Balanced Purchasing
Short article centers on a traditional 2×2 consulting matrix for purchasing, with the price as the x-axis and cooperation as the y-axis. This high-level analysis is interesting in that it was published in early 1996 before the huge SCM craze.
Editor’s Note: This is part 1 of a 3-part series.
Part 2: “Systems, Modules or Components? New Light on Purchasing”
Part 3, “Setting Supplier … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Timothy M. Laseter | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Operations
Jean René Fourtou
Head of Rhone-Poulenc, France’s chemical giant; previously C.E.O. of the largest French consulting firm
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Chemicals
Another Reason Why Companies Resist Change
A good look at why people resist change, drawing largely from the book “Managing at the Speed of Change” by Daryl R. Conner. Offers more insight on why people resist change than on how to counter the resistance.
Content: Article | Authors: Daryl R. Conner, Jay Marshall | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Change Management
The Performance Management System: Turning Strategies into Results
“Even the best strategies do not implement themselves” is the pithy opening sentence of this article. The authors suggest that many management systems come up short because they focus too narrowly on measurements and results. Measurement is not management, as they put it. Instead, they argue in favor of the Booz-Allen system, Performance Management, that continuously analyzes decision-making and draws on intra-company relationships rather than … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: John K. Shank, Paul A. Branstad, Walter G. Jewett Jr. | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Consulting / Analytical Tools, Management
W. Brian Arthur
Citibank Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, a private think tank in New Mexico
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Thomas D. Dee Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Paul Krugman
Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Has been called “The Great Debunker,” a title won from journalists and colleagues for subjecting the gloomy profession’s fads and fashions, and much of its commonly accepted wisdom, to the sharp edge of his analysis.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Howard Gardner
co-director of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the school’s John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education; developed the concept of multiple intelligences.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Michel Bon
chairman and chief executive officer of France Telecom
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Telecommunications
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Author and Class of 1960 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
John Seely Brown
Part scientist, part artist and part philosopher, John Seely Brown is chief scientist of the Xerox Corporation and director of its Palo Alto Research Center, better known as PARC.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Other
Lynda Applegate
M.B.A. Class of 1952 Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Charles Handy
Charles Handy is Europe’s best known and most influential management thinker. In an interview with Joel Kurtzman, editor of Strategy & Business, Mr. Handy elaborates on his concept of ‘membership community’ for the corporate model of the future. ‘Corporations are not things, they are the people who run them,’ he says. ‘In order to hold people inside the corporation, we can’t really talk about them … [ Read more ]
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Other
Jay Walker
Priceline.com’s founder and vice chairman
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management
Minoru Makihara
President of Mitsubishi Corporation
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management
John Quelch
London Business School dean and global marketing guru.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Keshub Mahindra
chairman of Mahindra & Mahindra, India’s 10th largest company and the country’s largest manufacturer of utility vehicles and tractors.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Automotive
Robert B. Reich
former secretary of labor and now Maurice Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis University’s Heller Graduate School
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management
C.K. Prahalad
Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business at the University of Michigan Business School and well-known strategy expert
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Jeffrey E. Garten
dean of the Yale School of Management
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training