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In-House or Outsourced IT: Which Is Best for Your Business?

Strategy Driven

The office workers know the culture of the company and are aware of all project aspects and business objectives. Due to the Deloitte global outsourcing survey made in 2016, there are two primary reasons companies outsource: to cut costs ; to free the in-house team to focus on core business objectives. Bottom line.

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What are the Best Collaboration Options for Modern Businesses?

Strategy Driven

While the above apps have proven popular, businesses often need something different in order to provide a collaborative workspace beyond the reviewing and editing of documents and spreadsheets. This often leads businesses to use project management apps. Collaboration for Board Members and Management Teams. Try Basecamp.

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Design Your Employee Experience as Thoughtfully as You Design Your Customer Experience

Harvard Business Review

Improving customer experience is often a top business priority, but what about employee experience? In its 2016 Employee Engagement Benchmark Study, the firm showed that companies that excel at customer experience have one-and-a-half times as many engaged employees as customer experience laggards do.

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Software Asset Management: A New Defense Against Cybersecurity Threats - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

By 2021, worldwide cybercrime damage is expected to reach $6 trillion— double what it cost businesses in 2015∗ Of course, companies cannot protect what they cannot manage. And that’s where software asset management can help. Why Software Asset Management (SAM) Matters. And Microsoft can help.

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Bridging the Gap Between Marketing and IT

Harvard Business Review

We discovered that our teams would be working on multiple projects and competing for common resources and budget share in 2016. We do this to monitor progress, discuss roadblocks, and make decisions. It also helps for long-term planning.

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Chief Leadership Officer: Disrupting the CEO Status Quo

Lead Change Blog

Bill is frustrated with the work ethic and low levels of engagement within his management and employee ranks. The pressure he feels to meet the business objectives causes him to press on his team. Chris and Bill are at two ends of the same CEO-led management system. Challenging the CEO System is business heresy.

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