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		<title>When is Strategic Planning Important?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To many companies, Strategic Planning is either an annual ritual companies go through or something put off again and again for fear of getting stuck in a massive exercise in analysis paralysis.  Neither the ritual nor the act of putting this off is the right thing for virtually any company.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stranova.com/?p=496</link>
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		<title>Sustainability &amp; The Larger Business Opportunity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sustainability and Social Responsibility are nowadays seen as important business values to embrace, which is a good thing in itself.  It may be, however, that organizing the worldwide business community to take this on systemically may be in fact not only the most promising means to deal with issues such as climate change and human suffering, but also a means for a wave of major new business opportunities that go well beyond just Green Tech and well-meaning community “givebacks”.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stranova.com/?p=476</link>
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		<title>The Times, They Are A-Changin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(The London, New York, and Financial Times newspapers, that is.) Will charging for online access to newspapers really save them?  Maybe those news companies should be focusing not just on the money but instead on an even bigger opportunity to rise from the ashes. News International (NI), which owns The London Times, announced this past [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stranova.com/?p=454</link>
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		<title>The Customer at the Center of the Smart Grid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are quite a number of nice Smart Grid concept drawings out there, and this one &#8212; courtesy of the Department of Energy &#8212; strikes me as perhaps one of the best in part because of one thing: it puts the residential customer at the center of the action. The unfortunate reality, however, is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stranova.com/?p=446</link>
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		<title>Time &amp; Strategic Innovation:  A Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part I:  Leverage Assets at Off-Peak Hours to Increase Revenues and Launch New Business Ventures A new U.K.-based startup called “The Newspaper Club”, which allows micro publishers access to some of the U.K.’s biggest newspaper presses, reminded me again of the power of time as an inspiration for product and service innovation. Since I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stranova.com/?p=417</link>
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		<title>Getting Managed By Metrics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Measurement Dilemma for Sustainable Business Peter Drucker once remarked that if the business of your company was primarily about improving profits you are focussing on the wrong things. What he meant by that was that if your business is doing the right things anyway profits will follow.  What he was warning about is letting the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stranova.com/?p=408</link>
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		<title>The Quietest Technology Revolution in History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Smart Grid Explosion, with 631,647,134 Smart Meters &#38; Counting Just as it is hard to imagine a world without personal computers and wireless access to the internet, some day it will be equally difficult to imagine a world without smart meters,  smart energy distribution grids, home power generation, and bidirectional power management in and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stranova.com/?p=397</link>
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		<title>The iPad® Opportunity for Google and Microsoft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What Happens When Your Competitor Does Your Marketing For You Apple’s iPad® tablet computer is coming.  And so are a lot of others who would like you to buy their tablet computers instead.  Including a certain company called Google with either its Android or Chrome Operating System, that other software enterprise called Microsoft, and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stranova.com/?p=388</link>
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		<title>The Important Conference You Can&#8217;t Go To</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2010&#8242;s Sustainability Summits From March 30 through April 1st, 2010, Oracle, Cisco, Orange Business Services, Alcatel-Lucent, Panduit, Tata, Nine-Sigma, Domani, InterOctave Development Group and other strategic leaders in the field of Sustainable Business are going to be holding an amazing conference showcasing what they refer to as Smart ICT, Sustainable Information and Communications Technologies. Potentially [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stranova.com/?p=363</link>
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		<title>Cleaning Up Solar Energy&#8217;s Dirty Little Secret</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Silicon Microwires:  A Powerful Lesson in Technology Strategy As the world’s supplies of conventional energy sources run lower and the problems of greenhouse gas emissions have become better known, the business opportunities for alternative energy sources have skyrocketed. The challenge with many of those opportunities, however, is that they often have significant environmental costs of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stranova.com/?p=354</link>
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