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Getting to where you want to go
Of all the challenges facing organizations today, being able to clearly understand where you want your organization to go, and then ensuring it can get there could be the most difficult.
What does the future hold for advertising?
The advertising-media symbiosis by which advertising firms have, for a century or more, placed ads in newspapers, on television, and on the radio seems to be breaking down.
Five phases of business development
There are five phases of business development. The first three phases are linear, typically described as the entrepreneurial phases, and are expert centric. The last two phases are circular.
Roger Martin explores three big ideas
Roger Martin believes that the shareholder value system has been rigged to the detriment of stockholders and that great managers are distinguished by how they think before they decide what to do.
Programme enhances skills and rewards loyalty...
While firms across the globe were making cuts to survive the recession, one Northern Ireland company decided to buck the trend and invest in staff.
Managing e-mails effectively
E-mail is now an embedded technology used globally by individuals and organizations. Indeed, so embedded has this technology become that its use is largely taken for granted and its consequences un-researched.
The NHS workforce review team: retaining a high quality workforce
The NHS Workforce Review Team (WRT) is a group of dedicated healthcare workforce planners nested within one of the ten strategic health authorities (SHAs) in England.
Social networking: personal branding challenges
Finding a job and managing career progression increasingly involves understanding how today's networks operate and how to deploy them effectively, both online and offline.
New product development: finding stability in a turbulent marketplace
The roles of uncertainty, supplier influences, team integration processes, as well as technology may act as change agents, especially under the current economic recession.
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Roger Martin explores three big ideas: customer capitalism, integrative thinking and design thinking.
He believes that the shareholder value system has been rigged to the detriment of stockholders...

Of all the challenges facing organizations today, being able to clearly understand where you want your organization to go, and then ensuring it can get there could be the most difficult.
The easy way to address this two-fold challenge is to simply have someone in the organization dictate the desired future...
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