Business Quarterly articles from December 1996

Business Quarterly archives from December 1996

Headstart. (articles on managing costs of substance abuse, courtesy on the Internet, older workforce and stress management)
December 22, 1996... Cutting-edge developments, thought-provoking issues... WORK PERFORMANCE Managing the Costs of Substance Abuse A study has finally determined how much substance abuse is costing business Driving back to the office after a lunch that...

Executive compensation gets its share. (response to William Dimma, Business Quarterly, Autumn 1996)
December 22, 1996... "Within the broad range of executive compensation components, the one that has the potential to 'deliver the most groceries' in terms of executive performance relates to shares." So claimed William A. Dimma in his Autumn 1996 Business Quarterly...

The day the consultants dropped by: a lighthearted take on the role of consultants in the age of downsizing.
December 22, 1996... It was a moderately successful company in a market that was experiencing moderate growth. Our fine government pretty much left us alone without laying too much regulation on us. While our competitors were hungry, we managed to keep their...

You get what you expect in China. (foreign companies in China)
December 22, 1996... If you think China offers up too many problems, then you might cause your own failure there. Expect the best and you have a better chance of getting it American and Canadian companies have been running into difficulties in China - and their...

Time to rebuild human resources.
December 22, 1996... HR departments are dealing with major changes. They may require more than just a facelift "Nestling warm and sleepy in your company, like the asp in Cleopatra's bosom, is a department whose employees spend 80% of their time on routine...

Identifying your most profitable customers.
December 22, 1996... New technologies are enabling marketers to focus on the smaller groups of customers that create the most profit and to allocate expenditures for marketing that offer a return on investment As the information age turns mass marketing on its...

Building the knowledge organization.
December 22, 1996... Intellectual capital is being widely recognized as many companies' key asset. CIBC is working to develop the tools and techniques to capture this asset In his recent analysis of the state of American democracy (Journal of Democracy, 1995),...

Trade deals. (swap of managers between Hospital for Sick Children and Baxter Corp.)(Health Care Management)
December 22, 1996... When a major Toronto hospital and a leading supplier to the health care industry traded managers, they learned as much about themselves as they did about each other Hospitals have had a long history of promoting clinical professionals to...

Learning to change. (new teaching program at University of Western Ontario's medical school)(Health Care Management)
December 22, 1996... Seeing the need to enhance hospital executives' management skills to deal with major changes, Western's medical school teamed with its business school to create a new teaching program In 1992, London, Ontario's three hospitals were facing some...

'The Second Curve: Managing the Velocity of Change.' (book review)
December 22, 1996... Netscape made the move and flourished - at least on paper. IBM didn't and stagnated for most of the 1980s. Hectic change has made the risk-filled leap from the "first" to the "second curve" inevitable, says Ian Morrison, president of the...

Making currency a management issue.
December 22, 1996... Today's managers may not fully appreciate or understand the impact currency has on their businesses Canadian business people have long had a keen interest in the exchange value of the Canadian dollar against other major currencies, especially...