Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Manufacturing Systems – ICMaS

Published by Editura Academiei Române, ISSN 1842-3183

Volume No. 1,  2006

"Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Machine and Manufacturing Systems Department

Bucharest, Romania, 26 – 27 October, 2006

Abstract: The importance of prognosis as a stage in strategic management process has to be emphasized, especially, in the context of preactive politics orientation which becomes more and more visible within actual development frame of organizations. In Romania, due to instability of business medium, the prediction process has a great deal of difficulty. The paper deals with some prognosis methods appropriate to organizations activating in high technology fields, but not only. Regarding the predictions of external  general medium development, some very relevant results obtained with content analysis method are presented. Restraining the sphere of interest to high technology organizations, some aspects resulting from applying of relevance tree method (possibilities tree method) are also presented.

Ph.D. Eng., Daniel GHICULESCU, Associate Professor,

"Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Production Engineering

Department, E-mail: ghicu@teh.prod.pub.ro

Ph.D. Eng., Niculae Ion MARINESCU, Professor,

"Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Production Engineering

Department, E-mail: n.marinescu@teh.prod.pub.ro