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Looks at the benefits of embedding a risk management capability across a whole enterprise. Gives particular consideration to the creation of such a culture, outlining four factors characterizing this environment. Covers three key risk areas, and provides a model of the governance structure and...
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Although barriers to free trade across the European Union (EU) have been dismantled since the Single European Act was signed, some still remain which are likely to hinder UK distribution operators′ strategic developments in Europe. UK distribution operators have moved towards closer...
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This article describes a project and the resulting programme to help small businesses to survive and grow through the use of business coaching. It also describes the use of the programme in an actual case study of business coaching. The programme seeks to give the owner/managers of small...
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Describes the development and testing of a framework which can assist in the process of designing performance measures. Grounds the framework in the relevant literature and explains how it was developed and tested through a series of action research projects involving collaborators primarily...
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Discusses the role of property within corporate organisations and, in particular, discusses the impact of real estate on the balance sheet of UK‐based corporate businesses. Also explains how new and proposed provisions from the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) may affect the way in which...
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Whilst increasing numbers of firms have launched themselves on the Internet, evidence suggests that they are doing this without any consideration of the strategic implications of developing, implementing or running a Web site. Adopting a strategic perspective, the aim of this paper is to...
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relate the critical issues in marketing to the equally critical issues in business strategy and vice versa . Management … from strategy for reasons of administrative neatness, which have nothing to do with the real problems that managers have to …
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Aims to provide an overview of major work that has been carried out in the area of strategy development in the past and … outlines how it will develop in the future. Presents an analysis of the term “strategy”. Discusses the evolution of different … conceptual frameworks over time together with their impact on today′s understanding of strategy formulation and implementation …
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Deals with the problem of timing the adoption of a new technology. This is a very important question of strategy which … also provides the starting point for developing a practical, option‐based framework to formulate a technology strategy. In …
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A common complaint about strategic plans is that, once developed, they tend to be largely forgotten until the next planning cycle. At that time a review is made of the progress to strategic goals. What is needed, however, is a reporting tool that actively tracks progress towards the strategic...
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