BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Bottom-up Approach
- a consultative leadership style that promotes employee participation at all levels in decision making and problem solving. A bottom-up approach to leadership is associated with flat organizations and the empowerment of employees. It can encourage creativity and flexibility and is the opposite of a top-down approach.
Additional Resources
- International Marketing at the Bottom of the Pyramid
- International marketers have been turning increasingly to markets in developing countries as markets in developed countries reach saturation point. Generally one targets the wealthy elite and the expanding middle class in such countries. Rarely do one targets the masses in these countries who account for 65% of the world's population....
- White papers 2005-11-15
- An Introduction to Bottom-Line Human Resource Management
- "This article explains to managers and academics a new approach to human resource management, what I call "Bottom-Line Human Resource Management." Bottom-line human resource management starts by positing clear organizational goals, and in this way differs from strategic human resource management, which starts with analysis of the organization's human resource...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- A Holistic Approach To Realizing Sustained Results
- While strategic sourcing point initiatives have provided significant benefits to date, an integrated supplier relationship management approach is needed to fuel sustainable, cross-enterprise cost savings. . Many of these companies have already zeroed in on the sourcing process and purchased software tools or run hosted e-auction events that have yielded...
- White papers 2003-07-26
- EMS : A Strategic Business Approach to Managing the Environment and the Bottom Line
- The relationship between business and the environment is closely connected: The environment is the source of much input as well as a sink for outputs. So as to minimize harmful impact on the environment, businesses must take a strategic environmental management approach. What exactly is "the environment"? In the context...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Bottom Line: AMR Research's Four-Stage Model Gives Companies the Framework to Identify and Benchmark Their Current EPM Maturity, Plan Where They Want to Be, and Avoid a Potential Black Hole for It Spending Along the Way
- Managing performance is top of mind for senior executives, and successful performance management requires a top-down approach that balances a company's philosophical and cultural attributes with the appropriate use of technology. Business and Information Technology IT groups are now undertaking a variety of initiatives to manage performance. It is no...
- White papers 2004-04-15
- Bottom Calling
- Bob Lang submits: Market bottoms. That golden spot where we can all say... Oh yeah, I caught the exact low. In a dynamic world such as the stock market, bottoms are elusive and random in terms of time and space. How so? Consider the confirmation of a bottom, which naturally...
- External links 2008-09-15
- Win New Customers: A Four-Phase Approach to Sales Success
- According to economic forecasts by the United States Federal Reserve, economic conditions are becoming more competitive with each passing year. Organizations that have survived the economic downturn are stronger, more nimble and better equipped to win new customers. On the buyer side of the equation, internal budgets have grown modestly...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Improving Sales for Your Online Business
- On Wall Street, financial investors speak of CEOs improving their companies' "Top line" by increasing sales volume or their "Bottom line" by reducing their expenses to expand the margins from their current sales volume. For Internet companies a similar "Top line - bottom line" approach should be taken by business...
- White papers
- Business Intelligence For The Insurance Industry: Driving Bottom Line Results
- The competitive threat, two forces that have altered the market dynamics: the economic downturn and the market change to a customer-centric approach. The euphoric expectation of a never ending pipeline of new customers with unlimited dollars has given way to harsh realities brought on by tightening of budgets and reduction...
- White papers 2005-08-11
- Six Sigma methods to ensure organizations' health: companies seek to enhance their competitiveness and bottom line by implementing Six Sigma. To better discover and remove inefficiencies in processes, a novel approach to this data-powered methodology is o
- Which companies will be around in ten years? The certainty of any response to this question has probably changed during recent years. Will your corporation face problems similar to those of Enron or K-Mart? Many enterprises need to readdress how they measure and make improvements within...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
- Meridian Music's traditional approach to digitals: how a "carriage trade" Steinway dealer expanded sales and profits with hi-tech products. (Digital Piano Market Report)
- Meridian Music's Traditional Approach To Digitals From top to bottom, Meridian Music in Indianapolis typifies the "carriage trade" piano dealer. The company's elegantly appointed 11,000-square-foot showroom is filled with meticulously maintained Steinway, Kawai, and Young Chang grands. Adjacent to the main showroom is...
- Research articles 1990-09-01
- Leukemia hits Ogden's bottom line: Athletic World Advertising president fighting disease
- FOR GREGG OGDEN, THE BOT-tom line had always been Athletic World Advertising's sales figures. When he began to square off with death, Ogden searched for a more significant bottom line. Today, Ogden's rare disease -- T-cell leukemia -- is in remission. And while his bout has left the president...
- Research articles 2002-08-05
- Profits or Perils? The Bottom Line on Outsourcing
- Outsourcing is fast becoming a fixture in the organizational models of the 21st century. At first confined to non strategic business activities such as cleaning, transport, or legal services, outsourcing now encompasses functions that are closer to the core. As suppliers become more tightly integrated into the fabric of a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Cycle Time Reduction: Your Key to a Better Bottom Line
- The key to Cycle Time Reduction is determining which steps in your process add value in the eyes of the customer. Using a customer driven approach changes both, perspective and solutions. It enables the whole team to see the entire process and how it relates to the customer. The article...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Mastering The Art Of Alliances: A Benchmarking Approach
- Benchmarking provides an objective basis for comparison and self-analysis apart from accelerating the sharing of useful and novel approaches. This white paper from the house of Southern Technology Council explains how universities can be robust partners with industry as well as addressing state economic development. According to this paper, every...
- Presentations 2000-07-21
- A New Approach To Faith At Work
- From the executive summary: ‘Most companies support religious employee networks, adding the groups to the roster of more traditional constituency networks based on race, ethnicity, and gender. Although, such companies completely divorce themselves from anything to do with religion, many believe that faith-based employee resource groups complement their workforce-diversity goals...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Business Process Management for Accounts Payable: Gaining Control Over Documents, Automating Processes, and Optimizing Cash Flow and the Bottom Line
- Many organizations want to fundamentally change the role of their Accounts Payable AP departments and make them more strategic: shifting AP from a clerical, transaction oriented reactive process to a vibrant and well-oiled machine, one that is both analytical and proactive. Business Process Management BPM achieves this goal allowing companies...
- White papers 2005-06-10
- Intensive Care for the Bottom Line: Managing the Revenue Cycle to Maximize Profitability
- As healthcare provider organizations wrestle with improving revenues while providing high-quality care, there has been a lot of conversation about revenue cycle management and business process outsourcing BPO - with the emphasis on back-end billing. By taking a more holistic front to back-office approach, a true revenue cycle BPO solution...
- White papers 2004-10-08
- Four Ways to Approach Efficient Warehousing
- This white paper is targeted at Small to Medium Sized SMB wholesale distributors and manufacturers. It is intended to help business owners and executives provide answers to questions such as: Are you spending too much on your warehouse processes? Would you like to explore new ways of increasing your bottom...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- The "Bottom Line" of Leaderful Practice
- What makes a leader the most? This author argues that it is a compassionate approach, a "Leaderful practice" that exhibits humility and seeks to serve others rather than power for its own sake. As a result, people learn to count on others because they have learned that each member, even...
- White papers 2004-01-01
