A lot of Bain's top 25 management tools are network-centric

Bain recently issued a report on the top 25 management tools for 2007. Here's the list:

• 1. Balanced Scorecard


• 2. Benchmarking


• 3. Business Process Reengineering


• 4. Collaborative Innovation


• 5. Consumer Ethnography


• 6. Core Competencies


• 7. Corporate Blogs


• 8. Customer Relationship Management


• 9. Customer Segmentation


• 10. Growth Strategy Tools


• 11. Knowledge Management


• 12. Lean Operations


• 13. Loyalty Management Tools


• 14. Mergers and Acquisitions


• 15. Mission and Vision Statements


• 16. Offshoring


• 17. Outsourcing


• 18. RFID


• 19. Scenario and Contingency Planning


• 20. Shared Service Centers


• 21. Six Sigma


• 22. Strategic Alliances


• 23. Strategic Planning


• 24. Supply Chain Management


• 25. Total Quality Management

Bold characters are those I personally refer to as knowledge management, and in italic those which make heavy use of KM practices, which again shows the need for new wording to cover the more generic concept of management of networks.

[thanks successful-consultants]