Category Archives: General Management
Managing firms throughout the business cycle: The Davis Way!
The first decade of the 21st century has been a rollercoaster ride for economic activity. Business confidence was high at the start of the millennium. This was particularly fuelled by the growth of the internet as a means of buying [...]
Energy Management at Motorola
Motorola is a manufacturer of wireless telephone handsets, and also designs and sells wireless network infrastructure equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers. This case study reveals as to how under the umbrella of corporate social responsibility [...]
Football Lessons for Managers
Business managers might think that the football World Cup will be best spent ordering distracted employees to close down the video links and concentrate on their work.But there s much to learn from the tournament about organizing teams and motivating [...]
Filed under Articles, Business, Change Management, General Management
Want to Lead a Business Revolution? Study the Real Thing
Thomas A. Stewart is the chief marketing and knowledge officer of Booz & Company, a leading global management consulting firm. Opinions expressed in this blog are his and may not be those of the firm. Formerly the editor and managing [...]
Filed under Articles, Assorted, Business, Business Strategy, General Management, How To
The Financial Close: Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence
“Financial close” is a company’s ability to complete accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting—and is still a key part of today’s global finance function. Do you know how to overcome the barriers to [...]
Filed under Articles, Featured Cases, Finance, General Management, White Papers
THE JOURNEY OF A CREATIVE THOUGHT LEADER
This article tracks the emergence of Helen Storey’s latest social and conceptual public project, Eye and I, which stimulates public responses to a variety of emotional expressions. Visualizing emotional and cognitive processes allows Helen to develop public art as a [...]
Filed under Articles, Business, Featured Cases, General Management
Roles and functions: contribution to organisational performance
A Nottingham County Surveyor, Edgar Purnell Hooley, discovered tarmac by accident in the early 20th century. He found a barrel of tar had spilled onto the road at a local ironworks. This had mixed with waste slag from the furnaces. [...]
Filed under Free Cases, General Management
General Electric and Real Time
GE is squeezing time from the way it makes, buys and sells everything from plastic to jet engines. The cost savings are real. But going to real time will also trigger job losses and tougher management.
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