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Bridging the Gap Between IT and Your Business

Harvard Business Review

The business complains that IT doesn’t understand the business, consistently overpromises and under-delivers, and slows innovation. And half-hearted efforts are akin to putting in just enough energy to jump halfway across the stream. Information & technology IT management' Neither side fully appreciates how difficult this is.

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". It wasn't just energy. In reality, both views were right. In the U.S., economy commodity prices have become.