Many healthy companies fall into the trap of their success. They tend to be more
technology driven mode rather than being market driven. Many companies developed
the product first then start out looking for the market. Successful companies look at the
market first then start developing the products.
Exxon Chemicals was the first largest faxed machine supplier in the [...]

Companies created IT Departments over 30 years ago. During these last 30+ years various programming styles and development languages have come and gone out of style. Do you remember BASIC & Fortran? And yes COBOL still exists! Many millions of lines of code run our world.
Today, within individual companies many of the original applications that [...]

The role of underground movements in modern organisations\r
\r Forget about empowerment. Forget leadership training. Forget coaching skills. The way to make a difference to your company is through rebellious underground movements.\r
\r But underground movements are a Bad Thing. They work against the hierarchy and against the good of the organisation that they inhabit. [...]

As the world economy slows down perhaps now is the time to look at quick and simple way ways to cut your business costs so that your business is leaner, meaner and more efficient for the tougher times ahead.
Tips for cutting your business costs include:
1) Downsize your premises or move to a more cost effective [...]

There are many similarities between large companies on one hand and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) on the other hand. Many concepts that may have been developed for large organizations are applicable for small businesses.
Large organization could benefit from (forgotten) methods that are used by small businesses (and vice versa). Especially when dealing with change.
The [...]

I read an old newspaper account of three tragic deaths. Two men and a youth (Arnold Dobson, Harold Most and his son Harold, Jr.) perished in the blasting summer heat of Death Valley in California. Sheriff deputies found the bodies at seven, fourteen and seventeen miles from their abandoned car. In leaving their stranded car [...]

Stakeholders are those groups of people or institutions that have a stake in your company (where you are not always aware of). There are many general theories about stakeholder management and methods to implement. When dealing with change, a simple stakeholder view could help you in controlling the change.
Such a view will look like [...]

Each time we throw a scoundrel out of public office we see the problems of disruption in organizational capital and in business we too see this all the time with management turnover, mergers or simply normal attrition. In the Public Sector it can be far worse as one team or staff is not re-elected by [...]

There is a strong parallel between corporations and medical science. Companies fall sick \r just as people do. Contrary to the common view, a company is not an inanimate object. \r Rather, it is a community of people, a living organism and an entity with its own \r distinctive personality and attitudes. Therefore, without proper [...]

For many corporations change management is a time of controversy and chaos and yet it need not be. Is all change management like this? No, those teams that understand change management also understand smooth transitions and they also understand the shadowing of those that are leaving and fostering of those who will be [...]