The global recession has caused consumers to change their spending habits dramatically. Predictably, this change has had a negative impact on revenue and margin performance for most companies. In Canada, from Q2 2008 to Q2 2009, operating revenue across all industries fell by 8%, while operating profits fell 32%. Many companies may need to cut costs in order to survive the current downturn and the sluggish recovery. Most importantly, they will need to execute their survival strategies intelligently, without damaging the customer relationships that they have built over time. Here are five steps that a company can take to earn customer loyalty, retain repeat business, and build brand loyalty as the economy begins to rebound: 1. Rationalize your company's portfolio. 2. Optimize costs. 3. P...
... is another way to look at rationalization. In the early 1990s, after almost 10 years of fina...
Nottingham Trent University (NTU) implemented an enterprise content management system in its bid to amalgamate disparate school and department Web sites into one streamlined site. The university evaluated Rhythmyx, as well as one other provider's solution. Key criteria for the chosen content management solution included template-based data entry functionality, workflow to enable the university to decide that its requirements could be met by Rhythmyx. NTU now has an automated approval process for adding content. With 150 people across the organization submitting content, the need for automation was vital. All content is now posted through an agreed set of approval processes. The workflow solution ensures that information is delivered to the site in a streamlined and timely manner. The We...
In this article, the hazard is described and some suggestions are offered for a preventative ethical response. Most executives and managers have to confront the three important symptoms of the hazard: 1. fixation, 2. rationalization and 3. detachment. Teleopathy values certain limited objectives as supreme - to the exclusion not only of larger ends but also of moral considerations about means, obligations and duties. In its most extreme form, teleopathy amounts to the suspension of ethical awareness as a practical force in the decision-making process. When teleopathy governs decision making, the selection of goals and the means chosen to pursue them tend to be myopic. To avoid this hazard, leaders must avoid the causes that give rise to its symptoms. And to avoid these causes, they need...
..., Respondent's post-registration rationalization regarding its ``planned email project'' is refuted...
... (1998) 'Productivity by systemic rationalization: Good work, bad work, no work?' in Economic and In...
...Rationalization of production and narrowly-defined enterprise effi...
DESPITE their unbeaten start to the new season, Liverpool's lacklustre early form has left many fans trying to work out exactly why their teamis not firing on all cylinders. Early season rust is the most common explanation being put forward, although a chronic lack of width is another popular rationalization.
The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Penguin, 2004) is the most comprehensive survey so far of America's exact relationship with Osama bin Laden and his fellow Arab Afghans in the two decades preceding 9/11. Why the West is Losing the War on Terror (Brassey's, 2004), is to construct Osama bin Laden as just such an enemy: rational not mad, driven by specific grievances such as America's support for Israel and the presence of American troops on Saudi soil.
... There is a sheen of ex post facto rationalization informing the best-known analyses by current and f...
The Institute of Management Services has faced the challenge of reducing membership and an erosion in what were core areas for its membership. The IMS have faced this challenging period by adapting and, in essence, it has applied its own tools and techniques to the challenges it faced. The author would like to pay tribute to the hard working members of Council who have helped secure the survival of the IMS for the foreseeable future. This marks the end of a period of consolidation and rationalization and the beginning of a new phase in the history of the IMS.
The study was conducted to examine the effect of leadership on employee's performance in multinational pharmaceutical companies in Pakistan. The leadership behaviors were assessed with respect to 5 factors (motivation, promoting challenging standards, visibility and availability, championing excellence and team working). Data was collected from 50 leaders through questionnaire by selecting 10 leaders from each 5 multinational pharmaceutical companies. The results were presented in terms of counts and percentages by reflecting their views regarding different opinions about mentioned factors and employees performance. Effective leadership behavior in motivational factor showed, 90% leaders apply different motivational techniques for employee satisfaction. While for visibility and availabi...
... corporate diversity, growth and rationalization. In this post-modern era, organizations have to de...
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