Podcasts

• Activity-based management

• How to check for accounting mistakes

• Office work flow

• Open book management

• Strategic planning

Management Techniques and Tools

• Activity-based management

• Benchmarking

• Business process reengineering

• Critical path method

• Fishbone diagram

• General administrative theory

• Job enrichment

• Lean business model

• Management by exception

• Product diversification

• Program evaluation and review technique

• Strategic cost management

• Time and motion study

Organizational Structures

• Decentralized organizational structure

• Divisional organizational structure

• Functional organizational structure

• Hierarchical organizational structure

• Investment centers

• Line and staff

• Organic organizational structure

• Organizational structure

• Span of control

Strategy

• Barriers to entry

• Barriers to exit

• Competitive advantage

• Differentiation strategy

• Economies of scale

• Operations strategy

• Penetration strategy

• Strategic planning

• SWOT analysis

• Stakeholder value

• Threat of substitutes

• Wealth maximization

Operations Management

• Plan-do-check-act cycle

• Product portfolio

• Sales cycle stages

• Time-based management

Decisions

• Nonroutine decisions

• Operating decisions

• Special-order decisions

Related Definitions

• Chain of command

• Department

• Extrinsic reward

• Hierarchy of needs

• Intrinsic reward

• Line authority

• Leadership

• Mintzberg’s managerial roles

• Planning

• Qualitative factors

• Responsibility

• Staff authority