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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

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An EPMO has the same responsibilities as a traditional PMO, but with an additional key high-level goal: to align all project, program, and portfolio activities with an organization’s strategic objectives. Some are better suited for small businesses and others for larger organizations.

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The Big Picture of Business – Ethics… Good for Business

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Business must be receptive–not combative–to differing opinions. Change is 90% beneficial. We must learn to benefit from change management, not to become victims of it. As part of strategic planning, ethics helps the organization to adapt to rapid change, regulatory changes, mergers and global competition.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Hiring Uncertainties.

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The same cannot be said for small businesses, mainly due to uncertain tax future many businesses face. If a business owner has to pay higher taxes on net earnings, the business is much less available to do other things needed to contribute to the economy such as hire employees, buy equipment and expand.

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StrategyDriven Welcomes Hank Moore | StrategyDriven

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He is the nation’s premiere expert on Big Picture issues… and how core business specialists may enlarge their scope and assume mantles of greater responsibility and recognition. Hank has overseen 400 strategic plans and corporate visioning processes. He is a mentor to senior management.

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The Big Picture of Business- Evergreen Business Strategies. Digest of Take-Aways From 36 Articles.

Strategy Driven

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. Vision is a realistic picture of what is possible. About the Author.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Future Has Moved… and Left No Forwarding Address.

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Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. The ingredients may include such sophisticated business concepts as change management, crisis management and preparedness, streamlining operations, empowerment of people, marketplace development, organizational evolution and vision. About the Author.

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

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By offering 250 business cards for free, with a nominal $5.67 shipping and processing charge, they were able to appeal to their target market: cost-conscious small businesses. Today, 66 percent of Vistaprint’s business comes from returning customers. In the first quarter of 2010 alone, they acquired 1.4