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		<title>When an Opportunity becomes an Issue</title>
		<link>http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/2010/07/when-an-opportunity-becomes-an-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do companies prepare for good fortune so they can grab it head on before it,  at best, slips through their fingers, or worse becomes a PR nightmare or the equivalent. Two very similar examples of success gone wrong come to mind. AT&#38;T with the incredible popularity of Apple&#8217;s IPhone Small companies seeking rapid exposure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Strategy Tool: STEEPLE Analysis</title>
		<link>http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/2010/05/another-strategy-tool-steeple-analysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 22:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/?p=944</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SWOT is a tool familiar to a lot of people, but another tool, equally valuable is the STEEPLE Analysis.  They both become more powerful if used in together. STEEPLE (Social, Technological, Environmental, Economic, Political, Legal and Ethical) analysis allow business to anticipate future trends by considering the macro environment in which a company operates, enabling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Competitive Advantage for Investor Funding &#8211; Understanding Their Risk</title>
		<link>http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/2010/05/a-competitive-advantage-for-investor-funding-understanding-their-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 22:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/?p=1023</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As an entrepreneur have you ever considered what you look like from an investor&#8217;s perspective?   Investors are constantly seeking to minimize their risk and increase their returns, they&#8217;re investing equity capital, AKA risk capital, and from their perch, they see four types of risk in companies they potentially invest in: market people technology finance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on Cross Border M&amp;A Panel</title>
		<link>http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/2010/04/notes-on-cross-border-ma-panel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/?p=1027</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Attended an interesting panel on International M&#38;A hosted by US MAC and thought that they had some good points worth sharing: Moderator: David Steele &#8211; Dean of the College of Business at San Jose University, former president of Chevron Latin America Panelists: Monty Gray &#8211; Director of M&#38;A at SAP Rudy Burger &#8211; Managing Partner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Risky Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/?p=962</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my decidedly informal polls of what people think of as risk, they tend to focus on the catastrophic, earthquakes in California, tornadoes in the midwest, hurricanes along the East Coast.  All valid, but in business, risk can be sneaky, it crops up everywhere, and so the sagacious managers are always considering what they can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategy: Mission Statements</title>
		<link>http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/2010/03/strategy-mission-statements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/?p=842</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As much as we want to be everything to everyone; life and business just do not work that way.  Companies that succeed know they need to hone their focus on their vision.  They translate this vision into a powerful mission statement.  They realize that  mission statements are more than pithy phrases or something to fill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communication is Critical</title>
		<link>http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/2010/01/communication-is-critical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/?p=583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen this scenario, and it drives me bonkers. Two people pitch their ideas to insert appropriate decision maker: upper management, venture capitalists, city council, and if you could put them on mute and study the ideas objectively you would see that one is clearly superior.   The problem is that on more than one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing with Project Management</title>
		<link>http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/2009/12/managing-with-project-management/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/2009/12/managing-with-project-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/?p=486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Project management is a discipline that offers a lot of value outside of managing &#8220;projects&#8221;.  Many managers fail to see its advantages, claiming &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a project, I manage a department and its not finite&#8221;, or &#8220;project management is all about process and its too time consuming and resource intensive&#8221;. To the first point, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are you going to do in the next down turn?</title>
		<link>http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/2009/10/what-are-you-going-to-do-in-the-next-down-turn/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/2009/10/what-are-you-going-to-do-in-the-next-down-turn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economic signals are telling us that the worse is over and we are pulling out of the recession.  Before we forget the pain, I&#8217;m curious if there was any lessons learned that we&#8217;ll take with us as the economy starts to prosper? Make those critical connections &#8211; Get to know the people now that can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Plan Writers are Bad Business</title>
		<link>http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/2009/10/business-plan-writers-are-bad-business/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sagaciousconsulting.com/2009/10/business-plan-writers-are-bad-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve long bitten my tongue when I see entrepreneurs outsourcing the writing of their business plan because they are speaking with (insert as appropriate) the VCs, the bank, other investors in two weeks, but no more.  I have some things I must get off my chest.   This document &#8211; a business plan &#8211; is [...]]]></description>
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