WACC stands for “Weighted Average Cost of Capital”. WACC is used by investors and analysts, for a variety of purposes including as a way to assess perspective investments. This post is meant to give a very basic overview of what this concept is, and why it is important. The Cost of Capital A company’s capital is …
Part 3: Finalizing Your IT Strategy Managing IT Strategy in Non-Technical Organizations Part 1: Analyzing your IT Environment Part 2: Communicating and Coordinating with Stakeholders Part 3: Finalizing your IT Strategy (This page) Managing IT Strategy in Non-Technical Organizations, Part 2: Introduction Identifying Essential IT Components Perform a Gap Analysis Compose the IT Strategy Proposal …
Part 2: Communicating and Coordinating with Stakeholders Managing IT Strategy in Non-Technical Organizations Part 1: Analyzing your IT Environment Part 2: Communicating and Coordinating with Stakeholders (This page) Part 3: Finalizing your IT Strategy Managing IT Strategy in Non-Technical Organizations, Part 2: Introduction Determining Stakeholders Determining Stakeholder Communication Needs Creating the Stakeholder Communication Matrix Introduction …
Part 1: Analyzing your IT Environment Managing IT Strategy in Non-Technical Organizations Part 1: Analyzing your IT Environment (This page) Part 2: Communicating and Coordinating with Stakeholders Part 3: Finalizing your IT Strategy Managing IT Strategy in Non-Technical Organizations, Part 1: Introduction Defining IT Strategy Defining the Non-Technical Organization and the Intended Audience The Problem …
The Five Constant Factors Sun Tzu’s “Five Constant Factors” lends itself to an application in modern business competition. Understanding and leveraging these factors can help firms maintain their existing competitive advantages as well as grow those advantages as they expand into new markets. In the opening passages of Sun Tzu’s classic The Art of War, …
I’ve had the opportunity to do some thinking about SWOT analyses lately. When I was working through my undergraduate program (and even now in my MBA program) SWOT analyses are often necessary for completing a project. With that in mind, I decided to write up a brief explanation of what a SWOT analysis is, what …
Towards the end of my Bachelors, I decided to do something that I’d been meaning to do for a long time – get the Professional Scrum Master I certification. I’ve always been interested in both software development and iterative, Agile development methodologies, and so I decided I might as well turn that latter interest into …
The other day I saw this video on LinkedIn with a caption like: “When you don’t appreciate your key employee.” That’s a charming video, but that caption… My Experience as a ‘Key Employee’ I’m having trouble articulating my thoughts on this for two reasons: I’m attempting to write about something that I’m really not an …