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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

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The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. The key is to develop determination and commitment for the process. Adjust the established principles as insights from the review process indicated. These are just a few examples.

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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy?

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

In the process, more than 600 million people have escaped poverty. Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 It contributed 1.4

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Why Adding More Products Isn’t Always the Best Way to Grow

Harvard Business Review

They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations. The firm’s leaders, convinced the U.S.

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Why Nordstrom’s Digital Strategy Works (and Yours Probably Doesn’t)

Harvard Business Review

But the truth is that, for the most part, they redefine minimum requirements for operating in a given industry — not advantages. These investments included Nordstrom.com and a perpetual inventory system that allowed Nordstrom to offer a consistent multi-channel experience by 2002. That doesn’t mean you can ignore them.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. He's personable, but blunt.

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Customer-Centric Org Charts Aren’t Right for Every Company

Harvard Business Review

” A good example of customer-centricity is Tumi , the innovative U.S.-based Moreover, customer-centric firms that operated in highly competitive markets had 69% lower performance, compared with product-centric peers. Its 2002 restructuring offered little incremental benefit while adding cost and complexity.