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Tag: Strategic Management

  • On and Off the Ramp

    On and Off the Ramp

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    In 2008 5 million jobs in Canada requiring post secondary education went unfilled. This show there is a strong business case for ramping up placement efforts to get more women back into the workforce. A 2016 survey of RIT  found that 27% of women and 38% of those already married, plan to interrupt their career…

  • Pace of Change: Productivity Paradox

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    Productivity has often been cited as a key factor in industrial performance and actions to increase it are said to improve profitability and the wage earning capacity of employees. But the mode we are choosing to perform our job is not working anymore. Productivity paradox refers to slowdown in productivity in the US in 1970s…

  • Desperation is good, but not always in business

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    During the season end sale, the company offers gift cards to their customers who make any purchase from its shops and play simple quizzes. Customer who didn’t make the first attempt was ready to pay 53% more to win a card from the customer who had not. However only 20% of customers failed to keep…

  • How Would You Measure Success?

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    Ever thought why CEOs are so much concerned about the stock market and its value. It is because they are evaluated and judged on the basis of stock price. CEO’s pay scale and their compensation plan depends on their five years successful strategy. It has been assumed that incentives alone in the form of money…

  • Lead a Startup to Success

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    INTRODUCTION On the road to success there is absolutely no room for criticism of self or others. Finding faults in others wastes time as we attempt to remove potholes from other people’s path. Being a kid of a medical family it is a dream to work with high profile people in multinational companies. Several ignominious…