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Ceiling breakers: Women IT execs shake up the status quo

CIO

Scott left GATX in 2007 to become CIO of Crowe, an accounting, consulting, and tech firm. She’s now CEO of her own business, CIO Concierge LLC, a niche consultancy that provides executive-level coaching as well as IT branding and strategic planning services. She retired from that position in 2020.

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To Outsource Is To Grow: Why It’s Good To Hand Over The Reins

Strategy Driven

The investment required to find, employ, and train staff to do so often outweighs that of the one-off cost you would pay a freelancer or a small web developer company. There are offshore markets to explore too. Many highly skilled developers can be found in emerging markets such as India, where costs are far lower.

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Strategizing for Success: Keys for Planning Annual Sales & Marketing Goals, part 1 of 2

Strategy Driven

Each fourth quarter as the New Year approaches, it’s prudent to prepare a profitability plan for the coming year, especially with respect to your sales and marketing endeavors. Doing so can give you a notable competitive edge, particularly given the extraordinary number of professionals that don’t bother producing this strategic tool.

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Navigate Your Path to Success

Women on Business

In this fast paced business environment, people are just too busy to seek you out so you need to strategically plan how to create your visibility, how best to communicate your value proposition and to whom. Without this GPS or strategic plan, you are quite simply less likely to reach your career destination.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Whether your focus is on customer service, profits, investing, marketing, or company growth a constant awareness of your current position in relation to where you want to be is essential. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Business Success Checklist. The business you’re in.

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Where Do They Go To Get Business Advice?

Strategy Driven

Businesses spend so much time on momentary pieces of their puzzles that they neglect long-term Strategic Planning and miss potential successes. Costs of band aid surgery and make-good work cost six times that of planning for business on the front end. Online marketing firms. Corporate heir apparent training.

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The Making of Legends

Strategy Driven

Most people are more products of pop culture than they are of training. Many a Strategic Plan was written by piecing together song fragments, nostalgic remembrances and movie scenarios, then were aptly converted into contemporary corporate nomenclature. Strategic planning, how-to instructions. About the Author.