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Don’t do IT yourself: The trick to ensuring business alignment

CIO

Without hesitation she says she was responsible for the change in IT leadership. There are many ways to implement an ITSC, but to start, you and your committee members must work together continuously on a strategic plan until the planning group can finalize an immediate one-year plan that is approved by all departments.

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How to “Zap” Executives Out of Their Comfort Zone

Strategy Driven

The Weakest Link: Call an executive meeting to discuss the budget. The Presentation: Give each executive a month to prepare a strategic plan on how to double the size of your business in five years. Announce that you are cutting an executive position due to financial constraints.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

For Southwest Airlines, it was about how they could maintain the current schedule with fewer planes. If you budget and reward employees based on the long-term value of customers, you will protect your organization today and well into the future. For one employee at Wegmans, it was about challenging what was on offer in his deli.

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Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 1 of 4

Strategy Driven

I have learned that strategic planning for crises can avert them 85% of the time. airline industry reported an operating loss of more than $10 billion in 2001 and a net loss of almost $8 billion, according to Air Carrier Financial Statistics Quarterly, a compilation of airline financial reports issued by the U.S.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 3 of 4

Strategy Driven

Most often (85% of the time), they can be heeded, planned for averted. It must be included as part of a formal Strategic Planning and Visioning process. No single facet of planning should be done out of sync with the others. Crises can and will happen to good organizations. There is an art to Crisis Preparedness.

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