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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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Build Inspiration and Direction Through Vision Statements

Coveros

.” – Jeff Bezos Vision statements are not meant to be specific action plans or detailed road maps. Instead, they provide a high-level framework for decision-making and strategic planning. ” Southwest Airlines : “To become the world’s most loved, most flown, and most profitable airline.”

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Navigate Your Path to Success

Women on Business

In this fast paced business environment, people are just too busy to seek you out so you need to strategically plan how to create your visibility, how best to communicate your value proposition and to whom. Without this GPS or strategic plan, you are quite simply less likely to reach your career destination.

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Should CIOs Use Contests To Get The Job Done?

The Accidental Successful CIO

A major airline recently ran a contest in order to find out how to organize their routes in order to make the company more efficient. This means that there is a risk that you could expose either sensitive information or the company’s strategic plans if you aren’t careful. Dr. Jim Anderson.

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Executive Vision – Leading in an Interconnected World: Transportation

Strategy Driven

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How to “Zap” Executives Out of Their Comfort Zone

Strategy Driven

The Presentation: Give each executive a month to prepare a strategic plan on how to double the size of your business in five years. As a former 15-year executive with Southwest Airlines, she takes principles and practices she helped develop to companies that strive for better employee engagement and loyalty.

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 1

Strategy Driven

Seven essential rules for effective strategic planning. Ask Zappos, ask Southwest Airlines, ask Apple, ask Jimmie Buffett and ask CMI (that is us). When you earn raving fan customers you have a strategic advantage over your competition. How to transform groups into high-performance teams. Why are Raving fans a good thing?