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- the combined beliefs, values, ethics, procedures, and atmosphere of an organization. The culture of an organization is often expressed as "the way we do things around here" and consists of...
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- Creating a Productive Corporate Culture
- Dr. Kerry Sulkowicz, founder and principal of the Boswell Group, shares his insight about the different personalities of corporations. Boswell Group is a consulting firm that specializes in the psychology of business.
- Videos 2008-01-24
- Blowing Up Business As Usual
- At some companies, employees skip meetings, set their own schedules, and take unlimited vacation time. Surprise: They also get more done.There's no shortage of approaches to organizational and performance management — from balanced scorecard and total quality management to management by walking around and rightsizing, just for starters. One of...
- Articles 2008-09-26
- Raytheon Six Sigma: Building a Corporate Culture
- After Raytheon Co. completed a series of mergers, they had to quickly implement a new corporate culture and eliminate duplicate processes while maintaining a focus on the customer. Raytheon produced a customized solution, Raytheon Six Sigma, which integrated knowledge management, cultural development, and successfully included customers and suppliers. Raytheon Six...
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- Product Management and Project Management - Two Functions, Two Vital Roles
- For the past few years, the business world has suffered from "Growing pains" and the corporate community is certainly enduring its share of turbulence and disorder. Among the many causative issues, mergers and downsizing are creating conflicts over strategies, roles and responsibilities, and corporate culture clashes. The current shift to...
- White papers 2004-05-25
- Cross-Cultural Risk Factors In Offshore Outsourcing
- When companies decide on an offshore outsourcing strategy, select service providers and plan their onshore-offshore integration, due diligence and risk assessment is normal part of the process. Until recently however, systematic attention to the cross-cultural dimensions of risk assessment has been rare. With mergers and acquisitions, corporate culture compatibility and...
- White papers 2006-12-11
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- When to Ally and When to Acquire
- The Idea in Brief Many companies view acquisitions and alliances as interchangeable strategies for spurring growth. But each strategy has unique advantages and disadvantages. Firms that ignore those differences risk acquiring companies they should have collaborated with...
- Articles 2007-12-14
- How to Sell an Idea
- Got an idea that could kick your career into overdrive? Confirm That You and Your Idea Are a Credible Match GOAL: Make sure an appropriate messenger will deliver your message. Selling ideas is not like selling products. With a product, customers...
- Articles 2007-03-19
- Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: How to Survive (and Win)
- Thanks to new regulations, Sarbox compliance has become a lot less costly and more efficient. Here's how to use it to your best advantage. Create a Controls-Friendly Culture From the Top Goal: Lay the...
- Articles 2008-02-26
- Corporate culture: Vance publishing
- PORTFOLIO: 29 magazines covering industries as disparate as livestock Pork. crops Cotton Farming and salons Modern Salon. LOCATION: The corporate office is in Lincoinshire, Illinois. Satellite offices are in Kansas, Florida, Tennessee and New York. WORD ON THE COMPANY: Generally described as a friendly, professional, noncompetitive place to...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- How to Execute a Merger
- Planning and brokering an M&A deal is the easy part. It's after the ink is dry that the real work begins. Here's how to navigate this critical period in five key steps. Set Expectations GOAL: Ensure...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- How to Innovate Like Apple
- Apple's formula for success can be distilled into principles of sound management that could in the right culture flourish elsewhere too. Clear Your Mind GOAL: Understand what it takes to create truly remarkable products. The word “zen”...
- Articles 2009-08-10
- The Forgotten Strategy
- The Idea in Brief Multinationals' global operations consistently underperform their domestic operations. Why? These companies' strategies focus mostly on similarities across their markets: whenever possible, global companies standardize their business models to achieve economies of scale. They...
- Articles 2007-11-02
- Localizing Marketing Programs for Diverse Markets
- Since conditions vary from market to market, particularly when a company is selling internationally, it is important to adapt or "localize" marketing programs. This could mean shifting to an entirely new strategy, or just making tactical changes to promotions, copy, language, photos, or other elements. What You Need to...
- Articles 2007-11-20
- Expanding Overseas: The Best Mid-Size Markets
- Relatively stable and foreigner-friendly, these growing mid-size markets offer expansion opportunities in regions less vulnerable to the current global economic slowdown. .expansionPic { width:324px; float:right; margin:0px 0 10px 10px; padding:5px 5px 0; background:#edece7; border:1px solid #d4d4d4; } * html .expansionPic { display:inline; margin-top:20px;} .expansionPic p...
- Articles 2008-04-21
- Aligning Your Organization And Your Brand For Performance
- Aligning the organization, operations and culture around the brand values brings the promise to life. A corporate brand stands for the relationship that an organization has with its employees, as much as it represents the relationship that it has with its customers through its product and service offering. For a...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Change Management Is The Problem, Not The Solution
- "As the title of this article boldly states, change management is not the solution. Creating a deep and sustainable change in business strategy, or is operations that result in improved competitiveness is not just about management — it's first about leadership. Lasting business change involves shifting day-to-day work...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Evaluating the CEO
- When CEOs stumble, they pull their companies down with them. As chief executive, how can you stay steady on your feet and keep delivering the high-quality leadership your firm needs? When Kaufman was the...
- Articles 2008-10-02
- Using Lateral Moves to Further Your Career
- Given the proportion of your time that you spend working, you probably want your job to be an interesting part of your life.It used to be that to keep things interesting you needed to keep getting promoted. In today's lean and flattened workplaces, frequent promotions have ended up on the...
- Articles 2007-03-27
- How to Win at Office Politics
- Like it or not, every workplace is a political environment. But operating effectively within it doesn't have to mean sucking up, lying, or slinging dirt. In its purest form, office politics is simply about getting from here to there: securing a promotion, seeing an idea come to fruition, or gaining...
- Articles 2007-07-02
- How to Find Your Next CEO
- It's never been easy for a company's board to plan for the departure of a chief executive. Thanks to the pressures of our present economy, boards are facing that task more frequently than ever before. Here's our guide to managing a CEO's succession, no matter why...
- Articles 2009-02-17
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