Archive for the ‘Business Strategy’ Category
Page 1 of 3 1 2 3
Viewing Options List View Grid View

Research internship at Sanoma Media

Date: April 19, 2011 • By Antonio Thonis • Comments 0

I’m extremely happy to announce that this week I will start my (research) internship  at Sanoma Media, the biggest multimedia publisher in The Netherlands. The coming months I will be working at the Online Strategy and M&A department where I also will be writing my master thesis on Alliance portfolio management and open service innovation.  An excellent opportunity to gain experience in the field of acquisitions in the most interesting online/ditigal industry. I’m very grateful for this opportunity and would like to thank those who made it possible! Now I’m off to prepare myself for the reality of a just almost graduated MBA student with Excel tutorials.

Continue Reading →

Spss tutorial guide for students

Date: March 25, 2011 • By Antonio Thonis • Comments 1

This guide presents a full walk-trough tutorial from how to load your survey data into SPSS, to preparing the data, validity and reliability testing and finally theory testing with correlation and regression analysis. The guide is a collection of SPSS  instructions from the Research Seminar course at the VU university. Goodluck with your quantitative thesis or research!

How to get ThesisTools questionnaire data into SPSS

Thesistools is a free survey/questionnaire website that most of the Dutch students use to create their questionaires. Importing your Thesistools data into Spss can be done by following these steps.

1.       Go to the ThesisTools website > Modify Questionnaire. Login, click ‘Results’ and download the data as an Excel file.

2.       Open the Excel file (if you get a warning, just click ‘Yes’) . Delete the Page, Title and Legend rows.

Continue Reading →

The five levels of delegation for managers

Date: March 12, 2011 • By Antonio Thonis • Comments 0

As we get closer to the end of the academic year many of the master students prepare for the next big step in their life. Meanwhile the recruitment frenzy has begun with companies searching for talents  and talent searching for the right companies and traineeship programs. With this next step in mind it would be a good idea to learn from the experience of other starters. One interesting story I came across was that of the five levels of delegation on Michael Hyatt’s blog. This is an important concept to understand when tasks are delegated to you by management or when you find yourself in a management position.

As a leader, whenever you delegate a task, you need to make it clear what level of authority you are conferring to others:

  • Level 1: Do exactly what I have asked you to do. Don’t deviate from myinstructions. I have already researched the options and determined what I want you to do.
  • Level 2: Research the topic and report back. We will discuss it, and then I will make the decision and tell you what I want you to do.
Continue Reading →

Managing M&A experience and potential synergies pre-formation

Date: January 31, 2011 • By Antonio Thonis • Comments 0

For our MBA course on Alliances, Mergers and Networks we held 12 interviews (of which I did 2) with M&A managers, M&A consultants and founders of acquired firms. This resulted in 6 papers focused on the pre-formation process of acquisitions. My paper looks at the acquisition experience in the pre-formation process and combines theory with methods found during the interviews which experienced firms use to leverage their acquisition experience.  Acquisition experience in the pre-formation process is found to have a positive influence on potential synergy realization and is moderated by target similarity. Based on the 12 interviews a management matrix is developed that can be used to by managers to reap the benefits of acquisition experience.

I really enjoyed the process of the research as preparation for the final master thesis. The field of M&A presented to be a fascinating world! Enjoy the read or skip to the management matrix to find how you can best manage acquisition experience in the pre-formation given your level of current acquisition experience.

Continue Reading →

The alignment of web 2.0 and social media with business strategy – Thesis Pdf

Date: September 5, 2010 • By Antonio Thonis • Comments 11

One year ago I wrote my bachelor thesis on social media and business strategy alignment. This thesis is a literature research and offers a solid theoretical and historical background for the definitions of web 2.0 and social media. I also developed the first steps towards a social media strategy and governance framework.

By publishing my thesis in parts on my blog i received much feedback in the reactions and on twitter. Special thanks to Michiel Hartman for pointing out that the evolution of web 1.0 to 2.0 hasn’t been a linear process.

You can download the ‘The alignment of web 2.0 and social media with business strategy’ (van der Weel, A. T. ,2009) pdf here.

For those who want to read the short summery and conclusions I included them here at the end of the blogpost. I also added the references for those who are interested in finding more academic research papers on social media and business strategy.

Continue Reading →

Business types and approach to use Social Media – Thesis part 4

Date: January 18, 2010 • By Antonio Thonis • Comments 2

This is the fourth part of my thesis serie of blogposts. In this part the internal and external approach to the electronic business environment is studied and applied to approach social media. We also take a look at the possible uses of social media based on existing literature. In the end I will make a pdf available of all the blogposts and possibly an updated summery based on the feedback.  So please share your views in the comments!

Internal and external business approach to the electronic environment

The strategic alignment model states that strategy must be addressed in an Internal and external domain. The research that follows on electronic strategies and business types also indicate organizations can have an internal or external focus.

Continue Reading →
Page 1 of 3 1 2 3
Viewing Options List View Grid View
« Previous