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New Look: Driving Business Performance Through Improved Decision-Making and Outsourcing: New Look, a UK-based women's wear fashion retailer had grown rapidly in just a few years. With more than 500 stores across the United Kingdom and France, it had outgrown its legacy information systems. Its financial performance started to flounder and its people were frustrated. With the addition of New...; Tags: Accenture Ltd., decision-making, high-performance, women, outsourcing, financial, performance, information technology; Case studies
Business Strategies for Accelerating Growth: The Value of Making Better Decisions through CRM: Want to improve your organization’s decision-making ability? Do better decisions increase profits, reduce risk and operating costs, and improve customer, partner, and employee satisfaction? Download this Siebel Systems white paper and learn the five key components of a successful customer relationship management CRM initiative and how they can improve...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Customer relationship management (CRM), Siebel Systems Inc., decision-making, CRM, business strategy; White papers
Team Knowledge Structures: Matching Task to Information Environment: The knowledge possessed by an organization and its members can be classified as explicit or tacit. Explicit knowledge can be codified and communicated without much difficulty. Tacit knowledge - such as the manner of operating sensitive equipment, decision-making judgment in the absence of data, or interpersonal skills - is not...; Tags: Team management, Strategy, Gale Group, knowledge, team, decision-making; White papers
Kepner Tregoe Decision Making: Kepner Tregoe decision making is a structured methodology for gathering information and prioritizing and evaluating it. This is a rational model that is well respected in business management circles. An important aspect of Kepner Tregoe decision making is the assessment and prioritizing of risk. So the idea is not to...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, business management, decision-making; White papers 2008-01-01
Business Decision Making Models: The vast majority of business decision making models used in organisations nowadays are of the rational type. These models typically involve a listing of possible alternatives, with a comparison of the pros and cons of each. Then a rational, logical and sensible approach to picking the best option. Some of...; Tags: Decision-making, Model, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management; White papers 2008-01-01

Effective Decision Making In Business Management: Business management is one of the much appreciated jobs positions in the world. The manager is required to have a keen eye so that he makes sure that all the business in running smoothly and there are no stones on the way of success and no decrease in the amount...; Tags: Strategy, business management, decision-making; White papers 2007-12-01
The Future of Innovation Management; Hamel and Bryan Speak: Gary Hamel and LowellÂ Bryan offer similar perspectives on the future role of management in their respective books, "The Future of Management" and "Mobilizing Minds" (co-authored by Claudia Joyce). Each calls for organizational changeÂ so managers an direct employees with the sameÂ innovative energyÂ that is devoted to product development -- minimizing complexityÂ and harnessingÂ every...; Tags: Strategy, Workforce management, Lori Deschene, talent, knowledge; Blog posts 2007-11-20
Making Judgment Calls: The Idea in Brief A leader's judgment can make or break the organization. The best leaders make a high percentage of good calls (whom to hire, what strategy to implement, or how to handle a crisis) at...; Tags: Team management, Noel M. Tichy, Warren G. Bennis, customer segment, sustainability, General Electric Co., leader, team, strategy, developing country, CEO, staffing, women, consumer electronics, health care, manufacturing; Articles 2007-11-07
Risk Management In Strategic Decision Making: Risk management is not new. Insurance companies have been doing it for centuries. Unfortunately, they do not have an exemplary track record, as losses over the past decade have shown. Some risks have been badly managed and others completely overlooked. However, the industry's position has been changing rapidly over the...; Tags: Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial services, SECURITY, Towers Perrin, risk management, risk analysis, insurance, analysis, information technology, industry; White papers 2007-03-01
Improving Customer Loyalty: Retaining customer loyalty is vital to the long-term success and profitability of your business. With industry consolidation, increasing competition, and changes in the marketplace, you need to work harder than ever to maintain a strong customer base. Improving customer loyalty is an essential element in customer retention. What You...; Tags: Sales strategy, BNET Editorial, customer retention, industry, cost reduction, sales, auditing, benefit, market research, decision-making, survey, supplier, consulting, supply chain, team, performance; Articles 2007-10-10
Benefiting from the Balanced Scorecard: Harvard professors Robert Kaplan and David Norton developed the balanced scorecard to help translate vision and strategy into action. This technique can make strategic planning a core part of any business. They showed that financial analysis, which is largely a look backward over past performance, isn’t enough to guide long-term...; Tags: BNET Editorial, Balanced Scorecard, feedback loop, investment decision, technique, business process, team, financial analysis, organizational culture, BPR, performance, Total Quality Management, standards, Strategic Planning, decision-making, motivation, business strateg; Articles 2007-10-03
Arrows In The Decision-Making Quiver: By now it's become conventional wisdom that the business world has moved from the information age to the knowledge era. In the information age, information was a relatively scarce resource that conferred competitive advantages on those who obtained it. In the knowledge era, by contrast, information is virtually free. We...; Tags: American Management Association, knowledge, decision-making, competitive advantage, theory, strategy; White papers 2006-10-01
Communication And Decision-Making By Central Bank Committees: Different Strategies, Same Effectiveness?: The paper assesses the communication strategies of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank and their effectiveness. It was found that the effectiveness of communication is not independent from the decision-making process in the committee. The paper shows that the Federal Reserve has been pursuing...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, decision-making, Bank of England, Federal Reserve Board, financial market, strategy, financial; White papers 2005-05-01
Last Things First: Embracing A Product Life-Cycle Framework: Increasing demands on cost reduction, continuity of supply, and materials quality together with rapidly changing technology and intensifying competition have significantly broadened the scope of procurement, and elevated its stature at the corporate level. Modem purchasing managers may do more forecasting and planning, command greater decision-making authority, develop and implement...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Product marketing, procurement, product life cycle, product lifecycle, strategy, cost reduction, forecasting, decision-making, modem; White papers 2006-10-01
The Role of Feelings and Emotion in Decision Making: People love to characterize emotion and feelings as toxic to rational, objective decision making. "Be cool and dispassionate," they say. While theres some truth to that, there is also evidence to suggest that emotions are crucial in rational decision making (Antonio Damasio, author of Descartes Error, is an influential proponent...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Ben Casnocha, decision-making; Blog posts 2007-04-06
Risk Decision Making: Whose Call Is It?: A decision-maker will to some degree always apply his or her own personal risk tolerance to a decision. Consequently, if security leadership has been empowered to make major risk decisions, they should try very hard to be as aware as possible of business management's risk tolerances. If security leadership isn't...; Tags: Strategy, tolerance, business management, decision-making, security; White papers 2007-01-01
Risk Management Is A Fundamental Component Of The Decision-Making Processes Of Dongbu Insurance: Risk management is a fundamental component of the decision-making processes of Dongbu Insurance. In fact, the Company's risk management system is integral to all business operations. In line with the Company's risk-management principles, relevant risks are constantly monitored, assessed, and controlled. The Risk Management Committee serves as the Company's decision-making...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Financial services, Strategy, SECURITY, risk management, decision-making, risk; White papers 2006-09-19
Identifying And Testing The Decision Making Factors Related To "Key Industries" Choice Of Location: Choosing a strategic location for business operations has always been of critical interest to industry and commerce. The old economy heavily relied on the neoclassical economic theory to provide a set of guiding principles, and focused on proximity to material resources, transport and markets. However, many argue that the new...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, decision-making, industry, theory, marketing, network; White papers 2004-04-01
On the Development of Knowledge Management Services for Collaborative Decision Making: Admitting that the quality of a decision depends on the quality of the knowledge used to make it, it is argued that the enhancement of the decision making efficiency and effectiveness is strongly related to the appropriate exploitation of all possible organizational knowledge resources. Developing such tools should be in...; Tags: Strategy, Tools & Techniques, decision-making, knowledge management, knowledge, teamwork, compliance, tool; White papers 2006-09-01
Basics of Strategic Decision Making: Complexity and turbulence in the world at large have been facts of life, looming larger and larger in peoples concerns. Until today there is hardly anyone not affected by them. One lives in a world of change, often of surprising change. However, the author likes to emphasize the word 'Often',...; Tags: strategy; White papers 2006-02-09