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Business management best practices including corporate strategy development, financial management, human resource management, information management, resource planning, marketing and sales.

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massed practice

Business administration; Business management

A technique of learning in which the lessons or periods of practice follow each other without a break. Generally speaking, and for most purposes, this is considered a less ...

action learning

Business administration; Business management

A technique of management development produced in the United Kingdom by R.G. Revans as an antidote to formal business school methods of training. As its name implies, this ...

action-centred leadership

Business administration; Business management

A technique of management development, first suggested in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s by John Adair, which seeks to provide training in leadership through practical ...

positioning

Business administration; Business management

A technique of marketing that is closely allied to market segmentation. The position of a product in the market reflects the way consumers see it in relation to its competitors. ...

Monte Carlo methods

Business administration; Business management

A technique of simulation, including computer simulation, that deliberately introduces an element of randomness, for reasons discussed in chaos theory.

management by walking about (MBWA)

Business administration; Business management

A technique suggested by some specialists in management science for keeping senior management, and especially the chief executive, in touch with what is actually happening in the ...

team-building

Business administration; Business management

A technique that aims to help work groups by improving the quality of their members’ interpersonal relations as well as their skill at solving problems and accomplishing their ...