Strategy Dynamics Briefing 32: Fixing resource quality to get out of trouble

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Mostly we are concerned with relatively low-stress situations where management wishes to drive faster growth, avoid possible constraints, or reverse declining performance. Sometimes, though, organizations find themselves in crisis, with resources and revenues in sharp decline and financial losses that are worsening so fast as to threaten their survival. Drastic action may be unavoidable – but what action?

A case that illustrates these points concerns an investment fund company facing sharply declining profits after the stock market reversal in 2000/1. Similar ...

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Strategy Dynamics Briefing 31: Resource attributes in non-commercial cases

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Resource attributes pose challenges for managers of non-commercial organizations, just as they do for business executives — clients, beneficiaries and other demand-side resources bring with them the service demands they place on the organization, staff bring skills and experience, and so on.
What issue causes concern for many not-for-profit organizations?

A particular issue for many not-for-profit organizations concerns the raising of funds, often from the giving of individual donors.In the figure below, a charitable organization wishes to increase the income it ...

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