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Succession Planning: Not Just for Older Leaders

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CEO Profiles Crisis Management Operations & Strategy Success CEO Onboarding CEO Succession Planning Dell Computers Dell Computers CEO Micahel Dell Offboarding Succession Planning' Some guidance and information along these lines is becoming unavoidable.

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

Harvard Business Review

In his 2006 survey of U.S. managers , he said the proportion of U.S. Henderson of the University of Oregon and Irina V. Moreover, customer-centric firms that operated in highly competitive markets had 69% lower performance, compared with product-centric peers. Day of Wharton who reignited interest in the concept.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. Vox is a digital publishing company known, in part, for its proprietary content management system. ” It didn’t turn out that way.