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Diageo: Innovating for Africa
by Damien P. Mcloughlin Mary L. Shelman David E. BellDiageo, the world's leading premium drinks business, had a long history in Africa starting from its beer brand, Guinness, first exported to Sierra Leone in 1827. By 2013, 13% of Diageo's global revenues were from Africa, up from 9% in 2007. Diageo Africa President Nick Blazquez was considering how to seize the opportunities presented by rising populations and incomes while navigating increased competition and the unique challenges presented by frontier markets. The case describes Diageo's innovation process and two recent product launches developed specially for Africa. It also discusses government relations and the need to develop local production and raw material supply chains.
Diageo and Mey Icki: Turkish Delight or Turkish Hangover?
by Dante Roscini Gamze YucaogluIn September 2013, two years after its $2.1 billion acquisition of Mey Icki Sanayi ve Ticaret AS (Mey Icki), the principal spirits company in Turkey specializing in the local beverage raki, Diageo, the world's leading premium drinks company, was concerned about new legislation approved by the Turkish parliament prohibiting marketing and restricting the places and times at which alcoholic beverages could be sold. Diageo's Mey Icki investment in 2011 was the company's biggest acquisition in more than a decade. Having been caught off guard by the 2013 legislative changes, the Diageo management found itself needing to justify its $2.1 billion valuation, given that Diageo had acquired Mey Icki in 2011 from TPG for three times TPG's purchase price in 2006. Investors as well as analysts were questioning the over seven times value increase in Mey Icki since its privatization in 2003. Menezes, The new CEO, found himself increasingly overwhelmed by these issues. Had Diageo underestimated the uncertainties in the Turkish market? Would Diageo, with its broad range of brands, geographical spread, and significant financial resources be able to adapt to the changing environment and recoup its vast investment in Turkey? The case describes the forces that affect investment circumstances in emerging markets, raising the issue of how to best manage and prepare for risks. The case provides the context for the students to identify the potential elements that companies could face when investing in emerging markets where rules, legislation, and taxation can change and thus affect investment outcomes. The case challenges the students to ponder how companies should think about when investing in volatile markets and what it takes for them to succeed under uncertain and shifting circumstances.
Diageo: Innovating for Africa
by Damien P. McLoughlin David E. Bell Mary L. ShelmanDiageo, the world's leading premium drinks business, had a long history in Africa starting from its beer brand, Guinness, first exported to Sierra Leone in 1827. By 2013, 13% of Diageo's global revenues were from Africa, up from 9% in 2007. Diageo Africa President Nick Blazquez was considering how to seize the opportunities presented by rising populations and incomes while navigating increased competition and the unique challenges presented by frontier markets. The case describes Diageo's innovation process and two recent product launches developed specially for Africa. It also discusses government relations and the need to develop local production and raw material supply chains.
Diageo plc
by Joshua Musher George Chacko Peter TufanoA major U.K.-based multinational is reevaluating its leverage policy as it restructures its business. The treasury team models the tradeoffs between the benefits and costs of debt financing, using Monte Carlo simulation to estimate the savings from the interest tax shields and expected financial distress costs under several sets of leverage policies. The group treasurer (CFO) must decide whether and how the simulation results should be incorporated into a recommendation to the board of directors and, more generally, what recommendation to make regarding the firm's leverage policy.
Diagnose the Adaptive Challenge: Understanding the Human Dimensions of Change
by Alexander Grashow Marty Linsky Ronald HeifetzAdaptive challenges are difficult because their solutions require people to change their ways. Unlike known or routine problem solving for which past ways of thinking and operating are sufficient, adaptive work demands three challenging human tasks: figuring out what to conserve from past practices, figuring out what to discard from past practices, and inventing new ways that build from the best of the past. Your analysis of an adaptive challenge must take into account the human dimensions of the changes required--the human costs, pace of adjustment, tolerance for conflict, uncertainty, and risks, and the resilience of the culture and network of authority and lateral relationships necessary for carrying the organization through the pain of change. This chapter guides you through the diagnostic process. This chapter was originally published as chapter 5 of "The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World."
Diagnose the Political Landscape: Understanding Political Relationships in the Organization Will Help You Lead Adaptive Change
by Alexander Grashow Marty Linsky Ronald HeifetzUnderstanding the political relationships in your organization is key to seeing how your organization works as a system. This activity, which the authors call thinking politically, can help you design more effective strategies for leading adaptive change. The key assumption behind thinking politically is that people in an organization are seeking to meet the expectations of their various constituencies. When you understand the nature of those expectations, you can mobilize people more effectively. This chapter was originally published as chapter 6 of "The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World."
Diagnose the System: The First Step in Leading Adaptive Change
by Alexander Grashow Marty Linsky Ronald HeifetzThe first step in tackling any adaptive challenge is to take a step back so you can see how your organizational system is responding to it. From this perspective, you will gain a clearer view of your company's structures, culture, and default responses to problems. You will grasp the nature of the adaptive challenges at hand, and map the networks of political relationships that will be relevant to how effectively you mobilize people to deal with that challenge. This chapter outlines the distinguishing characteristics of an adaptive organization and walks you through the process of assessing your enterprise's overall capacity for adaptation. This chapter was originally published as chapter 4 of "The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World."
Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture: Based on the Competing Values Framework
by Kim S. Cameron Robert E. QuinnThe Third Edition of this key resource provides a means of understanding and changing organizational culture in order to make organizations more effective. It provides validated instruments for diagnosing organizational culture and management competency; a theoretical framework (competing values) for understanding organizational culture; and a systematic strategy and methodology for changing organizational culture and personal behavior. New edition includes online versions of the MSAI and OCAI assessments and new discussions of the implications of national cultural profiles.
Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
by Kim S. Cameron Robert E. QuinnThe Third Edition of this key resource provides a means of understanding and changing organizational culture in order to make organizations more effective. It provides validated instruments for diagnosing organizational culture and management competency; a theoretical framework (competing values) for understanding organizational culture; and a systematic strategy and methodology for changing organizational culture and personal behavior. New edition includes online versions of the MSAI and OCAI assessments and new discussions of the implications of national cultural profiles.
Diagnosing Your Own Immunity to Change
by Lisa Laskow Lahey Robert KeganAre you ready to start unlocking your potential? Are you interested in seeing what happens when once-countervailing energies are made available for productive purposes? The answer to these questions is most likely "yes," but what is the next step? In this chapter, the authors help you map out your own immunity to change and get to the root of what is preventing the progress you desire. This chapter is excerpted from "Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential In Yourself and Your Organization."
Diagnosis and Fault-tolerant Control 1: Data-driven and Model-based Fault Diagnosis Techniques
by Vicenç Puig Silvio SimaniThis book presents recent advances in fault diagnosis strategies for complex dynamic systems. Its impetus derives from the need for an overview of the challenges of the fault diagnosis technique, especially for those demanding systems that require reliability, availability, maintainability and safety to ensure efficient operations. Moreover, the need for a high degree of tolerance with respect to possible faults represents a further key point, primarily for complex systems, as modeling and control are inherently challenging, and maintenance is both expensive and safety-critical.Diagnosis and Fault-tolerant Control 1 also presents and compares different diagnosis schemes using established case studies that are widely used in related literature. The main features of this book regard the analysis, design and implementation of proper solutions for the problems of fault diagnosis in safety critical systems. The design of the considered solutions involves robust data-driven, model-based approaches.
Diagnosis and Fault-tolerant Control Volume 2: From Fault Diagnosis to Fault-tolerant Control
by Vicenç Puig Silvio SimaniThis book presents recent advances in fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control of dynamic processes. Its impetus derives from the need for an overview of the challenges of the fault diagnosis technique and sustainable control, especially for those demanding systems that require reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety to ensure efficient operations. Moreover, the need for a high degree of tolerance with respect to possible faults represents a further key point, primarily for complex systems, as modeling and control are inherently challenging, and maintenance is both expensive and safety-critical.Diagnosis and Fault-tolerant Control 2 also presents and compares different fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant schemes, using well established, innovative strategies for modeling the behavior of the dynamic process under investigation. An updated treatise of diagnosis and fault-tolerant control is addressed with the use of essential and advanced methods including signal-based, model-based and data-driven techniques. Another key feature is the application of these methods for dealing with robustness and reliability.
Diagnosis of the Brazilian Crisis
by Celso FurtadoThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.
Diagnostic Control Systems: Determining Critical Performance Variables to Support Strategic Goals
by Robert L. SimonsThis chapter introduces the second of the four Cs of organization design-critical performance variables--and examines how accountability and resistance factor in to designing an organization that creates value.
Diagnostic Control Systems: Implementing Intended Strategies
by Robert L. SimonsDiagnostic control systems are the backbone of traditional management control, designed to ensure predictable goal achievement. Unfortunately, managers typically pay little attention to these feedback systems. This chapter discusses the importance of diagnostic control systems, performance measurement, and goal achievement for the execution of business strategy.
Diagnostic Methods in Time Series (SpringerBriefs in Statistics)
by Fumiya Akashi Masanobu Taniguchi Anna Clara Monti Tomoyuki AmanoThis book contains new aspects of model diagnostics in time series analysis, including variable selection problems and higher-order asymptotics of tests. This is the first book to cover systematic approaches and widely applicable results for nonstandard models including infinite variance processes. The book begins by introducing a unified view of a portmanteau-type test based on a likelihood ratio test, useful to test general parametric hypotheses inherent in statistical models. The conditions for the limit distribution of portmanteau-type tests to be asymptotically pivotal are given under general settings, and very clear implications for the relationships between the parameter of interest and the nuisance parameter are elucidated in terms of Fisher-information matrices. A robust testing procedure against heavy-tailed time series models is also constructed in the context of variable selection problems. The setting is very reasonable in the context of financial data analysis and econometrics, and the result is applicable to causality tests of heavy-tailed time series models. In the last two sections, Bartlett-type adjustments for a class of test statistics are discussed when the parameter of interest is on the boundary of the parameter space. A nonlinear adjustment procedure is proposed for a broad range of test statistics including the likelihood ratio, Wald and score statistics.
Diagnostics for Strategic Decision-Making: The Rapid Due Diligence Model
by Joyce A. ThompsenThis book helps readers develop a comprehensive understanding of diagnostics for strategic decision-making, with a focus on a method called rapid due diligence. This method presents a compelling solution to the need for effective diagnostics, drawing on academic rigor, critical thinking, systems dynamics, and advanced practicum to enable sound strategic decision-making. Guiding the reader through the six stages of the process from discovery, through analysis, synthesis, and interpretation, Thompsen engages all typical postgraduate disciplines in producing insights for practical application. Drawing on similarities with applied social science research, the rapid due diligence method is supported with scores of techniques, tools, instructions, guidelines, practical advice, and examples. Detailed cases and abbreviated examples of a variety of real strategic situations are provided from organizations operating in North America, Europe, Asia, India, and Australia. Ideal for graduate students, organizational leaders, and decision makers, this book is designed to invite deeper understanding and practical application of a strategic diagnostic process that discovers insights for achieving positive results.
Diagnostik im Coaching: Grundlagen, Analyseebenen, Praxisbeispiele
by Heidi Möller and Silja KotteDer Erfolg von Coaching – also der berufsbezogenen Einzelberatung von Führungskräften, Verantwortungsträgern und Selbständigen – hängt nicht nur vom Einsatz geeigneter Coaching-Tools, der Beratungskompetenz des Coaches etc. ab. – Für ein erfolgreiches Coaching ist es mindestens ebenso wichtig, zu Beginn des Prozesses die Ausgangssituation und Ziele des Klienten, seines Teams sowie der gesamten Organisation „sauber“ zu erfassen. Diagnostische Kompetenz und die Durchführung einer systematischen Diagnostik werden heute als zentrale Wirkfaktoren im Coaching benannt.Dieser Sammelband mit Beiträgen anerkannter Experten bietet erstmals eine systematische Darstellung diagnostischer Zugänge und Analyse-Ebenen im Coaching: Neben diagnostischen Ansätzen unterschiedlicher theoretischer Hintergründe (u.a. psychometrische, projektive, kreative, verhaltensorientierte) werden relevante Analyseebenen (Person, Rolle, Team, Organisation) erläutert sowie konkrete Verfahren vorgestellt. Der Band endet mit einer zusammenfassenden Systematisierung. – Wissenschaftlich fundiert und doch nah an den Anforderungen der Praxis – durch Checklisten und Fallbeispiele.Dieses Buch ist eine grundsätzliche Bereicherung für den Wissensschatz von Coaches, Beratern und Trainern: Stellen Sie Ihren Coaching-Prozess auf ein solides Fundament – entwickeln Sie Ihre diagnostische Kompetenz!
Diagnostik im Coaching kurzgefasst: Eine Einführung für Berater, Personaler und Führungskräfte (essentials)
by Heidi Möller Silja KotteDieses essential erläutert zunächst den Begriff der ,,Diagnostik" im Rahmen von Coaching und diskutiert die Notwendigkeit einer systematischen Eingangsdiagnostik. Die Autorinnen nennen die Unterschiede, die es beim diagnostischen Vorgehen im Coaching je nach theoretischer Perspektive oder ,,Coachingschule" gibt, und erörtern schulenspezifische Besonderheiten. In der Coachingdiagnostik müssen über die individuelle Ebene hinaus auch die Ebenen Rolle, Team und Organisation des Coachee berücksichtigt werden. Für diese verschiedenen Ebenen werden beispielhaft jeweils konkrete diagnostische Verfahren dargestellt. Heidi Möller und Silja Kotte stellen zudem eine Systematik zur Einordnung des diagnostischen Vorgehens im Coaching vor (Kasseler Coaching Inventar) und geben Praktikern eine Systematik für das Erstgespräch (Kasseler Coaching Raster) an die Hand.
Dial-A-Ride Problems in Transportation Service (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems #694)
by Jonathan GrimmAlthough the dial-a-ride problem currently plays a crucial role in providing transportation services to specific demographics such as the elderly, those with serious illnesses, or individuals with limited mobility due to disabilities, its potential impact on the overall mobility of the population remains underexplored. Surprisingly, the focus is often narrow, leaving potentials untapped and negatively impacting service providers’ profitability. This book proposes several solutions, including strategies for increasing revenue, offering supplementary services, and fostering collaboration. Further, it presents ideas and approaches that address the corresponding problems using operations research methods. The proposals presented here can be used not only to enhance the economic viability of dial-a-ride systems but also boost their impact and visibility. As such, the book shares fundamental insights into solving the dial-a-ride problem and anticipates future trends, leading the way to new frontiers of research. The book offers a valuable resource for academics and professionals engaged in the field of transportation or those interested in the design and development of advanced mathematical programming techniques.
Dial M for Murdoch
by Tom Watson Martin HickmanDial M for Murdoch uncovers the inner workings of one of the most powerful companies in the world: how it came to exert a poisonous, secretive influence on public life in Britain, how it used its huge power to bully, intimidate and cover up, and how its exposure has changed the way we look at our politicians, our police service and our press. Rupert Murdoch's newspapers had been hacking phones and casually destroying people's lives for years, but it was only after a trivial report about Prince William's knee in 2005 that detectives stumbled on a criminal conspiracy. A five-year cover-up then concealed and muddied the truth. Dial M for Murdoch gives the first connected account of the extraordinary lengths to which the Murdochs' News Corporation went to "put the problem in a box" (in James Murdoch's words), how its efforts to maintain and extend its power were aided by its political and police friends, and how it was finally exposed. The book details the smears and threats against politicians, journalists and lawyers. It reveals the existence of brave insiders who pointed those pursuing the investigation towards pieces of secret information that cracked open the case. By contrast, many of the main players in the book are unsavory, but by the end of it you have a clear idea of what they did. Seeing the story whole, as it is presented here for the first time, allows the character of the organisation which it portrays to emerge unmistakably. You will hardly believe it.
The Dialectic Of Taste
by David MichalskiThe Dialectic of Taste provides a new way of thinking about the aesthetization of everyday life and the aesthetic economy. It configures taste as a kind of labor, one that is increasingly exploited in an economy geared to convert cultural capital to monetary value. This book examines the cultural fallout of this conversion. The movements of the dialectic of taste are illustrated through a study of Tuscan motifs in contemporary consumer culture. From this examination, a social process of Tuscanization is shown to take shape as a response to crises associated with McDonaldization. By applying a historical materialist approach to the interpretation of consumer culture, The Dialectic of Taste demonstrates how distorted images of beauty, trapped in everyday commodities, can come to represent collective social demands, and provoke social change. In doing so, this book provides a bold new trajectory for critical theory, cultural studies, and the sociology of taste.
Dialectical Phenomenolgy: Marx's Method (Routledge Revivals)
by Roslyn Wallach BologhIn this inquiry into Marx’s method of theorising, originally published in 1979, Roslyn Bologh analyses theory in the same way that Marx analyses the production of capital, and provides a set of rules for reproducing Marx’s method. The rules are developed through an examination of the Grundrisse, a text by Marx that combines his technical critique of political economy with his humanistic, philosophical concerns and his historical perspective. Dr Bologh concludes that Marx’s method, as dialectical phenomenology, offers a way of analysing language, knowledge and the social relations and practices of everyday life, as well as the more obvious phenomena of capitalism.
Dialectics of Class Struggle in the Global Economy (Routledge Frontiers Of Political Economy Ser. #Vol. 123)
by Clark EverlingMuch ink has been spilled in attempts to prove that humans are only animals and are, like other species, only aggressive. Marx distinguishes both class and cooperative relations as inorganic: humans create their subjectivity through their mutual social production. They build upon their previous forms of social production and, with capitalism, become not only an opposition of classes, but have the capacity for urban individualism and cooperation. Dialectics of Class Struggle examines the historical development of classes from ancient times to present. It analyses the development of ancient slavery into feudalism and the latter into capitalism. It focuses on the laws and limits of capitalist development, the contradictions inherent in the capitalist state, revolutions in the twentieth century and the possibilities for human freedom that they revealed. It concludes with an examination of class struggles in the global economy and shows the human deprivations as well as the human possibilities.
The Dialectics of Democracy: Towards a Socialist Constitutionalism
by Dimitrios KivotidisThis book examines how the democratic form and the struggle for democracy reflects, influences and shapes the struggle for social emancipation.In the context of increased exploitation, rising inequality, and intensified struggle for social justice in the aftermath of the economic crisis, the channelling of populism through liberal democratic institutions has had contradictory effects: giving rise to both Corbyn and Brexit, Sanders and Trump, Syriza and the Golden Dawn, to name but a few. How can we make sense of these developments? In response, this book approaches the idea of democracy from a socialist constitutionalist standpoint and explores institutional forms and principles that challenge and aim at the transformation of the extant social order. This process involves the challenging of well-established ideas of the liberal viewpoint, as well as an unwavering focus on the issue of class rule which enables the highlighting of limitations of -not only mainstream but also heterodox- contemporary approaches to constitutionalism and democracy. Ultimately, democracy is conceived as a process of struggle for creating the conditions, material as well as intellectual, for its actualisation.This significant work of legal and political theory will be of considerable interest to those working in these areas to make sense of contemporary developments, and to further the causes of social justice and social emancipation.