In our recent book, Management Reset, Chris Worley and I point out that designing organizations that perform well on triple bottom line measures requires more than just management giving lip service to it and taking sustainability into account when some decisions are made.
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Game-changing innovation requires a different kind of management with a new corporate bottom line in which value-adding innovation is a necessity, not an option.
"I think at the end of the day, if you look at over the past 15 to 20 years of the company, you'd have to say the management has been pushing the bottom line, telling doctors to cut corners, basically saying we are going to evaluate you and promote you based on how well you make money, not on how well you take care of the patients, " Caplan said.
Management expects it to add to the bottom line by the second half of 2007.
The focus on expense management is a positive for Dell's bottom line but could also affect the top line, as it becomes its own best case study.
As we built a multi-functional shared services capability with IT, HR, and Finance, over time we continued to look for other services such as facilities, purchasing, sales order management, meetings, card services, and fleet management to bring under the umbrella to deliver bottom line saving to the corporation.
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Management expects the acquisition to be accretive to the bottom-line in the fiscal second quarter of 2013.
But most compensation packages are linked not to long-term value creation and skillful management of long-term risks, but to quarterly or annual bottom line performance.
The potential benefits of active energy production are not just financial, though the bottom-line effect is the one that may motivate the board of directors and the management team.
By taking a narrow view of costs, with a principal focus on labor costs, it could appear on a spreadsheet that shipping factories and jobs to China would help the bottom line and pop the share price, and along with that, eye-popping management bonuses.
" The bottom line, says James Schiro, CEO of the multinational accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, is that improving corporate management "is a way to deal with the growing crisis of confidence in the region and globally.
In many companies it is the layer of management, the so-called middle manager, who can seem to be unnecessary when the bottom line is threatened.
He was a superlative, productive dynamo, a technology genius, and someone who learned from his own management failures and set-backs to become a worthy corporate executive too, who focused on the bottom line and on the commercial viability of his products, whether in user-friendly computers, animated motion pictures, online music or smart phones.
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