{"title":"Nobody Knows Anything","authors":"Ian D. Turner","doi":"10.1177/174578660701800404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/174578660701800404","url":null,"abstract":"The wild unpredictability of success rates in the Hollywood film industry is in fact a model of the unpredictability of success in many other areas of business. Is there any one factor that creates success? What impact do efforts towards success have on the final outcome of any business or product?","PeriodicalId":102537,"journal":{"name":"Henley Manager Update","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130738884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustainability, Regulation and Reverse Logistics","authors":"R. Mills","doi":"10.1177/174578660701800403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/174578660701800403","url":null,"abstract":"It is no longer enough for a company in today's business climate to focus on profits and growth. Environmental and social issues also need to be considered as a priority. Perhaps surprisingly, working on sustainability can make sound entrepreneurial sense – it is not just an ethical issue. Nevertheless, the demands of the challenges sustainability issues raise should not be underestimated.","PeriodicalId":102537,"journal":{"name":"Henley Manager Update","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133740241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scenario Planning: Current State of the Art","authors":"B. Weinstein","doi":"10.1177/174578660701800401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/174578660701800401","url":null,"abstract":"There has been a torrent of publications in the field of scenario planning in the past three years. What is the range of diverse applications to which scenario planning has been applied? How far are managers aware of its potential and eager to implement scenario planning?","PeriodicalId":102537,"journal":{"name":"Henley Manager Update","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124183749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identifying Best Practices in Cost Management","authors":"G. Favato, R. Mills","doi":"10.1177/174578660701800405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/174578660701800405","url":null,"abstract":"Cost management practices have been under substantial criticism for their lack of efficiency and capacity for coping with a rapidly evolving environment. Cost management applications generally fit into three major categories: diagnostic, re-engineering, or integrated cost management systems. Which of these costing systems should be regarded as the current best practices in cost management?","PeriodicalId":102537,"journal":{"name":"Henley Manager Update","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116623456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenging Conventional Wisdom in R&D","authors":"G. Favato, R. Mills","doi":"10.1177/174578660601800105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/174578660601800105","url":null,"abstract":"With discontinuity in technology, it can be frustrating to gauge its influence on Research and Development structure. What managers need, therefore, is a framework to help them understand significant advances in technology – something that will enable them to anticipate new innovation paradigms. This article examines the way that an explosion of biotechnologies has forced managers to question the relevance of the former pharmaceutical R&D model. For companies like Procter & Gamble, being able to recognise big discontinuities in the innovation model – and being proactive about implementing change strategies – has helped them reshape their innovation models whilst staying competitive.","PeriodicalId":102537,"journal":{"name":"Henley Manager Update","volume":"9 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128495281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emerging Trends in Mergers and Acquisitions and the Importance of Private Equity and Hedge Funds","authors":"R. Mills","doi":"10.1177/174578660601800103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/174578660601800103","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the major reasons behind the current boom in M & A activity, paying particular attention to the significance of private equity and hedge funds in this boom. Might there be cause for concern about recent hedge fund growth?","PeriodicalId":102537,"journal":{"name":"Henley Manager Update","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130102194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to Grow the Business and Encourage Innovation","authors":"Ian D. Turner","doi":"10.1177/174578660601800102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/174578660601800102","url":null,"abstract":"A key issue facing every CEO is how to achieve results and grow the business, while at the same time encouraging innovation. All too often these two can be seen to be mutually exclusive. Why is this, and how can innovation be encouraged?","PeriodicalId":102537,"journal":{"name":"Henley Manager Update","volume":"222 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132391657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The High Risk Scenario in the Global Economy","authors":"B. Weinstein","doi":"10.1177/174578660601800101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/174578660601800101","url":null,"abstract":"The use of scenarios to depict forces of potential risk is demonstrated by economists alarmed by the imbalance between the debtor US and its creditors among Asia-Pacific central banks. One credible, if contested, pessimistic scenario until 2010 focuses on US debt, current account and government, which in the early 2000s had sustained growth led by consumer spending in the US and English-speaking countries. The crisis scenario over the current account deficit challenges the influence over risk thinking of alleged conventional wisdom based on favourable US economic performance data, IMF optimism about leading economies' future growth, and the questioning of the deficit itself as important and dangerous. The emerging interdependence of the US and China casts doubt on the feasibility of the radical economic and political changes that are needed to avoid a crisis that could seriously damage the global economy. Active preparation of risk management against the eventuality of a serious economic upheaval must weigh contested views of probability against less doubt about the severity of the damage if it were to occur.","PeriodicalId":102537,"journal":{"name":"Henley Manager Update","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131088911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"People Value and that Elusive Human Factor","authors":"R. Mills","doi":"10.1177/174578660601700401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/174578660601700401","url":null,"abstract":"Review of the Operating and Financial Review (OFR) is an important signal as to the significance of the human resource in the prospects of the business. As a result, the case for focusing upon the potential financial management of the human resource is recognised as important by finance directors. Prospective demographic changes predicted by the United Nations may have a very significant impact upon company performance and how employers will need to think about investing in people. A strong case for investing in people – because it may result in improved company performance and profitability – emerges from some US research.","PeriodicalId":102537,"journal":{"name":"Henley Manager Update","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124648471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Driving Growth through Innovation","authors":"S. Foreman","doi":"10.1177/174578660601700402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/174578660601700402","url":null,"abstract":"Research has shown that when large companies fail to grow with GDP, they risk going out of business. But if this is the case, how may companies achieve growth without compromising performance? Innovation must be a key driver, and it flourishes in an environment that both accepts change and supports the customer. Yet innovation is also a risk: successful growth, therefore, may require the company to evolve while simultaneously anticipating and managing those risks associated with innovation.","PeriodicalId":102537,"journal":{"name":"Henley Manager Update","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123931107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}