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Succession Planning: Not Just for Older Leaders

N2Growth Blog

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. Dell, which adopted customer-centricity in 2009, has seen positive results too: After aligning its corporate business units around customer groups, such as large enterprises and consumers, the company learned to operate seamlessly in the new structure and improved its financial performance.

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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. Incumbent companies aren’t necessarily bad at using new technologies, Henderson argued, based on her study of the photolithography industry.