1297 Posts found for Source: strategy+business

This measure of business performance is the best indicator of corporate success.

Content: Article | Authors: Greg Rotz, Ken Favaro | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Finance, Management

New research revealing a disparity between what shoppers say and what they do debunks the myth of the ethical consumer.

Content: Article | Authors: Giana Eckhardt, Pat Auger, Timothy Devinney | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Customer Related, Marketing / Sales

When you are doing new things in the organization, bonuses are terrible. Bonuses assume that you know where you are going.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Compensation, Motivation

Gregory Unruh introduces a passage about the price of critical resources from The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do, by Eduardo Porter.

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Pricing

Celebrating a “must-read” concept, based on data from thousands of companies: Information flow and decision rights are integral parts of the strategic process.

Content: Article | Author: Thomas A. Stewart | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Strategy

Improvements in efficiency and quality vary with a team’s tasks and location, as well as with the access its members have to institutional databases.

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Knowledge Management

Rather than putting consumers in arbitrary “buckets” for targeting, marketers should join them online in communities of passion and interest.

Content: Article | Author: Nick Wreden | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Marketing / Sales

Passive retaliation against bad management finds its fans in the workplace.

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

An interactive diagnostic test can show you how focused your company’s activities are — with sometimes surprising results.

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management

[Umair] Haque… makes a persuasive argument that industrial capitalism is fatally flawed because it shifts costs to — and borrows benefits from — societies, nature, and future generations.

Content: Quotation | Author: David K. Hurst | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Capitalism

With digital technology, as with every other information technology, the entity with greater information freedom wins.

Content: Quotation | Author: Elin Whitney-Smith | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Information, IT / Technology / E-Business

Lasting innovation in an information revolution doesn’t come from the elite, or from people who already have access to wealth and authority. It comes from the edges, from people who are just gaining access for the first time.

Content: Quotation | Author: Elin Whitney-Smith | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Information, Innovation, IT / Technology / E-Business

Start using it instead — to reinforce and build the new behaviors that will give you the high-performance company you want.

Content: Article | Authors: Ashley Harshak, Jon R. Katzenbach | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Management, Organizational Behavior

The 2010 edition of the strategy+business annual review of the year’s best business books.

Editor’s note: As usual, the reviews are just as worth reading as the books recommended.

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business

The CEO of HCL Technologies describes how he focused his company on growth by engaging staff in unprecedented ways.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Vikas Sehgal, Vineet Nayar | Source: strategy+business | Company: HCL

Business strategy is at an evolutionary crossroads. It’s time to resolve the long-standing tension between the inherent identity of your organization and the fleeting nature of your competitive advantage.

Content: Article | Authors: Art Kleiner, Cesare R. Mainardi | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Strategy

The theory of intelligent memory suggests that companies relying on conventional creativity tools are getting shortchanged.

Content: Article | Author: William Duggan | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

When consumers are overwhelmed with options, marketers should give them what they really want: ways of shopping that lower the cognitive stress.

Content: Article | Authors: Kanika Agrawal, Sheena Iyengar | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Customer Related, Marketing / Sales

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Every leader, to be effective, must simultaneously adhere to the symbols of change and revision and the symbols of tradition and stability.

Content: Quotation | Author: Alfred North Whitehead | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership