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The Mean and Lean Firm: The Latest in Reductions in Force (RIF)
Author: Franco Gandolfi
After nearly three decades of corporate restructurings and reorganizations, the contemporary firm can’t avoid the “mean and lean” stigma. What events have contributed to this development and what types of Reductions In Force (RIF) have corporations adopted? This article discusses the common corporate restructuring practices corporations have used and are using around the world.
About the Author
Franco Gandolfi is Director, MBA/EMBA Programs and Associate Professor of Management, Regent University School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
This article is reprinted courtesy of Ivey Business Journal.
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The Games that Innovators Play
Roger Miller is the Jarislowsky Professor of Project Management at École Polytechnique de Montréal.
Marcel Côté is a senior partner at Secor Inc., a Canadian-based international strategic consulting firm.
As a recently released federal task force report emphasized, Canadian companies need to become more competitive. But “competitive” these days is practically synonymous with “innovative.” The issue is a “But” because there is a dearth of knowledge, especially in Canada, on how companies around the world innovate. These authors researched companies around the world, and their findings, described in this article, will help Canadian companies jump start their efforts to become more innovative.
~ This article is reprinted courtesy of Ivey Business Journal. ~