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		<title>Blue Ocean: the “As-is” perspective or Strategy Canvas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Martin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blue Ocean]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To understand how you can create compelling new propositions, you must first truly understand your current proposition. Most existing marketplaces are “well–defined”.  In other words each player who competes in that space understands in detail the customers’ needs, how they have developed over time and the size of the market.  What is not always clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Ocean and Value Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Martin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest challenges facing organisations today is the task of standing out from the crowd; how can they be different – and successful? Most organisations compete in what are often termed “red oceans”, the analogy being that as they fight to maintain their share of a defined market space, everyone suffers and has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hessey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doing the right thing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research suggests that to get the most out of innovation, you must apply very different success criteria. Applying traditional measures such as “rapid ROI” or “rapid growth” can strangle at birth the very seeds of an idea that might provide you with a lifeline in the future. Easily said but in truth not always easily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integration Management</title>
		<link>http://www.cgauk.com/blog/?p=97</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Martin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems somewhat ironic that the numbers of mergers and acquisitions taking place (not so much during this recent recession but certainly in the lead up to it) continues to increase, yet research still seems to suggest that surprisingly few ever achieve their promised strategic and financial goals. You might well ask why this is. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biggest is not always best</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Logan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big five]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[size matters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[the needs of small to medium businesses are likely to be met more effectively by the "mid-tier" business advisory and consultancy firms]]></description>
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		<title>Do low salary bills really save money?</title>
		<link>http://www.cgauk.com/blog/?p=83</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Martin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No-one would dispute, especially during these difficult times, that any prudent business manager must be in control of their costs and often one of the largest of these is the salary bill.  It is easy to articulate and generally understood by everyone. Or is it? If you look at salary costs in isolation, you would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Stars don’t work for Idiots”</title>
		<link>http://www.cgauk.com/blog/?p=70</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Martin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In his book, “Winning: The Answers”, Jack Welch states, &#8220;When you become a leader, success is all about growing others”, a simple but enlightening statement and one which many leaders would do well to ponder.  During a rather challenging time in my career, I ended up discussing with a colleague the difference between good leadership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of IT integration in M&amp;A</title>
		<link>http://www.cgauk.com/blog/?p=38</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sanderson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Integration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Computers and computer-assisted communications systems are part of the lifeblood of most organisations today. They provide timely and accurate tracking of finances and other management information; they enable effective internal and external communications, and other key business processes. In a merger or takeover, it is unlikely that both parties will be using the same systems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If it isn&#8217;t broken, don’t fix it  &#8211; a strategy for failure?</title>
		<link>http://www.cgauk.com/blog/?p=31</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Martin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many business managers only look into the health of the business when something has gone wrong, or when they detect the early (sometimes not so early!) signs that something is not right. The cost of correcting an issue after the fact is typically much higher than preventing the issue from occurring in the first place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes a project successful</title>
		<link>http://www.cgauk.com/blog/?p=10</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Martin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Project / Programme Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[objectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[programme management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[project management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[project scope]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many different project and, perhaps to a lesser degree, programme, management methods around and there are many training courses ranging in price, duration and quality.  They all have their strengths and weaknesses and many of them, if properly executed, can increase the likelihood of success – it is normally better to have even [...]]]></description>
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