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Strategy and Planning Techniques

Purchasing Consortium/Consortia

Purchasing Consortium/Consortia

Purchasing consortia are a key way to reduce purchasing costs and seek common solutions.Different types of consortia models, their strengths and weaknesses, the critical steps needed to establish a consortium, and a number of key metrics for ensuring success are provided.

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Resource-Based Strategy

Resource-Based Strategy

The concept provides a review of resource-based strategy and describes some of its strengths and capabilities. It also looks at different variations of resource-based approaches that have developed in organisations over the last few decades.

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Reverse Supply Chain / Reverse Logistics

Reverse Supply Chain / Reverse Logistics

Reverse logistics has gained increasing importance as a profitable and sustainable business strategy. This concept describes a holistic view of reverse logistics and presents its main attributes, success factors and other useful professional tools.

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Scenario Planning

Scenario Planning

The concept describes what business scenarios are and how to build a step-by-step process when developing a strategic plan. You will also learn what factors are critical for the success of scenario planning and the advantages and disadvantages of this approach.

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Security and Ethical Challenges of IT

Security and Ethical Challenges of IT

IT ethics are moral guidelines that dictate how computers and other forms of technology are used. Managing complex IT securely, including safeguarding data, and networks from unauthorised access, breaches, and attacks is challenging and involves maintaining integrity, accountability, privacy and fairness in IT security decision-making and actions.

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Shared Services

Shared Services

Shared services aim to promote efficiency and improved service for internal customers. The concept describes the many advantages and drawbacks of these organisational structures and process, as well as the conditions necessary for success.

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Shared Services Client-Advisor Relationships

Shared Services Client-Advisor Relationships

Leading firms use value-adding strategies and techniques to improve client-advisor relationships in their shared services centres. Learn about the advantages and drawbacks of using these, how to implement them, and the key factors for achieving success.

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Shared Services Innovation

Shared Services Innovation

Learn how continuous innovation enables shared service centres to co-create new service offerings and experiences with internal customers, for internal customers. Benefits and challenges of applying shared services innovation are presented, along with step-by-step guidance and success factors for implementation.

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Shutdown Point

Shutdown Point

The concept describes the fundamental principle of the shutdown point. It explains at what point shutdown occurs, the strengths and weaknesses of the concept and provides straightforward advice on calculating the shutdown point.

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Skunkworks

Skunkworks

The concept has been designed to assist managers and business owners to set groups of experts who drop out of mainstream company operations in order to develop something new in secrecy or at speed. This theory provides an overview on how skunkworks groups work and how to implement them in an organisation.

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Social Media Management

Social Media Management

Social media management is an essential activity in all modern organisations. The concept explains how to fit social software and social strategies around core business problems and uses case study examples from across different industries to highlight how firms are executing their strategies.

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Sourcing and Procurement Industry Standards and Benchmarking

Sourcing and Procurement Industry Standards and Benchmarking

The concept explains types of benchmarking and standards integral to strategic sourcing and procurement, how organisations can achieve significant savings and facilitate better supplier integration, including success factors and guiding implementation steps.

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