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How GM Uses Social Media to Improve Cars and Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

Thanks to the proliferation of smartphones, brand and online-shopping websites, social media, and vehicle connectivity, businesses have a unique opportunity to use technology to revolutionize the customer experience and to incorporate the voice of the customer into product development. The CoE elevated the issue to the engineering leads.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career.

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We Can't Agree to Disagree

Harvard Business Review

Out of curiosity, I ran it through a search engine and what did I get? That's why there's little pushback on pricing, obsolescence, or disappointing developers. And that's alignment. Alignment is among the contenders for the most overused word in business today. Why is that? It's not very sexy. Wait for it. wheel alignment.

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