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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. Strategic planning in business assumed an existing playing field and known actors.

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Where your company is headquartered makes a big difference to your bottom line

Strategy Driven

Young companies located in these hubs—particularly technology firms—are able to attract technical talent and maintain close proximity to their investors and mentors. Relate Articles: Strategic Planning Best Practice 4 – Ongoing Planning and Execution. Recommended Resources – I Have A Strategy, No You Don’t.

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Guardrails: Keep Your Projects Out of the Weeds

Strategy Driven

Example: We will have sold 15K units of product and bring in $20K in revenue by April 2012, or we will go back to the drawing board. I encourage you to be strategic and deliberate about the way you approach your business. .’ Example: We will have sold 15K units of product. Set a deadline to assess your team’s progress.

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The Future of Business Is Social: Seven Principles That Lead to.

Strategy Driven

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. billion on these social sites by 2012. And remember that technology connects people in faster and more transparent ways than ever!

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How to Be More Productive Without Burning Out

Harvard Business Review

In fact, as recently as 2012, a Gallup poll revealed that 40% of U.S. Disclosure: this experience ultimately led me to leave that job and found Zarvana, a company that offers productivity technology and services.) Unfortunately, this story of impending burnout is not unusual. workers “were so stressed out they felt burnt out.”

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How Nokia Embraced the Emotional Side of Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Ultimately, Nokia initiated a radical strategic renewal in 2013 by divesting its mobile phone business and focusing on manufacturing network equipment and software, patent licensing, and opportunities in wearable technology and the internet of things. Not until there’s an option.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

They had surged with the rise of digital camera only to peak in 2012, coming back down as smart phones became widely used. ” This feedback helped Oka, an industry outsider, convince President Kazuo Ushida, a 40-year veteran of Nikon’s technology businesses, that the company needed to revisit its dialogue with investors.