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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise. Business units come and go, but finance, HR, marketing, IT, legal, and R&D seem to last forever. We are not proposing the elimination of functions.

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Obama and Romney Are Ignoring Hispanic Voters

Harvard Business Review

Hispanic leaders want both government and business to invest in developing a relationship with the community that embraces their cultural relevancy. Unfortunately, this total market strategy approach completely ignores the the rapidly-escalating economic impact of Hispanics, whose purchasing power is estimated to reach $1.5

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

With the swipe of a credit card, the customer support team can move to Zendesk or Desk.com; the HR team lives on Workday; the business intelligence group moves to GoodData or Domo; the finance team logs into Netsuite; the marketing department orbits around Marketo and Salesforce''s marketing cloud. Why is this?

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Obama and Romney Are Ignoring Hispanic Voters

Harvard Business Review

Hispanic leaders want both government and business to invest in developing a relationship with the community that embraces their cultural relevancy. Unfortunately, this total market strategy approach completely ignores the the rapidly-escalating economic impact of Hispanics, whose purchasing power is estimated to reach $1.5

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A Case for Why Health Systems Should Partner with Pharmacies

Harvard Business Review

Pharmacists are trained to know about medications, and they focus on them all day. We subsequently observed meaningful reductions in smoking rates in regions where we have a large market share. As providers increasingly participate in value-based purchasing arrangements, what used to be profit centers have become cost centers.

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Why Marketing Needs Closer Ties to IT

Harvard Business Review

As marketing continues to shift and improve, we’ve come to rely on IT to provide expertise on current technology and, perhaps more importantly, to provide a road map that shows where technology will lead, where integration is critical, and how to make the best use of increasingly sophisticated tools.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers.