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Legacy Modernization

The Agile Manager

By and large, until the asset fails in spectacular fashion, there's no real motivation for a business to invest in a replacement. A basic premise is that there are alternatives to traditional "lift and shift" strategies by retiring legacy assets in a piecemeal fashion. Enter the "legacy modernization" initiative.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

Professors of business and corporate strategy (which includes me) research and lecture about the goal of long-term “sustained” competitive advantage, driven by grand plans that mesmerize and seduce the most seasoned leaders and leadership teams. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within.

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Doing 'Different' Right: Ten Big-Time Difference Makers and How.

Strategy Driven

If you’re using the same old marketing strategies today because they brought in business in years past, you’re in danger of being pummeled by your competition. And, whether by means of Facebook, Twitter, streaming video, or by old-fashioned word of mouth, public relations, or personal sales skill, the goal is to win, right?

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Lessons from the Best Global Brands 2010: Building trust and.

Strategy Driven

While the rules may be shifting, the long-term sustainable advantage gained by building a strong brand – a brand that builds stability, trust, loyalty, and drives a premium price – remains consistent. subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking.

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Connecting with the 'Overqualified' Job Candidate: Why the Highly.

Strategy Driven

If your policy is to automatically discard those belonging to candidates you deem as ‘overqualified,’ it’s time to rethink your strategy. And if you’re a hiring manager, you may have found that the best way to shrink that pile of résumés on your desk is to weed out the seemingly ‘overqualified’ workers first.

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Doing 'Different' Right: Ten Big-Time Difference Makers and How.

Strategy Driven

And, whether by means of Facebook, Twitter, streaming video, or by old-fashioned word of mouth, public relations, or personal sales skill, the goal is to win, right? While social media is doing much to change the marketing landscape, it doesn’t mean you have to take an either/or approach between it and more traditional methods.

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Dear IT Department, Why Community Management Matters

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Thus, even though HR, corporate communications, marketing, and other functions are very likely to be primary drivers and have direct input into the strategy for a social business effort , they have very little operational role in making the realization successful or managing it long term.

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