74 Posts found for Source: Babson Insight

Change, change, change. Management is constantly seeking change, yet most companies fail to convert these efforts into real value-creating results. Professor Phil Dover reviews the change agent program at Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme (SNI) to identify useful learning points.

Content: Case Study | Author: Phil Dover | Source: Babson Insight | Subject: Change Management | Company: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme (SNI)

There are three sets of nations from whom Russia can learn about how to integrate into the global economic system. The developed countries such as United States, Britain, Germany, France, and Japan demonstrate how developments over several decades if not couple of centuries can influence national business systems and hence international competitiveness. They also show how a country’s national business system responds to international relationships … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Srinivasa Rangan | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Economics, International

Acquisitions in knowledge-intensive businesses are usually hampered by a loss of knowledge and poor employee perception of the target or acquirer. Unfortunately, most integration processes maximize their potential for failure in knowledge business by putting a premium on speed with a resulting negative impact on knowledge transfer and employee perception. Acquisitions will always be a viable strategic option and those who succeed will rethink their … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Caleb Winder, Danna Greenberg, PJ Guinan, Ted Keysor | Source: Babson Insight

America’s greatest inventor spawned many businesses; in fact his work led to the creation of entire industries. Edison was a prodigious worker, challenger of the status quo and identifier of opportunities. What can todays leaders learn from Edison and how does he rate against our modern criteria for leaders?

Content: Article | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, People

Global account management is a new organizational form designed to better serve global customers. While there are some similarities with national and key account management programs, the real value comes from understanding the customer from a global perspective. A global account management often adds a layer of organizational structure to facilitate the better management of company’s resources to serve a select set of global accounts. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: H. David Hennessey | Source: Babson Insight | Subject: Marketing / Sales

The emergence of constant access to information and product markets for consumers and suppliers has transformed marketplace dynamics to the point where companies now have just two strategic choices: be a distributor of value, or a restrictor of value. This month Professor Anderson defines the characteristics of each, the market forces driving this change along with rules for each business strategy.

Content: Article | Author: Martin Anderson | Source: Babson Insight | Subject: Strategy

The information revolution has blurred the line between supply and demand chains. Because of this marketing is no longer about activity-based tools kept in a backroom and operations are no longer protected from customers by silo walls. This has created turmoil for the unprepared, but new tools are available to help combine marketing and operating perspectives, while at the same time understanding how customer and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Martin Anderson | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Strategy

The leader’s first job is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the leader must become a servant and a debtor.

Content: Quotation | Author: Max De Pree | Source: Babson Insight | Subject: Leadership

We’ve all been there…you see a great opportunity, but you’re a middle manager, not the division or corporate President, so you lack the direct authority and resources to implement your ideas and affect change. How do you lead the top people and your peers to successful change? Listen to Prof. Cohen describe the keys to getting your ideas heard, gaining support and building your leadership … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Allan Cohen | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Leadership, Management

The challenges facing corporate boards have grown. We have all seen how crises have affected entire business sectors. These are “turbulent times” that require plans and policies designed to prevent and/or mitigate risks and possible crises. This article looks at the latest best practices for Boards and management from a recent study by the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Content: Article | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Risk Management

Did the stock market wrongly skew business strategy in the 90’s? Where do we go now that the strategy of managing to maximize short-term stock price has failed? Professor Marty Anderson gives us a different angle showing that a real social-industrial revolution is going on, a revolution that requires leaders to use strategies that are guided by cash flow creation.

Content: Article | Author: Martin Anderson | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Economics, Miscellaneous

How do you align IT with company goals while also enabling it for success with new resources and development of new capabilities? The methods used to align versus enable are are often opposites. Noted IT expert, Kavin Moody, discusses why there is often a mismatch and provides some new insights on what must be overcome to make things work.

Content: Article | Author: Kavin W. Moody | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Organizational Behavior

People tend to support best that which they help to create.

Content: Quotation | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Change Management, Management

Co-founder, current chairman and past CEO of Southwest Airlines

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Babson Insight | Subject: Management | Industry: Airlines

“…for those companies with a genuine interest in doing the right thing, we present Seven Tenets for Enhancing the Relevance, Clarity and Transparency of your Corporate Communications”

Content: Article | Sources: Babson Insight, Sharon Merrill Associates | Subjects: Management, Public Relations

Today companies and people work in webs of alliance relationships. But these complex webs are hard to manage because of a lack of control. Srinivasa Rangan and Jim Watkinson look at how knowledge derived from e-business processes can power the effectiveness of your alliances.

Content: Article | Authors: James Watkinson, Srinivasa Rangan | Source: Babson Insight | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

Change, change, change. Management is constantly seeking change, yet most companies fail to convert these efforts into real value-creating results. This month Prof. Phil Dover reviews the change agent program at a well-known company to identify useful learning points.

Content: Article | Author: Phil Dover | Source: Babson Insight | Subject: Change Management

Launch a new product? Enter a new market? Invest in a cost reduction program? Do nothing? No matter what you do there is risk. This month Professor Allen begins a multi-part series examining the nature of risk and making decisions under risk.

Content: Article | Author: Stephen A. Allen | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Management, Risk Management

Finding good ideas is only the beginning of the process. Babson professors answer questions on how you manage entrepreneurial activities, and how you move them forward once you have a viable idea

Editor’s Note: all content is in RealMedia video format.

Content: Article | Authors: Bob Eng, Larry Carr, Neal Thornberry | Source: Babson Insight | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Regardless of company size or industry, the creation of new products and services and the entry into new markets is the life blood of business growth. These critical activities form the core of entrepreneurship and we asked some Babson professors and noteworthy entrepreneurs to comment on important factors that lead to success in starting and managing innovative new business ideas.

Editor’s Note: This is an … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Babson Insight | Subject: Entrepreneurship