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Strategic planning must change with the times

N2Growth Blog

If you’re frustrated by your organization’s current strategic planning and execution processes or the outcomes from that work, you’re not alone. Clearly, it’s time to reconsider how your organization goes about developing and executing strategy at all levels. The priorities are on people and capabilities not things.

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Avoid These Pitfalls When Measuring Your Strategy’s Performance

Harvard Business Review

This article explores three common traps that managers fall into when measuring their strategy’s performance and explains how to avoid them. The first trap is when the strategic framework and measurement system don’t align. To fix it, you must organize both around key stakeholders.

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A Tale of Two CIO Priorities: It’s the Best Security for IT Infrastructure, It’s the Worst for Cyber Criminals

CIO

In past years, the first conversations with enterprise storage buyers were about cost efficiency and performance. This is a radical change that is redefining strategic planning and purchasing of enterprise storage solutions. They are accelerating decisions as they map out and fulfill their strategic plans.

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Step 1 to becoming a business-savvy CIO

CIO

Popular ways of ensuring IT efforts align with business goals range from co-developing strategic plans with executives on the business side of the company to actively collaborating with business users on projects aimed to derive more value from their efforts. Here’s how to develop this important IT muscle.

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How to strategically plan for your business’s future

Strategy Driven

A business plan should be a flexible and dynamic template that changes with the industry. Say goodbye to your static method, and hello to a continuous business planning cycle. Here are a few tips on how to create a strategic business plan for your future. Keep it simple!

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What business executives don’t understand about IT

CIO

IT was looked upon as a group of techies that performed some unexplainable job that was supposed to revolutionize the business. Despite this, many non-IT executives still don’t understand how to work effectively with IT, nor do they believe doing so is part of their job.

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Don’t do IT yourself: The trick to ensuring business alignment

CIO

During the meet and greet, after saying how he looks forward to setting up one-on-ones with all of them to discuss their thoughts on the IT department, he notices a bit of indifference among the people in the room. Reflecting on this after the meeting, he sits down with the CEO and asks how she would evaluate IT’s performance to date.