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Salty to Sweet: The Transformation of Mount Franklin Foods

Change Starts Here

For Mount Franklin Foods, a candy and snack manufacturer headquartered in El Paso, Texas, the years leading up to 2011 were tumultuous. When CEO Gary Ricco joined the company in May of 2011, the company had struggled for years to turn a profit. A revolving leadership door had ushered four CEOs in and out in two years.

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Outsourcing Software Development Best Practices

Luis Goncalves

In 2011, Google outsourced its customer support process for AdWords. Poor change management The very first challenge that many organisations encounter when outsourcing key processes is the lack of buy-in from internal members, which can take form in either active or passive resistance. How can you address cultural misfit?

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What Is ITIL? Uses, Versions, Certifications and More

Kaseya

It includes a set of detailed practices for IT-related activities such as IT asset management and IT service management (ITSM) with the focus on aligning IT services with the business strategy and customer needs. In 2011, a revised version of the ITIL 2007 version was again released by AXELOS Ltd. Strategy Management.

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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

CIO

Digging through research examining the impact of standard conventions like siloed teams and staged gate processes, Arooni began percolating ideas for how to shift IT organizations away from the traditional project-oriented culture to something more agile, with greater business accountability and more responsiveness to changing customer needs. “We

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Corporate Cultures – Leader Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment

Strategy Driven

This culture set realizes the benefits of centalized direction setting and improved, if not rigid, consistency. You just finished reading Corporate Cultures - Leader Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment ! Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Consider leaving a comment!

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Are You A Strategy Driven Storyteller?

Strategy Driven

Posted by Elinor Stutz on December 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment Marketing professionals refer to strategy as your unique selling proposition while sales folk use the term ‘positioning.’ She writes, “The interview is not about you, it’s about how well you will solve the company’s problems and fit in with the company culture.

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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. The town, “Tehachapi, CA,” was familiar—as it was the town my family and I adopted when we were assigned to Edwards AFB in 2011. “Well played,” I thought to myself…my interest was piqued.