strategy

Strategy is the process of planning and executing various maneuvers and/or actions in an attempt to reach a goal. Strategy is often associated with business, politics, and military planning, but individuals can also strategize towards achieving their career, health, or relationship goals. Strategy is essentially akin to planning but implies a maximization of resources with logical thinking, intelligence (acquired knowledge), and leverage.

Strategy is differentiated from tactics in that tactics are micro strategies that contribute to a larger goal. Operating a successful business would fall under strategy, achieving financing or an important client would be considered tactics towards that strategy.

A successful strategy begins with a goal, along with an analysis of the current situation, and then sets out a plan that addresses each operational aspect needed to realize the achievement of that goal. This generalized formula is characteristic of all strategizing.

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• Internet Strategy, Marketing & Technology Links – Nov 16, 2009

  
  Sazbean — Authority: 131
  Find, Follow, Feed: YouTube’s Social Strategy And Solving The Curation Problem (TechCrunch) Counting Unique Users in Real-time with Streaming Databases (O’Reilly Radar) Post-Halloween Treat: New Keywords User Interface! (Google Webmaster Central) How Twitter is Changing the Face of Media (Mashable) ...
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• US warns Pak not to undercut fight against Taliban, Al Qaeda

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Washington, Nov.16 (ANI): The Obama administration has warned Pakistan not to undercut the fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and to expand and reorient its fight against both.Officials have said that the new strategy to be announced this week, will see Pakistan returning to the center stage in administration ...
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• About your bold strategic move … will your competitors even notice?

  
  The Homa Files — Authority: 138
  TakeAway : How to assess a competitor’s response to your strategic moves?  Game theory is often too complex and too assuming to fit the real world.  Intuitive-based war gaming is often skewed by personal biases and hidden agendas. So, McKinsey proposes a practical approach to predicting competitive behavior that ...
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• News Flash. Advertising Isn’t Dieing. It’s Adapting.

  
  Kyle Lacy, Social Media - Indianapolis — Authority: 463
  This is my last post on the Razorfish FEED 09 Brand Experience Report . One thing I have learned while reading and studying the social media report is that marketing and advertising is not dieing… it is merely adapting. This may be old news to many of you but (in the social media world) the cry of the DEATH OF ...
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• The future of the ABC and of journalism

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 584
  I made some observations a little while ago about Mark Scott’s A. N. Smith memorial lecture, principally concerned with his intervention in the debate about News Limited’s paywall strategy. Much of what Scott said has been discussed in a frame heavily shaped by the claim that there is a developing conflict ...
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• Senior Sales Role (Enterprise Solutions)

  
  RSS Jobs — Authority: 154
      The Company- Our client has retained us exclusively to recruit a Senior Sales professional to join their team. The Role - The role is primarily about developing existing customers relationships and generating new business selling the full range of Enterprise Solutions. · Selling full range of ...
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• Review: Command & Conquer Red Alert

  
  App Advice — Authority: 154
  Overview The popular PC and console title has finally hit the App Store. Play as either the Soviets and dominant the globe or the Allies and restore peace. How does this strategy game stack up against its counterparts? And most importantly, is it worth the $9.99 price tag? Features The game’s controls are all ...
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• Afghans Grow Frustrated Waiting For Obama’s Plan

  
  Blogger — Authority: 165
  Americans are not alone waiting for President Obama to announce his new strategy in Afghanistan. Afghans also are waiting to hear how the U.S. plans to tackle the crisis in their country, where violence and instability have worsened.
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• Afghans Grow Frustrated Waiting For Obama’s Plan

  
  Blogger — Authority: 165
  Americans are not alone waiting for President Obama to announce his new strategy in Afghanistan. Afghans also are waiting to hear how the U.S. plans to tackle the crisis in their country, where violence and instability have worsened.
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• UN summit approves new approach to hunger fight (AP)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 165
  AP – World leaders at a food summit on Monday rallied around a new strategy to fight global hunger and help poor countries feed themselves, but failed to pledge funds sought by the U.N. Excerpt from:  (AP)"> (AP)">UN summit approves new approach to hunger fight (AP)
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• UN summit approves new approach to hunger fight (AP)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 165
  AP – World leaders at a food summit on Monday rallied around a new strategy to fight global hunger and help poor countries feed themselves, but failed to pledge funds sought by the U.N. More here:  (AP)"> (AP)">UN summit approves new approach to hunger fight (AP)
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• Is Email Strategic? Or Dead?

  
  The NMS Blog — Authority: 147
  The recent WSJ article “Why Email No Longer Rules,” by Jessica E. Vascellaro, made the case that communicating through social media like Facebook and Twitter is so much more “for the way we live” — which just didn’t make sense, and drew many objections and comments. So I am writing this because really ...
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• Great Green Job of the Week: Chair, M.A. in Urban Sustainability Program

  
  Life within me — Authority: 138
  Antioch University is seeking a full-time Chair of the MA in Urban Sustainability Program in Los Angeles. Antioch University Los Angeles provides rigorous progressive education to prepare students for the complexities of today’s diverse societies. Combining dynamic scholarship and creative endeavor with ...
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• Aligning your marketing; Going with the flow

  
  Construction Marketing Ideas — Authority: 129
  The greatest marketing opportunities , I think, occur when you are in the enviable position of having something new that overcomes an existing product/services biggest deficiencies, and can be sold within the framework of that service. Consider, for example, the marketing environment of services such as Reach Local ...
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• Ecotopia

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 469
  My good friend Andy Middleton is organising an event called Ecotopia – December 4th 2009 So if you want to follow the No Straight Line rule of doing something. Get over to and get stuck in with Ecotopia. Become the change you want to see in the world.
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• GOOG could lose more than Murdoch

  
  Tom Foremski: IMHO — Authority: 495
  The accepted wisdom is that if Rupert Murdoch and other newspapers block Google then they will suffer and die. But is that really true? These are some of the facts: - The value of Google search traffic to the newspapers is low. Its loss wouldn’t make much difference to the newspapers’ already poor online ...
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• Op-Ed In The Guardian

  
  UBIWAR — Authority: 434
  The Guardian was kind enough to ask me to write an op-ed for their Comment Is Free platform. It’s been published this morning as Keeping ‘Digital 9/11′ Fears In Check with the strapline, Cybergeddon may still be the stuff of Hollywood fantasy, but we need to find out how well the UK is prepared for ...
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• Social Media Musts for Casinos

  
  Social Media Today — Authority: 682
  A lot of casinos are trying to engage their patrons young and old; leveraging multiple social media channels. From Blogs to YouTube and a lot in between they are focused on showing off their brand in an effort to dazzle the consumer. The key to engagement lies in making things convenient for the consumer, the ...
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• Water Conservation A Target for Utilities, Investors

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 626
  The notion that water is the next oil, in terms of global supply pressures, continues to gain prescience in light of steps to better manage water, as well as to profit by hoarding it.Two examples come to bear in Texas.The Lower Colorado River Authority, a utility that services central and south Texas, as well as [...]
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• Building Channel, or Why Microsites are a Bad Idea

  
  Social Media Today — Authority: 682
  I’m starting to repeat myself. We’ve been having very similar conversations about social media with virtually all of our clients over the last eight months or so, the main point being: “You need to start thinking like a media company. Your objective in this fragmented universe should be to build channel.” ...
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