by Bill Pray | August 11, 2011 | Comments Off
While discussing email upgrade planning with some very sharp folks in a large, global enterprise this week, one of the strategists noted: “With acquisitions, there is pain in compromise.” He was explaining some of the difficulties in moving to an enterprise-wide email system given that the enterprise had been growing with several acquisitions, many of [...]
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Category: Strategic Planning e-mail Tags: Information technology, Mergers and acquisitions
by Bill Pray | March 7, 2011 | Comments Off
Exiting a market can be tricky for a vendor. Some vendors are good at it, some are not. Nearly every major vendor makes a mistake and enters markets that it can’t be profitable in or the market is no longer strategic to the vendor. Most vendors would prefer to fade into the woodwork when they [...]
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Category: Strategic Planning Tags: Cisco Systems, Market, Matt Cain
