Management
Management
In this unpredictable economy, where corporate crises have virtually become a way of life, Pate and Platt have found that shareholders, employees, and creditors constantly ask, “What went wrong, and what could we have...
In Relationship Marketing, Gordon’s guidelines for creating an entirely new marketing process are built on the alignment of process, culture, values, leadership, strategy, structure, people, technology, and knowledge...
Everyone enjoys something, but that "something" is usually not the job. This is unfortunate because a job consumes a large portion of an adult’s life, and spending countless hours toiling at a career that is neither...
In order to reinvent themselves for the New Economy, companies are beginning to shed outdated processes and unprofitable lines of business. Given this new order, Human Resources is in danger of extinction if it...
Few marketing managers think strategically about pricing, or manage their businesses so as to create the conditions that promote more profitable pricing. Their pricing decisions are generally made in reaction to a...
An overwhelming majority of corporations that reach the Fortune 50 succumb to a declining growth rate from which they are unable to recover. The primary reason for this "Fortune 50 stall" is a decrease in the kind of...
Companies that want to survive and prosper in today’s hypercompetitive environment, must constantly innovate-not just with new products/services but also with breakthrough process, managerial, and organizational...
According to The Rule of Three, "natural" competitive market structures evolve by a process that is analogous to the selection processes found in nature, which favor those who are the strongest, the...
When Arthur C. Martinez was asked to take control of Sears in 1992, he found a company in disarray, despite its illustrious history and venerable name. Sales were down, morale was low, operating costs were exorbitant,...
Hammer's 1993 Reengineering the Corporation was a "big idea" business book whose one central theme was that dramatic improvements in performance were possible through reengineering business operations...
