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Business Intelligence solution in ThyssenKrupp Výtahy, s.r.o.
Němec, Jan ; Novotný, Ota (advisor) ; Maryška, Miloš (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with strategic business management and its support with Business Intelligence tools. The objective of this thesis is to analyze specific company, design a model of metrics suitable for managing this company and implement Business Intelligence solution to monitor chosen metrics. The whole thesis is separated into two basic sections. First section focuses on theory, describes Balanced Scorecard methodology and principles of Business Intelligence tools. Both themes are contextualized in Corporate Performance Management. Second section deals with application of theoretical knowledge in practice - the environment of company. In relevant chapters is the company analyzed by Balanced Scorecard methodology; the second chapter deals with the Business Intelligence solution. The main contribution of this thesis is to demonstrate the utilization of Balanced Scorecard methodology and Business Intelligence technologies in managing a mid-sized company. The solution itself shows the management possibilities of these instruments on observed data and gives a notice to some phenomenons in the company.
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Importance and creation of strategy for SME
Linhartová, Michaela ; Svobodová, Ivana (advisor) ; Neumaierová, Inka (referee)
Although strategic management is one of the most important part of company management, SME management is not focused on it or only a little. If SMEs are interested to exist on market in a long term, they will have to soon or later start with making strategies and apply methods of strategic management. Target of my thesis was to make strategic analysis and create design of strategy's variant of small enterprise. The thesis highlights importance of strategy for SMEs and involves procedure of creating strategy which is applied in practice on the small enterprise.
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Ekonomická analýza společnosti O-I Sales, Distribution Czech Republic
Horáková, Miriam ; Synek, Miloslav (advisor) ; Jedličková, Lenka (referee)
The objective of the diploma paper is to outline the economic situation of the company O-I Sales and Distribution Czech Republic, Ltd. The initial effort was to lay down the economic theory. This section describes the methodics that are applied in the practical part of the diploma paper. The practical part is concentrated on four thematic sections: describtion of the company, financial analysis of the company, calculation of bankruptcy indicators, concretely the ratio ZETA from Prof. Altman and the index IN95 and the implementation of creditworthy indicators, namely the model of the vitality from Harry Pollak and the system Balanced Scorecard. Some deficiencies, solution and measures are than refered on the basis of this analysis. The confrontation of the applied methodologies is made at the close of the diploma paper.
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IMPLEMENTATION IN SOFTWARE COMPANY
Janů, Martin ; Pour, Jan (advisor) ; Závodný, Martin (referee)
Diploma work is focused on implementation Business Intelligence applications in medium software company in order to support Corporate Performance Management. It creates suitable metrics portfolio according to Balanced Scorecard methodology. Implementation part presents development of the reporting system on the Cognos 8 BI platform in the current software company environment. The system evaluates the metrics every month. Metrics values are based on current data in transactional system. Diploma work has two parts: theory and reporting project. Theoretical part deals with BI system architecture in general. It is focused on reporting issues. It analyses typical usage and expected benefits of BI applications used for Corporate Performance Management in order to specify applications that are suitable for implementation in the company environment. Next issue of the theoretical part deals with IS development methodology that can be used in Business Intelligence projects. According to chosen criteria and weights with regard to this project it evaluates the best methodology for this project. It will be used in the next part. Practical part reporting project is both about development issues and usage the BI application from the end user view. This example provides information about activities, which are necessary for this development from initial study to testing phase. Project scope includes analysis of the environment, analysis of used metrics, design new metrics, metrics selection and implementation on Cognos platform. This example presents analytical usage of the Metric Studio tool and dymamical reports usage from the manager's view. The final part brings together critical success factors (CSF), which appear in this project.
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Metrics Model In Engigeering Company And Its Initial Implementation in Business Intelligence tools
Lukeš, Ondřej ; Novotný, Ota (advisor) ; Krejcar, Petr (referee)
This thesis deals with possibilities of strategic measurement of performance in Czech industrial firm and application of distinguished metrics using Business Intelligence tools. In particular it is a firm called Linde Pohony s.r.o. that produces axes and half axes for forklifts. This thesis is based on contemporary information about strategic performance management and its tools. The main aim of this thesis is to demonstrate possibilities of using Business Intelligence in order to measure key performance metrics. Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 with its Analysis and Integration services are used to prove it. It was necessary to create model of metrics at first. First part of the thesis deals with several ways and methods how to measure firm's performance. Then a proper method to measure performance is chosen. In following chapters ways how Business Intelligence tools can contribute to industrial firms are discussed. Then the real implementation of few metrics is described following with an outline of firm's software architecture. Main contribution of this thesis is particularly in demonstrating power of Business Intelligence tools when they are used along with Balanced Scorecard methodics in small or medium sized Czech industrial firm. Also Linde Pohony s.r.o. can profit from this work -- considering that many administrative tasks are much easier and faster and management has much better view into their firm. Keywords Business Intelligence, industrial firm, Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, Strategic performance management, metric
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Implementation of Business Intelligence in ČON s.r.o. company
Hofman, Lukáš ; Novotný, Ota (advisor) ; Maryška, Miloš (referee)
This dissertation thesis deals with the topic of Business Intelligence and Balanced Scorecard and its use in České odborné nakladatelství, s.r.o., a relatively small company of 29 employees, which publishes magazines about business, gastronomy, textile, foods, hotels etc. The first part of my thesis describes the BI and BSC theoretically and offers a methodical basis for the following chapters. It gives the reader a definition and structure of BI, with access to a Data Warehouse including the fundamentals of building an OLAP database. It furthermore explains what BSC is, which perspectives use and what a strategic map is. The theoretical chapters of my paper will draw conclusions about the use of BI and BSC and the links between them. The practical, hands-on, chapters continue with the actual application of BI and BSC in the afore-mentioned ČON, s.r.o. It describes the goals and ambitions of the company, which are further on divided into individual strategic goals and metrics, fragmented into perspectives of the BSC and portrayed in a strategic map. Upon analyzing the demands of the company a BI framework is created, data sources are identified, Data Warehouse are designed and brought into effect. In the end a multidimensional OLAP cube is created with MS SQL Server 2008. Finally, there is a MS Excel 2007 explanation and interpretation of the measured values (reporting), which is taken from the available sources of ČON, s.r.o. and is compared against the set strategic goals and metrics of the company. The results of this thesis are based on actual demands of the company and are ready to be implemented and used in real-life.
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Performance measurement and its use in projects
Svata, Bohuslav ; Chocholatý, Drahomír (advisor) ; Chlapek, Dušan (referee)
This paper aims to meet several goals. Firstly introduce performance measurement to the reader and give him basic idea of this subject. Next goal is to present some of methodologies used in performance measurement, compare them and discuss their suitability for use in ICT project management environment. Finally this paper points out differences between business and project performance measures. Then it presents usage of several business methodologies in projects.
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