Pets - are they animal companions too?

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Lubrizol Utilizes software tools to support strategic investment Of all R&D resources.
WITH HUNDREDS OF jobs Lubrizol Corp. had a consistent means to prioritize its mix of projects.

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The Wickliffe, Ohio, firm met that challenge by applying decision-support software tools to guide project and portfolio evaluation, and to supply a way to capture and convey changes in light of fresh information.
"One of the keys to a successful R&D program would be to Cut out the dogs early and fund the winners more thoroughly," says Steve DiBiase, vice president, R&D, of the almost $2 billion supplier of specialty compounds for fuels and lubricants, as well as systems for the transportation market. "Information technology allows our visitors to think more clearly, more profoundly, and more rapidly so we can assess the information we have to make these choices more intelligently."

The research portfolio has been divided into three categories: Offensive/growth, defensive/protecting capability/competency development that is new, and existing business. To assess the potential value of individual projects and their match in the general portfolio, Lubrizol developed different business models for each category, together with criteria and weightings according to their strategic objectives. AliahThink decision support applications from Aliah Inc. Pittsburgh, has been selected to support growth of the models.
"AliahThink is a'group think' tool that allows us to Extract the wisdom and expertise from people's heads and build that in a form where we can make decisions," states DiBiase,
The software takes a view of decision making. By Constantly prompting comparisons of one standard against another, the tool makes it possible for a business model to be constructed that contains both qualitative and quantitative inputs, ranked and weighted.

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"The tool enables hard inputs like financials to be Coupled with milder inputs such as match with business strategy, competitive intensity, competencies, and ability to make the most of distribution channels," says Walter Copan, director, research administration, in Lubrizol. "We've accommodated the resources for our own business process and civilization, and also the priorities of our company decisions."
The software"makes decision making much more Consistent, with particular definition of inputs and traceability of decisions and results," says Copan.
AliahThink also permits for reranking of projects and Business opportunities as the overall attractiveness of a business scenario changes or as new applicants are suggested for the portfolio. An R&D portfolio combination of offensive, defensive, and competency projects can be continuously balanced in a changing marketplace. 'The purpose would be to get a tool for functional and company managers to provide them the best chance of optimizing where we place our money and our people," continues Copan.
Actual commercialization of ideas spawned in study and Modification of products for personal customers is powered by a stage/gate system called the product approval procedure. This procedure is supported by a workflow program tool, Action Works Metro from Action Technologies

Alameda, Calif.. The tool manages all workflow of this stage/gate system around Lubrizol labs in the U.S., the united kingdom, and Japan, in addition to other service/testing suppliers worldwide. As projects move through their phases, the AliahThink-based business models can be implemented at gate testimonials to assess attractiveness of their projects compared with others in the portfolio or awaiting approval. For management purposes, the workflow tool generates reports concerning timing, strategic group, net present value, project phase, along with other standards, across the portfolio of projects.
Lubrizol anticipates that organizational learning is going to be One significant benefit of getting captured so much information with the business-model and stage-gate-workflow tools.
The company plans"to improve how we make decisions By capturing outputs and the inputs of each of the project choices, and to If there are trajectories that effective projects go through, determine Based on our evaluation of criteria through the project life cycle," says Copan.

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Lubrizol Utilizes software tools to support strategic investment Of all R&D resources.
WITH HUNDREDS OF jobs Lubrizol Corp. had a consistent means to prioritize its mix of projects. The Wickliffe, Ohio, firm met that challenge by applying decision-support software tools to guide project and portfolio evaluation, and to supply a way to capture and convey changes in light of fresh information.
"One of the keys to a successful R&D program would be to Cut out the dogs early and fund the winners more thoroughly," says Steve DiBiase, vice president, R&D, of the almost $2 billion supplier of specialty compounds for fuels and lubricants, as well as systems for the transportation market. "Information technology allows our visitors to think more clearly, more profoundly, and more rapidly so we can assess the information we have to make these choices more intelligently."

The research portfolio has been divided into three categories: Offensive/growth, defensive/protecting capability/competency development that is new, and existing business. To assess the potential value of individual projects and their match in the general portfolio, Lubrizol developed different business models for each category, together with criteria and weightings according to their strategic objectives. AliahThink decision support applications from Aliah Inc. Pittsburgh, has been selected to support growth of the models.
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"AliahThink is a'group think' tool that allows us to Extract the wisdom and expertise from people's heads and build that in a form where we can make decisions," states DiBiase,
The software takes a view of decision making. By Constantly prompting comparisons of one standard against another, the tool makes it possible for a business model to be constructed that contains both qualitative and quantitative inputs, ranked and weighted.

"The tool enables hard inputs like financials to be Coupled with milder inputs such as match with business strategy, competitive intensity, competencies, and ability to make the most of distribution channels," says Walter Copan, director, research administration, in Lubrizol. "We've accommodated the resources for our own business process and civilization, and also the priorities of our company decisions."
The software"makes decision making much more Consistent, with particular definition of inputs and traceability of decisions and results," says Copan.
AliahThink also permits for reranking of projects and Business opportunities as the overall attractiveness of a business scenario changes or as new applicants are suggested for the portfolio. An R&D portfolio combination of offensive, defensive, and competency projects can be continuously balanced in a changing marketplace. 'The purpose would be to get a tool for functional and company managers to provide them the best chance of optimizing where we place our money and our people," continues Copan.
Actual commercialization of ideas spawned in study and Modification of products for personal customers is powered by a stage/gate system called the product approval procedure. This procedure is supported by a workflow program tool, Action Works Metro from Action Technologies

Alameda, Calif.. The tool manages all workflow of this stage/gate system around Lubrizol labs in the U.S., the united kingdom, and Japan, in addition to other service/testing suppliers worldwide. As projects move through their phases, the AliahThink-based business models can be implemented at gate testimonials to assess attractiveness of their projects compared with others in the portfolio or awaiting approval. For management purposes, the workflow tool generates reports concerning timing, strategic group, net present value, project phase, along with other standards, across the portfolio of projects.
Lubrizol anticipates that organizational learning is going to be One significant benefit of getting captured so much information with the business-model and stage-gate-workflow tools.

The company plans"to improve how we make decisions By capturing outputs and the inputs of each of the project choices, and to If there are trajectories that effective projects go through, determine Based on our evaluation of criteria through the project life cycle," says Copan.
 
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Animals don't usually gain levels. If you multiclass into ranger or druid, then your DM may say that it's okay for your pet to become an animal companion.

Even if the rules don't actually say so (since you didn't specify which edition you're playing), it's well within what the rules were intended to allow. If you look at the novels, Drizzt somehow made an animal companion out of a magical figurine, so I think you're not supposed to worry about the details.
 

Celebrim

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Pets are just that, pets. They have no magical or special connection to the player character, and they do not improve as a result of the character increasing levels.

As I run them, animal companions will basically understand any instruction that their human companion gives them, and will act on those instructions to the best of their ability without lengthy training. Pets only understand what they are trained to understand, and they will otherwise act as normal animals of their intelligence.

Generally speaking, I allow players to run animal companions as if they were an extension of the PC's will and will only rarely animate them as if they were an NPC and only for the purpose of reinforcing the character and report of the companion with the PC. Whereas, I will run a pet, henchman, retainer or other follower acquired through role-play as an NPC all the time pretty much as I see fit for whatever feels like the appropriate way to play the NPC. It may be a loyal NPC and the player may be able to reliably issue it orders, but it will still be basically under the DM's control and considered part of the DM's prevue.

I will happily allow pets to be converted to animal companions when the rules allow the PC to have an animal companion for the purpose of campaign and character continuity. I will not of course force that on a player, but if that is the player's preference then by all means I'd go along with it.
 

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