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Chip Shots – The Power of Interdisciplinary Efforts

Lead Change Blog

A recent Forbes article identified the Top 10 Business Trends That Will Drive Success In 2015. David Dye – In my experience, the key to effective interdisciplinary efforts, cross-departmental cooperation, and breaking down silos is a clear focus on one organizational priority. Today’s Question.

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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

Definitions of these three terms will help to differentiate their intended objectives: Collaborations - Parties willingly cooperating together. Cooperation with an instrumentality with which one is not immediately connected. Involves close cooperation among parties, with each having specified and joint rights and responsibilities.

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What Role Does/Should The Deming System of Profound Knowledge Play in the World of “Big Data”?

Deming Institute

Each time technology advances to allow for collection, storage, and analysis of more data, we have the opportunity to expand the boundaries of the systems that we can analyze and improve. In fact, as the availability of data increases, there is increased need for cooperation between individuals with different viewpoints.

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Why Companies and Universities Should Forge Long-Term Collaborations

Harvard Business Review

Instead, they want a relationship model – a durable, cooperative model that enables companies to partner with academia in a fashion that allows them to stay continuously connected to early stage research and to accelerate the translation of that research into new products that drive economic growth.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. Model 2: Asset capacity pooling.

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Lots of Employees Get Misclassified as Contractors. Here’s Why It Matters

Harvard Business Review

For a deeper look into the distinctions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the 2015 guidance document ). This involved information sharing, training, and in some cases cooperative investigations focused on the misclassification problem. Hence the issuing of our now-retracted guidance in 2015. of employment in 2005 to 9.6%

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Why Mexico’s Economy Doesn’t Depend on the Next U.S. President

Harvard Business Review

In the last decade, the country has reached its highest levels of sophisticated goods from milk, growth that in 2015 helped boost the country’s per capita GDP to its highest level ever. Milk processing is organized through a successful model of cooperatives such as Fonterra , the global company owned by 10,500 farmers.

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