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What makes a strategy work?: Some measures towards successful implementation
“It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it – that’s what gets results”: words from a 1980s pop song that also happen to be sound business advice. After all, merely having…
Mobile callings at AT&T: Telcos staff show they’re good at more than their job
In 1991, aged 29, Park Byeong Yong of South Korea applied to numerous banks for a loan to start up a business. He did not come from a family of business leaders and neither did he…
“Big three” car bosses fight for pole position: Paying the price
There comes a point at which, for any business organization, confidence and ambition give way to hubris. Astute observers might note this defining moment, although more often it…
Debenhams Middle East benefits from local understanding: The Sheiks’ favorite department store
The Debenhams chain, branded as “Britain’s favorite department store”, has 100 stores in the UK and Ireland. Its consistent high performance is based on own brand ranges and its…
Future belongs to the real innovators: Rewards for long‐term thinking are clear
The idea that investors are only interested in short‐term results carries more than a grain of truth. It does, however, begin to look a little bit shaky when the fortunes of…
BP, Ford and Deutsche Bank avoid the “us and them” of mergers: How managements can lead successful alliances
All too often, when companies are involved in a merger or acquisition, the benefits can be diminished by a lingering “us and them” attitude by people in the two formerly separate…
Zara creates a ready to wear business: Leading fashion label designs its whole operation to fit the customer
In the last 30 years fashion has changed from an elite accessory of the super‐rich to a mass‐market product. Since the mid‐nineties the department stores that traditionally…
Making foreign policy work with Kodak and Norske Skog: It just takes a flexible mind
In recent months, the vogue for international business mergers has been getting bad press. Despite the fact that the push for big joint ventures such as DaimlerChrysler continues…
Innovations: Becoming wise to biotechnology: Innovative biotechnology developments helping clean up industry’s act
Biotechnology has been described as a pervasive and disruptive technology. Pervasive in the sheer number of industries it can influence and disruptive in the effect it can have on…
Knowledge that matters: Improving the effectiveness of innovation decisions
By enabling the more effective transfer and application of knowledge, knowledge management solutions can undoubtedly enhance business performance – no more so than when…
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