anti-crisis programme mechanisms in Saint Petersburg and other regions of North-West Federal District. The article suggests the directions for further development of these regions, based on the draft of Spatial development strategy of Russian Federation until 2025, which is aimed at reducing the gap between the levels of socio-economic development of the regions. The article discusses the outcomes of the implementation of Saint Petersburg General development plan and the future of Saint Petersburg aglomeration in connnection with strategic planning acts.
The article addresses the importance of public participation in strategic planning procedures. It identifies goals of public participation, defines 3 groups of participation models (by degree of participation in policy decisions), as well as discusses typical methods characteristic to each model type. Based on this, the authors analyzed the public participation mechanism which is used in strategic planning in Russia by studying the sources of the codified law and open government initiatives. The authors defined and analyzed 3 levels of strategic planning in Russia, and concluded that the first (federal) level is dominant in terms of centralization of decisions, number of participants and their authority. It was determined that the currently used strategic decision making model does not systematically provide for public participation. At the same time since citizens have the right to request information from state bodies as well as the right to be involved in the policy making process, but there are no systemic federal mechanisms of participation (at the stage of developing, implementing and monitoring implementation of decisions), mechanisms which ensure that the collected opinions are taken into consideration when making decisions, as well as mechanisms for delegating functions, etc., the current model of public participation in strategic planning was classified as a symbolic participation model (oriented to citizens power models).
This book discusses the role of regional design and visioning in the formation of regional territorial governance to offer a better understanding of (1) how a recognition of spatial dynamics and the visualization of spatial futures informs, and is informed by, planning frameworks and (2) how such design processes inform co-operation and collaboration on planning in metropolitan regions. It gathers theoretical reflections on these topics, and illustrates them by means of practical experiences in several European countries. Innovatively associating ideas with knowledge, it appeals to anyone with an interest in planning experiments in a post-regulative era. It aims at an increased understanding of how practices, engaged with the imagination of possible futures, support the creation of institutional capacity for strategic spatial planning at regional scales.
Smoking is a problem, bringing signifi cant social and economic costs to Russiansociety. However, ratifi cation of the World health organization Framework conventionon tobacco control makes it possible to improve Russian legislation accordingto the international standards. So, I describe some measures that should be taken bythe Russian authorities in the nearest future, and I examine their effi ciency. By studyingthe international evidence I analyze the impact of the smoke-free areas, advertisementand sponsorship bans, tax increases, etc. on the prevalence of smoking, cigaretteconsumption and some other indicators. I also investigate the obstacles confrontingthe Russian authorities when they introduce new policy measures and the public attitudetowards these measures. I conclude that there is a number of easy-to-implementanti-smoking activities that need no fi nancial resources but only a political will.
One of the most important indicators of company's success is the increase of its value. The article investigates traditional methods of company's value assessment and the evidence that the application of these methods is incorrect in the new stage of economy. So it is necessary to create a new method of valuation based on the new main sources of company's success that is its intellectual capital.