Towards a new modeling method for developing a balanced hierarchical strategy for heterogeneous organizations: the case of universities

P. 18–35.

Titova N. L., Shutov A. A., Karpunina M. E.

The importance of strategic management today is unquestionable. However, when strategizing the organization is often regarded as a single whole, differences in aims and areas of operation of its parts not being considered.  This approach works for many organizations, but in the case of a distributed structure its parts may function in the markets which have different requirements, competition intensity and qualification of consumers. Besides, the departments of that organization may have different levels of development. In our present work we do not consider the whole range of distributed organizations, but concentrate on universities, as they have common characteristics with commercial organizations and, at the same time, are very specific in their rules and areas of development. We focus on developing a new modeling method for decision support while designing a balanced hierarchical strategy for distributed universities. This implies beginning from the strategy for the whole organization and moving on to development of individual strategies for its departments. Thus, the proposed method contains two parts: a sub-method to develop departmental strategies and a sub-method to calculate interaction among departments.

This article describes the proposed structure and semantics of the model which can be used in the both of sub-methods.

Keywords: имитационное моделирование, distributed organization, distributed university, business process modeling, organizational structure, simulation modeling, DEMO, сетевые организации, сетевой университет, моделирование бизнес-процессов, структура организации, DEMO

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11th International Conference on Perspective in Business Informatics Research. Conference Proceedings

Nizhny Novgorod: Higher School of Economics in Nizhny Novgorod, 2012.