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By Dagmar Recklies

7 of the Largest Internet Business Models in the World
themanager.org
Since the arrival of the modern-day Internet, a number of new and exciting business models have emerged. Made possible by increasingly fast broadband …
Why UK Businesses Shouldn’t Ignore GDPR Data Protection Regulation
themanager.org
EU legislation is, often, neither the most exciting nor relevant topic to our business lives. Much of it dictates the specifics of trade, controls …
A Checklist of Startup Mistakes that Could Kill Your Business
themanager.org
It’s hard enough to put up a startup. There are no guarantees of success. Tech.co says about 50 percent of all new businesses fail within the first …
How many companies have a strategy?
eddielogic.com - Dagmar
Some years ago I spent half of my weekends with my studies of Real Estate Investment Banking. I clearly remember one lecture about Exit Strategies …
Do M&A Deals Ever Really Create Synergies?
Harvard Business Review - Todd Zenger
Every time one company launches a takeover bid for another, the justification is always about synergies. The more and bigger they are the better the deal. Microsoft’s recently announced $26 billion all
Bootstrapping as a business strategy
themanager.org
Bootstrapping is a technique used by individuals in business to overcome obstacles, achieve goals and make improvements through organic, …
How to Compete with The Big Guys as a Small Business
themanager.org
Taking on a large corporation in an industry can seem like an insurmountable task for a small business. The fact is that many small companies cannot …
How to Foster Diversity in Your Workplace
themanager.org
Diversity is a hot-button issue and one of the most important philosophical discussions occurring in America and in the global business world today. …
Strategic Planning for Different Business Units – A Case Study
themanager.org
This case study describes how a large corporation with several business unites developed and implemented a consistent group-wide process for …
Strategy and Boxes
eddielogic.com - Dagmar
During my readings I came across two very different quotas about the problem with strategy and boxes or categories. Strategic thinking and mental …
The wrong person for the job
eddielogic.com - Dagmar
Employees will only deliver excellent work results if they like their job, their tasks and their whole work environment. That is a truism, and one …
How German journalists do their research and what that tells you for about Search Engine Optimization
eddielogic.com - Dagmar
Every business knows that search engine optimization (SEO) is important for its website. You can put all your offerings online – if the major search …
Grow from Your Strengths
strategy-business.com - by Barry Jaruzelski, Robert Chwalik, and Brad Goehle
Illustration by Robert Samuel Hanson Growth is the ultimate test of business vitality, yet questions about it haunt business leaders. How much will we …
Before a Meeting, Tell Your Team That Silence Denotes Agreement
Harvard Business Review - Bob Frisch and Cary Greene
The meeting seemed to go smoothly. Bill, the executive vice president of sales at a global company, had gathered his extended leadership team — a group of more than 20 people — and outlined his latest
Minimum viable transformation
dupress.com
Leaders are taking lessons from the startup playbook on “minimum viable products” to launch minimum viable transformations—lightweight and readily …
The Monthly Strategy Highlight: Debunk the Myths of Digital Strategy Management Jan.2016
futureofcio.blogspot.com
The strategy is the light to guide you ahead, not the hand to walk you through. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 1.3 million page views with 2500+ …
A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It's a Process
themacro.com - Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman
“You know that old saw about a plane flying from California to Hawaii being off course 99% of the time—but constantly correcting? The same is true of …
Strategy and Execution Are the Same Thing
Harvard Business Review - Roger L. Martin
In a recent article, Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner presented some survey findings underscoring the well-established fact that few leaders (only 8%, according to their study) are good
A 10-Year Study Reveals What Great Executives Know and Do
Harvard Business Review - Ron Carucci
January 19, 2016 Despite the huge impact executives can have on their organizations, failure rates remain high. Prescriptions for what to do continue to fall short. So we wondered: If we closely studied
39 Product Management Quotes To Live By
medium.com
Bartosz MozyrkoBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Dec 9, 2015 We all have favorite quotes or at least words we like to live by. Knowing how hectic days can …
Here’s what innovators do differently that imitators don’t
game-changer.net - Jorge
Are all innovators alike, and can we all learn and develop the skills to become innovators? Yes.I’m big on fundamentals, and though you can’t create …
When to develop strategic measures
themanager.org
Strategic measures serve to realize strategic objectives on corporate level or business unit level. They may comprise actions, projects, programs, …
If content is king, we need an revolt and someone needs to kill him by Tom Goodwin
medium.com
Creative SocialBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 7, 2016 If content is king, we need an revolt and someone needs to kill him by Tom Goodwin We’re …
Do you need internal or external strategy experts or both?
themanager.org
Strategic planning and the related tasks can be challenging activities for any organization – small or large. Some are large enough to have a team of …
Internal or external experts? 2: External strategy consultants
themanager.org
Strategic planning and the related tasks can be challenging activities for any organization – small or large. Some are large enough to have a team of …
Is growth imperative?
eddielogic.com - Dagmar
Take any business plan, financial statement, press conference, analyst presentation or the like – What do they have in common? About any business will …
Why People and Companies Die While Cities Keep Growing
irvingwb.com - IWB
The Winter issue of strategy+business includes a very interesting article on theoretical physicist Geoffrey West, - The Fortune 500 Teller. Dr. West …
The Hardest Lesson of Digital Transformation: Designing for Loss of Control
dionhinchcliffe.com - dionhinchcliffe
It goes hand in hand with another key principle that sets digital strategy well apart from many other traditional ways of achieving organizational …