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Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

-H.H. Williams

'The Net' Works

If you're happy with current gas prices, skip this article. Otherwise, learn how the web can help you find cheaper gas in your area.

What's the Big Idea?

Retail provides a great example of the marriage between
"art" and "science" in successful business operations. The retail world has changed forever -loyalty exists only in the minds of the retailer, not the customer. The necessary marriage of business sense, analytics, and enabling technologies allows retailers to recapture the loyalty of customers through better service.

The Project Assassin

Assassin
Proven Techniques for Glorious Failure

This ongoing humorous look at common project management faux pas highlights the selection and development of project managers. The broad attributes and support required to be successful as a project manager are contrasted with the "expedient" practices that often impair good judgment and success, ultimately bringing good projects down. Hopefully, the examples will be completely unfamiliar.

In Between the Covers
Randy Mayeux, First Friday Book Synopsis

Big Think Strategy: How to Leverage Bold Ideas and Leave Small Thinking Behind by Bernd H. Schmitt will change the way you approach planning. Many strategic planning frameworks analyze and tweak the past, compelling conclusions of modest incremental change which are stuck in the same narrow paradigm. In his book, Mr. Schmitt offers ideas to stimulate breakout strategies that create fundamental change in the marketplace. The reader of this article will look at planning differently by investing minutes, not hours in learning these ideas.

Busted for Soliciting

Handcuffs Do you or your firm desire to know what is possible with current information technologies to accelerate your business success?

Is your team considering or launching an unusually complex IT-enabled business transformation?

Are your business leaders and IT not speaking the same language?

If you answered yes and your firm is headquartered or has a location in Texas (generally DFW) with revenues ranging from $200 million - $5 billion, please feel free to contact us. At Avalion, over half of our new business comes from prior clients and as warm referrals from friends who understand our commitment to "accelerating success."

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