The Case for Transformation

Here is a fantastic article from The Guardian’s excellent Sustainable Business Blog on the challenges businesses face in transforming to flourish in the future.  If there is one criticism it’s that it comes two and a half months too late for AQA BUSS4 students!

The ideas here should really stretch and challenge more able students looking to differentiate themselves with well-informed answers to A Level and equivalent essay questions.  It is packed full of up to date thoughts on issues such as leadership, organisational structure, CSR and Creating Shared Value, engaging with stakeholders and marketing and brand development in the new digital age.

Well worth a read.

BUSS4 - a clash of culture and a failed takeover [24 May 2012]
Rising to the top of the milk [22 May 2012]
Revision Presentation - Improving Organisational Structures [17 May 2012]
‘Hooks’ in BUSS4 Essays [5 May 2012]
Shareholders join the Pressure Groups as Banks Feel the Heat from Stakeholders [27 Apr 2012]
Paul Polman (Unilever CEO) on cultural change, leadership, Asia and Corporate Social Responsibility [27 Apr 2012]
Vodafone and Cable and Wireless Worldwide [25 Apr 2012]
A detailed look inside Apple’s Foxconn factory [24 Apr 2012]
Competitiveness and organisational structure - a great example of delayering [20 Apr 2012]
Irene Rosenfeld on Leadership, Transformation, and THAT takeover [18 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Mission, Aims, Objectives and Stakeholders [7 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Business Ethics [7 Apr 2012]
Move over Apple, Samsung, Sony & Nokia. Here Comes China’s Huawei [7 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Corporate Social Responsibility [6 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Business and the Environment [6 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Leadership [5 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Business Culture [4 Apr 2012]
Women & Leadership [22 Mar 2012]
Business legislation, Sunday trading, stakeholders and the Olympics [18 Mar 2012]
Sony - All Change at the Top with a new CEO [12 Mar 2012]
Apple’s new CEO and a new iPad - A Change in Leadership [9 Mar 2012]
Takeover and merger integration: lessons from the experts (GE Capital) [9 Mar 2012]
International expansion and culture - doing business in the UAE [4 Mar 2012]
Lesson Activity: The Human Organisation Chart [24 Feb 2012]
CSR - Tesco leads firms having second thoughts about unpaid work experience scheme [22 Feb 2012]
Video starter - Inside the iPad factory [21 Feb 2012]
BUSS4 - Bullet point 5 the impact on stakeholders [17 Feb 2012]
The Strategic Challenges Facing International Airlines Group - Interview with Willie Walsh [14 Feb 2012]
The Leadership Style of Willie Walsh - In Quotes [14 Feb 2012]
Ideas not Hierarchy Makes a Business - Steve Jobs on Teamwork & Culture [13 Feb 2012]
Innovation in Business - Perspectives from Stephen Elop (CEO of Nokia) [12 Feb 2012]
Glenstrata - Glencore proposes merger with Xstrata [3 Feb 2012]
Leadership - Howard Schultz on the importance of leading an innovative culture [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership - what is the best leadership style? It depends on the “situation”! [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership - Tough decisions to turn Starbucks around [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership - 40 examples of leadership at the movies in just 120 seconds [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership - what qualities does an effective leader and manager have? [29 Jan 2012]
Schultz on Leadership, Love and the Competitive Advantage of Culture [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership - it’s not a popularity contest [29 Jan 2012]
Who has what it takes for this job description? [23 Jan 2012]
What’s gone wrong for Kodak? [19 Jan 2012]
Still more praise for the “John Lewis model” [17 Jan 2012]
CSR - Growing public support for responsible capitalism [28 Dec 2011]
Straight-talking answers to business questions - the examiners might hate some of this! [12 Dec 2011]
Is this CSR Champion Acting Like Scrooge? [11 Dec 2011]
International operations decisions - Adidas trainers for $1? [26 Nov 2011]
Stakeholders argue over executive pay [23 Nov 2011]
Olympus Epic Fail [9 Nov 2011]
Banana Smoothies & Interest Rates [5 Nov 2011]
Brilliant Video for Just in Time and Kaizen [4 Nov 2011]
How flat should the organisational structure be? [4 Nov 2011]
How PepsiCo are trying to control diseconomies of scale [18 Oct 2011]
Car Wars - VW v Greenpeace [17 Oct 2011]
Leadership video - A heartfelt apology from the boss [15 Oct 2011]
Management By Committee? Not At Apple [9 Oct 2011]
De-layering: do firms need middle managers? [5 Oct 2011]
Leadership styles for effective change management - Morgan Freeman style [29 Sep 2011]
Lesson activity - the Dyson Debate [29 Sep 2011]
Stakeholders gripped by the bad news coming from BAE Systems [28 Sep 2011]
Autocratic leadership style in action - Basil v Manuel [22 Sep 2011]
Inspiring leadership? [19 Sep 2011]
CSR - 40 Years of Upsetting Big Business [15 Sep 2011]
Olaf takes the knife to management hierarchy [5 Sep 2011]
Leadership - Farewell to Steve Jobs [24 Aug 2011]
Fresh Examples of Creating Shared Value [24 Aug 2011]
Sir Ken Robinson on Creative Leadership [20 Jul 2011]
Rupert Murdoch and Leadership - Should a CEO Know What’s Going On? [20 Jul 2011]
New study shows CSR pays dividends [11 Jul 2011]
Shareholder revolt over executive pay at Burberry [7 Jul 2011]
Leaders’ Weaknesses [4 Jul 2011]
Leadership, Culture and Trust - A Letter from Sir Richard Branson [1 Jul 2011]
Retrenchment for Thorntons following strategic review [28 Jun 2011]
CSR - £20m extra annual profit for M&S from Plan A [18 Jun 2011]
BUSS4 CSR Research Bullet 6 [18 Jun 2011]
BUSS4 CSR Research Bullet 5 [18 Jun 2011]
BUSS4 CSR Research Bullet 4 [18 Jun 2011]
BUSS4 CSR Research Bullet 3 [18 Jun 2011]
BUSS4 CSR Research Bullet 2 [17 Jun 2011]
BUSS4 CSR Research Bullet 1 [17 Jun 2011]
Nokia and Strategic Change - the Essential A2 Business Case [17 Jun 2011]
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Or who guards the guardians? Primark and The BBC. [16 Jun 2011]
ResearchBuster: New Leaders and Strategic Change [16 Jun 2011]
CSR & Strategy - Why the Cooperative Group changed to survive [16 Jun 2011]
CSR - Evidence of Failure to “Walk the Talk” when it comes to Carbon? [15 Jun 2011]
CSR - Should Apple Pay More for its Geniuses? [14 Jun 2011]
Leadership styles - the importance of listening [14 Jun 2011]
CSR - Greenpeace takes on Barbie by recruiting Ken [13 Jun 2011]
CSR - The Top UK Businesses for CSR in 2011 [13 Jun 2011]
CSR - The Business Case For CSR - Superb Data for BUSS4 [13 Jun 2011]
Leadership - a crisis of confidence? [13 Jun 2011]
Shareholder power at Tesco [31 May 2011]
Crisis? What Crisis? [31 May 2011]
What makes Ferguson great? [27 May 2011]
An unusual new entry in an organisational structure [23 May 2011]
CSR - Is it time for McDonalds to ditch Big Ron? [22 May 2011]
CSR - Puma first to publish environmental impact costs [16 May 2011]
CSR - Has Social Responsibility Failed? Insights from Dame Anita Roddick [12 May 2011]
CSR - Chocolate the Bitter Truth [12 May 2011]
CSR - Can better social responsibility boost the UK economy by £17bn? [12 May 2011]
CSR - Can we trust CSR claims or is it greenwash? [12 May 2011]

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