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The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning

Strategy Driven

Adjustments must be periodically made to target markets, definition of terms and modification of strategies. Doing the things necessary to assure revenue (billings, sales, add-on’s, marketing). Running a bureaucracy. Creative new ideas generated. Supply chain management should be implemented.

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Taming Your Company's Most Elusive Beast

Harvard Business Review

There is also a "sweat the small stuff" day, once a quarter, for getting on top of the creeping bureaucracy and niggling problems that accumulate over time. Some pharmaceutical scientists will spend an entire career working on drug development without a single one of their products reaching the market. Loosely defined roles.

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M-Prize Lessons and How to Get to Management 2.0

Harvard Business Review

In his story about software company Rite Solutions' innovation engine, a stock market-like forum for new ideas and collaborative platform for channeling development effort around the best, Lavoie suggests that it's not technology but first principles that make every person feel relevant and fully invested in the future of the company.