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Choosing Strategies for Change
Faced with stiffer competition and dizzying technological advances, companies often must change course to stay competitive. But most change initiatives backfire. That's because many managers take a one-size-fits-all approach to change. They assume they can combat resistance, a notorious obstacle, by involving...
Tags: Change Management, John P. Kotter, In Brief, Workforce Management, Harvard Business Review, Tools & Techniques, Human Resources, Management, Leadership, Performance Management, Strategy, Change, Leonard A. Schlesinger
Articles 2008-07-18
Change Is Easier Than You Think
In a fun and mind-turning essay, Michael T. Kanazawa argues People Don't Hate Change, They Hate How You're Trying To Change Them It starts out with a cold slap in the face: "According to a summary of over 40 research studies on change, the success rate of...
Tags: Michael Fitzgerald, Workforce Management, Management, Human Resources, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Company Management, Michael T. Kanazawa, Change, Essay
Blog posts 2008-07-10
These Aren't Your Mother's Girl Scouts
Early this decade the Girl Scouts of the USA was an organization adrift. Membership growth was slowing, the mission seemed dulled, the brand had lost its focus. When Harvard Online blogger Bill Taylor looks at the Girl Scouts today and the steps it has taken under recent...
Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Marketing, Branding, Taylor, Change, Brand
Blog posts 2008-03-07
Managing Change
Change, as they say, is the only certainty. Yet most people seek constancy, and struggle continuously to prevent, or adjust to change. At best, these people arrive at a place of "dynamic equilibrium" where the ebbs and flows of life do not result in radical change but allow them to...
Tags: Change, Mindset, Change Management, Real Estate, Leadership, Workforce Management, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Human Resources, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Nothing, Management, BNET Editorial
Articles 2007-11-09
Keeping On Top of Project Management
A project can be an awkward beast to manage. Because the purpose of a project is to bring about change, the context is often unsettled and uncertain. As a result, unexpected issues tend to crop up—changes occur and mistakes are made. An effective project manager must accept that the unexpected...
Tags: Team management, Tools & Techniques, risk analysis, project manager, team, change request, risk assessment, BNET Editorial, Contingency Plan, TechnicalThis, Decision, Project Management, Management, Security, Strategy, Change, Risk, Project
Articles 2007-10-08
A Decision Support Tool To Optimize Scheduling Of IT Changes
Change management is one of the most critical processes in IT management. Some of the reasons are the sheer number of changes and the difficulty of evaluating the impact of changes on the IT services being provided. Through carrying out a survey with IT managers and practitioners, the authors have...
Tags: Information Technology, Change, Decision Support, Change Management, Service Level Management, Leadership, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, It Operations, It service Management
White papers 2007-01-14
The Dominance Of Product Mix Over Productivity And Technical Change In The U.S. Banking
Utilizing the developments in the Data Envelopment Analysis DEA technique, this paper examines the profit changes for a sample of U.S. commercial banks for the period 1999 - 2005. The profit change is decomposed into main profit drivers such as: price effect, quantity effect, productivity effect, activity effect, operating efficiency,...
Tags: Change, University Of Richmond, Profit Change, Productivity, Financial Services
White papers 2006-12-01
The Macroeconomic Effects Of Tax Changes: Estimates Based On A New Measure Of Fiscal Shocks
This paper investigates the impact of changes in the level of taxation on economic activity. The paper uses the narrative record - presidential speeches, executive-branch documents, and Congressional reports - to identify the size, timing, and principal motivation for all major postwar tax policy actions. This narrative analysis allows us...
Tags: Change, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance
White papers 2007-03-01
We Can Work It Out: The Impact Of Technological Change On The Demand For Low-Skill Workers
There is little doubt that technology has had the most profound effect on altering the tasks that we humans do in our jobs. Economists have long speculated on how technical change affects both the absolute demand for labour as a whole and the relative demands for different types of labour....
Tags: Change, London School Of Economics, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2004-06-01
Adaptive Leadership: Risky Business?
The question is no longer, "How to manage change?" The question now is, "How to lead adaptive change?" We live in extraordinary times in the arc of our social, political and economic development. Miraculous products and events hit the news every week, it seems. By understanding and assimilating several leadership...
Tags: Change, Interaction Associates, Leadership, Management
White papers 2007-04-01
Too Much Information | BTalk Australia
(13min 56) Web analytics packages can track everything your site users do. So how do you make sense of it all? Is it really a case of information overload? And why pay for software when there are free tools like Google Analytics? In today’s BTalk Australia Phil...
Tags: Analytics, Business, Change, Data, Finance, Financial Planning, Google Inc., Marketing, Marketing Research, Metrics, Phil Dobbie, Product, Site, Web Analytics, WebTrends Corp.
Blog posts 2008-12-15
The Finance Acts 1998 and 2000: Can the Owners of Agricultural Land Continue to Gain From Their Capital Disposals
The Finance Bill 1998 introduced a number of significant changes to the Capital Gains Tax CGT regime. Further substantial changes were made in 2000. This paper assesses the impact of those changes on the owners of property, particularly farmland. Contrary to many peoples' hopes, the new provisions do not simplify...
Tags: Change, University Of Reading, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance
White papers 2001-03-30
Strategically Balanced Change: A Key Factor In Modern Management
Organizational change is a much discussed topic in the management literature. It is an important issue because proper change management significantly increases the survival an organization in hyper-competitive global business environment. Yet, all too often transformational change programs fail due to a variety of reasons. The purpose of this paper...
Tags: America Online Inc., Change, Change Management, Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources
White papers 2006-05-15
Charlotte Russe Holdings, Inc. F1Q09 (Qtr End 12/27/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions One moment please for your first question. Your first question is from Betty Chen – Wedbush Morgan Securities. Betty Chen – Wedbush Morgan Securities John, I was wondering if you can walk us through just the rationale by the Board and the...
Tags: Change, Call Transcript, Earnings, Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance, Marketing Research, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Seeking Alpha, Charlotte Russe Holding Inc.
Earnings calls 2009-01-21
When Leading Change, Don't Manage Time: Invest It In People
Time management is a grand idea when dealing with the things in your life. It's all about organization, efficiency and getting things done. As a tool for leading people through change, however, it misses the mark. In fact, when leading change, the last thing you want to do is manage...
Tags: Change, Buzzle.com, Time Management, Productivity, Leadership, Management
White papers 2007-09-07
Explanation Of Change In Compensation Plan
Use this template to explain the changes taken place in compensation plan. This is a very sensitive area so clearly articulate what the changes entail and give examples. Discuss the changes in person, but put them in writing as well.
Tags: Compensation, Change, Best Sample Letters, Benefits, Human Resources
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
United Slow to Address Public Concern Over Paid Meals on International Flights
Being in public relations for an airline has to be one of the toughest jobs around, but that's no excuse for not doing it well. It came out last week that United would start charging for meals on some transatlantic flights along with a handful of other changes not...
Tags: Change, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Brett Snyder
Blog posts 2008-08-25
How To Win At Leading Change
What happens when you want to introduce change in your business? Let's look at a typical example. In many companies, a big change is discussed in meetings and memos for weeks or months by the top team. They eventually reach a decision, prepare a presentation and call all the staff...
Tags: Change, DiscoveryArticles.com, Marketing Research, Team Management, Microsoft Office, Marketing, Management, Office Suites, Software
White papers 2008-07-15
Managing & Communicating Change
A successful change is one where staff understand the need for change and feel part of the process through clear and consistent communication and consultation. Change is not simple; change is time consuming. This must be accepted and a commitment made to ensure the process is as good as it...
Tags: Process, Change
White papers 2006-06-06
Employee Involvement, Attitudes and Reactions to Technology Changes
This paper examines the relationships between employee reactions to specific technological changes and the job-related attitudes of these employees. The specific changes include the transition, by the organization's clinical professionals, from the use of laptop computers to smaller palm-sized Clinical Assistant CE devices and the automation of clinical pathways into...
Tags: Change, AllBusiness.com, Microsoft Windows CE, Productivity, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware
White papers