Innovation Killers (journal article)
by Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman and Willy C. Shih
from Harvard Business Review, Vol. 86 No. 1, January 2008, pp. 98-105
"Most companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to be (or as their marketing claims suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices. ... The authors recommend alternative methods that can help managers innovate with a much more astute eye for future value. "
Five competitive forces that shape strategy (journal article)
by Michael E. Porter
from Harvard Business Review Vol. 86 No. 1, January 2008, pp. 78 - 93
"In exploring the implications of the five forces framework, Porter explains why a fast-growing industry is not always a profitable one, how eliminating today's competitors through mergers and acquisitions can reduce an industry's profit potential, how government policies play a role by changing the relative strength of the forces, and how to use the forces to understand complements. He then shows how a company can influence the key forces in its industry to create a more favorable structure for itself or to expand the pie altogether. The five forces reveal why industry profitability is what it is. Only by understanding them can a company incorporate industry conditions into strategy. "
Mastering the management system (journal article)
by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
from Harvard Business Review, Vol. 86 No. 1, January 2008, pp. 62 - 77
"Companies have always found it hard to balance pressing operational concerns with long-term strategic priorities. The tension is critical: World-class processes won't lead to success without the right strategic direction, and the best strategy in the world will get nowhere without strong operations to execute it."
The relative sophistication of Chinese exports (journal article)
by Peter K. Schott
from Economic Policy Vol. 23 No. 53, pp. 5–49
"China's exports have grown dramatically over the last three decades in large part due to its rapid penetration of new product markets. To help address the implications of this growth for developed economies, this paper gauges the relative sophistication of Chinese exports. It suggests that competition between China and the world's most developed economies may be less direct than their product-mix overlap implies. It may also reflect efforts by developed-country firms to compete with China by dropping their least sophisticated offerings and moving up the quality ladder."
Write on! - a model for successful business writing (journal article)
by Janet Basdell
from Training Journal, December 2007, pp. 30-32
"Business documents are written for a reason: to convey information, cause something to happen, influence a decision or win business. All too often, key messages are difficult to interpret because documents are badly structured and too wordy."
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Getting satisfaction - how to get useful management information from employee satisfaction surveys, while avaoiding the pitfalls (journal article)
by David Lusty
from Training Journal, October 2007, pp. 48-50
"Handled appropriately, and employee satisfaction survey is a source of valuable management information that can be used to drive initiatives for change that improve corporate performance, efficiency and customer satisfaction."
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Manage the minutes and let the hours look after themselves (journal article)
by Joanna Gutmann
from Training Journal, October 2007, pp. 39-42
"Most people know how to manage their workload, but it's one thing to know how to and another to actually do it."
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Bringing out the Best in Generation Y (journal article)
by Deborah Gilburg
from CIO, 11 January 2008
"They’re your high-maintenance, entitled, technologically sophisticated and fickle new talent pool. Generation Y, aka the Millennials, is also potentially the most high-performing generation in decades. Here’s the low-down on what makes them tick and how to work most effectively with them."
Simplicity minded management (journal article)
by Ron Ashkenas
from Harvard Business Review, Vol. 85 No. 12, Dec 2007 pp. 101 - 109
Large organizations are by nature complex, but over the years new business challenges -- globalization, innovative technologies, and regulations, to name a few -- have conspired to add layer upon layer of complexity to corporate structure and management. In this article, the author details the elements of a simplicity-minded strategy: streamline the structure; prune products, services, and features; build disciplined processes; and improve managerial habits.
Get the people issues right and the rest falls into place (Journal article)
by David Butler
from Public Sector, Vol.30 No. 2 2007, pp.9 - 13
"... irrespective of the role of any organisation, be it a small policy department or a large operational department, getting the people issues right is critical for ongoing success."
Future beckoning (journal article)
by Cameron Cooper
from Management Today, November - December 2007, pp. 12-18
"Can the economy's boom continue? Will the skills shortage ease? Can we live with our sluggish technology platform? Will the rich–poor divide widen? Important issues confront Australia in 2008. Four respected business leaders [Phil Ruthven, Attracta Lagan, Peter Coaldrake and Martin North] were quizzed on the key economic, education, social/environmental and technology issues facing the nation next year."
The service economy - success in a market democracy (journal article)
By Craig Emerson
from Policy, Vol. 23 No. 3, Spring 2007, pp. 16-22
"The author reflects on the development of the service economy in Australia. He argues that parts of the service economy are subjected to specific regulation that is efficiently designed and not necessarily hampered investment and employment decisions. He is concerned with the country's economic prospects due to the declining productivity growth. He believes that the Australian Labor Party will emphasize the role of the service economy and agriculture in international trade negotiations."
The Market for retail tenancy leases in Australia [book]
Australia. Productivity Commission
Recommends reducing the prescriptiveness of the legislation, making dispute resolution more accessible, and encouraging the registration of leases.
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Labor's lurking dragon: the challenge to transform Australia's semi-dependent economy (journal article)
by Ray Broomhill
from Australian Options, No 51, Summer 2007 pp. 8-12
"... the reality is that Australia's long-term dependence on commodity exports and foreign capital has left our economy extremely vulnerable to fluctuations in global demand and trade patterns"
Measuring the benefits of entrepreneurship at different levels of analysis (journal article)
by Belinda Luke, Martie-Louise Verreynne and Kate Kearins
from Journal of Management and Organization, Vol. 13 No. 4, November 2007
This paper presents a suggested framework for future research designs to examine the benefits of entrepreneurship, both non-financial and financial. Based on a review of the literature and using contextual exemplars throughout the paper with an Australia and New Zealand focus, we identify a range of benefits from entrepreneurship at the various levels of analysis (e.g. individual, organizational, national). The suggested framework represents both an initial step towards the measurement of entrepreneurship’s financial benefits and a valuable starting point for the development of a theory of the non-financial and financial benefits of entrepreneurship.
