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Invoking IT to help revitalize Indigenous languages at risk of extinction

CIO

Data collection on tribal languages has been undertaken for decades, but in 2012, those working at the Myaamia Center and the National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages realized that technology had advanced in a way that could better move the process along.

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How Six Disciplines Can Change Your Organization in 2012

Six Disciplines

It's a business-building methodology that integrates the best practices of strategic planning, quality management, integrated learning, business process automation, people performance management, and measure-driven improvement. It is a systematic way for your organization to learn how to set, and more importantly, to execute strategy.

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

Let me start by reassuring you: the chances that you are a strategy tourist are close to zero. But I’m sure you do know a strategy tourist. They like to restart a new strategy exercise every year. I call the opposite of a strategy tourist a Strategy Execution hero. THE STRATEGY TOURIST: 20 BEHAVIORS.

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CIO's Know That Finding The Right Way To Be Innovative Is The Hard Part (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs Need A Way To Find An Innovation Strategy That Works. Among all of the other jobs that a modern CIO is expected to perform, there is also that pesky “pursue an innovation strategy” thing. Your biggest challenge is going to be picking the right innovation strategy that will work with your department.

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Continuous Improvement Programs Offer Competitive Advantages On Key Financial Metrics

Six Disciplines

Nearly half of respondents with no continuous improvement program anticipate operating income growth of 3% or less in 2012, compared to less than half that percent from firms with continuous improvement programs.

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The Power Industry Discovers The Importance Of CIOs (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

Sure they all had CIOs, but unless the company was part of the IT sector then the CIO was mostly relegated to making sure that the corporate email system was working, he or she was not really a part of the company’s strategic planning team. All too often, the CIO has not been as a key part of a company’s strategy team.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 41 – The Big Picture of Business: When the Next Recession is Coming

Strategy Driven

During our discussion, Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist and author of The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving , shares with us his insights and illustrative examples regarding: the cyclic nature of economic recessions. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. He has advised two U.S.