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Cover Story: Managing in Extraordinary Times: New Choices for New Challenges
The greatest changes in companies’ relative positions within their industries occur in times of economic turbulence, not calm. To benefit from such seismic change, a company must quickly make the right decisions and act on them with conviction—a core characteristic of high-performance businesses.
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Supply Chain Management: Shock Absorbers
Flexible and fine-tuned to react rapidly to oil price surges, raw material shortages and other disruptive changes, dynamic supply chain management frees companies from rigid assumptions of the past, enabling them to achieve high performance in an era of heightened uncertainty.
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Information Technology: Does Your Company Have an IT Generation Gap?
Surrounded by technology all their lives, the newest members of today’s workforce want a big say in the tech tools they need to do their jobs. They also say they want to pick their employers based on the “coolness” of the technology available to them. Those are just some of the challenges that business leaders must respond to now—before the Millennials’ kid brothers and sisters start joining the workforce.
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Information Technology II: This Time, It’s Personal … And Mobile
Requiring tech-savvy employees to have separate mobile devices for work and personal use isn’t a viable option for business. What's a company to do? Here are six practical solutions.
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India: A Passage to India
When it comes to cracking the conundrum of the Indian consumer, the key to success is adaptability. The winners will be those who enter into the fabric of society and work with Indians as partners.
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Leadership: Is This Any Way to Make a Decision?
Informal networks can play a pivotal role in how organizational decisions are framed and executed. But they can also result in too much collaboration—the kind of lengthy and expensive decision making that can cost companies dearly in missed opportunities.
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Innovation: Target Practice
If organizations are to achieve and sustain high performance, they need to regard innovation as a business discipline, and then manage and execute it accordingly—as an end-to-end process, from insight development to idea generation to development to marketplace launch.
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Mergers & Acquisitions: The New Face of Global M&A
In developed countries, most CEOs have come to grips with the immediate effects of globalization—the low-cost competition as well as the new market opportunities. But they may be underestimating another factor: the dramatic rise of emerging-market multinationals, which is rapidly becoming a hallmark of global M&A activity.
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Communications, Media and Technology: It’s a Networked World, After All
Consumers everywhere are waiting for the communications, media and technology industries to make good on three promises: a seamless experience, a common platform and superior service. For companies competing for this business, customer-centric strategies, offerings and services are now essential to achieving high performance in a truly networked world.
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