Barbara Ryan, an analyst at Deutsche Bank who rates Pfizer stock a "buy, " says she expects the stock to "trade like a treasury bond" until Pfizer takes a big strategic step, like a major acquisition.
Oracle President Charles Phillips, who grew to know Hukku over eight months of meal conversations, says the acquisition is a strategic step to build strength in vertical markets in the ongoing war with archrival SAP of Germany.
For Schering, which has been making strides into biotech and cancer treatment with a treatment for multiple sclerosis and Campath, a cancer drug licensed from Ilex Oncology (nasdaq: ILXO - news - people ), it is a strategic step forward.
If your organization is convinced that the risk and opportunities are material, then strategic planning is the next step forward.
For starters, you need to take the essential step of developing a strategic framework that will drive synergy with sales.
Strategic planning is a seemingly logical, linear, step-by-step process that focuses on analysis.
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Midlothian-based Angel Biotechnology said it had been forced to take the step after talks with an overseas consortium over a strategic partnership broke down.
Potential users of marketing analytics may not have a strategic planning process or marketing decision making process that builds in a step to use available analytics.
Forrester also provides strategic consulting services to help organizations navigate data security and privacy issues at every step of the information lifecycle.
Traditionally, brand was essentially viewed as a communication and fundraising tool, but we found that a new paradigm was emerging where brand was increasingly being considered in a strategic way, fundamentally anchored in the mission and values of an organization and critical at every step in the theory of change of an organization.
There is another leadership step, a rather ambitious one, perhaps, to maximize the credibility and impact of these key strategic messages.
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Instead of firing him, I took the time to get to know him and utilized his natural talents as a strategic facilitator who could keep all of the moving parts within the department in proper alignment and in lock-step communication.
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