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Source: Risk Magazine / Ross Miller
Read this article: http://www.financewise.co…m/ewrm/ewrm-portfolio.htm
Interest is rising in the Treynor-Black model for portfolio selection, which can provide a new application to enterprise-wide portfolio optimisation, says Ross Miller.
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Source: Ivey Business Journal / Stephen Bernhut
Read this article: http://www.iveybusinessjo…cle.asp?intArticle_ID=296
Convention and tradition may still have their (smaller) place in organizations today, but not in the company envisioned and described by one of the world’s leading and most respected management gurus, Gary Hamel. “In the years ahead,” he says in this extensive and provocative interview, “the challenge for every organization is going to be to begin to think about how to measure and support three newer kinds of capital, imagination capital, entrepreneurial capital and relationship capital.” From prescribing how a company can claim and sustain a competitive advantage to meeting the next imperative, developing “business concept innovation,” Mr. Hamel offers his observations and recommendations on how organizations in any business can win and stay on the leading edge.
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Source: CFO.com, The McKinsey Quarterly / Richard Dobbs, Keith Leslie, and Lenny T. Mendonca
Read this article: http://www.cfo.com/printa…cle.cfm/4166686?f=options
The emphasis on quarterly earnings at the expense of longer-term corporate health sometimes reaches absurd extremes: in one survey, executives said they would scale back investments in R&D and marketing to meet their quarterly forecasts–even if these cuts would hurt the long-term prospects of their companies. Since the capital markets value both immediate and sustained performance, companies should embrace a portfolio of initiatives over three time frames: the short, medium, and long term.
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Source: Leader to Leader / R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr.
Read this article: http://www.leadertoleader…2l/summer2006/thomas.html
For twenty years R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr. has worked as a diversity consultant, researcher, and author. Now as never before he sees the need to broaden and redefine our ideas and behaviors around diversity. Indeed, what happens in the next decade will be crucial in determining whether America’s leaders move forward in their efforts to create cohesive, effective organizations–or simply muddle through. In turn, what happens in the area of diversity management will have enormous impact on the success of future leaders.
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Source: KnowThis.com
Read this article: http://www.knowthis.com/t…keting/marketingplan1.htm
The Marketing Plan is a highly detailed, heavily researched and, hopefully, well written report that many inside and possibly outside the organization will evaluate. It is an essential document for both large corporate marketing departments and for startup companies. Essentially the Marketing Plan:
* forces the marketing personnel to look internally in order to fully understand the results of past marketing decisions.
* forces the marketing personnel to look externally in order to fully understand the market in which they operate.
* sets future goals and provides direction for future marketing efforts that everyone within the organization should understand and support.
* is a key component in obtaining funding to pursue new initiatives.
KnowThis offers a 6-Part template to develop and format a marketing plan.
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Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) / Francois Dalens, Jeff Gell, Carl Rutstein
Read this article: http://www.bcg.com/public…New_Product_OfA_Jul02.pdf
Marketers are launching more products than ever. But the costs of bringing them to market are skyrocketing, and consumers are becoming harder to reach. A joint team of Boston Consulting Group and TBWA/Chiat/Day researched success rates, launch costs, and winning strategies. Our conclusions: build go/no go stage gates; deliver realistic expectations for launch-year volume; create launch models that reflect realistic success rates and budgets; and manage the new product pipeline like a portfolio.
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Source: Accenture / Nick Palmer
Read this article: http://www.accenture.com/…ptingGovernanceModels.htm
Accenture research has identified an important root cause of underperforming alliances: an inattention to the governance processes and structures required to tend to the alliance relationship, direct resources in the proper direction and maximize its value. Based on our experience with leading companies across a wide number of industries, we have identified several key principles of effective alliance governance that can improve a company’s chances for a profitable alliance relationship—and its chances for achieving high performance.
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Source: Mercer Management Journal / Richard Balaban, Phyllis Rothschild, and Bill Stevenson
Read this article: http://www.mercermc.com/P…DFs/Portfolioredesign.pdf
As companies have grown in size and complexity, delivering sustained superior performance has become increasingly challenging. Today’s large corporations compete across multiple product and service markets, value chains, and geographies – each of which is experiencing major shifts in economics and opportunities.
The typical approaches to charting portfolio strategy are no longer adequate. Neither the “hands-off” financial manager focusing on the numbers nor the synergy manager providing shared services can adequately address the opportunities and perils of today’s shifting strategic landscape.
The lens of business design offers a far more effective approach. You can map your portfolio along the business designs that the firm employs and the economic neighborhoods in which it plays or could play. This can quickly identify common risks and new “white spaces” of opportunity, as well as provide a solid framework for telling investors how the pieces of your company fit together.
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Source: HORIZON / James L. Morrison, Ian Wilson
Read this article: http://horizon.unc.edu/co…rses/papers/JBChapter.asp
An in-depth look at environmental analysis (monitoring, scanning and scenario planning).
Editor’s Note: this is a bit long and focused on the education market, but still contains some useful overview material.
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Source: Washington Technology Partners, Inc., PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sullivan & Worcester LLP
Read this article: http://entrepreneurship.m…5/resources/Guidebook.pdf
A business guide for entrepreneurs. Contents include:
- Entrepreneurship
- A Sensible Approach to Writing a Good Business Plan
- Raising Venture Capital
- Accounting Policies and Procedures for Early Stage Companies
- Legal Issues for Early Stage Entrepreneurs
- Managing Explosive Growth in Technology Companies
- Choosing an Exit Strategy
Editor’s Note: some info is basic, some is quite thorough; the accounting info and the section on stock options is particularly good…
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