Jean‐Louis Horn, manager of industrial development for the Port Authority of Marseilles looks fondly at the Hotel Beauvau, which fronts the original, ancient port. “Many famous…
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Jean‐Louis Horn, manager of industrial development for the Port Authority of Marseilles looks fondly at the Hotel Beauvau, which fronts the original, ancient port. “Many famous people have stayed in this hotel,” he says. “George Sand, Frederic Chopin…”
Chief Scout executive Jere Ratcliffe is leading America's premier youth organization through its first long‐range plan.
It's morning drive time in northern New Jersey. All the stations in New York's empire of commercial broadcasting, home to Howard Stern and two major all‐news venues, are vying for…
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It's morning drive time in northern New Jersey. All the stations in New York's empire of commercial broadcasting, home to Howard Stern and two major all‐news venues, are vying for your aural consciousness. You've got Don Imus on WFAN. Hot 97 shouts out your hip‐hop traffic updates. National Public Radio is jammed between the Christian Family Broadcasting Network and The Classical Station of the New York Times. But wait…over to the left. Isn't that…Klezmer music? Did that guy just say “morning chizuk?” What radio station is this?
CEO Michael Bonsignore has the company focused on meeting its goals and keeping its promises. Honeywell may be out of the woods.
Once upon a time, there was a magician's closet. It was filled with all sorts of wonders. The problem was that nobody knew exactly what was in the closet, and anyone brave enough…
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Once upon a time, there was a magician's closet. It was filled with all sorts of wonders. The problem was that nobody knew exactly what was in the closet, and anyone brave enough to open the door risked having a cascade of bowling balls, snow shoes, Ouija boards, and Erlenmeyer flasks come down on his head. This closet, metaphorically speaking, was Dow Chemical's patent archive—a disorganized mess of intellectual capital. In recent years, Dow undertook the necessary task of putting the closet in order, and thus entered the nebulous world of knowledge management.
In Michael Hammer's new book, Beyond Reengineering, he sticks with the same definition for reengineering that he and James Champy put forth in their seminal Reengineering the…
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In Michael Hammer's new book, Beyond Reengineering, he sticks with the same definition for reengineering that he and James Champy put forth in their seminal Reengineering the Corporation: “Reengineering is the radical redesign of business processes for dramatic improvement.”
After shining the guiding light on virtually every major reengineering project undertaken in the last three years, the consulting industry finds itself managing some change and…
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After shining the guiding light on virtually every major reengineering project undertaken in the last three years, the consulting industry finds itself managing some change and growth of its own. It's occurring on three fronts in particular—the consultant's need to integrate business consulting with information technology system (IT) design, the increasingly global nature of clients' businesses, and what many call the commoditization of basic reengineering.
A strategy of developing key vertical markets resulted in rapid early growth for this document management software firm. Now what will they do?
You've finally cut to your core. But can you hold all the pieces together?
Companies are forging more intimate bonds with both suppliers and customers, to everyone's benefit.