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- Your Company's Secret Change Agents
- The Idea in Brief Some business problems--lackluster performance, escalating costs, interdepartmental conflict--persist no matter how hard companies try to fix them. Why? Most leaders impose top-down change tactics--importing outside experts or "best" practices, which never...
- Articles 2008-02-13
- Using Action Learning
- Reg Revans (1907–2003) pioneered Action Learning as a management and organizational development tool. It’s based on the premise that people learn best when they focus on a problem together. By sharing their prior knowledge and experience and by asking good questions based upon what they don’t know, people can both...
- Articles 2008-01-03
- Prospecting Online
- Industry research on buying patterns indicates that more than three-quarters of consumers are willing to provide personal information online, compared to 46% by mail and 45% through other marketing media. As well as providing valuable prospecting data, the Web allows you to study the buying process more closely in order...
- Articles 2007-11-30
- Innovation Networks Explained
- A large part of being a manger is solving problems. No matter how carefully you plan, or how excellent your team, there are always fires to be put out, and issues that no amount of head-scratching can resolve. So what to do? This week, Knowledge@Wharton spoke to Larry Huston, managing...
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- TRIZ
- TRIZ is a Russian Acronym for Teoriya Resheniya Izobreatatelskikh Zadatch. When translated in English TRIZ means? The Theory Of Inventive Problem Solving? It is an efficient and proven innovation and problem solving methodology. The reason TRIZ is important is because it enables an organization to become truly innovative in formulating...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Where Business Process Management Is Now - Part 2
- Processes are often used to free resources from non-value added tasks. Automation is required. The problem is that there are many ways to automate processes and it's not always clear which are appropriate. With so many packaged applications, workflow solutions, and numerous methods of bespoke software development, is there a...
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Identification, Research and Development of an Electronic Product for Implementation in a Club or Live Music Environment
- This paper describes a design project. The project itself involves in finding a problem and proving that it does actually exist, researching existing products that relate to the problem, drawing up a specification and creating a solution. This project is aimed at audiences who have a basic understanding of the...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Beyond the Storm: How Innovation Can Enhance Business Performance in the Insurance Industry
- The paper outlines that for most insurance companies today, the latest recession has been a turbulent storm that they are trying to ride out without sustaining too much damage. The problem is that the economic conditions are not the only factor making waves in the insurance industry right now. The...
- White papers 2004-02-19
- Communication Strategies and Product Line Design
- When selling a product line a firm has to consider the costs of communicating about the different products to the consumers. The problem is that firms have to communicate to consumers, possibly through advertising, in order to make them consider buying the products that firms are selling. This results in...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- A Product Is Born: It's Time for Product Development to Enter the Information Age
- The problem is the process, which in most companies has become an inflexible sequence of activities, like a production line. Because it is inflexible, it is disconnected from marketplace changes that may determine the fate of new products. The solution is to inject more customer-related information into the process and...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- The Future of Energy Star and Other Voluntary Energy Efficiency Programmes
- This paper focuses on Energy Star, which is the largest, most successful, voluntary energy efficiency programmed in the world. In order to remain effective, it must address both technical and administrative problems. Technical problems include reconciling programmers dealing with components and whole buildings; dealing with cross-fuel performance; and definitions and...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- 10 Steps To Making Your
- Most companies feel they need to collect a high number of leads for a show to be successful. The problem is that often these leads have no substance. To make show leads produce profitable and measurable results, one need to follow a ten step process. Some of these include: Begin...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- A Product is Born
- It’s time for product development to enter the information age. The process of product development could itself stand a bit of development. Studies indicate that nearly two out of three new products fail after launch. Compounding that, companies in many sectors are under continual pressure to speed up the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Putting Strategy Into the Balanced Scorecard
- Talk to any balanced scorecard consultant, and one finds that the most important step in creating a balanced scorecard is defining the strategy. While that sounds like an easy thing to do, it's surprising how many companies struggle to define their strategy clearly, embed it into their balanced scorecard performance...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Is Telecommunications a Problem for Business? For Most No, But for Others Yes
- To understand more fully the nature of the problems that face the business community in regard to telecommunications, a series of supplementary questions was attached to ACCI's July 2001 Survey of Investor Confidence. The aim in asking these questions was to gain a better understanding of the specific problems that...
- White papers 2001-08-10
- When Bad Things Happen To Good Ideas
- From the executive summary: ‘Knowledge Management KM revolves around the concept that one of the most valuable corporate assets is the experience and expertise floating around inside employees' heads. In order to manage this intellectual capital, executives must devise a way to capture and share that knowledge with coworkers. If...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- Preventing Plumbing Problems
- The article reveals that efficient plumbing systems are essential for smooth facility operation, but too often they are overlooked until a problem arises. One strategy for managers developing a preventive or predictive maintenance program for plumbing systems is to focus on locations in facility plumbing systems that traditionally have caused...
- White papers 2000-12-01
- Measure for Measure - How the Right IT Metrics Can Contribute to High Performance
- Few financial services companies manage to maximize their information technology investment, whether the leakage is in dollars, euros, pounds, pesos, pesetas, yen or any number of other currencies. The problem is not that low performers don't measure their IT performance - most of them do. The problem is that what...
- White papers
- What do I do when good loans go bad?
- Assuming that you have a few stinkers, a consultant offers some tips for salvaging the most bucks. One is: ditch the adversarial role and negotiate. Once the lender has recognized that there is a problem, a second hurdle remains before constructive action can be taken: Convincing the borrower, as well,...
- White papers
- Five Steps To Effective Resource Management
- Effective Resource Management not only impacts profitability by optimizing utilization and minimizing bench time, but when done well, can generate goodwill and loyalty that translate to competitive advantages in recruiting and retaining the best talent. The problem is that with all of the inefficiencies created by the systems we have...
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