Strategic Planning in the Alberta Government, Canada

Written by Cristina Mihăiloaie on July 15, 2014. Posted in Articles, Strategy

Strategic Planning in government administration

The reasons for initiating strategic planning can vary from one organization to another, but its positive outcomes are generally the same. Strategic planning supports the clarification of the desired state of evolution and provides the framework for future projects, for improving performance and aligning employees efforts to strategy. The end result is that all these elements will enable the organization to provide better value for money for its customers or citizens.

Crowdfunding – a financing strategy for your business?

Written by Natalia Nistor on July 1, 2014. Posted in Articles, Strategy

The rise of social media and social networking brought about many changes in the way business is done nowadays, and it has definitely helped entrepreneurs grow their business. Among these changes, a noteworthy emerging phenomenon is crowdfunding.

What is strategic planning?

Written by Cristina Mihăiloaie on June 24, 2014. Posted in Articles, Strategy

Strategic planning is the process of defining the future directions of an entity (organization, department, individual etc.), what it wants to achieve and how it will attain its goals.

How to build your strategy

Written by Cristina Mihăiloaie on June 18, 2014. Posted in Articles, Strategy

Strategic planning is the process through which an organization defines what it wants to become and how should this desired state be achieved. Based on the Bain & Company study – “Management Tools & Trends 2013”, about 45% of the respondents conduct strategic planning in their organizations, and their satisfaction with this tool is at 3.9, on a scale from 1 to 5 (5 is the highest level).

The latest online strategy – Online Audience Optimization

Written by Mihai Păculea on June 4, 2014. Posted in Articles, Strategy

The biggest change brought by the last update of Google’s search algorithm is the approach towards search itself. The algorithm generates results based on key phrase search intent, the inter-relation of words, geo-location and more. This is a huge jump, taking into consideration features like Google Instant, “did you mean” and auto complete, which have caused our searches to be very contextual.