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Understanding Customers Is Everyone's Job

Harvard Business Review

Creating products and services for market segments of one (" mass customization ") isn''t easy. The only way it can happen: marketing, IT, operations, and human resources functions must collaborate in unprecedented ways. Collaboration Marketing Operations' How, precisely, did they do this?

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The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products

Harvard Business Review

Operations. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase. In IoT businesses, sales departments often struggle to determine how to best take a combined product and service to market. Human resources. These may involve new areas for the company (e.g.,

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It???s Time to Retool HR, Not Split It

Harvard Business Review

Retooling HR makes organization leaders smarter by applying their existing sophistication about finance, engineering, operations and marketing to HR and talent decisions. Human resources Leadership Talent management' Yet this evidence is apparently not well-known.

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