BrainZooming

APRIL 3, 2018

Two junior team members in chief of staff / program manager roles asked how to best align with senior leaders to successfully share a strategy across an organization. Within that framework, here are the questions to answer so your team can most effectively represent senior leadership to the entire organization. Objectives.

Strategy 92

Strategy Strategy Guidelines eBook 92

BrainZooming

APRIL 12, 2016

The question was what to do to get the leadership team comfortable with actually being casual and approachable on camera. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. You need to download this FREE Brainzooming eBook, published with the Global Strategic Management Institute.

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 6, 2016

In the current edition of Business Horizons there is an interesting article about secondary stakeholders and their growing influence. Managing the increasing number of stakeholders, is of course a challenge for companies. Definitions.

Management 40

Management Groups Engagement Course 40

Norbert Bol

APRIL 17, 2016

To answer this question, I will use the upcoming article in June 2016 in the International Journal of Information Management about information management for innovation networks. In the article the major challenges are described to create new products and services where resources, processes and skill sets of others are needed.

Innovation 40

Innovation Video Study Strategy 40

Norbert Bol

MAY 16, 2016

The International Journal of Information Management will publish in the August 2016 edition an article (Hau & Kang, 2016) that reveals more insight in the role that lead users have in these online user-communities. International Journal of Information Management , 36 (4), 520-530.

Trends 60

Trends Innovation Marketing Open Innovation 60

Norbert Bol

MARCH 20, 2016

This month a new scientific article (Matthies et al., What is behind the leadership shift in sustainable development from politicians to CEOs? In the service industry, suppliers and customers think continuously about improving the process of value creation to remain competitive in a long term perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production.

Leadership 40

Leadership Competition Culture Industry 40

Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Most managers do not resist this pressure as 78% of the managers would reject an NPV (net present value)-positive project if it would lower quarterly earnings, and 80 percent would focus on this short-term metric at the expense of building long-term shareholder value. Norbert Bol. Literature. Martens, M. L., & Carvalho, M.

Case Study 40

Case Study Meeting Project Management 40

Norbert Bol

MARCH 29, 2015

Sustainability strategy in constrained economic times “ The different articles in this special edition all focus on the sustainability behavour of companies in tough times. One might expect that in tough times there is less focus on sustainability.

Strategy 40

Strategy Strategy Company Innovation 40

Norbert Bol

APRIL 3, 2016

In the June 2016 issue of Research Policy there is an interesting article how green jobs differ from non-green jobs. This article confirms the general understanding of the positive effects of green jobs. These jobs are less routinised and can be important drivers for innovation and the seeking of new knowledge and skills.

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Policies Training Industry Change 40

Norbert Bol

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

In the December edition of Research Policy there is an interesting article by Tavassoli & Karlsson (2015) about the persistence of innovation. The article shows that innovation is persistent (innovation leads to new innovations), whereby product innovation is most persistent and most path-dependent (true state).

Policies 40

Policies Innovation Product Innovation Innovation Processes 40

Norbert Bol

JULY 21, 2015

Article in press / corrected proof). We may face the risks”…“risks that could adversely affect our face.” A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of modality markers in CSR reports. Studies in Communication Sciences.

Report 40

Report Analysis Study Trends 40

Norbert Bol

JANUARY 31, 2016

In the March 2016 edition of Environmental Science & Policy there is an article by Gorddard et al. To improve our decision making, Heath & Heath (2013) proposed to: widen the options; reality-test our assumptions; attain distance before deciding and prepare to be wrong.

Policies 40

Policies Innovation Strategy Strategy 40

Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Arguments for this lower score are that the real estate industry is a very fragmented industry where every building is relatively unique, capital intensive, composed of many different components which are put together on site and the management of buildings during the life cycle is organized in various ways depending on the ownership and use.

Leadership 52

Leadership Industry Strategy Strategy 52

Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Therefore most organizations have a seperate policy on sustainability or corporate responsibility, which enable them to manage and to act more effectively. Sustainability on a strategic or company level is often difficult to define, measure and manage. Journal of Management, 0149206315569311. Norbert Bol. Literature.

Management 40

Management Policies Video Examples 40

Norbert Bol

MARCH 28, 2016

Related to diversity and the creation of value an interesting article came online last week (Reypens et al., This article also points out that more diversity is needed when it comes to value creation. In the article Reypens et al. Industrial Marketing Management. & Blazevic V. 2016, in press, corrected proof).

Culture 40

Culture Industry Examples Strategy 40

Norbert Bol

APRIL 10, 2016

In the July 2016 issue of Research Policy there is an interesting article (Schemmann et al., The sourcing of ideas occurs on online idea crowdsourcing platforms that are open to everybody who has access to the Internet and no specific training or expertise is needed. Most studies about idea crowdsourcing focus on the phase of idea generation.

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