Ancient techniques to change business culture
this will have an impact on employees and management
Global Business Trends and global business performance are connected. Global Business trends do not bring expected global performance improvements. Globaly business working environments become less healthy. Business under pressure results in employees under pressure. Most often companies choose over time 2 extremes from the spectrum like centralization and decentralization and go through major changes. When you go back 10 or 15 years in time they were in the same position. It is like all companies follow and employees need to support change management during uncertainty.
Business model
Many companies are rethinking their business model. The outer world has changed and the inner kernel of companies needs to adapt to the new environment. New companies with different more appealing business models like EasyJet and Dell are copied by established companies. This demands good leadership and as such out of the box thinking, creativity, risk taking and investing heavenly
Global Business Expansion
Global trends - like increased competition and the internet - push companies to supply a global offer, to seek for economies of scale in order to cut cost, to network with other companies or to finance expansion by take-overs or autonomous growth. This demands smart integration or expansion efforts, which need to vitalise new partners and or employees
Multiple channels
More and more companies have to adapt to multiple distribution channels in order to support customer contact. Branches, the internet, phones, sms messaging and kiosks are view examples of these. Distribution channels do have a big correlation with business model and global expansion changes. This has an enormous impact on internal customer and logistic information systems.
Global Core Focus
Established companies have a strong tendency for focus on core business activities. Non core business activities acquired in the past or quiet recently are discontinued. When is was possible to diversify within large corporations a decade ago nowadays changes take place more rapidly, they need all the management power to focus on the business they know historically. In addition companies need all their financing capabilities for core business activities.
Global Cost reduction
Because of the economic climate companies have difficulties with boosting revenues. In order to meet the profit they start to focus more on cost reduction opportunities. This start by cutting overhead costs by centralisation and aligning and flattening the organisation. Secondly all kind of cost reduction opportunities are reviewed and implemented.
Stock Value
In the economic climate stock values of corporations are under pressure and need to be inline with the intrinsic value of the company. In addition raising money for continuation or expansion of companies have become very difficult in case the stock value has dropped to a great extend lately. As a result many decisions are made on the driver of the stock value instead of business drivers which are good on the long run. In combination with profitable results the Stock Value seems to be very important.
Product Life cycles
The product and service life cycles become shorter. With the support of computers the design process is automated to a great extent. In addition applying new technologies and materials make this happen
The solution is going though these major changes and give your empoyees safety equipment for climing a mountain. Empower your employees to cope with the presure. We offer workshops to teach employees how to use equipment from Ancient Civilizations