Every day, millions of professionals around the world discuss strategy, and they assume that everyone else in the room defines “strategy” the same way. But they don’t. Howell J. Malham Jr. has created a witty, simply designed, illustrated book that goes straight to the heart of the issue.

Through the largely facetious dialog of two line drawn colorful characters, this clever, irreverent book seeks to get everyone in the room on the same page using the same definitions for the same words. This is a crucial first step to any business proposition, yet it is often the most overlooked.

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This Briefing from the Society for IT Managers offers advice on how to respond to the developing situation. The advice is based on a survey of IT trends which shows that the UK local authority ICT market has a value of £3.3bn, and provides employment for about 27,100 people.

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In this guide for engaging others in creating the future,Terry Pearce argues that the development of a leader’s message is as crucial to success as the delivery of that message. He shows leaders in all sectors how to communicate their values and vision to inspire commitment.

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How can primary care organisations, community trusts and GP surgeries get the better of vastly better-funded local Trusts? By starting to move paper to a much more seamless, integrated, mobile-friendly way of helping patients, says Brian Gannon, Head of Business Development at technology firm Kainos

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With live testing of Universal Credit due to start later this months, a Parliamentary Committee has expressed concern that anti fraud measures in the Universal Credit system have not yet been developed.

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In the first week of the welfare changes a survey of social landlords shows that the top concerns of housing associations are universal credit and funding. Some respondents even questioning the viability of the social housing sector in the future.

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Testing of Universal Credit, due to start later this month, has been scaled back from four to one location. This follows an earlier announcement that the testing phase will be restricted to a small number of simple Jobseekers Allowance claims.

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