... 2001Economic Sustainability -the business of staying in business 1.0.11.0Introduction and Backgroundâ The SIGMA Project - 2001Economic Sustainability -the business of staying in business â The SIGMA ... Sustainability -the business of staying in business 4.0.14.0Analysis and Commentary:Putting it all together:Insight from SIGMA partnersCompanies would not be inbusiness if they did not manage their ... organisation. The key will be linking these systems to the biggersustainability picture. â The SIGMA Project - 2001Economic Sustainability -the business of staying in business â The SIGMA Project - 2001...
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... looking into the possibility ofdoing businessin China, they had their brochure translatedinto Chinese and handed it out during every interaction withtheir Chinese contacts.At a certain point, ... looking at it. They sat inthe seats and they crawled into the engines to have a feel. Westerners say “Were they kidding? Whydid they want to know how the engines felt?” It was to get into the 92 BUSINESS ... decidedto introduce online trading but in a more subtle and sophisticatedway than Schwaab. The sophistication lay in how they combined(reconciled) the different cultures of the Internet and the financialconsultant.First,...
... gain the highest return on their investments inthe financial services sec-tor, holding a core value of integrity and transparency.But business environments and challenges are changing continu-116 BUSINESS ... of these explicit constructs in order tocheck whether they were still the best way of delivering and rein-forcing those values. When the products of culture become sacred114 BUSINESS ACROSS ... organization has no intrinsic values beyondthese goals; the organization is an instrument to the specificneeds of the individuals inthe organization. Responsibilitiesand tasks within this type of...
... that we’re one of them,”136 BUSINESS ACROSS CULTURES Reconciliation: to get the support of the leaders so they underlinethemselves the importance of learning and creativity.They become servant ... creative individuals128 BUSINESS ACROSS CULTURES Now let’s look at what both organizations produced inthe light oftheir corporate cultures.142 BUSINESS ACROSS CULTURESãActing Innovatively: ... Americanswere too often, in team meetings, discussing this or that initiative.They kept changing tack and trying something new, instead of keep-ing to agreed avenues of inquiry. They rarely spent...
... at the archetypes in detail.Let’s recap. The archetypes for the first category – independents – are the Inno-cent, the Explorer, and the Sage. Everyone is, in their own way,204 BUSINESS ACROSS ... andstrategy feed into each other in a continuous crafting process. The 201MARKETING ACROSS CULTURESTactical emergingmarketing: shoot the next idea from the hipCreating short-term ideasDeveloping a ... learning and growing in freedom and open-mindedness. Sage brands are universalistic,205MARKETING ACROSS CULTURESț The Caregiver The Creator The Rulerțțțțț The Innocent The ExplorerThe...
... organization. They have many offices230 BUSINESS ACROSS CULTURES Multi-local argument (by the head of US advertising) The success we had in many countries including the US and in other major ... cannot use them in other cultures. The mostobvious ones are the use of language and the researchers them-selves. They are all local. But the type of instruments will also be220 BUSINESS ACROSS ... an online questionnaire workswell inthe US, you might ask the same questions (etic) in anotherformat such as face-to-face-interviewing (emic) in Burkina Faso. In the adjustment of your instruments,...