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This thesis deals with the development of a global performance reporting system in the context of a German multinational active in the pharmaceutical industry.
The objective of the document is to discuss and assess the decisions taken and actions implemented during the course of an eight-month project conducted within the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim. The project consisted in facilitating the implementation of such a system from a business perspective and taking into account the specific context at stake.
Therefore, this paper begins with a brief presentation of the company and the reasons underlying the decision to enable the reporting of local performance at corporate level. After this introduction, the proper analysis is structured around the three dimensions of strategy, namely the context, the content and the process of the project. 
First, the contextual analysis follows a funnel structure while always being related to the project. It starts from an overall market perspective before dealing with purely internal elements such as the organizational culture and the financial situation of the company.
Second, the activities and the outcomes achieved are presented in the section dedicated to the content of the project. It starts with the description of the specific aspects of reporting in the context at stake before presenting the features of the system that are expected to cope with the contextual challenges. Finally, it provides an overview of the remaining steps and potential system extensions.
Third, the process of the project is analyzed based on criteria coming from the Translation Theory. Indeed, political games and organizational culture revealed highly influential and were therefore the object of particular interest from a change management perspective. 
In the end, the organizational context of Boehringer Ingelheim reveals a need for implementing a global performance reporting system. Indeed, despite strong resistance from subsidiaries and internal tension, it appears that the bottom-up business model of the company would benefit from a certain degree of integration, especially given the added value brought by technology-driven aspect of the project

global performance reporting --- pharmaceutical industry --- change management --- culture --- sales forces effectiveness --- political interests --- information technology --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Stratégie & innovation

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This book provides a wide variety of state-space--based numerical algorithms for the synthesis of feedback algorithms for linear systems with input saturation. Specifically, it addresses and solves the anti-windup problem, presenting the objectives and terminology of the problem, the mathematical tools behind anti-windup algorithms, and more than twenty algorithms for anti-windup synthesis, illustrated with examples. Luca Zaccarian and Andrew Teel's modern method--combining a state-space approach with algorithms generated by solving linear matrix inequalities--treats MIMO and SISO systems with equal ease. The book, aimed at control engineers as well as graduate students, ranges from very simple anti-windup construction to sophisticated anti-windup algorithms for nonlinear systems. Describes the fundamental objectives and principles behind anti-windup synthesis for control systems with actuator saturation Takes a modern, state-space approach to synthesis that applies to both SISO and MIMO systems Presents algorithms as linear matrix inequalities that can be readily solved with widely available software Explains mathematical concepts that motivate synthesis algorithms Uses nonlinear performance curves to quantify performance relative to disturbances of varying magnitudes Includes anti-windup algorithms for a class of Euler-Lagrange nonlinear systems Traces the history of anti-windup research through an extensive annotated bibliography

Automatic control --- Linear control systems. --- Actuators. --- Mathematical models. --- Euler-Lagrange system. --- F8 aircraft. --- MIMO. --- SISO. --- algebraic loop. --- anti-windup algorithm. --- anti-windup augmentation. --- anti-windup compensator. --- anti-windup construction. --- anti-windup design. --- anti-windup filter. --- anti-windup synthesis. --- anti-windup. --- bumpless authority transfer. --- closed loop. --- compensation. --- constrained closed loop. --- controller. --- damped mass-spring. --- dead-time plant. --- direct control design. --- direct linear anti-windup. --- dynamic direct linear anti-windup. --- exponentially stable plant. --- exponentially unstable plant. --- external stability. --- feedback algorithm. --- feedback loop. --- feedback signal. --- global performance. --- global stability. --- hardware redundancy. --- input saturation. --- input. --- inputЯutput stability. --- internal stability. --- internal state. --- linear controller. --- linear injection. --- linear matrix inequalities. --- linear model recovery anti-windup. --- linear system. --- measurement governor. --- model predictive control. --- model recovery anti-windup. --- multicontroller scheme. --- nested saturation. --- non-exponentially unstable plant. --- nonlinear gain. --- nonlinear injection. --- nonlinear plant. --- nonlinear synthesis technique. --- nonlinear system. --- numerical algorithm. --- quadratic function. --- rank-deficient matrices. --- reduced-order compensator. --- reference governor. --- regional stability. --- reliable control. --- saturated closed loop. --- saturated closed-loop system. --- saturation nonlinearity. --- saturation. --- scheduling. --- servo-positioning system. --- small signal preservation. --- stability. --- stabilizer. --- state-space approach. --- stateгpace representation. --- static linear anti-windup. --- switching. --- unconstrained closed loop. --- unconstrained closed-loop system. --- unconstrained controller. --- unconstrained feedback system. --- unconstrained plant. --- unconstrained response recovery. --- unconstrained response. --- windup.