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Tips for Conducting Business Across Continents

Strategy Driven

With cloud implementation you'll be able to go wherever your business takes you by accessing it from different technologies, too. Do global business but act local. Industry Principle (Product & Business Development). He was a member of the EMEA Manufacturing Industries Business Group.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

Internal operational issues including execution, budgets, and deadlines are paramount in a company’s deliberation, but what other players will do is hardly ever in focus. That is, until a crisis forced them to wake up. This “island mentality” is surprisingly prevalent among talented, seasoned managers.