“In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business functions means that it will continue to consume a large portion of corporate spending.” MayMeanLongEnoughFactsRunningFallCompanyRiskCostFunctionSpendingCorporateCapabilityPortionsLong RunsCommodityCatastropheEntwinedOverspending Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.” IfsShouldTogetherJobsForceSocialCompanySupportModelsConcernFemaleTasksOrganizationFunctionPsychologicalRelatedDeficiencySociabilityTask ForcesPositive Image Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.” GivingBodyAmericaCompanyTaxesFunctionFoundationAwfulShopsShelter Author:Anita Roddick
“Our father has an even more important function than modeling manhood for us. He is also the authority to let us relax the requirements of the masculine model: if our father accepts us, then that declares us masculine enough to join the company of men. We, in effect, have our diploma in masculinity and can go on to develop other skills.” IfsMenImportantEnoughFatherCompanyAcceptingEffectsGoes OnSkillsAuthorityModelsFunctionRelaxRequirementsManhoodMasculinityMasculineModelingOur FatherDiploma Author:Frank Pittman
“We welcome private investment, but any company or national firm will be a partner of a venture where the result will go mainly to the Bolivian people. Of course, any investor is entitled to recover their investment and take profits. But be assured that these new functions with our partners will also be reinvested in our country for the benefit of the Bolivian people.” PeopleCountryCoursesResultsCompanyBenefitsFunctionInvestmentProfitPartnersWelcomeOur CountryFirmInvestorsEntitledVentureAssured Author:Evo Morales
“One of the biggest mistakes large companies make is creating innovation teams that mirror all the functions of the core business. Those teams make no progress because they spent forever updating each other on what they are doing versus really crushing the most critical problems they need to address.” NeedsProblemMistakeCompanyForeverProgressTeamCreatingFunctionInnovationMirrorsCriticalCoreCrushAddressesVersusBiggest MistakeLarge Companies Author:Scott D. Anthony
“Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.” WorldAbleUsedCompanyFunctionUsed To BeBoss Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“There's real "right brain" creativity that goes into all of the organizational processes that a company utilizes and must continually reinvent in order to conduct its business. But there are also the "left brain" accounting functions that must continually ask how the company is doing financially and whether the creative processes are working for the bottom line.” RealOrderAsksLeftProcessLinesBrainCompanyCreativityCreativeFunctionBottomCreative ProcessBottom LineAccountingOrganizationalLeft Brain Author:John Kao
“The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and budgets and milestones and so forth on a project that does not necessarily lend itself to milestones. It is about translating between the intimate interior environment of the creative work team and the company's need to make money. And finally, it is about positioning the fruits of the creative process in the marketplace and selling them.” NeedsTryingDoeProcessCompanyCreativeEnvironmentTeamProjectsFunctionManagementStructureFruitBoundariesSellingMaking MoneyBudgetsIntimateCreative ProcessTranslateInteriorsMarketplaceCreative WorkMilestoneAdministrativeIntervening Author:John Kao
“Marketing and advertising are incredibly exciting and creative functions. They are central to the creation of brands and to the creation of sustainable competitive advantage for companies” BusinessCompanyCreativeCreationAdvantageFunctionExcitingMarketingAdvertisingBrandsCompetitive Advantage Author:Jim Speros
“Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.” SocialPowerfulPartyCompanySuccessfulMediaFunctionMarketingEntertainmentSocial MediaTraditionalPublishersSocial Media MarketingPlannersAdvertisersContent MarketingGreat MarketingBusiness MarketingSuccessful Company Author:Erik Qualman
“In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In the new model, already emerging under our noses, economic decisions don't pay much attention to national sovereignty in a world where more than half of the one hundred or two hundred largest economic entities are not countries but companies.” WorldTwoCountryGovernmentStrongDecisionPayAttentionHalfCompanyPowerSupportEconomyEconomicMilitaryGrewGrew UpModelsHundredEconomicsFunctionNosesTerritoryEntitySovereigntyEmergingMilitary PowerNational SovereigntyStrong EconomyNational Economy Author:Amory Lovins