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operational planning and strategy

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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
Ex-Rover aide buys van maker LDV
Qu Li, the Chinese industrial consultant whose role in the collapse of MG Rover was lambasted in a government-sponsored report, has bought the assets of van maker LDV, another defunct vehicle maker. She plans to set up an electric van company in the Midlands that will employ 200 people.The...
Tags: Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Company News, Government News, Human Resources & Employment, Redundancies & Layoffs, Strategy, Financial Times
News items 2009-10-15
NAB Completes Takeover of 80% of JBWere
National Australia Bank Ltd NAB has completed the takeover of 80.1 per cent of Goldman Sachs JBWere's private wealth management business in Australia and New Zealand.Australia's biggest bank by assets announced the strategic alliance with Goldman on July 29, Melbourne-based NAB said in a statement on Monday.The wealth management...
Tags: Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Branding, Mergers & Acquisitions, Asset Management, Strategy, Corporate Law, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, AAP
News items 2009-11-02
First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Ki Bin Kim of Macquarie. Ki Bin Kim - Macquarie Research Equities So in regards to your inaudible strategy could you provide more commentary, so what the side that bulk going forward of how much assets you want to sell...
Tags: Transaction, Call Transcript, Earnings, Market, Asset Management, Strategy, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Management, Seeking Alpha, First Industrial Realty Trust Inc.
Earnings calls 2009-11-05
Targa Resources Partners LP Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you, sir. We will now begin the question-and-answer session. Operator instructions And our first question comes from the line of Chris Holt with Barclays Capital. Please go ahead. Chris Holt – Barclays Capital Hi, good afternoon guys. Rene Joyce Good afternoon, Chris Chris...
Tags: Barclays Plc., Call Transcript, Earnings, Transcript, Targa Resources Partners LP, Business Structures, Asset Management, Balance Sheets, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Finance, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Statements, Management, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-11-06
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
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