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A Winning Culture—Does your department have one?
JoAnn Hackos, PhD, Comtech Services, Inc.
In a January 2008 article in the Harvard Management Update, authors Paul Meehan, Darrell Rigby, and Paul Rogers offer a challenge to managers.
"Strategy matters, sure. But without a winning culture to drive it forward, your strategy’s taking you nowhere."
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Don’t Let Web 2.0 Ruin Your Web Site or Online Marketing
Robert Rose, CrownPeak Technology
I think we can all agree that, at this point, the term "Web 2.0" is overhyped. In fact, I haven't seen this much hype since the last time Brad and Angelina decided to adopt.
As digital marketers, we're being told that we need to (by tomorrow’s close of business) develop the corporate blog, produce a podcast, provide mechanisms to rate our content, accept user comments on the web site and create the new mashup of digg/YouTube/del.icio.us and wrap it all in Ajax. And, these days, we can be in such a hurry to implement these new technologies that we forget the fact that they should actually serve some function. In other words, we spend all our time getting the house ready for the party, and we forget to send the invitations.
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Planning and Executing Portal Content Migration
Nick Nylund, Project Performance Corporation
The design and structure of portal systems for intranets and extranets is fundamentally changing. Organizations are moving away from what has traditionally been managed in “verticals” by department or business areas to a more cohesive enterprise approach. New technology allows organizations to categorize information in a more flexible manner to better serve their employees and customers. To leverage these new designs and technologies, content may need to be migrated from an old system to a new one. If planned for properly, these efforts can result in added benefits to organizations through the improved quality, tagging, and management of the content being migrated. I recommend the following steps to ensure that your process is efficient and effective.
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