For those of us who write about business, every once in a while, a book or an article comes along that seems so simple on some levels yet communicates great wisdom. "The Connection Culture: A New Source of Competitive Advantage" is one such work. Here's a link to the download. The author is Michael Lee...
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Economists have long debated whether an abundance of natural resources adversely affects long term economic performance. Focusing on economic channels discussed in the literature, the author investigates whether resource abundance slows industrialization or human capital accumulation, or increases inequality. An author examines these channels using geological variation in oil abundance...
There are lots of variables and issues to address when deployment a performance management system across a small or large business. But the author has found that there are two questions that are critical to your success, regardless of the size or nature of your business. The author is writing...
The Archives of Internal Medicine recently published the results of a study on the benefits of napping. The authors' conclusion: After controlling for potential confounders, siesta in apparently healthy individuals is inversely associated with coronary mortality, and the association was particularly evident among working men. In other words,...
This paper proposes that diversification reduces the value of specialized organizational capital by altering firms' routines, formal contract structures and strategies. The author tests the proposition that diversification creates organizational adaptation costs using rich, novel microdata on taxicab firms from the Economic Census before and after a diversification wave into...
Luigi is a tiny Shih Tzu stray that was found running along a road some years back. Hugo is a giant Newfoundland and Golden Retriever mutt whose sweet face beckoned the author from the web page of a nearby animal shelter. These two dogs couldn't be more different - in...
Organizational change is a much discussed topic in the management literature. It is an important issue because proper change management significantly increases the survival an organization in hyper-competitive global business environment. Yet, all too often transformational change programs fail due to a variety of reasons. The purpose of this paper...
Everyone has the opportunity to act in a management capacity in some aspect or event in life. A person may be in the role of a manager or supervisor at work. He might manage the activities in his household, in his community, or temporarily manage activities at an event. What...
Performance is an important aspect of software quality. To prevent performance degradation during software development, performance can be monitored and software modifications that damage performance can be reverted or optimized. Regression benchmarking provides means for an automated monitoring of performance, yielding a list of software modifications potentially associated with performance...
We've all seen it at work: talent being unrecognized, skills being underutilized, resources burning out just to meet deadlines that were poorly estimated and understaffed to being with. Effective project managers understand that it takes more than managing a schedule, filling out status reports and implementing risk plans to successfully...
The author explains the thinking behind human capital management and how it can be applied as a strategic tool for improving the bottom line of the business. Human Capital Management HCM is an approach to people management that focuses on the factors that really predict and have an effect on...
One may not realize it, but employees are angry and hurt about layoffs, cost-cutting and a general sense that they're expendable. The author says companies should start figuring out what it will take to keep top talent from leaving. There's no doubt that a full return to the days of...
One of the major challenges in managing new product development is the difficulty in measuring product development performance. "Although new product development projects are inherently multidisciplinary, studies of development projects typically adopt a singular functional perspective of performance. Inherent functional differences contribute to a natural tendency toward myopic evaluation of...
The Long-Short Adjusted Benchmark (“LSA Benchmark”) is presented as a new model for creating simple market based benchmarks for long-short equity strategies, and may be considered the approach most comparable to long-only portfolio benchmarking. Unlike current benchmark models, which are essentially peer composites of actual manager returns, an LSA Benchmark...
The following white paper revolves around the three principles of management—Measure, Manage and Magnify. The author suggests that it is imperative to define proportionate value of the project’s Key Value Areas and create at least one project objective that has weighting and measuring standards of performance. The author works on...
After a review of the literature, the authors have concluded that there is potential for significant 'Spillover effects' from FDI Foreign Direct Investment into host countries. However, some limitations of this potential are identified to do with the stock of human capital, the interest in local firms of promoting skills...
This paper presents an exploratory investigation of the Manufacturing/Marketing interface. From the literature and prior empirical work in M/M strategies, the authors' propose a path model for assessing the mediating impact of the M/M interface harmony on M/M morale and business performance. Using two convenience samples of executives, the authors'...
In this article we will discuss leadership techniques to gain support from business managers. Management may prefer to allocate the resources to more familiar, incomegenerating programs, but with the approaches recommended in this article, they will recognize the ultimate value of recommendations to the company. Author has explored some of...
Installing a tool will not, by itself, increase an organization's performance. Although executives and managers usually talk about Activity-Based Costing systems and other tools as if they were an end unto themselves, each of these projects have been implemented only to improve the performance of the organization. Successful completion of...
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