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6. Principles – Management Services

Tom Graves1  
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Tetradian Consulting, Eaglehawk, VIC, Australia
 

In the service-oriented enterprise, management is about what the enterprise knows, how it thinks, and how it decides. Although the details will differ with each enterprise, there is actually very little difference in overall function or content or even in structure – hence one reason why managers may move from one enterprise to the next with relative ease, and relative success.

There’s a subtle trap here that has killed many a company, and is very difficult to spot if you’ve ...

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