Politicians and bureaucrats must learn to stay away from the day-by-day functioning of business.
Thus they should not have the same rights to privacy and political freedom as a citizen, but should have only as much of a right to confidentiality and political participation as is helpful for the efficient functioning of business (including letting firms contribute to the public debate on the regulation of business).
Collaborative business process evaluation helps to reflect the actual functioning of business process and their performance level.
Outside government, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funds research into the functioning of business organizations, which includes studies of businesses' decision-making processes.
In my view we definitely need to move away from the traditional forms of leadership and transition towards the new models which would drastically change the functioning of business, government and social sector.
Teaching effective management remains the core function of business schools.
This leads to the question, what does this value actually represent?Is brand value simply a function of business value?
The core function of business is to provide the products and services required by society, by bringing together natural, human, and financial resources in efficient and productive ways.
There was no Fitch style: he saw design not as a form of art, but as a function of business: "It's a service, not an end in itself".
In "Managers Not MBAs", a new book, he argues that conventional MBA courses offer "specialised training in the functions of business, not general educating in the practice of management".
