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Curveball
The Idea in Brief You've executed a brilliant new strategy--but your competitors are catching on. How to get them off your scent? Stalk recommends throwing curveball strategies: clever moves that get competitors looking the other way...
Tags: Business Operations, Operational Planning, Sales, Strategy, Asset, Competitor, JetStar, DiaDevice, Sales Strategy, Asset Management, Sales Force Management, Management, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Canon Inc., George Stalk, Jr.
Articles 2008-04-14
Federal Reserve Sees Paper Checks Declining
The list of technological species endangered by new innovations is growing long: First 8-track tapes and VHS, then printed newspapers and the compact-disc album. Now we can add the checkbook to the list. Or that's the word from the Federal Reserve. In an interview with "American Banker,"...
Tags: Workforce Management, Operational Planning, Kevin Kelleher, Human Resources, Management, Business Operations, Asset Management, Strategy, Federal Reserve Board
Blog posts 2008-03-27
Winning in the Aftermarket
The Idea in Brief In many industries--automotive, consumer electronics, home appliances--the after-sales service market has ballooned to four to five times the size of the original equipment business. And the aftermarket is a high-margin cash cow: in...
Tags: Services, Aftermarket, Vipul Agrawal, Narendra Agrawal, Morris A. Cohen, In Brief, Harvard Business Review, Management, Business Operations, Operational Planning, Sales, Manufacturing, Software, Enterprise Software, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Strategy, Asset Management, Telecom & Utilities, Sales Strategy, Product, Customer, Service, Service Product, Performance Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Aerospace & Defense
Articles 2008-02-13
MarketBusting
The Idea in Brief You can't outperform rivals if you compete the same way they do. To be king of the jungle, not copycat, you must spur substantial new growth--quickly, profitably, and safely. ...
Tags: General Electric Co., Ian C. MacMillan, Rita Gunther McGrath, Competition, Strategy, In Brief, Asset, Harvard Business Review, Capital Structures, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Operational Planning, Mortgages, Performance Management, Asset Management, American Home Mortgage Holdings, Service, Quanta, Business, Customer, Quanta Computer Inc.
Articles 2008-01-04
CIO Influence Waning; Tech Execs Need to Step Up
CIOs need to step up their game if they want to maintain their influence. The Society for Information Management found that 31 percent of CIOs report to the CEO now, as opposed to 45 percent last year. Some CEOs are questioning whether or not their companies' even need a CIO now...
Tags: Business Operations, Strategy, Globalization, Operational Planning, CIO, Management, Lori Deschene
Blog posts 2007-11-21
How to Redefine Your Company's Core Strategy
As we wrote on the BNET Intercom last week, sometimes it's important to stay true to your company's strategic core. But sometimes, with technology and globalization changing the business environment at whiplash inducing speeds, fundamental redefinition is a necessity rather than a distraction. In a post on the Harvard Business...
Tags: Business Operations, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Strategy, Management, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2007-08-16
Another Acronym: What Is BPM?
Business management is home to more three-letter acronyms than any other profession, with the possible exception of aviation. And many of the most jargony abbreviations seem to be little more than a re-packaging of old ideas, or a slight variation of a proven concept. So what should you make of...
Tags: It Operations, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Software, Andrew Hines, Business Process Automation, BPM, Business Management, Operational Planning
Blog posts 2007-05-31
Executives Beware the Fossilized Worldview
There's a big risk that comes with success: over-reliance on the ideas and methods that got you there. The business environment evolves constantly and a well-defined worldview can stifle innovation and spell disaster for you and your company. Charles Ehin, Professor of Management and author of Unleashing Intellectual Capital and...
Tags: Strategy, Asset Management, Business Environment, Leadership, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Andrew Hines
Blog posts 2007-05-09
BNET Daily Dispatch: Wal-Mart, P&G, Oracle, and Patent Law
A 200-page study released today by Human Rights Watch claims that Wal-Mart has repeatedly broken the law by eavesdropping on employee conversations, tracking employees with surveillance cameras, and firing pro-union workers to prevent its workforce from organizing. Wal-Mart vehemently defended its labor practices, and a spokesman said Wal-Mart gives employees...
Tags: Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Manufacturing, Management, Andrew Hines, Food & Beverage, Asset Management, Sales Strategy, Procter & Gamble Co., Oracle Corp., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Leadership
Blog posts 2007-05-01
Cisco Press Publishes Global IPv6 Strategies: From Business Analysis to Operational Planning, by Patrick Grossetete, Ciprian Popoviciu, and Fred Wettling
Book Addresses Business Need for Efficient Migration to IPv6
Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., operational planning, strategy
Research articles 2008-05-29
Cultivate Your Culture
Corporate culture isn't something you can define. It's intangible: a state of mind, a feeling, a collective consciousness that's infused in a business and its employees. Employees are your greatest assets, and when your business experiences a growth surge, you need a united front of employees that support your company's...
Tags: Employee, AllBusiness.com, Asset Management, Leadership, Performance Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 1999-01-13
Intellectual Assets: Case Study
Dow's vision, is to develop a management process that maximizes the business value of its existing intellectual assets and helps to create new ones. This effort was critical to achieving buy-in throughout the corporation for the group's new Intellectual Asset Management Model IAM Model. This model includes various projects on...
Tags: Webcom.com, Asset Management, Leadership, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management
Case studies 1997-03-01
A Model of Credit Risk, Optimal Policies, and Asset Prices
This article studies an economy with borrowers firms or individuals under costly default. Borrowers defaulting under adverse economic conditions may, despite incurring default costs, emerge as wealthier than nonborrowers. Asset substitution is generally not pronounced, although a larger risk exposure by borrowers may also occur, and then binary options emerge...
Tags: Asset, Risk, Asset Price, Social Science Electronic Publishing Inc., Borrower, Asset Substitution, Asset Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management
White papers 2001-03-01
Success Depends On People
That kind of continuous innovation and improvement cannot come from technology alone, which nowadays turns obsolete as quickly as a mayfly. It comes from human creativity and commitment, from employees giving their best at all levels of the organization. Successes depend on people and in order to achieve success, people...
Tags: Asset, Knowledge, Success, Leader, Worker, Current Leadership, Leadership, Asset Management, Strategy, Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
White papers 1997-01-01
Research On Funds Management
This whie paper function, the primary goal of research is to provide a sound analytic base for operations. We are currently focusing on documenting best practices for central bank risk management, improving our understanding of credit risk models, building a simulation model to compare alternative financing strategies for the government's...
Tags: Bank Of Canada, Asset Management, Financing Startups, Government, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Management
White papers 2003-09-06
Speculations On How Taxation Changes Might Affect Investor Strategies
This article focuses to reduce or eliminate the double taxation of dividends paid on corporate stocks. Reducing or eliminating the taxes levied on dividends would improve equities' after-tax total returns relative to other non-affected asset classes such as bonds or alternative assets. In this paper it initially seek to illustrate...
Tags: Asset, Strategy, Dividend, Investor, Taxes, Asset Management, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations
White papers 2003-01-09
Optimal Dynamic Hedging Using Futures Under a Borrowing Constraint
Both financial and non-financial firms routinely implement hedging policies to mitigate their exposure to changes in asset prices. This paper derives the dynamic hedging strategy of a firm that uses futures contracts to hedge a spot market exposure. The risk emanating from the margin requirement on futures contracts is incorporated...
Tags: Bank For International Settlements, Asset Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management
White papers 2002-01-01
Globalization and International Public Finance
This paper examines the effect of reduced transaction costs in the international trading of assets on the ability of governments to issue debt. We examine a model in which governments care about the welfare of their citizens, and thus are more inclined to default if a large proportion of their...
Tags: Asset, National Bureau Of Economic Research, Creditor, Finance, Asset Management, Government, Globalization, Vertical Industries, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Strategy, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2000-05-09
Financial Innovation, Market Participation and Asset Prices
This paper investigates the pricing effects of financial innovation in an economy with endogenous participation and heterogeneous income risks. The introduction of non-redundant assets endogenously modifies the participation set, reduces the covariance between dividends and participants' consumption and thus leads to lower risk premia. In multisector economies, financial innovation spreads...
Tags: Asset, Innovation, Asset Price, Financial, Participation, Financial Accounting, Asset Management, Leadership, Strategy, Financial Planning, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management
White papers 2003-07-01
Market Timing Strategies
Market timing strategies involve moving between risky assets, such as stocks or bonds, and less risky short term securities like Treasury Bills based on "technical", "fundamental" or "quantitative" analyses. Reduced to its core proposition, market timing means "buying low and selling high." Identifying high or "overvalued" versus low or "undervalued"...
Tags: Asset, Security, Financial, Asset Management, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Management
White papers
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