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in the context of marketing strategy implementation in smaller industrial organizations. Using a symbolic interactionist …, and actions, and address questions about why marketing implementation processes unfold the way they do in practice.  …
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A brief introduction to Total Quality Management (TQM) is presented. It is a holistic concept and must be implemented … as such. However, there are four barriers to full implementation. These are short‐termism, organisational segmentalism …
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How can one know if a whole chain of managers is weak? In practice, the chain of command seems to handle the logic of effective organisation and control adequately. Usually a single “weak link” manager (a manager whose controllable performance variables are substandard) is easily identified....
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implementation of findings within an organisational setting. A description of the aims of management research is followed by advice …Practical and useful guidance is given to those undertaking management research; and advice is given on how to manage …
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An overview of all the elements that go into formulating a business strategy – including received wisdom from the gurus, vision and values, ideas on growth, forecasting, information, objectives, audits, customers, markets, competition, finances, structure, training – with the focus on how to...
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Implementation is the challenge that comes at the end of all new (and old) methods for improving organizations …. Strategic planning, total quality management, new information systems technologies, and now business process re …. Examines the strategic relevance of a process, as delineated in the strategic grid, for its relationship to BPR implementation …
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techniques that are proliferating under the TQM “umbrella”, change‐management practice and modern strategic thinking. The central … implementation. They lead back to the first point, fulfilment of the fundamental purpose, through such things as: stretch, creative …‐building. This means that, in performing the strategic leadership role, strategy formulation and strategy implementation are no …
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Over the past decade many manufacturing organisations around the world have been changing their structures from the traditional hierarchical pyramid structure to a flatter, more responsive and lean structure. Team work and employee participation have become the key tasks for managers in all...
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Looking at organizational decision and choices in the 1990s, it is tempting to conclude that we live in an era of focus and downsizing. The time of the conglomerate has passed. Downsizing can always be justified to improve efficiency, but only if it is really rightsizing to prepare a strong base...
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This is the second of two linked articles on strategy for innovation and its implementation. The purpose of the first …
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