Business Strategy
Business Strategy
In today's volatile and unpredictable economy, corporate agility is a prerequisite for success. Consequently, traditionally managed companies which are plagued by excess real estate; costly, inflexible labor forces;...
“Thinking forward” is the phrase used by Patricia Cahill, president and CEO of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), to describe the process that put CHI on the road to its current success. Thinking forward is the way CHI...
Thoroughly understanding the customer is essential to every successful business. This requires knowing the age, characteristics, wants, and needs of those who buy a particular good or service. But, as Kenneth Gronbach...
In his book, Demystifying Strategy, Dr. Tony Grundy seeks to help people, especially those in leadership positions, become more effective strategic thinkers. He believes that a few “experts” have...
Great teams stand apart from the rest. They are undaunted by the toughest business challenges and are not content with simply overcoming such challenges. Instead, they use them as opportunities for transformation. In...
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...
In The Primary Care-Market Share Connection, author Marc D. Halley discusses how many healthcare-related companies have a difficult time creating business models that are both sustainable and...
The pace of life has accelerated at an amazing rate over the last few centuries. Rapid technological advancement has completely changed the way businesses operate. Global borders have blurred and geography has little...
For many years, managers analyzed risks separately, without considering how they affected the business entity as a whole. In many cases, risk management was handled by the company’s chief financial officer, who often...
Intellectual property is valuable, yet too many companies fail to maximize its worth. Corporations that extract the most value from their IP meet to discuss best practices of IP management at the ICM Gathering. The...
