March 3, 2007
by Oliver
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I would like to confirm Dagmar’s post. This is not an advertising campaign; it is more a real flood…. On Friday I had a business meeting in the Frankfurt Airport Center (FAC), which is next to Frankfurt International Airport. Before … Continue reading
February 25, 2007
by Oliver
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For all those who are interested in theoretical issue of strategic management I would like to recommend a specific research paper. We know that strategies and the empirical research on strategic management can be analysed under two different point of … Continue reading
February 14, 2007
by Oliver
Comments Off on When will Lower Saxony sell its VW shares?
Lower Saxony, a federal state in the north of Germany, is VW’s second-largest shareholder after Porsche. Due to the so called “Volkswagen law†the state is in a very comfortable position to control the company. The law came into force … Continue reading
February 5, 2007
by Oliver
Comments Off on Elements of “Strategic Management”
Due to specific disadvantages (e.g. over-formalized-process, lack of co-operation between HQ/planners and business units) the concept of strategic planning was advanced to another more comprehensive concept in the 1980s. The comprehensive concept is called “strategic managementâ€. In comparison to the logic-rational elements … Continue reading
January 29, 2007
by Oliver
Comments Off on Youtube wants to share revenues?
In the past we had a brief look at Youtube and the web 2.0 business (see this posts). But these news are quite amazing. According to GOLEM, a German IT website, Youtube plans to establish a revenue system for “video … Continue reading
January 24, 2007
by Oliver
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According to information by TECHCHRUNCH the German Google (google.de) seemed to have forgotten to renew the Google domain name. Some comments from the post confirmed the story. This is amazing…or even unbelievable. Did you lost your domain name, too? Do … Continue reading
January 23, 2007
by Oliver
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In terms of strategic planning the external analysis step can be very difficult. I see three reasons for that: Basically this analysis can be described as badly structured matter, which does not know a definitive solution. Due to the large … Continue reading
January 21, 2007
by Oliver
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The inflation rate 2006 for countries of the European Monetary Union was calculated for 2,2 %. According to the newspaper FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 18, 2007, volume 15, p.9) the inner value of the EURO has declined at 19 … Continue reading
January 18, 2007
by Oliver
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Strategic planning and strategy implementation seem to be linked with a lot of problems. Well, I say planning AND implementation, because you can find a large variety of definitions for the term strategic planning. In the academic literature differences can … Continue reading
January 10, 2007
by Oliver
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For all those who are interested in topics like high performance organizations, organizational structure, and organizational culture I would recommend a new scientific paper by Dr. André A. de Waal of the Maastricht School of Management. The title is “The … Continue reading