DISC Model, Emotional Intelligence, Stakeholder Analysis, and GROW Model
DISC Model
- Dominance (D)
Focus: Results, control, challenges.
Characteristics:
- Direct and decisive.
- Task-oriented and assertive.
- Risk-takers who enjoy solving problems.
Strengths:
- Goal-driven and quick decision-makers.
- Thrives in competitive environments.
Challenges:
- May appear blunt or impatient.
- Can overlook details or others’ feelings.
Best Approaches for Communication:
- Be direct and concise.
- Focus on results and outcomes.
- Avoid unnecessary details.
Influence (I)
Focus: Relationships, social interaction, enthusiasm.
Read MoreAssociation Rules and Decision Trees in Machine Learning
Unsupervised Machine Learning
Market Basket Analysis (MBA)
- Definition: Identifies relationships between items frequently bought together, aiding businesses in decisions like product placement and cross-selling.
- Output: Generates association rules that describe patterns in transactions.
- Example: {butter, jam} → {bread} implies that buying butter and jam often leads to buying bread.
Association Rules
- LHS (Left-Hand Side): Items frequently purchased together (e.g., {butter, jam}).
- RHS (Right-Hand Side):
Business Optimization: Reengineering, Benchmarking, OLAP, Kaizen, ERP
Reengineering
Reengineering is a process of restructuring and improving a company’s operations. It focuses on cost, quality, service, and speed.
Four keywords:
- Fundamental: Examining the reasons behind current practices.
- Radical: Implementing significant, root-level changes.
- Dramatic: Aiming for substantial improvements, not just incremental ones.
Reengineering is necessary when:
- Performance lags behind the competition.
- The organization is in crisis.
- There are significant market changes.
- The goal is to achieve
Comminution Testing: Size Reduction in Mineral Processing
Comminution Testing
The comminution is a mechanical operation of size reduction, resulting in indirect energy consumption. It is considered that in general the relationship energy – downsizing does not define properly the size reduction process. The relationship between diet and the product of a team of reduction is an approximation and can be directly determined. The effects of operational variables, such as solid feed rate, size reduction equipment, etc., are the factors that require a better understanding.
Read MoreOrganizational Structures and Designs: Key Concepts
Chapter 10: Organizational Structure
Organizational Structure: Formal distribution of employees within an organization.
Organization: The process of creating the organizational structure.
Organizational Design: It is the process in which managers change or redesign the organizational structure, which consists of six steps:
- Work distribution
- Departmentalization
- Chain of command
- Amplitude control
- Centralization and Decentralization
- Formalization
- Specialization of labor (Adam Smith)
Used to describe the extent
Read MoreUnderstanding the Marketing Environment: Macro and Micro Factors
Marketing Environment
The marketing environment of an organization:
“The set of direct and indirect forces, both controllable and uncontrollable, that are susceptible to influence from a micro and macro level, in all its actions, decisions, and results.”
External Marketing Analysis
- Uncontrollable factors in the organization (macro environment).
- Factors with some possible control (micro environment).
- Identify opportunities and threats.
Internal Analysis
- Organizational factors (micro environment).
- Identifies