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Fast-Track Profit Model: Creating the New Due-Diligence Process for Mergers and Acquisitions
Kaplan, Robert S.; Anderson, Steven R.Book Chapter HBS-2228BC-EAccounting and ControlIn this chapter, the authors demonstrate how to quickly build a simple Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing model for assessing the attractiveness of a company being considered for acquisition. Using this model during the due-diligence process enables a prospective buyer to identify where profit opportunities exist, how they can be captured, their cost and impact, and whether the organization has the capacity to execute. This chapter is excerpted ...Starting at €8.20
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Kemps LLC: Handling Product, Distribution, and Customer Variety
Kaplan, Robert S.; Anderson, Steven R.Book Chapter HBS-2230BC-EAccounting and ControlThis chapter illustrates comprehensive, enterprise-wide implementation of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing projects using the case of Kemps LLC. This chapter is excerpted from "Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler and More Powerful Path to Higher Profits."Starting at €8.20
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Global Insurance Company Private Client Group: Forecasting Key Employee Staffing Levels--The Benefits of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
Kaplan, Robert S.; Anderson, Steven R.Book Chapter HBS-2237BC-EAccounting and ControlThe Private Client Group of Global Insurance (disguised) experienced explosive growth and turned to time-driven activity-based budgeting to help plan for future resource capacity. Within this chapter, the case study describes how to integrate a staffing forecast system with the enterprise-wide business planning, budgeting, and forecasting system, and how to apply TDABC to budget and forecast resource consumption. This chapter is excerpted from "...Starting at €8.20
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Jackson State University: Introducing Business Concepts into Education--The Benefits of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
Kaplan, Robert S.; Anderson, Steven R.Book Chapter HBS-2241BC-EAccounting and ControlAs CEOs of universities and other nonprofits become more publicly accountable for their costs and performance, having a TDABC model of their resource demands provides them with a powerful tool for guiding expansion plans, determining service levels, and managing budgets. This chapter looks at Jackson State University and its application of TDABC in a nonprofit setting. This chapter is excerpted from "Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler...Starting at €8.20
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Before You Begin: Preparing Yourself for the Challenges of Adaptive Leadership
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyBook Chapter HBS-3274BC-ELeadership and People ManagementTo successfully lead adaptive change, you must connect with the values, beliefs, and anxieties of the people you are trying to move. But in addition to mobilizing others, adaptive leadership requires you to do some introspective work as well. Practicing adaptive leadership is difficult on the one hand and profoundly meaningful on the other--it is not something you should enter into casually. This chapter provides four tips to consider before taki...Starting at €8.20
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Diagnose the System: The First Step in Leading Adaptive Change
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyBook Chapter HBS-3275BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThe first step in tackling any adaptive challenge is to take a step back so you can see how your organizational system is responding to it. From this perspective, you will gain a clearer view of your company's structures, culture, and default responses to problems. You will grasp the nature of the adaptive challenges at hand, and map the networks of political relationships that will be relevant to how effectively you mobilize people to deal with ...Starting at €8.20
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Diagnose the Political Landscape: Understanding Political Relationships in the Organization Will Help You Lead Adaptive Change
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyBook Chapter HBS-3277BC-ELeadership and People ManagementUnderstanding the political relationships in your organization is key to seeing how your organization works as a system. This activity, which the authors call thinking politically, can help you design more effective strategies for leading adaptive change. The key assumption behind thinking politically is that people in an organization are seeking to meet the expectations of their various constituencies. When you understand the nature of those exp...Starting at €8.20
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Qualities of an Adaptive Organization: How Does Your Organization Measure Up
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyBook Chapter HBS-3278BC-ELeadership and People ManagementDiagnosing the organizational system, the adaptive challenge at hand, and the political landscape in an enterprise takes time, careful thought, and courage. You have to improvise creatively and responsively as you engage stakeholders inside and across the boundaries of your organization. Some organizations have the keen external sensors, internal norms, and a critical mass of people to do this. What distinguishes these enterprises? What makes som...Starting at €8.20
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Make Interpretations: Helping Your Team Recognize and Deal with Adaptive Challenges
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyBook Chapter HBS-3279BC-ELeadership and People ManagementWhen a problem is identified, people gravitate toward interpretations of the problem that are technical rather than adaptive, benign instead of conflictual, and individual rather than systemic. These kinds of problems are seen as having easy, painless solutions. Your job in exercising adaptive leadership is to wean people away from these interpretations and nudge them towards recognizing adaptive elements of the challenge, with the ultimate goal ...Starting at €8.20
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Design Effective Interventions: Mobilizing People to Tackle an Adaptive Challenge
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyBook Chapter HBS-3280BC-ELeadership and People ManagementEffective interventions mobilize people to tackle an adaptive challenge. They may be designed to make progress at any point in the process: for example, to surface a difficult issue, quash a diversion, or move people forward through a difficult period. At whatever stage of the process you are intervening, this chapter provides a checklist, a series of practices that can make your interventions more effective. This chapter was originally published...Starting at €8.20