December 19, 2012
by Dagmar
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Recently, I wrote an article about High-Spirit Teams for our Management Portal: How to build True Team Spirit. This article briefly discusses the benefits of team spirit and describes processes and success factors for building team spirit. In this post, … Continue reading
October 30, 2012
by Dagmar
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Larger companies normally have a number of different strategic business units (SBUs). Depending on the degree these SBUs differ from each other, there will be distinctive strategies for them. Those SBU-strategies should ideally be aligned around the overall corporate strategy … Continue reading
October 24, 2012
by Dagmar
Comments Off on The Porters Five Forces Model Revisited – What else to do with it
The Porters Five Forces Model has lasted a number of years now. Nevertheless, it is still well known and still part of the curriculum of many courses on management and strategy. Much has been written on it. Still, it has … Continue reading
October 18, 2012
by Dagmar
Comments Off on What employees do in an economic crisis – paradox things!
An economic crisis is a period full of risks and uncertainties – not only for businesses but also for their employees. Naturally, people develop different strategies of coping with such a situation, depending on their skills, personal attitudes and their … Continue reading
October 14, 2012
by Dagmar
Comments Off on “De-Stranding” the Strategic Planning Process – Follow-up
I promised to follow up my latest post about the AT Kearney article on Strategic Planning with some more thoughts. Here are some issues on which I want to elaborate a bit further. The authors write ‘As most people are … Continue reading
September 21, 2012
by Dagmar
Comments Off on Deutsche Bank announces “Strategy 2015+â€
Last week, Deutsche Bank announced its new strategy, called “Strategy 2015+â€. It is the first major strategic change under the new top-management team Fitschen and Jain. To start with a brief summary, I will copy some passages from their press … Continue reading
September 19, 2012
by Dagmar
Comments Off on Commodities as economic indicators
This is the headline of an article in today’s online version of FAZ. It is no rocket science and not even a real article, more a slide show. However, the issue is well worth remembering from time to time. This … Continue reading
September 12, 2012
by Dagmar
Comments Off on Women’s quota for Management Boards revisited
Not quite one year ago I raised some questions about the pending pressure to increase the number of women in management boards. This issue is not less important today. ‘EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding will propose decisive legislative action on … Continue reading
September 7, 2011
by Oliver
Comments Off on Financial crisis 2.0
The financial turmoil 2007 – 2009 represented an excellent opportunity to review and to improve regulatory requirements because the industries’ readiness to adapt and change has increased during the crisis. The first crisis has put an emphasis regarding specific gaps … Continue reading
August 7, 2011
by orecklies
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In the fast-moving world of business, it’s vital for companies to keep up from a technology standpoint. This means that a certain amount of investment must be channeled into the IT department. This of course means that IT staff need … Continue reading