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.
So should you incorporate a bottom-up or top-down philosophy for information integration, as part of your open systems strategy? Microsoft. Net strategies have been seen as a bottom-up approach, reaching from the plant floor into higher-level So should...
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....
In a globally operating company, when a country management team base their opposition to the global product marketing strategy on a System Dynamics simulation tool, the model is definitely to support communication across the management layers in a bottom-up way. To reach out to stakeholders and global management at the...
"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...
The combination of a corporate culture based on ethics and a strategic approach to people management is important to a company's long term performance and bottom line. With an increasing amount of external pressure on company's through compliance legislation, a push for good corporate governance and the economic pressures of...
This paper presents an approach which tries to combine the sound ideas of Product Data Technology and STEP with a strong bottom up development strategy. The approach is based on Neutral Object Trees: hierarchical structures in which the objects that must be designed and built, are structured in a simple...
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...
This paper describes that the 'Six Sigma' approach to improving the performance of business processes is enabling an ever-increasing number of organizations to transform service performance, enhance customer satisfaction and catalyze the 'Bottom line'. It also discusses that Shared Services operations, both in-house and externally sub-contracted businesses, can particularly benefit...
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...
The article states that procurement is a high reward and low risk opportunity. A statement is discussed in the article that “Strategic lever for bottom line improvement requires comprehensive approach, look at procurement as strategic rather than cost center.” To extract the maximum value from procurement, companies need to...
Dr. Duru submits: By my count, the stock market has now tried to bottom four times since the bear market took its most vicious turn after Labor Day weekend. I did not even have time to think about fishing for the bottom on the first two attempts. The third...
Measuring knowledge related performance in organizations usually is conceptualized on the basis of a strategic resp. top down-approach of KM measurement. Unfortunately, such a strategic approach has some important disadvantages: It is difficult to get commitment from senior managers regarding the investment into strategic KM projects; due to the complexity...
Used Trucks May Have Hit BottomRE: Used Trucks May Have Hit Bottomused cars may really hit rock bottom because of the latest cars and trucks that are more efficient , esp. hybrid trucks that could save us money and has the best fuel milage the best thing that should do...
BUILDING THE TOOLS FOR FINDING THE BOTTOM When, in 1959. Richard Feynman exhorted fellow scientists to share his vision of a world in which atoms would be used like tiny bricks to construct macro-scale objects from "the bottom up," he set off a contest of minds that resulted in the...
Move to market-focused approach shows on bottom line. RHONE-POULENC'S household and personal care products business is set to become part of a new company, Rhodia, when shares are sold to the public later this year, but the more significant change Move to market-focused...
LOW BOTTOM LINE = DON'T LOWER THE BOTTOM: It looks like the economist hired by the Environmental Protection Agency EPA to review the Corps' cost-benefit analysis for the proposed deepening of the Chesapeake and Delaware (C&D) Canal from 35 feet to 40 feet will not be...
Warner Bros. has completed a top-to-bottom makeover of its Extra daily news/entertainment magazine that includes its approach to promoting the show. The company has moved most of the money for Extra promotional media buys out of local print ... Warner Bros. has completed a top-to-bottom makeover...
Martin Edelson, founder and president of Boardroom Inc., who has been named a 2005 inductee into the Direct Marketing Association's Hall of Fame. Marty founded Boardroom 30 years ago, and today it is a multimillion-dollar publishing enterprise. He publishes Bottom Line/Personal,...
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...
