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PLANNING, STRATEGY AND OPERATION

take a scenario in which were on a managing team of a home-improvement company. Weve been charged with launching a new company web...

DECISION-MAKING, RISK MANAGEMENT AND GLOBAL BUSINESS

even domestic firms with no overseas operations are involved in this, as its likely that their customers, suppliers or partners ha...

The Potential of CRM to Improve Satisfaction in a Church Congregation

overcome. 1. Introduction Marketing and ensuring customer/stakeholder satisfaction in non-profit making organisations can be v...

TQM AND STATUS TODAY

and regulations in place. This has especially been the case for China -- the media has been loaded with toy recalls due to danger...

AN UNDERSTANDING OF QUALITY AND PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

of how such a thing works. But what, exactly, is process improvement? In its basic form, the process improvement model (PI...

Organizational Alignment

employees aligned with organizational goals, it is important to keep in mind that employees are individuals first. They are unique...

How Retailers Select Site Locations

resources will need to be allocated. The aim of this paper is to consider the way in which retailers do, or should, choose locati...

Chapters 4 and 5

that can be eliminated and mitigate those that cannot. This leads to the need for bounded rationality as defined decades ago by H...

The Concept of Virtue

distinguishes between the activities of the practical and intellectual virtues, with the activities of political virtue having a s...

LEAN MANAGEMENT, ITS EFFECTIVENESS AND ITS USE

Krafcik, James Womack and Daniel Jones, who were also involved in the study, came up with an eighth waste -- that of manufacturing...

Blue and Red Oceans

The writer outlines the concept of blue oceans and red oceans. The model proposed by Kim and Mauborgne is then critiqued to deter...

Waste Management

This essay pertains to the topic of waste management. It focuses on the importance of recycling and the concept of the "zero waste...

Managing Change and the Potential Use of Trialectrics

Trialectrics have been proposed as a model that can help adjust the way change management is undertake, by focusing on active-attr...

Honesty in Change Management

The writer considers whether or not it is necessary for leaders and management to be honest with employees during the change proc...

Self Concept and Personality

was. In addition, children from abusive families are likely to grow into abusers themselves. Now, were not intimating that...

eStrategy Implementation Questions

by an entire enterprise, experts are unanimous in agreeing that enterprise strategic planning initiatives wont be successful, unle...

Total Quality Management and Customer Service

First, customers want quality and theyll pay what they think is fair value to obtain it. This is a basic premise of any type of ma...

Rudolph Guiliani's Leadership

this sort of preparation that is important in respect to leadership in a very general sense and the author brings this out in the ...

Case Study on Business Process Management

problems (Silvestro and Westley, 2002). If the right hand doesnt know what the left hand is doing, this can create a time and cost...

HRM and Its' Role in the Customer Triangle of Company, Employee and External Customer

or services that are provided and the processes will also be the result of the internal factors. The satisfaction of these diffe...

Virtual World and Electronic Commerce

quite sophisticated and "a large number of potential users may interact with each other" (Shen, Radakrishnan and Georganas, 2002; ...

Excalibur, Beowulf, and the Concepts of the Chosen and Divine Kingship

protect and guard the warrior, but in this case, it represents the king protecting and guarding the nation against all intruders t...

Philosophy Defined by Philosphers

explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

is "largely agricultural and the political life is local" (Deflem, 2001). The Gesellschaft, on the other hand, is "organized at th...

Communication Breakdown

employees would find more efficient ways to manage the flow of customer communications, which would ultimately lead to better effi...

Comparative Analysis of Military Power's Role Throughout History

all-hearing media leech that hovers over some of the most vital - yet dangerous - decision-making processes, broadcasting to the w...

Commerce Decisions and Choiceboards

the product is pretty much produced from scratch); a different way to market (by selling first, then producing, rather than produc...

Overview of Knowledge Management

in such a way as to be accessible and available to those who need it. Knowledge management is, like the term suggests, a necessary...

The Management Function as it Respects Behavior

having some notion of where to find the destination, but trying to lead without having the confidence of employees is an exercise ...

Management Theorists on Course Setting

In eight pages course setting management theories are considered that support the statement, 'Knowledge of basic management theory...