In this interview, Grady Means describes the context within which today's businesses must operate and the steps key business leaders are taking to ensure their success in this…
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In this interview, Grady Means describes the context within which today's businesses must operate and the steps key business leaders are taking to ensure their success in this environment. Topics discussed include: business‐to‐business e‐commerce, a global strategic perspective, collapsed planning cycles, heuristic planning based on options, creating outsourcing auction networks, and knowledge management among communities of interest. By recognizing the cycles of change and taking bold action, Grady Means believes that companies will see growth rates and wealth creation that are unprecedented.
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Grady E. Means and Matthew Faulkner
A process of continuous innovation isn't just “nice to have,” it's “need to have.”
David Pearce Snyder and Gregg Edwards
Summarizes emerging patterns of corporate restructuring and process re‐engineering – describing current responses of marketplace enterprises to ongoing demographic, economic and…
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Summarizes emerging patterns of corporate restructuring and process re‐engineering – describing current responses of marketplace enterprises to ongoing demographic, economic and technologic changes in the business operating environment – and assesses the applicability of those transformational adaptations to educational processes and institutions.
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Outdoor education was first included in the formal (written) curriculum for New Zealand schools in 1999. This article explores New Zealand outdoor education as a product of a…
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Outdoor education was first included in the formal (written) curriculum for New Zealand schools in 1999. This article explores New Zealand outdoor education as a product of a particular coincidence of social and economic conditions and the contested domais of pedagogy and curriculum during the period 1935‐1965. Popkewitz, among others, views school curricula and associated practices as emerging from ‘systems of ideas that inscribe styles of reasoning, standards and conceptual distinctions’ which ‘shape and fashion interpretation and action’. It is these ‘systems of ideas’, or ‘traditions’ in Goodson and Marsh’s terms, that provide a framework for understanding outdoor education in New Zealand schools. Since the 1930s, outdoor education in New Zealand appears to have consolidated from, and been shaped by, competing educational ideologies and changing social and economic influences. The way in which outdoor education accommodated competing traditions is the focus of this, necessarily broad, analysis
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Like the blind men describing the elephant, the authors in this month's Stack grapple with leadership. It may be that, in the end, leadership is impossible to define, analyze, or…
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Like the blind men describing the elephant, the authors in this month's Stack grapple with leadership. It may be that, in the end, leadership is impossible to define, analyze, or teach, but, at least, these authors sincerely describe the part of it they know.
The Internet has become an obsession that's affecting the global economy, businesses of all sizes, and lifestyles. Consider these statistics.
Firms today seek sustainable competitive advantage through their ability to provide a dynamic and unique mix of product, pricing, promotion, distribution channel, and technology…
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Firms today seek sustainable competitive advantage through their ability to provide a dynamic and unique mix of product, pricing, promotion, distribution channel, and technology. Hyper‐competitive markets bring pressure for firms to shorten product lifecycles, rapidly identify and penetrate new market segments, dramatically increase operational efficiencies, and disintermediate supply chains and distribution channels.
Escaping from the woodwork these days are all manner of critters, from exotic to mundane. There are more of them than ever before, they're emerging faster and faster, and they're…
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Escaping from the woodwork these days are all manner of critters, from exotic to mundane. There are more of them than ever before, they're emerging faster and faster, and they're all after your best customers.
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I don't know about your computer, but mine takes the initiative to capitalize letters as it deems appropriate, like at the beginning of a sentence or after a period. This is…
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I don't know about your computer, but mine takes the initiative to capitalize letters as it deems appropriate, like at the beginning of a sentence or after a period. This is pretty darned annoying when you're typing dozens of e‐thises and www‐thats. And try placing Yahoo! in a sentence and you'll see what happens to the letter after the exclamation point. Then there's the nifty automatic feature that takes out capital letters I've just put in a word (e.g., megaBrands) as eagerly as a cat bringing his master a dead mouse. And I'm just about as happy with the result.