Partnerships from the seeds of collaboration

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Education ◽  
The West ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The People ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
West Midlands ◽  
Collaborative Working ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings In 2007, Birmingham City University (UK) and the West Midlands National Health Service (NHS) Strategic Health Authority developed and implemented the leadership, education and partnership project. The project aimed to develop genuine partnership and collaborative working among health and social care education providers from a range of higher education and NHS organizations in the West Midlands region of the UK. Neither the partnership label nor the most robust of partnership contracts will make a partnership succeed. That is something only the people within the partnership can do. This project demonstrated that partners who are already collaborating, or are predisposed to do so, are more likely to build and sustain a partnership that really delivers. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

The multi-stage art of work space design for organizational change

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Accounting Firms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Space Design ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
New Space ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings This research paper aims to extract strategy lessons and key objectives from office space redesign projects undertaken by accounting firms in Canada, the UK, and Ireland. Such projects can be structured over four distinct stages: 1) Imagining, 2) Testing, 3) Stabilizing, and 4) Reifying. The results revealed that the consultation element of such projects is a key vehicle for engaging employees to such an extent that they accept the new space and inherent working practices. Supported by design professionals, office redesign projects are therefore a usefully influential, scalable mindset-shifting tool for achieving organizational change. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Innovation lessons in the dynamic art of smart city branding

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-35
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The People ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Creative Climate ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Creativity And Innovation ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings This conceptual paper concentrates on the capacity of creativity and innovation to convincingly influence the strategic branding of a city as “Smart.” Providing a participatory creative climate generates innovation, which in turn builds competitive advantage in a city that can valuably serve business-building, tourism, and individual aspirational lifestyle agendas. This creativity reinforces a city's ecosytem-like capacity to manage uncertainty as it adapts to the changing demands of the people it attracts for varying lengths of time. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Localized learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 38-40
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The People ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Localized Learning ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds his/her own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings One of the more light-hearted interpretations of how to define organizational culture is to simply say. “It’s the way we do things around here”. This is illuminating and frustrating in equal measure, as while it does contain a kernel of truth - understanding how and why people take the positions and actions they do is central to the question of culture – it is also rather glib and is simply true of everywhere you might ask that question. It also points to a certain wariness and even defiance on behalf of the people answering the question in such a way, as if to challenge the newcomer into accepting how their world operates, and that it is never going to change. Practical implications This paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Keeping mum: how firms put a “monstrous” spin on pregnancy

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-15
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
The Other ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The People ◽  
Child Bearing ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – Few women of child-bearing age go into an interview without being aware that, for the people on the other side of the table, there is an elephant in the room. That creature is, of course, the question of whether that interviewee plans at any time soon to start a family. Employers might find a glittering prospect snatched away from them at any moment because of the calls of motherhood. When public health discourses are held in Anglo-American cultures, pregnancy and motherhood are put on a pedestal. But this is not the way things appear to those organizations that stand to lose, temporarily or permanently, the services of these paragons. For them, motherhood is a messy, inconvenient and even disgusting and monstrous business. Practical implications – The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Ten top tips for small to medium enterprise (SME) success

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-17
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Medium Enterprise ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Second World ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – Owner-managed businesses were once the backbone of successful industry in the UK. However in the post-Second World War decades “big business” became the preferred model, with industries developing around new technologies. Today, as large industry is increasingly moving to countries with lower human-resource costs, the small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) is becoming the business model of choice for UK entrepreneurs. Understanding what makes a SME succeed or fail can provide guidance to both individual business owners and government agencies tasked with promoting economic growth. Practical implications – The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Breaking the retail rules

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 32-34
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Point Of Sale ◽  
Massive Point ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds his/her own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – The UK TV sitcom “Open All Hours” is a truly terrible example of convenience retailing. The situation is that of a corner shop in Northern England run by a cantankerous middle aged man with a pronounced stutter, who variously abuses, gossips about or tries to flatter his customers. Inventory is massive, point of sale technology primitive, and as the title suggests, opening hours are long. Hilarity ensues. Practical implications – This study provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and an easy-to-digest format.

Effective training for first-line managers

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 27-29
Keyword(s):  
Soft Skills ◽  
First Line ◽  
Line Managers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Communication Interaction ◽  
Effective Training ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Current training programs offered by external providers in the UK are not equipping new managers with the non-technical skills needed to effectively work with and manage people. The focus instead tends toward capabilities appropriate to more experienced managers. It is therefore critical to identify core soft skills and ensure that training courses place significant emphasis on communication, interaction, and teamwork. Providers must also factor in the growing significance of technology for younger management recruits. Regular monitoring of programs is essential to make sure that content remains appropriate as culture evolves. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Professionalizing public service delivery

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 22-24
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Public Service ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Public Service Delivery ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Ideological Tensions ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – To consider the concepts of amateurism and professionalism, distinguishing these from professional or amateur status. Design/methodology/approach – Outlines the drive for the professionalization of public service delivery in Europe. Explains how the divide between professional and amateur status has developed and considers its implications. Findings – You are about to have an operation: would you prefer a professionally qualified surgeon or an enthusiastic amateur? Professional status provides reassurance about competence, qualifications and standards. The professionalization of service delivery – particularly in the areas of education, health and social care – has been an issue for some time, especially in the UK. But more attention is also now being given to the contribution made by non-professionals such as teaching assistants, family carers and volunteers. Practical implications – Draws attention to the way new technologies are blurring the distinction between amateur and professional in many areas and providing new opportunities for them to work productively together. Social implications – Highlights the ideological tensions underlying the debate about professionalization, qualifications and how public services are delivered. Originality/value – Presents a wide-ranging discussion of the amateur–professional divide, the contributions made by each and the opportunities for further research in this area.

Harnessing the inclusive potential of online coaching

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Business Failure ◽  
Barriers To Entry ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Online Coaching ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings This research paper concentrates on the benefits of online coaching for boosting the entrepreneurial self-efficacy of women with business aspirations in the UK. The coaching focused on mitigating business failure through efforts to elevate the female entrepreneurs' self-belief and focus on core goals. The results demonstrate that cultural barriers to entry into entrepreneurship can be overcome by women having access to tailored online coaching, since this can be flexibly arranged around other responsibilities. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Blessed are the peacemakers

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-18
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – The UK has long been at the forefront of labor relations, from its origins in the Combination Laws of 1799 and 1800 and subsequent repeal in 1824 to the development of trade unions in the Victorian era and the creation of the Labour Party just before the turn of the century. In the post-industrial revolution era, the UK helped hone and mature industrial policies for workers for much of the developed and developing world. Practical implications – The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

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