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Supplier development refers to the purchaser activities to improve supplier performance in the areas of quality, cost, time of ordering to delivery, service, reliability, and promotion of suppliers knowledge which positively affects the operational and business performance of purchaser. The present study deals with suppliers' development strategies including enhancement of suppliers’ quality improvement systems, data exchange with suppliers in the areas of quality, suppliers’ process improvement, suppliers’ productivity enhancement and contribute to the development of the suppliers’ product by the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) approach, Analytic Network Process (ANP) and Revised Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (Revised DEMATEL) techniques. The population of the current research consists of the foundry companies having more than 200 subject as human resources in Iran which manufacture the automobile parts. The research findings have shown that financial perspective (0.5417) ,  learning and growth perspective (0.0688) are respectively the most important and the least important dimensions to improve organization performance. in addition , information exchange with suppliers in the areas of quality (0.30) and suppliers' productivity increasing (0.11) are respectively the most and least important strategies in suppliers' development.

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Strategy maps show value creation path in any organizations which includes strategic objectives of organization. Strategic objectives can provide a focus on organization’s resources based on balanced scorecard. While organizations developing their strategy map, facing with different objectives and relationships between them, it is necessary to use a practical approach to explain the relationship between strategic objectives. This paper aims to provide a hybrid approach for identifying causal relationships between strategic objectives for drawing a strategic map, So that with minimum number of relationships, the maximum impact among the strategic objectives is clarified in the map. In this regard, the importance of all possible relationships is determined by fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) and then strategic map was drawn by goal programming with considering to objectives of minimizing the number of relationships and maximizing total importance of the selected relationships. The FAHP results show “supporting demand-oriented researches”, “Strengthen inter-agency cooperation” and “Supporting strategic science and technology” objectives respectively have been the most important in the customer, processes and learning and growth levels of strategic map. Following by goal programming with focus on maximum reach of strategic objectives according to their weights, the minimum connections (14 relationships from 26 relationships) were selected to draw the strategic map. The systematic approach presented in this paper could be the basis of developing the strategic map for all organizations.

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The need for designing and implementing performance assessment systems at ‎R&D centers is one of the urgent issues of all industries. Assessment of R&D ‎projects has become one of the most challenging decision making issues for ‎the managers of R&D centers. Multi-criteria decision making methods have so ‎far been used for the assessment of R&D projects in different stages of their ‎lifecycle. Our approach is to develop Data Envelopment Analysis by ‎combining Balanced Scorecard and Data Envelopment Analysis. Inputs and ‎outputs for the integrated DEA-BSC model have been extracted from ‎‎“Balanced Scorecard for R&D projects”. The major goals of the integrated ‎DEA-BSC approach are as follows: increasing the reliability of inputs and ‎outputs criteria, improving the calculated efficiency of all sections and striking ‎a balance between the efficiency and the effectiveness of different sections. ‎This model has been implemented in an industrial research laboratory for ‎R&D projects as a case study. The results showed that synergizing between ‎BSC and DEA in R&D projects causes the: achieving of the expected ‎objectives of each project and balancing and optimizing the usage of resources ‎to meet the desired outputs.‎ .‎

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Translating Strategy into Action; A Dynamic QFD Application with Third – Generation Balanced Scorecard Approach Mehdi akbari 1, Sepehr Ghazinoory 2 1- Postgraduate of M.S. in Faculty of Management & Economy, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran. 2- Associate Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Management & Economy, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. Received: 2 /10/2010 Accept: 12/1/2011 In order to achieve a strategy-focused organization, creating alignment, focus and understanding of the process of translating strategy into action at all organizational levels and processes are vital. But more important issue is that how to provide a quality translator in the spectrum of time. This paper shows how a company can use three-stage "quality function deployment" (QFD) method using the third generation balanced scorecard (BSC) approach for improving the quality of step by step translation strategy into action. Also, since in this article, the emphasis is on the operational level and translated initiatives and projects make solutions and action plans for achieving objectives, so the dynamic approach of quality function deployment method through the application of the dashboards is described. Finally, an application is presented in one of active companies in Oil industry to illustrate the proposed methodology.

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Managers in all organizations today called for optimum use of existing facilities and capacities in different sectors. So in order to provide feedback model to improve performance of various branches and agencies to achieve a tool to meet the needs of managers, and the essential logic seems. The purpose of this study provide a model compilation process fuzzy network analysis, balanced scorecard and fuzzy data envelopment analysis for performance evaluation of branch offices is Yazd Cooperative with the device can also identify efficient and inefficient branches, the appropriate strategies improve the performance of inefficient branches and more branches to strengthen whatever can be effectively developed. In this study of balanced scorecard model to extract parameters assessment, fuzzy analysis network process techniques to estimate fuzzy relative importance of each indicator under a single perspective and of fuzzy data envelopment analysis techniques to evaluate the performance of branches has been used. financial Perspective as the most important, and the Yazd and ardakan Branches were identified Assessment as the efficient performance of the branches.

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In today’s competitive business environment, using holding company has been common in the developed countries, and recently, it has also gained momentum in Iran. These companies create special value through synergy. Todays, multi-business organization management has been more important than ever, and the fact that the number of such holding companies has been increased has also intensified this. This research presents a strategic model for performing the first level of strategic performance through balanced scorecard. It can help parent companies as a dashboard in order to observe subset companies. In this research, after studying the related literature, based on the nature of the subject under study, interview with the managers of these holding companies and their subsets was the best research methodology. After identifying the dimensions, the questionnaire developed by the researchers and quantitative research methods were used for drawing the hierarchy dimensions. Eventually, a model with 11 dimensions at 4 levels was extracted.

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For years, researchers and managers have been popular with Balanced Scorecard and during the time, several edits have been developed from this base model. “Strategy map” is a topic that have been invented by researchers of the Balanced Scorecard to ease the understanding of issues that related to the strategic objectives set. The organization's strategic plan to achieve organizational goals, there are several ways that researchers have developed models to analyze these pathways. Bayesian networks, probabilistic networks have many applications in various sciences have provided. In this study, path analysis in Bayesian networks has been the strategy map. In this study, a model is presented by which one can achieve the ultimate goals of risk below the risk-based goals (in lower amounts) can be calculated and appropriate solution to mitigate risks identified organizational goals In this study, an investment firm is studied and the model is implemented and the results have been analyzed.