4766 Posts Found

author of “Gonzo Marketing: Winning Through Worst Practices”

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subject: Management

Professor of Marketing at Michigan State University from 1959 to 1991, Stanley Hollander’s career in the fields of retailing and marketing spans more than fifty years, first in retailing, then with the Office of Price Administration prior to his move into academia in 1947. Among his many and diverse roles, Professor Hollander was founder and co-chair of the North American Workshops on Historical Research in … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Emerald Now | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

Performance appraisals used to be a way to reward employees. Now so-called forced rankings are being used to lay them off. But will you be sued if you use them?

Content: Article | Author: Loren Gary | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

Start with 1,435 good companies. Examine their performance over 40 years. Find the 11 companies that became great. Now, here’s how you can do it too.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Collins | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: General, Management

The work you do should be a test of your perceptiveness. All great work becomes the art of seeing (paraphrased).

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Vision, Work

Content: Book | Author: James P. Lewis | Subject: Project Management

Skip the PowerPoint. Forget the whiteboards and butcher paper. If you want to organize an off-site that is energetic and memorable — an event that actually makes a difference — then follow our seven-point guide.

Content: Article | Author: Cheryl Dahle | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Best Practices, Management

Leveraging business data can be a challenge for companies that need to respond to rapidly evolving markets and changing customer dynamics. Analyzing business conditions requires analytic horsepower beyond conventional query and reporting tools.

Content: Article | Author: Ron Copeland | Source: InformationWeek | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Management

In their book, The War for Talent, Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod predict that the crucial force that will make or break firms in the next two decades will be their ability to attract, develop, and retain managers at all levels.

Content: Article | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Outsourcing has long been the subject of management studies. Though the issue has been analysed from multiple perspectives, a unified, coherent view of outsourcing is still lacking. In this Working Paper, Professors Dalsace and Cool, along with Nicola Dragonetti, identify the major rationales for outsourcing and test these against data for French small and medium-sized enterprises. Their results are surprising and have … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Frédéric Dalsace, Karel Cool, Nicola C. Dragonetti | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Management, Outsourcing / BPO

CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 2000

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Management

James Champy responds to a range of questions pertinent to KM, e-business and reengineering in general, discussing the role of knowledge processes and intellectual capital flow in internet business.

Content: Thought Leader | Author: Warren Karlenzig | Source: Knowledge Management Magazine | Subject: Management

BetterManagement is a unique mix of online educational activities combining interactive web resources and BetterManagement LIVE Business Conferences which connect decision makers with relevant information. Our staff researches business topics and industry issues from over 250 information resources worldwide – business publications, professional organizations, academic institutions, consulting firms, and solutions providers. We present fresh information for business managers every week.

The BetterManagement.com Library includes over 3,000 … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: BetterManagement.com | Subjects: General, Management

This content is restricted to site members. Please log in or register

This content is restricted to site members. Please log in or register

This content is restricted to site members. Please log in or register

In the last 40 or 50 years, economics was dominant. In the next 20 or 30 years, social issues will be dominant.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Social Responsibility (ESG), Trends / Analysis

Tough “360” reviews and employee ranking are gaining fans. Competency-based performance management is the backbone of most of the alternative approaches.

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

Traditional analytical models of decision-making, while appropriate for evaluating choices for which there are ample historical data, can often kill off creative ideas that might be extremely valuable.

when creative people are performing a task, if the extrinsic reasons for engaging in the task are more important than the intrinsic reasons, they will tend to perform less creatively. Outside factors encourage people to focus purely on … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Financial Times | Subjects: Creativity, Trends / Analysis

This article (along with an earlier article by the same author) takes a look at W. Edwards Deming’s famous “14 Points”. Though focused on applying these points to data management, the discussion also serves as a good introduction for those unfamiliar with this hallmark of the TQM movement.

Content: Article | Author: Dan Pratte | Source: TechRepublic | Subjects: Management, Operations