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Skill and talent analysis using NOISE

Mike Cardus

When I developed the NOISE analysis is was to present a solution-focused alternative to SWOT. We developed a qualitative report to show trends and opportunities for investing in changes and learning and development. From the qualitative report the company recognized 3 large area of need and opportunitity.

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Smart Strategies for a More Effective Business

Strategy Driven

This is particularly important with how fast new innovations and trends take hold of each and every industry. Though you should have already created a business plan when you first started, it’s important to periodically create new reports. Reevaluate, and innovate. If you cannot keep up, then you fall behind.

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How to Find New Competitive Knowledge in Social Media

Harvard Business Review

In the old days, corporate intelligence gathering meant painstakingly gleaning information from experts and competitors' reports, subscribing to expensive online data aggregators such as Factiva or Dialog, and scanning unstructured documents from the media. Intelligence reports are tricky. The Social Solution to Innovation Challenges.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

Long-dominant frameworks like the Five Forces or SWOT analysis have been based, accordingly, on a fundamental, often static or relatively long-duration, set of market and firm characteristics. Today, though, many of those characteristics are in flux much of the time. Today, though, many of those characteristics are in flux much of the time.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

Long-dominant frameworks like the Five Forces or SWOT analysis have been based, accordingly, on a fundamental, often static or relatively long-duration, set of market and firm characteristics. Today, though, many of those characteristics are in flux much of the time. Today, though, many of those characteristics are in flux much of the time.

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No One Can Think Outside the Box

Harvard Business Review

Figure 1 presents a real company as shown by its an­nual report. The num­bers are from its 2000 annual report , a year before it went bankrupt. You can get an extra kick out of SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportu­nities, and threats) analysis. Boxes are invisible until we look for them. Let’s look.