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  • Strategic Thinking: Developing Foresight
    By Lynn Lopez on August 21st, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    In everyday life, in your career, and in your business, it always helps to be able to anticipate whatever changes will come your way. It is always a good idea to have a plan mapped out, but at the same time, plans don’t always work out the way you want them to, which is why you need to carefully think about anything that could spoil your plans, could derail or delay your projects, or render your entire plan completely irrelevant altogether. Change, after all, is a major part of business, and being a strategic thinker will help you sort through–and be prepared for–any possible issues and challenges that you will face.

  • How Strategic Management Helps A Company
    By Lynn Lopez on June 20th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    You can’t stand your job. You’re overworked, underpaid, unappreciated. No one at work knows what’s going on, except the higher-ups. Most of you only know when you did something wrong, but not when you’ve done something right. The managers in the workplace are toxic - demoralizing people’s morale on a day-to-day basis. When your organization suffers from low employee morale, decreased productivity, and high level of employee absence, good management is very much needed. Strategic management is one particular approach that you can consider.

  • Improve Operations With Strategic Management
    By Lynn Lopez on June 20th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    You can’t stand your job. You’re overworked, underpaid, unappreciated. No one at work knows what’s going on, except the higher-ups. Most of you only know when you did something wrong, but not when you’ve done something right. The managers in the workplace are toxic - demoralizing people’s morale on a day-to-day basis. When your organization suffers from low employee morale, decreased productivity, and high level of employee absence, good management is very much needed. Strategic management is one particular approach that you can consider.

  • What Is Strategic Thinking?
    By Lynn Lopez on June 20th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    Strategic thinking is a practically common phrase that gets thrown around and used, especially during business meetings and conferences. Such a widespread use of the phrase makes it easy to assume that everyone is on the same page on what is meant by the phrase “strategic thinking”. A lot of theorists came up with various theories defining the phrase in different ways. But in the real world, what is strategic thinking? How does it apply to us in our day-to-day lives?

  • Why Strategic Management Works
    By Lynn Lopez on June 15th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    You can’t stand your job. You’re overworked, underpaid, unappreciated. No one at work knows what’s going on, except the higher-ups. Most of you only know when you did something wrong, but not when you’ve done something right. The managers in the workplace are toxic - demoralizing people’s morale on a day-to-day basis. When your organization suffers from low employee morale, decreased productivity, and high level of employee absence, good management is very much needed. Strategic management is one particular approach that you can consider.

  • How To Be A Strategic Thinker
    By Lynn Lopez on June 14th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    Strategic thinking is a practically common phrase that gets thrown around and used, especially during business meetings and conferences. Such a widespread use of the phrase makes it easy to assume that everyone is on the same page on what is meant by the phrase “strategic thinking”. A lot of theorists came up with various theories defining the phrase in different ways. But in the real world, what is strategic thinking? How does it apply to us in our day-to-day lives?

  • Why CRM Needs Strategic Planning Behind It
    By Mike Boysen on March 19th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    Whenever I think of the Strategic Planning Process I remember when I was part of enterprise corporate America. Oh boy, those were the days. Every change was preceded by an army of consultants and/or internal due diligence teams. Imagine how that would go over in a middle market company.

  • The Strategic Planning Process For CRM
    By Mike Boysen on March 14th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    Back in the day I worked in entperprise corporate America. At the drop of a hat, they would think nothing of spending millions on a team of management consultants to find areas for improvement. Fortunately, middle market companies don’t often make that mistake (and survive).

  • Planning Strategically For CRM
    By Mike Boysen on March 13th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    Whenever I think of the Strategic Planning Process I remember when I was part of enterprise corporate America. Oh boy, those were the days. Every change was preceded by an army of consultants and/or internal due diligence teams. Imagine how that would go over in a middle market company.

  • What’s the Definition of CRM?
    By Mike Boysen on February 6th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    CRM is software.

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