Nov
14
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Much has been written on how to combine the technology departments in mergers and acquisitions. This article serves to discuss the issues when companies break-up and joint IT must be separated.
When companies grow through mergers and expansions into so many different businesses, there often comes a time that a particular subsidiary gets spun-off. As this [...]
Nov
10
If You’re Not at the Table, You’re on the Menu!
November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment
When you’re a candidate for a promotion that ends up going to a peer, are you left wondering “why them and not me?” Why were they promoted to manage or lead a broader realm of responsibilities, but not me? Why when I am the one who is more consistently and more recently invited to spend [...]
Nov
1
Formulating a Relevant Support Scorecard for Service Providers
November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment
With production of products and services growing more and more dependent on modern technology, support service providers are becoming important components of business operations. Support service can either come in-house or can be outsourced when companies do not have the expertise, or when it is less costly for them to engage the services of others. [...]
Nov
1
Measuring the Efficiency in the Banking Process through KPI Banking
November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Managing a conventional bank may sound cool and neat but there are great and several factors to consider, which would make you feel under pressure because they require a tough job analyzing these factors in every way. To make this successful, your management procedure must involve the KPI banking system.
If you are not familiar with [...]
Nov
1
Why Companies Should Pay Attention to KPI for Recruitment
November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Recruitment has always been very important in the success of any business or enterprise. This is because the employees are the most important assets any business could ever have. These are the frontliners, the ones who really go out and face your customers head-on. Thus, it is important for any business to pay attention to [...]
Oct
31
The Key to Proper Metrics Implementation
October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment
If there is one thing that is important about the use of metrics in the corporate setting, it is the fact that its implementation should be done as flawlessly as possible. This is because metrics implementation is very much needed when you want to make the most out of this system that has been proven [...]
Oct
30
Balanced Scorecard Results to more efficient Management Processes
October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Precise balanced scorecard results lead to good management as the balanced scorecard is a tool to measure whether organizational goals and objectives reflect concrete realities found in the business environment and whether related processes are aligned with said goals and objectives.
This said, it is easy to see that balanced scorecards are designed to serve as [...]
Oct
19
Strategic Planning, Theoretical Discussion
October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Since the mid sixties when strategic planning as a concept was introduced to the business and academic world, it’s repeatedly appears at academic literature. A theoretical discussion on how to conduct strategic planning evolve into empirical research, which mostly deals with strategic planning in large businesses and in part with small businesses. Significant share of [...]
Oct
11
The Softer Side of Stretch Targets
October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment
People typically want to run for the hills when their managers announce new stretch targets.
They think of all the stretch targets in the past that fell flat, and of the frustration and angst of aiming for heights so far beyond what they can believe is possible to achieve. Out comes the cynicism about doing more [...]
Oct
9
How to Implement Metrics for Quality Efficiently
October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Quality has always been an important aspect when it comes to the success of a company or business. In fact, when quality is promised by a company to its customers, and the company itself makes do on that promise very well, then the chances of customer satisfaction retention will mostly be high. Thus, it comes [...]