BUSINESS planning
BUSINESS planning
According to Greenwald and Kahn, though most experienced businesspeople know that the two critical elements of business-competition and strategy-are associated, few understand their essential natures or the direct...
Will Your Next Mistake Be Fatal? concerns what author Robert E. Mittelstaedt, Jr. refers to as M3 - Managing Multiple Mistakes - and illustrates, using the experience of others, how to create an organization observant...
Although there is a wealth of literature, models, and techniques to guide organizations through the definition and planning stages of business strategy, many enterprises are finding the time and resources they commit...
In the 1950s, GM was a juggernaut, dominating every market it entered and influencing American manufacturing, marketing, and even society like no other company, before nor since. Now, as the company approaches its...
When plotting strategy to achieve competitive advantage, many companies fail to take into account the importance of the business cycle. The business cycle revolves around economic movements that ebb and flow between...
According to O’Donovan, CEOs must face three major challenges in the 21st century: driving change, managing corporate culture so as to reverse the increasing occurrences of corporate malfeasance, and meeting market...
Forget conventional wisdom. Forget the thought that the more you know, the better off you’ll be. Forget the idea that knowledge and expertise are the only true routes to success and innovation in business. Education...
For many managers, hiring the right person is more art than science, and they either follow their instincts or stick stubbornly to a tried and true process. In today’s business climate, instincts and tried and true may...
Successful organizations are those that are capable of achieving their goals and objectives over time; not to mention being respected and admired by employees,...
In hindsight, every great idea seems obvious. The idea itself is a simple thing. The process of generating the idea, however, is what can be both tough and circuitous. How...
