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Strong Strategy versus Weak Strategy
There maybe examples of a Strong strategy that are elegantly simple, however it has been my experience that Weak strategies begin with over simplified value propositions that are drowned in superfluous analysis.
Strong strategies are developed from the top of the organization down, versus from the bottom up. In the past 15 years I have watched as process improvement approaches… Read more on our blog
Business Strategy drives Strategic Sourcing
I’ve read a number of blog posts recently that suggest outsourcing and offshoring may have run its course as a sourcing strategy. The opinion seems to be that President Obama’s comments about outsourcing in the State-of-the-Union speech are going to lead to a significant change.
Outsourcing has been with us since the beginning of time, and offshoring although a new… Read more on our blog
Getting an Edge from IT
The interview of Dr. Peter Weill, Chairman of the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Center for Information Systems Research appeared in the Business Insight report of the WSJ on 30 Nov 2009 focuses on the characteristics of IT-Saavy organizations.
Dr. Weill said in the interview, “IT-savvy companies make information technology a strategic asset. They use