When do narcissistic tendencies help to deliver strong success, and when do these characteristics endanger companies? This study explores this question and examines what companies can do to maximize the benefits and mitigate the risks associated with a narcissistic CEO.
Companies should leverage new cost savings, optimize critical assets, and be purposeful with building or sustaining their company culture in a digitally distributed environment, while taking into consideration the human factor more than ever before.
The deployment of AI fits into the broader umbrella of cyber risk as part of enterprise risk identification and mitigation. It is essential for AI to address ethical issues such as data bias and to ensure AI is deployed to achieve the bottom-line and top-line goals.
Professor Charla Griffy-Brown interviews Ed White, Owner, de Novo Consulting, about leadership and innovation in today’s environment. De Novo Consulting specializes in strategic planning, facilitation, and leadership coaching.
In this video interview, Center for CIO Leadership Executive Director Harvey Koeppel discusses the changing role of the CIO based on his experience in the financial services industry.
In an economic downturn, innovation is particularly essential to business success.
An investigation of how the Japanese economic system, which is beginning to show signs of revitalization, is changing to favor the emergence of female entrepreneurship.
Because of the explosive growth of electronic records, the mandate for trustworthy storage and management of electronic records is greater than ever before.
GBR Editor Charla Griffy-Brown gives her parting words after five years at the helm of the online scholarly journal.
To conduct business in Asia, managers need to understand Asian electronic infrastructures and how to leverage them.
Doing the right thing in the midst of ethical turbulence can help develop the ability to cope in other kinds of rough times as well.
There are two main reasons for information disasters: too little information and too much information.
Editor Charla Griffy-Brown introduces the issue with a poke at cyber humor.
Identity management systems help create an electronic trail of users and applications for regulators to follow, but better processes must also be instituted.
Are we encouraging upward mobility, consumption and profitability at the expense of focusing on principles and moral values?
While software companies are suffering in 2002-03, recent figures surprisingly indicate that the enterprise portal software (EPS) market is continuing to grow.
In the current uncertain political and economic environment, companies need to adapt their supply chain to deal with uncertainty.
Little ones and executives have a lot in common: Both have short attention spans and some are given to temper tantrums.
While there is still a viable Web hosting market, consolidation and uncertainty have created a tighter market. Is outsourcing right for you?
Sometimes knowledge can help you avoid “things that go bump in the night.”
No longer does one plus one always equal two – in a given reporting period anyway. What artistry.
Having reached an ethical nadir in American business practice, there is great uncertainty as to what the future holds.
Even though the ‘war on terrorism’ has taken a back seat to economic recovery, businesses are still making decisions punctuated with concerns for vulnerability. In this regard, companies are carefully revisiting their supply-chain. In particular, as Business 2.0 pointed out, the highly-lean ‘Just-in-Time’ strategy is being altered to ‘Just-in-Case.’ In the wake of September 11, … Continued
Japan’s technology woes will impact U.S. business practice as technology trade increases.
New technologies continue to transform the Web into a viable business tool and sales channel that saves money and increases operational efficiency.
Tech slump yields economies for supply-chain and sell-chain automation.
Small and medium-sized businesses should seek incremental improvements in product development and process improvement.
This issue of the GBR has a decisive focus on decision-making.
An editorial from GBR Editor-in-Chief Charla Griffy-Brown, who notes that, “as a nation we must continue to recover from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.”
What criteria should tech managers use to evaluate the ROI for new technology? Recent research by the Delphi Group and others indicates that reduced cycle time, or faster value-chain integration, and increased customer retention are the key metrics. Decreased cycle time provides a hard metric for assessing how technology increases an organization’s ability to deliver … Continued
GBR Editor-in-Chief Charla Griffy-Brown discusses the buzz in the air about the so-called 3G (third generation) technologies.
Senator Debra Bowen was elected to the California Senate in 1998. She speaks with Charla Griffy-Brown about California’s electricity crisis and what needs to happen next.
Importantly, the bear market does seem to be clawing at everyone, even politicians. The 90-day ethics rule that requires newly-installed political office holders to divest themselves of investments which might provide a conflict of interest (or put their holdings in a blind trust) forced such luminaries as Secretaries Rumsfeld, Powell, and O’Neil to ponder the … Continued
With the gloss totally off the economy, inquiring minds want to know what might happen next – and whether e-business is down and out.
In 2001, fighting earthquakes, a power crisis in California, and a power crisis in the Middle East, the gloss is well and truly off the economy.
Have you ever wanted to leave a message on your voicemail that said, “I’m out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message…?”
Dr. Kazuyuki Matsumoto, senior economist at the Development Bank of Japan, discusses the economic recovery of Japan and other Asian nations.
The stage is set and spectators pack the coliseum jeering and cheering to see if chief gladiator Alan Greenspan can subdue the U.S. New Economy.
Should you consider an IPO? Is the sales force alive and kicking? Do marketers still have a place in the new economy?
The key to managing information and knowledge on the Internet is understanding and effectively using search engines.
The GBR is an electronic journal dedicated to serving business practitioners in a changing world, and the year 2000 promises changes in abundance.
The extraordinary penetration of cellular phones continues along with the relentless expansion of functionality and services.