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Strategy &
Design
The
Adaptive Corporation
Change in the business environment is happening on
many dimensions at once. Managers need to master all of these to
survive. Every new technological wave has the ability to wipe out
entire industries in just a few years. Success in the new global
economy will depend on bold, flexible leaders...
Marketing
& Communication
The
Product Manager's Dilemma
As anyone who has bought a cell phone over the last
couple of years can tell you, manufacturers love to cram as many
capabilities into a product as possible—cell phones are now also
cameras, music players, and game platforms. Why the rush toward
"feature bloat"? Because consumers perceive value in this
Swiss-Army-Knife approach...
Financial &
Accounting
Structuring
a
Sound
M
&
A
Deal
Cash, stock or a
combo? The choices sound simple, but making the right decision isn't
always so easy. Having successfully completed eight deals over the past
four years, Jeff Ginsberg knows all the ins and outs of structuring
merger-and-acquisition (M&A) transactions...
Human Resources
Maximize
Business Achievement
Do your people
perform at optimum levels? Are their results all that you expect? What
can you do to increase your people’s motivation? In workforce surveys,
people believe that they could improve their performance by 15 to 20
percent, but that no one would recognize the improvement. Such an
improvement could have a tremendous impact on profits, collections,
cost savings...
Value Chain
Management
The link
between Management and Productivity
There is a common
assumption that if companies perform well, they must have good managers
at all levels of the organization. It is, after all, hard to imagine a
company surpassing its rivals if its managers are second rate. New
research now confirms the notion that management matters to all
companies,...
Channel &
Customer Management
Generating
Higher
Profits
by
Managing
Customers
as
Financial
Assets
"Your customer is
your most powerful asset" according to Harvard Business School
Professor Frances Frei1. Yet, how many organisations actually manage
and monitor their customers as a financial asset?
The road block that many organisation's face is...
Leadership &
Negotiation for MBA's
Dump your
Speeches for Leadership Talks
The CEO of a
worldwide business asked me to help him develop a talk he planned to
give to several hundred of his top executives. He said, "I feel as if
I’m Daniel going into the lion's den."
Indeed, it was the business equivalent of a lion's den that he was
entering....
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