Resources filed under business capability
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How to do more with less
Now that the age of austerity is upon us, how can UK plc keep growing through these hard times? MT gathered a group of corporate leaders around a table in London’s Soho Hotel, ordered them drinks (tap water, of course) and asked for their advice.
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All eyes are on the private sector as the way forward for a strong economy. But which organisations will play their cards right and take advantage of the new opportunities the Comprehensive Spending Review presents?
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Getting back to basics
There's no room for flabby businesses today, even those that weathered the storm are cutting back on essentials. This month's editor, Andrew Jackson, looks at what you can do to improve your bottom line.
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How 'glocal' is your organisation?
Despite the clunky jargon, 'glocal', or thinking global and acting local, is fast becoming the hallmark of successful organisations, and those that get it right are streaking ahead of the competition.
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Q: My company has decided it needs to centralise and standardise some of its practices. I anticipate a lot of resistance from my OpCos. How can I make the process run as smoothly as possible?
A: Some of it will depend on what and why you have decided to centralise and standardise. Concerns about maintaining proper governance around risk, accounting, and the financial health of the over-all corporation have different challenges from issues around maintaining safety and environmental compliance, maintaining a common culture and brand across regions and separate companies, or questions about...Read this article "My company has decided it needs to centralise and standardise some of its practices. I anticipate a lot of resistance from my OpCos. How can I make the process run as smoothly as possible?"
A real need for global collaboration
Collaboration is easy to understand, but hard to do. Global collaboration even more so, and yet it's never been so urgent to work together on a global scale.
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Fruitful collaboration
Cooperation is a vital ingredient for a successful business – although it’s easier said than done. While everyone knows collaboration is a key business capability and signs up to it in principle, it’s certainly not easy to achieve in practice.
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A new hybrid organisation is emerging, carving a niche between profit driven and non-profit models to achieve social purpose. This month's editor, Marcus Druen, takes a closer look at the new player.
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A radical approach to public spending
If you want different answers, you need a different approach. This month's editor, John Bruce-Jones, looks at new mindsets in place-based government and the effect on the public purse.
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Issue 08: building an intuitive organisation
Applying ‘best practice’ is too often like sticking a bandage on a headache. An organisation needs to understand itself before it can identify what it needs, or how to adapt best practice to make it relevant. Issue 08 includes client stories on Foreign & Commonwealth Office and professional services firms, and chapters on insights from our research, engagement with outcomes and how intuitive is your organisation?
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Issue 06: de-fogging
Many organisations are caught in the mists of obscure messages and conflicting signals. Strategic communication is about clearing away this obscurity and confusion – de-fogging – and replacing it with clarity to deliver your strategy. Issue 06 includes client stories on Procter & Gamble, The British Library and the Royal Marines, and chapters on who owns strategic communication?, change and reputation, and engaging people in strategy.
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Issue 05: decluttering
The uncomfortable truth is that in large organisations huge amounts of peoples time is consumed doing things which add no value. The result is tired people and tired organisations, and this carries a heavy cost. Issue 05 includes chapters on clutter culture, the underlying causes and what can we do to reduce volume?
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