The magnificent seven strategies for successful change: part 1

All companies could be more efficient and effective, a goal which can be achieved with seven strategies. This week's Investment Week Articulate page looks at the first four of these. If there's a subject you'd like to see explored on this page, please email: [email protected]

Remember the film The Magnificent Seven? A besieged village seeks outside help to relieve itself from bandits. It ends up being helped by seven talented gunslingers, each with a different reason for responding to the villagers' urgent call. Business organisations, besieged from all sides by competitive pressures, can sometimes seem a lot like that village. But what your organisation needs is not seven magnificent sharpshooters but rather seven magnificent strategies for success. Once you have them in place, you can start drawing way ahead of your competition. The truth is that almost ever...