74 Posts found for Source: Babson Insight

How do you foster entrepreneurship in your mainstream business? Babson Professor Allan R. Cohen talks about leading change from within the organization.

Content: Article | Author: Allan R. Cohen | Source: Babson Insight | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Leadership is getting tougher, and will continue to do so. Human Resources managers must form a new partnership with leaders. Babson professor Allan R. Cohen reviews some of the forces at work creating this change and the steps HR must take to adapt for success.

Content: Article | Authors: Allan R. Cohen, David R. Bradford | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership

How do you foster entrepreneurship in your mainstream business? Babson Professor Allan R. Cohen speaks about the fact that leaders are not just those at the top; they can and must be in all kinds of jobs throughout the organization.

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

Entrepreneurial managers give 10 insights on how to quickly grow an organization and still keep employees focused on what it takes to be successful.

Content: Article | Author: Keith Rollag | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

If the bureaucratic trap is like a cage that restricts the opportunities for people to contribute all they can, the entrepreneurial trap is a void, a black hole into which people disappear when they lack direction or accountability. The issue is balance: enough breadth in jobs and decentralization in decisions to allow initiative and creativity, but enough discipline and direction and controls to focus local … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Bureaucracy, Entrepreneurship

There are 7 challenges that must be overcome to create market changing products. A recent book, Radical Innovation, has studied ten companies that faced these challenges including GE and IBM to learn how managers overcame common problems in innovation, such as technical and market uncertainty and a lack of resources. In this the first of a three part article we highlight selected details … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Christopher M. McDermott, Gina Colarelli O’Connor, Lois S. Peters, Mark Rice, Richard Leifer, Robert W. Veryzer | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Innovation, Management

“Managers who coach their employees become known as good managers to work for, developers of talent, and achievers of business results. They also become better leaders in the process. The average manager, however, doesn’t coach, believing it would take too much time or be a waste of effort. Such barriers, however are more psychological than real, and represent an expression of the status quo. The … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: James M. Hunt, Joseph Weintraub | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Despite all that we’ve heard about the role of strong leadership, Professor Kassarjian bursts the bubble by describing how real change originates with front line managers. Read about the real truths of change and how you must reshape your leadership style and role to foster change.

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Content: Article | Author: J.B. Kassarjian | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

Is your firm applying its efforts to the things that matter most to your customers? Are you wasting resources and failing to meet customer needs while missing market share? Many companies fail to apply resources to best meet customer needs. Prof. McNair and Polutnik show the real metrics that matter here and give you a perspective on how to improve your competitive position without spending … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: C.J. McNair, Lidija Polutnik | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Customer Related, Management

How do you make decisions about business investments when the outcome and likely cash flows are almost unknowable? A new tool, real options analysis is now being used by firms like Merck and Shell. Professor Hevert explains how real options work, why it differs from older financial analysis and how it can be used to help make better decisions on highly risky multi-phase investments, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Kathleen Hevert | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Finance, Management

You’ve managed to overcome the early problems of survival, but now how do you build the business? Many firms face the same challenges. Prof. Donnellon provides insights and solutions on key problems like:

1. Finding experienced people
2. Affording the people you want
3. How to effectively organize your people
4. preserving an effective culture

Content: Article | Author: Anne Donnellon | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behavior

“Alliances force managers to rethink their businesses. By offering them an opportunity to recast the value chain differently, managers are asked to radically alter their view of how to compete in their industries. Often they are able to reformulate the rules of the game. Thus, alliances offer an opportunity for managers to be entrepreneurial.”

See ‘Using Alliances To Create Value And Competitive Advantage’, an audio … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: U. Srinivasa Rangan | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Strategy, Trends / Analysis

Prof. Phil Dover reviews a recent study from ITSMA that identifies the most effective activities for branding IT services today. Read why the research indicates that the most effective activities include creating thought and on-line leadership, internal branding, balancing local and global branding and the impact of demonstrating social responsibility.

Content: Article | Authors: Phil Dover, Rob Leavitt | Source: Babson Insight | Subject: Marketing / Sales | Industry: Information Technology

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