Alphabet Soup
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 4:50AM The world is abound with management theories and methods. All one need do is peruse the business aisles of either a brick and mortar or virtual bookstore. Methods, theories, applications, approaches, and systems come and go. Let’s just call them theories for lack of a better term. Management Theories come into and out of favor. Older passe theories may be re-tuned, retreaded, and recycled with a spin nomenclature and nuance to make them seem new and fresh for today. How many ways can management by objectives be recast? How many times has business process engineering or re-engineering been presented? There are countless numbers of new product development processes out there and probably more to come. New theories are promoted as new or revolutionary while structurally and thus essentially they are are equivalent to one or more of their predecessors.
