Business management

In this changing world, it is not uncommon for new markets to open (and close) rapidly, so companies need to have a strategy to move people and resources rapidly from areas of low to areas of a higher ......

Frederick Taylor developed the 'scientific management theory', which ..... this careful specification and measurement of all organizational tasks.

The Human Relations Movement (1930-today): Eventually, unions and government regulations reacted to the rather ..... effects of these theories, and more attention was given to individuals and their unique capabilities in the organization.

Van Deventer and Martha Johanna explain that knowledge economy management literature is ....., but very little of the retrieved literature relates to the application of management philosophies within the library and information services industry.

Improving efficiency and effectiveness in those areas is one of the key benefits of a systematic approach to portfolio management and explains why, in R&D-heavy industries, portfolio management is considered a critical management function in its own ......

In order to handle the complexity of the functions performed and through the pressures of growth and ..... of scale, companies have become completely organized around specific functions like Finance, R&D, Supply chain, Manufacturing, etc.

After all, through the magic of the liquid asset cycle, reductions in inventory wonderfully reappear as cash in treasury's ......

The two major failed philosophical opposites, minimization and optimization, happen to nail down the extreme ends of a broad 'feasibility range' for inventory, and by slicing the middle ..... into a series of progressive investment options, we can calculate the expected returns, maturities, and risks for each increment.

In times ....., with relationships guided by letters of credit, a company's suppliers could rely on an established practice to help obtain additional bank funding.

With regard to volatility in foreign currencies, corporate finance people are faced today with having to manage risk on a constantly changing playing field which is ..... with challenges.