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- London Business School: Re-org is its Own Reward
- The Find: One professor thinks you don't need a good reason to reorganize your departments -- a reshuffle is an end unto itself. The Source: The "Random Rantings" blog of Freek Vermeulen, Associate Professor of Strategic & International Management at the London Business School. ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Strategizing for HR2
- An HR plan can help you delineate your goals and your strategies for achieving them. It enables you to go beyond day-to-day tasks to see the larger purpose of your department and how it functions within the company. It helps you "align the resources and department to the broader needs...
- White papers 2001-02-01
- Retail Management Training Options
- In most retail management training, candidates are exposed to all facets of the business. Typically, a new trainee will spend six months to three years in various departments to learn the company and industry. For example, a store management trainee receives training in merchandising, finance, marketing, operations and human resources....
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Project Portfolio Management: Managing The Project Pipeline
- For most service departments the demand for new projects will occasionally outweigh the department's capacity to do them. Whether it's due to financial constraints or skills being completely exhausted elsewhere, sometimes you just have to say "No." Saying "no" is easy, it's deciding who to say "No" to. Projects that...
- White papers 2008-12-08
- 5 Pointers For Effective Project Management
- Problems in realization arise for various reasons. Often, the team leader does not involve the right process owners from the beginning in the projects. At times, they also do not get the cooperation from all areas or departments. If any department responsible for the failure of a project is not...
- White papers 2008-06-07
- Risky Business?: Managing Risk And Creating Value In A Volatile World
- Any department in your organization can either support your strategy by being aligned with it, or block your strategy by pushing against it. This paper takes a look at how several different departments might affect strategy. Departments must support strategy by being aligned with the type of customer you are...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Boosting Sales Through The Front Office
- Nowadays, even though everybody recognizes the importance of the front office, few consider it to be anything more than a clerical department. The current shift in market conditions from sellers to a buyers market requires that the Front Office function like a sales department. It should be recognized as such...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- How To Survive A Layoff Or Downsizing
- Layoffs used to be temporary in nature. This meaning has changed now because, for a long time, this term has been used for referring to the permanent elimination of employees as a part of the cost-cutting measure. One of the most difficult situations in an employee's life is when the...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- 5 Ways To Avoid A Layoff
- The economy is slow and your employer is tightening budgets, cutting expenses, combining departments, and, worst of all, laying off redundant positions. Now is not the time to sit on your laurels, hoping if you don't make waves no one will notice you're still on the payroll. Now is the...
- White papers 2008-08-05
- Aligning Departments With Your Strategy
- Over the years, several companies have asked how to go about getting departments of their organizations to support the vision created in the strategic planning process. To begin with, it's important to recognize that this is a good idea: any department in the organization can either support the strategy by...
- White papers 2005-01-17
- Making The Tough Decisions When Down-Sizing A Department
- Downsizing a department is always hard on managers. You have to decide who to fire and who to keep. Also if you want to switch someone to another department. And then moving on when all the others are gone. And of course everything else. When deciding who to fire and...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- When Does Outsourcing Accounts Receivables Make Sense?
- Companies continually make choices about which internal departments to grow depending on their potential cost versus profitability. In this modern age of business, outsourcing is a very beneficial way to essentially add entire departments without ensuing associated costs of growing departments in-house. But which pieces of the business should be...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Accounting Outsourcing: The Tool To Success
- The accounts or in other words, the bookkeeping department is indeed one of the most important departments of any business. Therefore, it is important to involve competent people to take care of this department because this department has the capability of giving a business the tag of a successful or...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Latest Selected Acquisition Reports (SAR) Released to Congress
- By Law the Department of Defense must submit to Congress annual reports on the major acquisition programs. The report chosen is called the Selected Acquisition Report SAR. These are normally submitted when the President sends the full budget to the Hill. SAR reports are also submitted quarterly...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Treasury Department to Pay Significant Costs to Manage Financial Bailout
- We had written in the past about the U.S. Treasury Department having to hire contractors to help manage the TARP financial bailout passed by Congress last year. Now The Wall Street Journal reports on the costs incurred to do this. The Department predicts that by the end of...
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Family Dollar Managing the Tough Parts
- Retailers who have been successful in the recession usually have had some kind of value offering in food and consumables, which might range from inexpensive produce to discount pricing on diapers, products that seems like an everyday shopping bargain to some group of consumers, but progress for Family Dollar has...
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- GlobalHue Accused of Overbilling Bermuda Account; Agency Plays Race Card
- Don Coleman's GlobalHue is accused of ripping off the government of Bermuda by overbilling its $13 million tourism advertising contract. In a report by Bermuda auditor general Larry Dennis pictured, GlobalHue is accused of: Overbilling the account by $1.8 million. Prebilling the government in violation of...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Occupational Health And Safety Induction Checklist
- Use this template as a check list for heath and safety related issues, by referring this template any organization can maintain a good human resource department or administrative department which is capable to handle any heath/safety concerned issue of the employee.
- Tools & templates 2006-09-01
- An Effective Matrix Organizational Structure
- Few years back most large corporations were structured in departments. These departments were logical partitions of the company and any given groups of employees reported to the head of the department. After this point, companies began to restructure its employees into a matrix organization, mainly with the intent of developing...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Controlling Disputes Between Credit and Sales
- The credit department and the sales department will disagree from time to time about how credit limits and terms, and about how a particular problem should be handled. This can lead to tension between the two departments. In this article you'll find some ways to work towards a better relationship...
- White papers 1995-01-01
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