Focusing innovative effort through a convergent dialogue

This is the first of three articles on Planning for Technological Innovation by Peter Ward (the second and third articles will be published in future issues of the Journal). Appropriate innovation, in products, processes and management, is a means by which industry adapts to a changing environment. Adaptive or dynamic planning at the corporate level serves to foster and direct the necessary effort, as does organic planning in a wider context. The methods described are based on practical experience in industry and consulting work.     

How will the British post office cope with technological change

This article considers the trends and the new technologies available to the Post Office which will have some bearing of the transfer of message carrying fromt the Post to Telecommunications. It also considers the practicalities of electronic mail and the future prospects for the traditional mail service. The objective is to provide some practical guidelines for the communications input to corporate planning.     

Corporate planning for Asia, Latin America and Africa

It is in the broad sense of “a systematic approach to general management” that strategic planning is here compared in large corporations and Government. For, just as strategic planning is today concerned

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1. the development and evaluation of optional strategies;     

企業培訓促進業務增長——輝瑞的成功企業培訓計劃(英文)

在知識經濟時代,員工的知識和技能正逐漸成為企業最有價值的資產,成為企業競爭優勢的源泉。輝瑞公司的企業培訓是由其企業價值觀決定的,這種企業價值觀促使輝瑞實施著覆蓋全員並因材施教的富有彈性的培訓方案。此外,輝瑞為員工提供了充分透明的職業發展規劃,公司的每一位員工都知曉如何才能被提升以及公司對其提升後的期望,從而使得培訓真正成為了激勵員工的手段。同時,輝瑞的培訓是基於嚴格的培訓業務管理的,而且,輝瑞的培訓對管理者和下屬都有著一套動態的培訓效果的評估與回馈體系。     

Mergers and acquisitions in the light of 1992 — Ensuring strategic good sense underpins corporate ambitions

The prospect of executing acquisitions in Europe currently generates more excitement than almost any other item on the corporate agenda. Venturing out of the home market is regarded once more as a test of management virility.Yet without sound strategic analysis coupled with a careful review of management capacity, ventures abroad are highly risky and may represent poor value for shareholders. This paper returns to the fundamentals required for a methodical review of the merits of expansion by acquisition in unfamiliar territory. It concludes that it is important to marry the theoretical analysis with the most careful commercial review.     

人口城镇化背景下的户籍制度变迁--石家庄市户籍制度改革案例分析

石家庄市的户籍制度改革坚持两个基本条件,即收入来源和住房,放开了7种人的入市条件,大大降低了农民进入大城市的门槛,解决了进城农民的户口问题,推进了城镇化速度,为我国户籍制度改革提供了值得借鉴的宝贵经验.这次改革的消极影响并没有人们想象的那么严重,出现的一些问题也将随着各项配套政策的实行得到解决.