Think total return and read the market mind

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The fluctuation of stock prices often reflects how investors feel about how a company is managed, and companies can foster better relations with investors by concentrating on the total return to shareholders. Consultant Charlie Taylor argues that to provide maximum return to shareholders, managers should pay attention to how the sharemarket perceives the company and its competitors. Knowing sharemarket expectations can reduce the emphasis placed on short-term profit goals.

Financial Management, Finance, Stockholders, Practice, Executives, Business planning, Investor relations, Taylor, Charlie

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Why the human factor will still be vital in the growing cyber-economy

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The cyber economy, or the information age, will have the information advantaged positioned as the new elite. What people can do will be most important and management will be challenged to develop work systems that will get people to reach their productivity pinnacle. Work measurements in the future will be comprised of manufacturing measures, financial measures and human resources measures.

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The balanced scorecard, or what you watch is what you get

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Robert Kaplan's 'balanced scorecard' is designed to measure every aspect of company performance. The scorecard's four dimensions are financial measures, internal business processes, customers, and learning and growth. The scorecard is intended not only to measure a business' performance, but to serve as a strategy implementation tool. Kaplan is a Harvard University business professor.

Corporations, Measurement, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Performance standards, Job performance standards, Kaplan, Robert S.

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