Improving searchability is the hot area. Temis & Marklogic partner. See their presentation slides below:
Pay attention to Temis. They automate tagging of content and much more. They increase the searchability of content by orders of magnitude.
“Bain & Company’s view is that strategy is more than just a plan. It’s a proprietary set of actions that serve customers better than the competition. It’s also the “science” of allocating scare resources.”
Bain & Company: Strategy < Capabilities < Consulting expertise.
Focusing on your core strengths is more critical than ever before and it will continue to become more important.
Important business principles we learn from Jeff Bezos founder of Amazon and Jim Collins. There are common themes among the most admired companies.
Business Principles We Learn From Jeff-Bezos Founder of Amazon.
The power of a dream for others.
“In conference rooms everywhere,corporate planners are in the midst of the annual strategic-planning process. For the better part of a year, they collect financial and operational data, make forecasts, and prepare lengthy presentations with the CEO and other senior managers about the future direction of the business. But at the end of this expensive and time-consuming process, many participants say they are frustrated by its lack of impact on either their own actions or the strategic direction of the company.”
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/How_to_improve_strategic_planning_2026
Strategic-planning season has arrived for many companies, and it couldn’t be more different than it has been in years past. Gone are the days of linear trend-extrapolation exercises that produce base, upside, and downside cases. Strategists, now facing the most profoundly uncertain times in their careers, are creating disaster scenarios that would have been unthinkable until recently and making the preservation of cash integral to their strategies.
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Strategic_planning_Three_tips_for_2009_2340
“Strategic planning is critical to the continued success of any organization, yet fewer than half of the executives who responded to a new online survey conducted by The McKinsey Quarterly say that they are satisfied with their company’s approach to planning strategy. Further, although more than three-quarters of the respondents report that their company has a formal strategic-planning process, fewer than a quarter say that the process is key to making their most important decisions; senior executives—most important, the CEO—drive decision making. The executives also raise significant concerns about the way their company executes the strategy, communicates it, aligns the organization with it, and measures performance against it.”
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Improving_strategic_planning_A_McKinsey_Survey_1819
One of the biggest challenges for managers of remote teams, particularly project managers, is working with temporary workers or outsourced resources. What are some best practices for getting Outsourced workers, freelancers and temps up to speed?
via Tips for Managing Outsourced Workers | BNET.
“Some companies continue to believe that the way to get the best out of their workforces is to encourage competition. If we pit talented people against each other, the argument goes, the best will get even better.”
Where’s Your Competition: Outside Your Firm or Inside It? | BNET.
“Google announced on Wednesday it is pulling the plug because Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked.
A big bust for the Googlians?
From a commercial standpoint, sure. And it won’t change some opinions that Google talks a good game about innovation but fails to deliver products to back it up.”
According to “Fortune Magazine,” the third most admired company in world is Berkshire Hathaway. When we think of Berkshire Hathaway we think of its head – one of the wealthiest man in the world – Warren Buffett. What business principles we learn from Warren Buffett? What is his magic? Click here to learn more.
