On March the 29th, NieuwBestuur organizes the 3th National Reputation Congress. The theme of this edition is: Reputation as new economic value: “what gets measured gets done”. Reputation management becomes more and more important and is relevant for every director. On this congress, there’s going to be a dialogue between directors from many sectors (health, education, finance, etc.) about how they manage their reputation. The National Reputation Congress is the Dutch annual meeting for directors about strategic reputation management and new ways of ...

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While the trend towards the use of online tools and social media for marketing purposes is undeniable, since consumers are pushing for it, most organisations struggle with the use of online media in its internal communication. Often organizations have an intranet, but most times this intranet is static and leaves little room for interactivity and by that kills the power of it: fast and global reach of user-generated content.  As a consequence intranet users do not use their intranets except for ...

Previous years have shown that financial indicators give insufficient insight into the status quo and fitness of the organization. While many organizations do already use non-financial indicators to guide their company, these indicators often do not appear in annual reports.

On March 18^th Bart Eikelenboom successfully defended his PhD thesis at Nyenrode Business University. The thesis is called “The power of organizational capabilities: The influence of organizational architecture on strategic performance of business units in Dutch headquartered multinationals”. In this dissertation he proves the existence of a direct relationship between MeyerMonitor's Gap-Index™ and financial performance.

In our experience, defining corporate strategy is in many ways the easy part. The real difficulties come when executing that very strategy. in essence, there are four key success factors for management to deliver. Employees must be objectively managed rather than left in isolation. A clear and inspiring corporate ambition must be shared across the workforce.

Source: International Review of Employment (Dec. 08 / Jan. 09)