Analyzing the trends in content can set the strategic direction for product managers to stick to, or abandon, their initial ideas.
To manage this growth, senior management has made simplicity a strategic imperative such that managers are constantly looking for simplification opportunities through consolidation of country and regional operations, standardization of processes, and reduction of SKUs.
That has freed up the HR staff to help managers solve more strategic problems, identify elephants in the room, look at the human capital implications of business strategies, and challenge them to assign the best people on the most critical assignments.
Do we regularly ask our midlevel managers for feedback on our strategic goals and objectives?
"Its history is a tale of strategic brilliance and operational excellence that all managers dream will be told about them some day, " writes Harvard professor Clayton M.
There are, these days, more high-quality non-predictive approaches to strategic foresight and future-management than most managers are aware of.
The hybrid carmaker reportedly retained 53 senior managers and executives to pursue a strategic sale and continue negotiating with the Department of Energy.
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In 1982 managers of large companies were expected to be strategic and financial in their focus.
Many head teachers are excellent managers, but they are too swamped to offer strategic leadership.
He started correcting his biggest strategic errors: the acquisition of two underperforming American fund-managers that operated under Zurich Scudder Investment.
Thanks to market conditions, though, Mr Kleisterlee might find, as many other managers have done recently, that a well-argued strategic vision becomes a secondary concern when there are pressing operational problems to solve.
Informing middle managers starts with sharing the why, what, and how of your strategic plan.
Therefore managers learn to delegate and in doing so free themselves to be more strategic and in the process develop the talents of others and grow the capacity of the organization to meet rising challenges.
However, at higher levels managers usually need to dial down their operational focus and learn how to be more strategic.
Middle managers were spending a lot of shuffling reports around the organization, and less time being strategic.
Only these can equip managers with means to respond effectively to the reality of international business, and to adequately address the strategic consequences of the shifts in the world economy.
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