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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. Computer activity constitutes less than 1% of the technology picture.

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What U.S. CEOs Can Learn from GM’s India Failure

Harvard Business Review

To succeed in India, an American company either needs to have robust electronic communication processes at the top management level or must be willing to set its leaders in India free of the bureaucracy at corporate headquarters, so that they can address local issues and opportunities. GM will keep its technology center in Bangalore.

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Corporations Weren’t Designed to Run on Code

Harvard Business Review

Neither digital technology nor the corporation itself is necessarily to blame for the current predicament. Technology may be involved with all this, but pointing to digital things as somehow causative is a mistake. Digital processes, applied to the same old tactics, simply exacerbate the same old problems.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. If only you will buy their version of ‘The Answer,’ then you can surely fast-forward your way to instant riches, success and an easy life.

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