What next? Ten questions for CFOs asks: 1. What shape will a recovery take? 2. Have you restructured enough? 3. Is your supply chain sufficiently flexible? 4. Do you have a short list of acquisition targets ready? 5. Should you restart conversations with potential alliance partners? 6. Are you ready to divest newly underperforming businesses? [...]
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Professionalize Management in a Business Management Governance System
The Harvard Business Review (HBR) in “Let’s Professionalize Management” states that business schools are starting to move towards the acceptance of the broader management in society responsibilities. There could be an enhancement in management practice with the odds being reduced of another systematic business failure. This is given the presumption that it were taught and [...]
Fixing Business Management Governance System Issues
In the Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “The System Isn’t Broken, But It Can Be Improved” there was defense of the MBA schools and our business system, which was in response to the article and comments in “The System Is Broken. Will B-Schools Help Fix it?” If we describe the current state of our business [...]
The MBA Taught Business Management Governance System Is Broken; Beyond Lean Six Sigma Tools Application
The Harvard Business Review in “The System Is Broken. Will Business Schools Help Fix it?” asked the questions about whether business schools have a responsibility for student preparation to redesign the business system so that crucial public needs are met? Or are MBA schools merely fancy trade schools? If MBA schools are not obliged to [...]
Non-system Thinking Leadership and the Financial Crisis Resolution
Previously in “The Elephant in the Room and our Financial Crisis” I described a 21st century business management governance system that provides an approach for creating a long-lasting solution for the financial crisis issues of the day. In this Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) system, healthy policy creation is combined with an integration of business scorecards, [...]