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5 Fav Business and Strategy Insights #40

July 31, 2011 by Donald McMichael

As, always I’m looking to share with you quality information that helps increase our business development skills, enhance our level of business model innovation, and ultimately the quality of our professional relationships. While I never going into depth about the finds, I encourage you check them out if they sound interesting.

Be a Better Global Collaborator
This is straightforward, actionable advice on how to effectively collaborate with people from different cultures. While once the domain of country of region managers, this now applies to everyone in the management cohort. The issue this article tackles is how does one learn to become a better global collaborator?
Little Innovations Matter!
Quite often we think of innovation as being a large wholesale shift. One that pulls out all that stops and requires all-hands on the deck. In fact, it really is more of a bias that we have. We believe in our minds that for anything to be powerful enough to disrupt momentum it must be massive, take a focus effort of influencers, and be somewhat traumatic. In this article, John Steen shows that it is the consistent adaptation of numerous little innovations that truly drive most beneficial change.
Post-PC TV: How and Where We Watch Netflix, Hulu and YouTube
Online video streaming has broken free of the computer. This post takes a look at where it is going and who is taking it there.

Strat. Planning Double Header

It’s that time of year again when the senior management team and finance types sequester themselves in conference rooms all across the globe. Soon whiteboard will be filled with doodles and post-it-notes, spreadsheets will be up to version 14, and folks will start losing the summer tan. Yes, that’s right good people its strategic planning time. For those leading this year’s effort checkout the following two articles.
Four Fatal Flaws of Strategic Planning
Despite strategic planning’s widespread adoption, fundamental mistakes that undermine otherwise well-intentioned strategy-formulation effort persists. This 2007 HBR article looks at four fatal flaws that consistently creep into the processes.
How to Improve Strategic Planning
This article offers five ideas that can be implemented to improve the running one’s existing process. It doesn’t look to change your process – lord knows that there are numerous processes – but provide the right high-level checklist.
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Filed Under: blog, Business Management Tagged With: content, cross-platform, Innovation, Strategic Planning

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