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

Harvard Business Review

This leaves operating managers, the ultimate “consumers” of talent, to choose between two talent acquisitions methods (or “sourcing channels”): Either engage HR to acquire employees or engage Procurement to acquire contingent workers. Educate leaders on how and why to optimize a blended workforce.

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How GM Uses Social Media to Improve Cars and Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

The CoE has worked with IT and purchasing to procure a global set of tools for social media management, which are also integrated with our CRM systems. The CoE elevated the issue to the engineering leads. Keep it simple.

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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? In a big company, you might be facing the tradeoffs of signing a major OEM deal that will obligate your engineering or channel management infrastructure or going for a direct sales model that will require putting people on payroll. Why is that?

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