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Sustainable Banking With The Poor: Evolution, Status Quo And Prospects
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Microfinance, i.e. the provision of financial services to people who would normally not be able to access them, has evolved very fast in the past few years, from a niche market dominated by...
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One More Challenge On The Road To Information Driven Marketing
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Few CEOs would argue with the contention that a firm's ability to generate timely market and customer insights comprises a set of critical operational and strategic competencies. There are indeed...
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Store Inventory Can Affect Demand: Empirical Evidence From Magazine Retailing
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In retailing, inventory analysis and inventory practice have traditionally been based on the assumption that underlying demand does not vary with inventory levels. A growing body of research...
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Decoding The Secrets Of Success Of Chinese Private Companies
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Chinese Privately Owned Enterprises (POEs) have played a major role in the rapid economic development of the nation. Entrepreneurs in Chinese POEs are typically endowed with an intimate knowledge...
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How To Distinguish Smart Big Moves From Stupid Ones
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Big moves, in the form of strategic shifts with a major commitment of resources to achieve a new goal, are pivotal points in the history of companies. When top executives make shifts in direction...
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Oiling Board Processes: The Dynamic Evolution From 'Company Secretary' to 'Corporate Governance Officer'
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In the wake of the current financial crisis, a new wave of regulation will certainly emerge on how boards should be run; the processes and structures to support board performance. As the number of...
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Learning: You Must Remember This
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Superior learning is a necessary component of competitive success. It is a rare person or team which can achieve deep learning - that is, replacement of obsolescent beliefs, and the gaining of new...
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How To Be An Effective Strategic Initiative Sponsor: Roll Up Your Sleeves! You Matter!
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Should corporate executives be held responsible for their company's strategic initiatives? One would think so. Any yet, surprisingly, only 31% of individuals questioned recently felt that their...
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Working Capital In Times Of Financial Crisis: Three Trade Credit Strategies
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Credit is a difficult issue these days. In the US, firms generate more than 15% of their financing from accounts payable. Internationally, these levels can be even higher. And since more than 80%...
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The Chief Information Officer - Achieving Credibility, Relevance And Business Impact
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In the past, it has often been unclear whether the CIO role was simply another label for the head of information technology in a company. The role was often seen as someone who kept the systems up...
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Building An Effective Network: Where Should You Invest And How?
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Networks and networking are a hot topic in business today. Innovative electronic networking tools such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Xing as well as more traditional networks such as alumni and...
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Mindfulness
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The East and West are converging not only materially - through global trade, virtual networks, manufacturing technologies and consumer fashions - but also psychologically through the development...
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Your Network Balance Sheet. What Does It Look Like And Where Should You Invest?
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Networks and networking are a hot topic. Both academic research and mainstream business publications suggest that networks are important in business and that getting it right may relate to your...
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Want to Improve Your Below-Average Business Processes? - Innovate Don't Invent
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The typical mistake that managers make is to redesign the broken business process from scratch. The "Invent" approach goes something like this. The CXO assigns a team of "Experts" to solve the...
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Fighting Technology Standards Competitions: Adapting To New Rules
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As a consequence of rule changes, it has become significantly more difficult to emerge as a clear winner in today's standards wars. Although companies should fight standards battles with the...
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Surf The Storm: Global Trends Survey Results
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In the near future, we may see such significant developments as widespread cheap solar power, wearable computers or targeted drug delivery. Looking further ahead, we might see world changing...
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Using Facilitation To Drive Change - The Change Leader's Guide
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper will help you to become a more sophisticated user of facilitation - to know what questions to ask facilitators before you hire them; to know how to judge the quality of a facilitator's...
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Are You Fully Leveraging Your Corporate Identity?
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
There is little argument that well managed corporate identities enable their owners to command premium prices. Sony products, for example, consistently command higher prices than competitive...
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White Papers
Shape Up Your Technology Start-Ups!
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
High-innovation, technology-based startups have a very special role in both intra and entrepreneurship. They produce proportionately far more jobs and value than their low- and medium-innovation...
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The Customer Value Proposition Should Drive Supply Chain Design: An Example In Mass Retailing
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A successful company typically starts with a deep understanding of customer needs in a segment and translates these needs into a value proposition. Then it develops its supply chain capability to...
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White Papers
Don't Waste The Crisis Opportunity Knocks!
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As we adjust to the mixed economic signals of 2009, a mood of relief is settling in. However, we perceive an insidious sense of resignation among far too many executives battered and bruised by...
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Using Information To Create Value Efficiently
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Every company is confronted with growing complexity. Relationships with competitors, customers, and suppliers are becoming more complicated and involved. Internally, many companies have complex...
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Maximizing Profits Procurement's New Role?
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It may seem like an unlikely combination - procurement and profits - but the title is correct. Procurement can play an important role in maximizing the profits. But how? Well, it's all about...
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The Service Recovery Paradox: Dispelling The Myth
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Service failures happen, and most are less dramatic than the Titanic disaster. However, even seemingly small failures can lead to customer dissatisfaction if they are not well addressed by the...
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White Papers
Supply Chain Finance - What's It Worth?
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Supply Chain Finance (SCF) represents an innovative opportunity to reduce working capital. Its underlying mechanism is reverse factoring making the technique buyer-rather than supplier-centric....
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White Papers
Surviving And Profiting From The Crisis Means Leading Through And Learning From The Crisis
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The current economic crisis has clearly left its mark on the business community. Although some companies, like Goldman Sachs and IBM, have recently reported profits again - nourishing hopes that...
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Managing Information, People And It To Improve Business Performance
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The near-omnipresence of Internet technologies and mobile communication solutions enables companies today to invent new business models, launch innovative product and service offerings, and adopt...
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Leadership Through Collaboration And Harmony: How To Lead Without Formal Authority
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
There is a growing tendency in business to recognize that pooling the ideas, resources, commitment and efforts of many is more effective than relying on the few best individuals. The paper looks...
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Strategic Leadership: Being There Even When You Are Not
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In order to engage people to deliver results beyond expectations, leaders at the top of organizations need to seriously consider how they exercise both their leadership in organizations as well as...
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Who Gets The Rewards? Promote Value Creation By Rewarding The Right Stakeholders
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Too often, we boost short-term earnings, rather than distribute rewards to those whose support is critical for long-term value creation. The fear of disappointing investors and analysts is so...
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Cascading A New Vision: Three Steps For Real Commitment
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
One of the key questions CEOs and their teams face is how to implement their vision throughout the entire organization. This is especially true in large, geographically-dispersed companies that...
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It Can Be Done! Seven Insights To Give Your Strategic Initiatives A Winning Chance
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
In the observation, when a strategic initiative fails, at least one of these seven insights was violated. These insights are common sense. Why are they so often ignored? Execution is a different...
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Strategic Leadership As Management Of Meanings
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Most literature on strategic management portrays a strategic leader as a planner, decision formulator, and implementer of structure and processes: more of a manager rather than a leader. A key...
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History Of Leading The Family Business
August 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
While the author has been strongly involved and identified with the Leading the Family Business (LFB) program since its launch, there is only one person who can claim credit for being the founding...
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History Of Leading The Family Business
August 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
While the author has been strongly involved and identified with the Leading the Family Business (LFB) program since its launch, there is only one person who can claim credit for being the founding...
Provided by IMD
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White Papers
Strategic Leadership As Management Of Meanings
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Most literature on strategic management portrays a strategic leader as a planner, decision formulator, and implementer of structure and processes: more of a manager rather than a leader. A key...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
It Can Be Done! Seven Insights To Give Your Strategic Initiatives A Winning Chance
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
In the observation, when a strategic initiative fails, at least one of these seven insights was violated. These insights are common sense. Why are they so often ignored? Execution is a different...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Cascading A New Vision: Three Steps For Real Commitment
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
One of the key questions CEOs and their teams face is how to implement their vision throughout the entire organization. This is especially true in large, geographically-dispersed companies that...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Who Gets The Rewards? Promote Value Creation By Rewarding The Right Stakeholders
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Too often, we boost short-term earnings, rather than distribute rewards to those whose support is critical for long-term value creation. The fear of disappointing investors and analysts is so...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Strategic Leadership: Being There Even When You Are Not
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In order to engage people to deliver results beyond expectations, leaders at the top of organizations need to seriously consider how they exercise both their leadership in organizations as well as...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Leadership Through Collaboration And Harmony: How To Lead Without Formal Authority
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
There is a growing tendency in business to recognize that pooling the ideas, resources, commitment and efforts of many is more effective than relying on the few best individuals. The paper looks...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Managing Information, People And It To Improve Business Performance
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The near-omnipresence of Internet technologies and mobile communication solutions enables companies today to invent new business models, launch innovative product and service offerings, and adopt...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Surviving And Profiting From The Crisis Means Leading Through And Learning From The Crisis
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The current economic crisis has clearly left its mark on the business community. Although some companies, like Goldman Sachs and IBM, have recently reported profits again - nourishing hopes that...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Supply Chain Finance - What's It Worth?
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Supply Chain Finance (SCF) represents an innovative opportunity to reduce working capital. Its underlying mechanism is reverse factoring making the technique buyer-rather than supplier-centric....
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
The Service Recovery Paradox: Dispelling The Myth
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Service failures happen, and most are less dramatic than the Titanic disaster. However, even seemingly small failures can lead to customer dissatisfaction if they are not well addressed by the...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Maximizing Profits Procurement's New Role?
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It may seem like an unlikely combination - procurement and profits - but the title is correct. Procurement can play an important role in maximizing the profits. But how? Well, it's all about...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Using Information To Create Value Efficiently
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Every company is confronted with growing complexity. Relationships with competitors, customers, and suppliers are becoming more complicated and involved. Internally, many companies have complex...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Don't Waste The Crisis Opportunity Knocks!
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As we adjust to the mixed economic signals of 2009, a mood of relief is settling in. However, we perceive an insidious sense of resignation among far too many executives battered and bruised by...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
The Customer Value Proposition Should Drive Supply Chain Design: An Example In Mass Retailing
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A successful company typically starts with a deep understanding of customer needs in a segment and translates these needs into a value proposition. Then it develops its supply chain capability to...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Shape Up Your Technology Start-Ups!
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
High-innovation, technology-based startups have a very special role in both intra and entrepreneurship. They produce proportionately far more jobs and value than their low- and medium-innovation...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Are You Fully Leveraging Your Corporate Identity?
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
There is little argument that well managed corporate identities enable their owners to command premium prices. Sony products, for example, consistently command higher prices than competitive...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Using Facilitation To Drive Change - The Change Leader's Guide
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper will help you to become a more sophisticated user of facilitation - to know what questions to ask facilitators before you hire them; to know how to judge the quality of a facilitator's...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Surf The Storm: Global Trends Survey Results
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In the near future, we may see such significant developments as widespread cheap solar power, wearable computers or targeted drug delivery. Looking further ahead, we might see world changing...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Fighting Technology Standards Competitions: Adapting To New Rules
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As a consequence of rule changes, it has become significantly more difficult to emerge as a clear winner in today's standards wars. Although companies should fight standards battles with the...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Want to Improve Your Below-Average Business Processes? - Innovate Don't Invent
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The typical mistake that managers make is to redesign the broken business process from scratch. The "Invent" approach goes something like this. The CXO assigns a team of "Experts" to solve the...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Your Network Balance Sheet. What Does It Look Like And Where Should You Invest?
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Networks and networking are a hot topic. Both academic research and mainstream business publications suggest that networks are important in business and that getting it right may relate to your...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Mindfulness
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The East and West are converging not only materially - through global trade, virtual networks, manufacturing technologies and consumer fashions - but also psychologically through the development...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Building An Effective Network: Where Should You Invest And How?
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Networks and networking are a hot topic in business today. Innovative electronic networking tools such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Xing as well as more traditional networks such as alumni and...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
The Chief Information Officer - Achieving Credibility, Relevance And Business Impact
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In the past, it has often been unclear whether the CIO role was simply another label for the head of information technology in a company. The role was often seen as someone who kept the systems up...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Working Capital In Times Of Financial Crisis: Three Trade Credit Strategies
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Credit is a difficult issue these days. In the US, firms generate more than 15% of their financing from accounts payable. Internationally, these levels can be even higher. And since more than 80%...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
How To Be An Effective Strategic Initiative Sponsor: Roll Up Your Sleeves! You Matter!
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Should corporate executives be held responsible for their company's strategic initiatives? One would think so. Any yet, surprisingly, only 31% of individuals questioned recently felt that their...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Learning: You Must Remember This
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Superior learning is a necessary component of competitive success. It is a rare person or team which can achieve deep learning - that is, replacement of obsolescent beliefs, and the gaining of new...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Oiling Board Processes: The Dynamic Evolution From 'Company Secretary' to 'Corporate Governance Officer'
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In the wake of the current financial crisis, a new wave of regulation will certainly emerge on how boards should be run; the processes and structures to support board performance. As the number of...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
How To Distinguish Smart Big Moves From Stupid Ones
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Big moves, in the form of strategic shifts with a major commitment of resources to achieve a new goal, are pivotal points in the history of companies. When top executives make shifts in direction...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Decoding The Secrets Of Success Of Chinese Private Companies
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Chinese Privately Owned Enterprises (POEs) have played a major role in the rapid economic development of the nation. Entrepreneurs in Chinese POEs are typically endowed with an intimate knowledge...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Store Inventory Can Affect Demand: Empirical Evidence From Magazine Retailing
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In retailing, inventory analysis and inventory practice have traditionally been based on the assumption that underlying demand does not vary with inventory levels. A growing body of research...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
One More Challenge On The Road To Information Driven Marketing
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Few CEOs would argue with the contention that a firm's ability to generate timely market and customer insights comprises a set of critical operational and strategic competencies. There are indeed...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Sustainable Banking With The Poor: Evolution, Status Quo And Prospects
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Microfinance, i.e. the provision of financial services to people who would normally not be able to access them, has evolved very fast in the past few years, from a niche market dominated by...
Provided by IMD
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