Last week the company announced it was exploring its strategic options, including a possible sale.
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Dell has limited strategic options in the consumer segment, especially the low-value products like notebooks.
Strategic options allow companies to hint at and execute radical adjacencies, surprise moves into new markets.
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The company, he said, is "looking into further strategic options with partners" that would accelerate Chrysler's recovery.
The strategic options approach is very different from the past when Microsoft owned the downstream Wintel franchise.
It also confirmed that it is considering strategic options for its PC business, including potentially spinning it off.
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Earlier this month Reuters reported that AMD has engaged investment bank JP Morgan to explore its strategic options.
That in turn leads to a new form of strategic options portfolio management.
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In a dynamic world like today's, such tie can open, and their absence foreclose, important political and strategic options.
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Its advisers, Credit Suisse First Boston, prepared a paper outlining six strategic options.
It hired Goldman Sachs in April to help explore its strategic options, but its prospects for a sale are significantly diminished, analysts say.
It follows what Nick Vitalari and I called, in the Elastic Enterprise, a strategic options approach and pursues adjacencies at will.
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Liberty Surf was effectively put up for sale last year when Deutsche Bank was appointed to advise on its strategic options.
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It should continue developing its capabilities while keeping its strategic options open.
But I think the similarity lies in the strategic options portfolio.
To help my business clients understand their strategic options, I create an economic forecast and outline the major risks, both downside and upside.
The Company last week forecasted an operating loss for the first quarter and said it had hired banks to look into strategic options.
Nasdaq OMX, long on the hunt for a partner, has ramped up its conversations about strategic options ranging from joint ventures to a sale.
Mastering strategic options management, knowing when to release a product or an upgrade, when to hold one back, when to lock one in the cupboard.
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Morgan Securities to help it explore and evaluate various strategic options.
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On the Left, we have leaders who, when given the facts about strategic options, decide they don't like the facts and make new ones up that suit them better.
Last year, RIM hired banks to advise on potential strategic options but downplayed speculation about a potential sale or licensing partnership while it worked on getting BlackBerry 10 to market.
They and their organization are forced yes, forced, minute by minute and in every decision to choose from only one half of the set of all possible strategic options.
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Last year, RIM hired banks to advise on potential strategic options but played down speculation about a potential sale or licensing partnership while it worked on getting BlackBerry 10 to market.
The CEO also told investors in January that he would entertain strategic options for the growth-challenged Discover unit if it did not improve its performance over the next two to three years.
But our results suggest that HR plays a less prominent role when it comes to the development of strategy, the consideration of strategic options and other strategy areas, including acquisitions and mergers.
Research In Motion shares are trading higher Tuesday morning on a report that CEO Thorstein Heins said the company is mulling the sale of its hardware production unit, among other strategic options.
It hired Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) in April to help explore its strategic options, but its prospects for a sale are significantly diminished, analysts say.
Life, which has managed only single-digit revenue growth despite the success of its Ion Torrent DNA sequencing division, has been on the auction block since January, when it announced it was exploring strategic options.
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