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The European textile and clothing industry is at a crucial phase of development – it faces unprecedented competition from abroad, plus rising production costs. Traditionally an industry of very small, specialised companies, new production approaches are needed to speed up the supply chain. Exciting new technologies promise unexpected textile applications, but SMEs need encouragement to innovate. |
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The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman, Rod Beckstrom
If you cut off a spider’s leg, it’s crippled; if you cut off its head, it dies. But if you cut off a starfish’s leg it grows a new one, and the old leg can grow into an entirely new starfish.
What’s the hidden power behind the success of Wikipedia, craigslist, and Skype? What do eBay and General Electric have in common with the abolitionist and women’s rights movements? What fundamental choice put General Motors and Toyota on vastly different paths? How could winning a Supreme Court case be the biggest mistake MGM could have made? |
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 While clients are buying skills, image does make a difference, and appropriateness is the key.
Is relaxing your organisation's dress code simply a favor to staff, or is there a strategic benefit? Geoffrey Colvin, writing in Fortune magazine, says recruits from business schools "want to be valued for what they can do, and they'd like some stock. Offer them that, and they'll wear sarongs and babushkas if you make them."
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In the new knowledge-driven economy, people have become the most precious and underutilized resource. They are the repository of knowledge and they are central to any company's competitive advantage. Well coached, and highly motivated people are critical to the development and execution of strategy and of any other way of business innovation. The business life and the managerial work becomes increasingly a leadership task. Leadership is the primary force behind successful change. Leaders empower employees to act on the vision. They execute through inspiration and develop implementation capacity networks through a complex web of aligned relationships. This site, sponsored by MACORIG ASSOCIATES, is devoted to the exploration of the business life and the various tools we can use to improve our business performance going through business innovation, strategy, business models, strategic marketing, management consulting, leader envisioning, smart tools, business lifestyle, methodologies and processes... A lot of cases, links, documents, articles, books and lifestyle tips are presented and suggested from the most authoritative sources. |
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Satori Group, Inc. Announces the Delivery of Virtual Business Performance Management with the Release of ... (PR.com)
Satori Group, Inc., a premier provider of enterprise class Business Performance Management solutions built on a business intelligence platform, announced today the general release of V-i-Performance Planning, a virtual appliance Business Performance Management solution. [PR.com - May 09, 2008]
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iBASEt Showcasing Concurrent Engineering and Manufacturing Operations Management Innovation with DELMIA (Centre Daily Times)
iBASEt, a leader in enterprise Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) software solutions, is showcasing innovation in the area of Concurrent Engineering and Manufacturing at the 2008 Solumina User Conference, May 12 at Newport Beach, California.
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SAP Pushes Business Model Innovation With New BPM Tools (TechNewsWorld.com)
SAP will offer new business process and rules management capabilities for its NetWeaver service-oriented architecture platform. NetWeaver Business Process Management and NetWeaver Business Rules Management will allow companies to build or change business processes and rules without coding.
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