April 26, 2007

the lack of trust in business has grown

8:50 on Thursday April 26, 2007 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

The McKinsey Quarterly: Exploring business's social contract: An interview with Daniel YankelovichThe values of the generations that grew up before 1950 are embodied in the concept of enlightened self-interest—not naked self-interest, but enlightened self-interest. Enlightened self-interest is when you make...



April 13, 2007

Change management as a process

18:36 on Friday April 13, 2007 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

I just had a conversation today with Dulce-Maria Vasquez of Kamaleo, a consulting firm in Mexico focusing on change management, and who did a great job at Schneider Electric last year. On one of her presentation change management is presented...



April 04, 2007

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

11:55 on Wednesday April 4, 2007 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

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...