Business as we have known it has changed forever. Changes in technologies such as the Internet have made it easier for more businesses to reach a global market. These challenges have significantly raised the level of competition businesses face and, as a result, they must react to these challenges more rapidly than ever. Modern companies [...]
“Is management dead?” This was the question poised by Steve Kerr, chief learning officer at General Electric’s Management Development Institute. (Stewart) He asked this question because five years ago it seamed that all a company needed was a good idea or product. Dot-Com companies worried mostly about getting their product recognized and used by the [...]
In the last five years or so management has seen a lot of changes. A lot of organizations are changing their structure from the traditional vertical structure to a flatter organization. Companies are also changing from the typical hierarchy of management to more team style departments. This means that management has to learn how to [...]
The future of management as it relates to organization and their structures is already taking shape in innovative and forward thinking companies. The newer models will become more and more the norm as time goes on. Corporations large and small have realized that the old paradigm of top-down management is often too cumbersome and too [...]