Reports on a project by the Ocean Group which was analysed by Ashridge Management Research Group. The project covered processes dealing with the definition and measurement of competences required to make an effective senior manager. The competences do not stand alone but are supported by being...

Until recently little attention has been given in Accounting and Finance literature to the problem of linking the results of financial evaluation techniques such as Net Present Value (NPV) and Shareholder Value Analysis (SVA) to managers’ cognitive evaluation of strategic factors and the risk...

Managing change is the crux of reducing the environmental impact of organisations. Teams are often used in large organisations to drive forward a process of change. But in small and medium‐size enterprises (SMEs), where issues of formulating and communicating change can be different, is there...