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Turn Time Into Money: Faster Growth Through Digital Reuse
By Stephanie L. Woerner, Peter Weill, & Mark P. McDonald
Today’s technologically savvy firms have created an internal digital reuse culture that significantly reduces time-to-market without any extra costs. However, reuse remains an underutilized strategy in most companies because it requires a high level of organization, discipline and enterprise-wide exchange. This article explores how you can [...]
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Turning Talent Data into Talent Intelligence
By Nik Kinley & Shlomo Ben-Hur
Talent management is built upon talent intelligence—the understanding that businesses have of the skills, expertise and qualities of their people. It is the basis of every people decision that companies make and without it, they would be reduced to just randomly hiring and promoting people. It is the fundamental foundation [...]
Identity In and Around Organisations
By Majken Schultz & Steve Maguire
At the heart of any successful organisation lies a powerful conception of identity: the coherent way in which it presents itself to its stakeholders and employees, containing its purpose, goals and key characteristics. However, the traditional idea of identity as a stable, solid and reliable concept may not be the [...]
By Katrin Muff, Thomas Dyllick, Mark Drewell, John North, Paul Shrivastava & Jonas Haertle
Extracts from chapter 5 of the forthcoming book “Management education for the world: A vision for business schools serving people and planet”, anticipated in June 2013, published by Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U.K. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher.
Business schools [...]
How Western Multinationals Can Organise to Win in Emerging Markets
By Vimal Choudhary, Martin Dewhurst & Alok Kshirsagar
As Western multinationals shift their focus to emerging markets, they must adjust their structures, processes, and decision-making speed to compete successfully. This article explores the challenges presented by emerging markets and offers several approaches to successfully survive within them.
Many leading Western multinational corporations expect that their future success [...]
Developing Multicultural Competence
By Luciara Nardon, Richard M. Steers & Carlos J. Sanchez-Runde
In our globally expanding economy, it is no longer enough for successful managers to have great directive skills, they must also be able to understand and adapt to the different cultures they operate in. The recently published Management Across Cultures: Developing Global Competencies (Cambridge University Press) [...]
The Chief Strategy Officer in the European Firm: Professionalising Strategy in Times of Uncertainty
By Markus Menz, Günter Müller-Stewens, Tim Zimmermann & Christian Lattwein
The chief strategy officer (CSO) position has recently been gaining prominence in European firms. However, little is known about this new executive role. In this article, the authors report some of their findings from a major research program that involved two surveys of CSOs and give [...]
Executive S&OP – Put it Front and Centre for Your Organisation
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By Karin Bursa
Does your company have the right S&OP process in place?
These 5 steps to success allow you to assess trade-offs between many interdependent business components: demand and market opportunities, customer service, inventory investments, production capabilities, supply availability, and distribution concerns.
The sales and operations planning (S&OP) process brings together all major operational departments—sales, marketing, [...]
Turn Time Into Money: Faster Growth Through Digital Reuse
By Stephanie L. Woerner, Peter Weill, & Mark P. McDonald
Today’s technologically savvy firms have created an internal digital reuse culture that significantly reduces time-to-market without any extra costs. However, reuse remains an underutilized strategy in most companies because it requires a high level of organization, discipline and enterprise-wide exchange. This article explores how you can [...]
BoardVantage: Success Beyond the Boardroom
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Used by over half the Fortune 100 companies, BoardVantage is making the paperless boardroom a reality.
The expansion of its internal functionality to different digital platforms combined with the promise of high-calibre security is rapidly turning BoardVantage into a must-have communication tool for leadership teams across the globe.
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However, BoardVantage’s overwhelming success and reach hasn’t always [...]
The 3 C’s of Growth Leadership: Culture, Capabilities, and Configuration
By George S. Day
George S. Day’s new book Innovation Prowess: Leadership Strategies for Accelerating Growth is an essential guide to building a framework for superior growth through innovation. This article offers a preview on how to boost your innovation ability by adhering to the three big C’s: Culture, Capabilities and Configuration.
The 3M Company has long [...]
Comparative Decision Making: An Emerging Interdiscipline
By Philip Crowley & Thomas Zentall
How can we continue to analyse human decision making in an age when free will is considered to be an illusion? The answer lies in a behavioral approach. Instead of thinking of decisions as the result of rational human evaluation, we would benefit from discussing them as conditional behavioral responses. [...]
First Look: Developing A New Map For Effective Business Succession in Family Businesses
By Richard Shrapnel
Family Business Succession is never a simple, straightforward endeavour. Besides the financial outcomes of the transition, the human needs and emotional involvement of all family members must be taken into account. The business advisory firm Baker Tilly International, in cooperation with Swinburne University, has taken a closer look [...]
Developing Adaptive Leaders for Turbulent Times: The Michigan Model of Leadership
By D. Scott DeRue, Gretchen Spreitzer, Brian Flanagan, & Benjamin Allen
In complex and dynamic times, the Michigan Model of Leadership enables leaders to recognise and effectively manage competing tensions in organisational life. Leaders who utilise the process of Mindful Engagement learn to balance these tensions and make an impact in a world where there are [...]
The Leadership Triangle: It’s Not Only About The Leader
By Art Padilla & Laura Gail Lunsford
In order to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the leadership process, we must steer away from leader-centric analysis, towards a more holistic, contextual approach. Leadership behaviour is continually influenced by political and group dynamic and we must therefore not underestimate the role of followers and environments when it [...]
Don’t Despair: Growth from Consumer Behaviour Change in Developed-Market Economies
By Paul F. Nunes, Sam Yardley & Mark Spelman
Mired in a period of low growth, developed economies are becoming increasingly tough places to do business. Fortunately, while the overall size of markets may be stagnant or even shrinking, individual consumers are not standing still. Their behaviour change is offering a significant growth opportunity for [...]
Measuring the Relative Weights of E-Marketing Tools for Online Businesses
By Kin Meng Sam & Chris Chatwin
E-marketing strategy is normally based and built upon the traditional 4Ps (Product, Price, Promotion and Place), which forms the classical marketing mix. However, e-marketing’s uniqueness can be created by using a series of specific and relational functions that are combined with the 4Ps to form the e-marketing [...]
Why Should Managers Be Socially Responsible?
By Antonio Argandoña
Why should managers put Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into practice? The so-called legal, ethical, social and business cases provide several reasons. In this paper we discuss these arguments, and we add new reasons that make up the ‘management case.’ By exploring why CSR is good management, this paper explains why CSR make the [...]
Making Corporate Learning Work
By Shlomo Ben-Hur & Nik Kinley
Corporate Learning functions are under pressure to deliver like never before. Yet studies have repeatedly shown that business leaders’ satisfaction with the work of their learning functions has remained as low as 20% for the past decade. For an industry worth over $200 billion per year globally, that is a [...]
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