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Complimentary Resource – Improving Business Operation Performance With Innovations

Strategy Driven

Analytics tools give decision-makers the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market. This is why, according to IDC research, business analytics was among the top five IT investment initiatives in 2012. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Complimentary Resource – Economist: Smart SMBs Fine-Tuning the Engines of Growth

Strategy Driven

In the latest forecasts from The Economist Intelligence Unit, global GDP growth for 2013 has been revised down to 3.1% – only slightly up on GDP growth for 2012 (2.9%). This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. Complimentary Resource – Going Green With Content Management. All rights reserved.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A 2012 Custom Insight survey revealed that 49% of workers cited problems with their direct supervisor as their reason for disengagement. Only about 50% said they see strong alignment between leadership development programming content and the business issues facing their organizations, including any transformation efforts underway.

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Complimentary Resource – How to Cut the Hidden Costs Out of Travel and Expense Management

Strategy Driven

Discover how organizations are significantly cutting costs and saving time with an automated travel and expense management process in this special webinar from Concur and Business Finance Magazine. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. All rights reserved.

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E-Coaching Roles

Marshall Goldsmith

All participants have to hear the same content, delivered in the same way, at the same time. So, e-coaches must help leaders find relevant content, and development tools that have a real impact. For example, some leaders may need to change behavior; others may need functional training in marketing or finance. 1-858-759-0950.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Good Intentions, Bad Results: Learning from the Panic of 1826

Strategy Driven

In our time, the implosion of the subprime lending market “has left a scar on the finances of black Americans,” the Washington Post reported in 2012, “that not only wiped out a generation of economic progress but could leave them at a financial disadvantage for decades.” Both crises proved it’s not.

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The Rise of the Mobile-Only User

Harvard Business Review

One of the most persistent misconceptions about mobile devices is that it''s okay if they offer only a paltry subset of the content available on the desktop. According to Pew Internet , 55 percent of Americans said they''d used a mobile device to access the internet in 2012. Mobile users should get the same content.

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