Modern Management Concepts

What is Business Process Management?

Business Process Management (BPM) helps an organization in adapting to changing conditions in the market place so as to remain competitive. A well designed BPM system can help an enterprise run efficiently and effectively, move according to the company’s regulations, and spot inefficiencies in the business activities and bottlenecks to the smooth flow of work.  Business Process Management systems help in recognizing certain situations that may pose trouble in the future. They enhance the overall quality and quantity of the various services and products being provided by the organization.

Business Process Management can be extremely useful to employees and top managers of an enterprise.… Read the rest

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Differences Between Social Entrepreneurship and Business Entrepreneurship

Before understanding the term social entrepreneurship, we need to firstly understand what traditional business entrepreneur itself is. An entrepreneur is an individual who owns a firm, business, or venture, and is responsible for its development. In order to do so, he or she will manage the resources he had. The aim of a traditional business entrepreneur or commercial entrepreneur is to generate profits from the risks and opportunities he or she is willing to take. A business enterprise therefore would be an entity that is owned by the business entrepreneur to achieve business goals that have been set by the entrepreneur.… Read the rest

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Disruptive Technologies and Sustainable Technologies

Overview of  Disruptive Technologies  

Disruptive technology was first introduced by Clayton Christensen in his article “Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave” (1995) which was co-wrote with Joseph Bower. In view of business and technology fields, disruptive technology is a technology initially in a form of simple application, then improves and dominates dramatically in the markets, where the markets do not expect. Disruptive technology typically improves in a way that by being lower priced and designed for various disciplines of consumers. Instead of allowing consumers with lots of money or lots of skills to use it, disruptive technology is designed in which allow “whole new population of consumers” to use it, access its services.… Read the rest

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Innovative Organizations – Meaning, Elements and Leadership Behavior

Many organizations are resistant to changes and continue operating the way they had been operating in the past. To remain competitive, they work harder, improve efficiency, reduce cost and implement best practices. But, this is not enough. Instead of getting stuck in their standard mode of operations, organizations need to adopt innovative ways to change the strategies. The best way to create a competitive edge and be in the head of the competition is to innovate by drawing advantage from the creative power of your people. Turn your greatest assets into opportunistic entrepreneurs who discover new ways and improve the way they do business.… Read the rest

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Public Private Partnership – Definition, Types, Strengths and Weakness

The Concept of Public Private Partnership

The concept of Public Private Partnership (PPP) has been described in several ways. The Agency theory, which is often called the principal-agent theory, shows the affiliation between the principals and agents and emphasize that the principals have the basic task of choosing and controlling their agents. The theory that sees parties engaging in exchange as contracting is called transaction cost theory. It emphasize that contract should account for both personal and social expenses while reaching a contract and further noted that the process of contracting could be costly because it includes cost of structuring, bonding, monitoring, negotiation and residual loss due to principal agent problem.… Read the rest

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Significance of Blue Ocean Strategy in Current Business Scenario

Blue ocean strategy makes companies to come out of ocean of bloody competition by creating market space which is uncontested and that makes the completion irrelevant. Since, dividing up existing demand and benchmarking the competitors, Blue Ocean strategy is regarding grow demand and break away from the competition. The business universe can be thought as a composition of two kinds of oceans the first is the red ocean and second one is the blue ocean. Red ocean includes all the industries which exist today and it is about the known market space. But on the other side Blue Ocean can be considered as industries which are not in existing today and it is called unknown market space.… Read the rest

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