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Managing IT to Win in the Recovery

Posted in business plan, information technology, strategic planning on May 24th, 2010 by CMS Report – Comments Off

BusinessWeek: “When the U.S. economy tanked in 2008, companies were quick to rein in information technology spending. Now, amid signs of recovery, they risk problems by ramping up IT budgets too quickly to compensate. Market researcher Gartner (IT) forecasts that global IT spending will swing from a 4.6 percent decline in 2009 to a 4.6 percent increase this year, to $3.4 trillion. To ensure that new money is put to work wisely, CEOs should advise their chief information officers to focus on five strategies for smarter spending.”

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When You Think the Strategy is Wrong

Posted in decision-making, organizational behavior, strategic planning on February 8th, 2010 by CMS Report – Comments Off

Harvard Business Review: Chances are that at some point in your career you’ve been asked to implement a strategy that was developed by someone other than yourself. A manager’s job is to implement that strategy, and to be sure that her team, unit, or department executes well. But what if you believe the strategy you’ve been asked to implement is flawed?

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CMS Wire: What’s Coming In Open Source CMS In 2010

Posted in CMS, opinion, strategic planning on December 22nd, 2009 by CMS Report – Comments Off

“Call it our open source 2010 predictions with less guesswork and high hopes. [CMS Wire] posed a set of questions to participating open source CMS projects regarding their own plans for 2010, and their thoughts on where CMS in general is going for 2010.”

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