Mastering the Deadly Art of Change

Many businesses try to change...but few succeed.

At best, a few buzzwords and new reports become part of the company’s structure. At worst, programs crash and burn, and everyone becomes irreparably disillusioned with the revolving door of new-mission statements. According to David Shaner, a business consultant with a 100 percent success rate of change at companies including Duracell, Frito-Lay, Ryobi, and Gillette, the problem is that the implemented changes don’t address either individuals or the corporate culture. They’re only on the surface.

TT-588 -- Logic for Spawning 400 Subsidiaries, e-biz news from Japan

Japan's archaic regulations require new subsidiaries to be opened for new business activities.

Newsletter:

Tags:

TT-584 -- Where Have All the Financial Advisers Gone? e-biz news from Japan

The Financial Services Agency (FSA) is bearing down on the cold callers, and driving them off shore.

Newsletter:

TT-582 -- Who Wants to Work Abroad? Almost No-one, e-biz news from Japan

Most Japanese business people have no desire to be posted abroad when there is no financial incentive.

Newsletter:

TT-579 -- Local Foreign Entrepreneurs Earn M&A Windfalls, e-biz news from Japan

There is plenty of opportunity in M&A-hungry Japan for enterprising foreign entrepreneurs to sell locally.

Newsletter:

TT-577 -- Fitness Business Under Pressure, e-biz news from Japan

The industry as a whole is suffering but Anytime Fitness is expanding from the USA to Japan.

Newsletter:

TT-576 -- Cloud-based Call Centers, e-biz news from Japan

The problem is that Japanese customers want to hear someone who sounds Japanese or they don't want to talk to them.

Newsletter:

TT-569 -- World's Fastest Donki, e-biz news from Japan

Don Quijote is an interesting company, growing by leaps and bounds both through M&A and also through continuing store openings.

Newsletter:

TT-568 -- World's Best Beer, e-biz news from Japan

Numazu based craft beer brewery Baird Brewing won gold medals at the World Beer Cup.

Newsletter:

TT-562 -- Huge Local Fraud Case, ebiz in Japan

Molex outlined a fraud of massive proportions perpetrated by one of its Tokyo-based finance department managers.

Newsletter:

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - business