Business Strategy
Business Strategy
Customers and investors demand much from modern companies. They require absolute integrity, full disclosure of financials and business practices, and dialogue with company managers, and in the age of social media they...
In Stirring It Up, Gary Hirshberg describes the mission behind Stonyfield Farm and catalogs the lessons he has learned while seeking profit via environmental sustainability over the past 25 years....
In The Pursuit of Something Better, authors Dave Esler and Myra Kruger tell the story of U.S. Cellular’s revolutionary transformation under the leadership of CEO Jack Rooney. Rooney’s instrument of...
Successful organizations know that they must deal with unexpected events with flexibility, adaptability, and alertness. They learn from their mistakes, are less concerned with blame, and promote communication. In...
Adversity can be a friend. Whether it is working to overcome humble beginnings, lack of knowledge, or unexpected setbacks, failure has a way of making people take stock of their careers and lives in a way that success...
A pill bottle helps health care professionals monitor patients taking medication. A vending machine reports its own inventory over a wireless network...
72 pp. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009 Everyone knows what a shortcut is: a quicker, easier way to get somewhere. In Be a Shortcut, author Scott Halford uses the word in a slightly different sense: a Shortcut is that...
Business leaders of today face tremendous challenges. Global data capabilities allow work production across distributed networks, requiring that companies manage the flow of raw material, work-in-process, money, and...
Toyota is defined by contradictions. The auto company has a famously efficient production system, but appears to have heavy layers of management and a surplus of administrative employees. It has a stable history...
Until the early 1990s competition in the healthcare industry was friendly and almost completely harmless. Healthcare firms struggled to meet demand, and most markets required multiple entities to keep up with patient...
