Recent Change Management Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - BNET.com

Recent Change Management Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies | BNET
Recent Change Management Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies | BNET

Webcast: Mind the Gap: How Using Technology Can Bridge Multiple Generations i...
What do Traditionalists, Boomers, Gen Xers and Millenials (Gen Y) have in common? They are all working side by side in the workplace and the need to balance the generational differences is at its greatest ever. This diversity brings many advantages, from life experience and polished expertise to fresh ideas and finesse at navigating technology. It also introduces challenges: conflicting work and managerial styles, as well as varying comfort levels with technology, which may create disputes over how work should be done. Listen to this complimentary BNET Webcast, moderated by James Hilliard, to hear featured guest speaker Beth Gulas, President, Workforce Management, discuss: Generational differences in the workplace How these differences impact an organization's success Tips for bridging the generation gap with the right technology Brought to you by:
Announcement Of Relocation Of Retail Business And Change Of Management
Use this template to announce the relocation of retail business and change of management.
SOA Best Practices and Design Patterns: Keys to Successful Service-Oriented A...
There is no question that the successful implementation of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) relies on a careful and holistic approach to business planning. One of the most important tools in the evaluation, purchase, and ongoing use of SOA is the body of best practices that vendors, consultants, and customers have compiled. The promise of business agility, improved customer service, and competitive advantage with SOA is real. What varies most is the time, cost, and ease of SOA implementation. By learning from the experiences of those organizations that have been through the process and looking at the standard best practices of large-scale technology implementations, success can come earlier and more dramatically.
SOA Centers of Excellence: Preserving Order Amid Change
When first entertaining the notion of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), most information technology (IT) professionals and business leaders rightly imagine the many benefits that their organizations will see in improved customer interaction, greater business agility, efficient asset reuse, and flexible growth options. Indeed, SOA is one of the bright lights of contemporary business strategy and, some would suggest, the inevitable technological outcome of our global, Web-centric world. Some have gone so far as to call SOA a revolution, not just in technology but in how one thinks about business infrastructure.
Using the 6 Laws of Persuasion in Negotiations
This On-Demand Web Seminar will teach you how to be more successful in negotiations. By mastering the persuasion process, you'll be able to deliberately create the attitude change and subsequent actions necessary for persuading others to your way of thinking. This process appeals to the intellect, using logical and objective criteria, as well as a methodology that positively engages the emotions of the negotiators.
Begin At The Beginning In Organizational Change
The world is rapidly changing into something too hard to easily predict, with a hundred opportunities and pitfalls passing by every moment. To add to this confusion, there are hundreds, if not thousands of techniques, solutions and methods that claim to help business improve productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction. In response to this confusion, many do nothing, often afraid of making the wrong choices. Organizations need to move beyond the buzzwords into deciding what actions they need to perform that will help them grow and develop. This paper provides a framework for coping with organizational change independent of buzzwords or the latest management fad. Organizations must first decide on the framework their organizational change long before they choose a buzzword to implement.
The Impact of Work Force Agility on Business Performance
Agility is an issue that is becoming more and more prominent in businesses across industries. While it is a common goal, its meaning can be somewhat ambiguous. Depending on the context, agility can mean different things to different organizational units. But one common thread persists: the accelerating speed of change. Change is not only driving organizations to keep up and anticipate, but more so to be its catalyst in order to be competitively positioned.
Contract Change Management
This is a template for contract change management. Contract management is the management of contracts made with customers, vendors, partners, or employees. Contract management includes negotiating the terms and conditions in contracts and ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions, as well as documenting and agreeing any changes that may arise during its implementation or execution.
Thinking Through Uncertainty: CFOs Scrutinize Non-Financial Risk
All risk is ultimately financial. Risks can impact the top and bottom line and eventually every risk is expressed in the company's share price. CFOs are increasingly getting involved in the art - and the science - of non-financial risk management. The companies profiled in this paper see risk management not just as a grim exercise in disaster avoidance but a chance to build and extend their business, build corporate cohesiveness, and solidify human resources. To learn more about how these senior business executive are achieving not just better risk control, but better performance generally, download this report.
The Global CFO Study 2008
Most companies that experienced a negative event don't have a program for controlling risk. Why not? Find out in The Global CFO Study 2008 from IBM. This study, conducted in cooperation with Wharton Business School and the Economist Intelligence Unit, explores how CFOs can help balance risk and performance in a rapidly changing business climate. IBM interviewed over 1,200 CFOs in 79 countries. See how their approach to handling risk compares with yours.
The Agile CFO: Enabling the innovation path to growth
Agile CFOs are realizing that they hold a unique and critical position in enabling innovation that matters. CFOs should expand their roles from an historically oriented stance to a proactive participant in driving innovation, change and growth. CFOs who do stand to drive their companies into leadership positions. This paper proposes several actions finance executives can take to become agile CFOs.
Market-based government through innovation: How public sector leaders are imp...
Like the private sector, governments want to solicit input from citizens to improve services and become more responsive and innovative. This paper explores how enhancing collaboration among government groups, citizens, and others can enable a more "market-based" approach to processes and can help improve service delivery.
Insurance 2020: Now what? Exploring initiatives for innovation
In today's competitive insurance industry, the challenges are many and there is much uncertainty. To survive and thrive, insurers must seek new models and strategic success that enable innovation and increase profitability.
The Cooperative Contextual Change Model: A Systemic Approach To Implement Cha...
Change and stability: putting these two concepts together may appear contradictory. In fact, their coupling constitutes one of the most important paradoxes contemporary business leaders and managers have to face in their day-to-day action. When resistance to change appears, it is often considered as a negative by-product of the change process, instead of being seen as warning against instability and as an opportunity to leverage people resources. This paper presents an integrative case study to discuss the outcomes of the implementation of the Cooperative Contextual Change Model to manage the turnaround of an industrial company.
Creating A Change Management Knowledge Infrastructure
Learning is on a natural evolutionary path. Once understood, the path is predictable, and it will drive the vision, strategy and deployment for acquisition and distribution of knowledge. We're on the threshold of the next stage of evolution in learning. Those who can see it will be able to harness its power. There is little doubt that those organizations that focus on increasing coherence and reducing time to task through these new online solutions will be seen as the next decade's most successful business organizations.

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