
Harvard Business Review
- Jan 11, 2017
Harvard Business Review: The New Game Plan for Strategic Planning
Harvard Business Review’s, “The New Game Plan for Strategic Planning,” includes interviews with industry experts, survey result analysis, illuminating charts, and real-world success stories of organizations embracing cloud-based strategic planning. Disruptive innovation, new business models, and globalization have accelerated the rate of change for every business. To stay competitive, organizations are revising their business models, product sets, and other critical aspects o

John M. Mason
- Jan 5, 2017
M&A Activity In 2016: What It Tells Us About The Economy For 2017
Summary: Takeover activity in 2016 was the third highest on record, falling only behind 2015 and 2007. The economic environment was not that strong and executive attention was focused more upon the returns from financial engineering and not those from business capital expenditures. The first look of analysts for M&A activity in 2017 is strong as the economic environment is expected to remain about the same except for a reduction in regulatory oversight. The year 2016 turned i