Imperatives of a Successful Medical Career

Successful Customer Relationship Management: Antecedents and Imperatives

This paper argues that there are four key conceptual techniques used in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) which should be considered Imperatives for contemporary 21st century e-Business today. Customer Relationship Management itself may be defined as an attempt to find the most efficient way to focus the Marketing effort in order to generate revenue. The antecedents of successful Customer ...

Imperatives in Swedish medical consultations

This chapter investigates the use of imperative-formatted directives in Swedish medical consultations. The specific focus of the chapter is the division of labor between straight, non-modulated imperative turns and imperative turns which are modulated with a discourse particle or some other verbal mitigating device. The results show that non-modulated imperative turns are embedded in diagnostic...

Top 10 Imperatives for Leading a Successful IT Improvement Program

This paper presents solutions and best practices for mitigating challenges and successfully deploying such initiatives. Based on our experience assisting Fortune 1000 clients with large IT organizational performance and process improvement programs, we believe there are 10 key implementation imperatives: 1. Obtain senior leadership commitment to initiating and managing IT organizational perform...

KARl GeBhARdT’S mediCAl CAReeR

Karl Gebhardt (1897–1948) had a distinguished career as professor of sports medicine before the Second World War. He developed sports for the disabled at a specialised orthopaedic clinic at Hohenlychen and was President of the Red Cross in Germany. During the war, Gebhardt also acted as Heinrich Himmler’s personal physician and was responsible for medical experimentation on prisoners in the con...

Patterns of Successful Faculty Career Change: A Study of Career Transition Within the University