Cases In Business

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The ABCs Businesses need money in order to operate effectively; this has always been the case and will continue to be the case in the future. Sometimes businesses need short-term or even continual funding solutions that provide quick access to cash – your business is no different. Maybe you need some quick cash to meet payroll, purchase inventory or a quick boost to your company’s working capital so that you have extra…

IT Doesn’t Matter by Nicholas G. Carr Reprint r0305b May 2003 HBR Case Study Leadership Development: Perk or Priority? r0305a Idalene F Kesner . HBR at Large IT Doesn’t Matter r0305b Nicholas G. Carr Is Silence Killing Your Company? r0305c Leslie Perlow and Stephanie Williams Global Gamesmanship r0305d Ian C. MacMillan, Alexander B. van Putten, and Rita Gunther McGrath The High Cost of Accurate Knowledge r0305e Kathleen M.…

75 percent of Microsoft Business Solutions-Axapta customers had achieved a positive ROI from Axapta with an average payback period of 23 months. The average deployment time was 13.4 months, with a range of 5 months to 36 months for a phased deployment. Microsoft Dynamics AX, (formerly Microsoft Business SolutionsAxapta), technology is an enterprise business planning application designed to help mid-market companies improve sales, finance, human resources, and other business operations.…

Table of Contents Introduction 2 The Link between Corruption and Business Ethics 2 The Corruption Perceptions Index 3 The Classification: Types and Distinctions 4 Organizations Dealing with Corruption 5 Corruption from the Social Point of View 6 Integrative Social Contracts Theory 6 a) Violating a Microsocial Norm 7 b) Violating an Authentic Norm 8 c) Violating a Hypernorm 9 Corruption from the Legal Point of View 10 The Main Players 11 a) The State 11 b) The Media 11 c)…

been witnessed in Home Delivery Services in recent years, bringing with it both opportunities and challenges to companies offering such services. Companies have had to review their logistics strategies to take into account this growing trend and, as the demand for home deliveries continues to increase, they are focusing greater attention on improving the performance of their delivery services whilst at the same time striving to make his aspect of their business more cost efficient. In…

An example of the use of financial ratio analysis: the case of Motorola H. W. Collier University of Wollongong, collier@uow.edu.au T. Grai Oakland University, USA S. Haslitt Oakland University, USA C. B. McGowan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, cbmcgowan@nsu.edu Publication Details This article was originally published as Collier, H, Grai, T, Haslitt, S and McGowan, CB, An example of the use of financial ratio analysis: the case of Motorola, Decision Sciences Institute…

Summary Bring your own device…………………………………………………...5 BYOD in the use of a project……………………………………………5 Is the B.Y.O.D. changing the way we work……………………….…5 Advantages…………………………………………………………….…7 Disadvantages……………………………………………………………7 Examples…………………………………………………………………7 10 Steps for a successful BYOD implementation.…………….…..8 Successful case of B.Y.O.D.....……………………………………..10 Bibliography……………………………………………………………..12 Synopsis…………………………………………………………………13

Development Method 1. Introduction Methodologies in today’s professional work environment are means of guiding people, resources and processes in a defined and repeatable manner. The more people are researching methods, the more clearly common patterns emerge which are becoming a guide to develop new methodologies. The Dynamic Systems Development Method is a framework which embodies much of the current knowledge about project management. DSDM is rooted in the software development…

this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 Delusions of Success 10 Further Reading A list of related material, with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications Product 4279 Delusions of Success How Optimism Undermines Executives’ Decisions The Idea in Brief The Idea in Practice Three-quarters of business…

Organizational Change Applying PM to Organizational Change Projects vs Organizational Change Programs Projects vs Organizational Change Programs Hard and Soft Systems Approaches Hard and Soft Systems Approaches Organizational Change Case Study Organizational Change Case Study Conclusions Conclusions © Lynn Crawford 2002 © Lynn Crawford 2002 Human Systems Global Knowledge Networks PM Communities of Practice Sharing and creating knowledge Improving individual & corporate…